Jump to navigation. Regional Studies—East Asia RSEA is a vibrant interdisciplinary master's degree program designed to educate students in the languages, societies, and cultures of East Asia. The RSEA program affords students interested in a professional career of engagement with East Asia an opportunity to pursue a flexible and varied course of instruction related to their career interests. It also serves the needs of students who wish to enter a PhD program but require further background training in the field of East Asian studies.
If you have never taken a course on China before, please ask me for guidance on whether or not this class is suitable for you. The syllabus is preliminary and subject to change based on breaking news events and the needs of the class. This course engages the genre of life writing in Tibetan Buddhist culture, addressing the permeable and fluid nature of this important sphere of Tibetan literature.
Through Tibetan biographies, hagiographies, and autobiographies, the class will consider questions about how life-writing overlaps with religious doctrine, philosophy, and history. For comparative purposes, we will read life writing from Western and Japanese or Chinese authors, for instance accounts of the lives of Christian saints, raising questions about the cultural relativity of what makes up a life's story. The course explores the doctrines, practices, and rituals of Korean religions through iconic texts, paintings, and images.
The texts, paintings, and images that the course covers include ghost stories, doctrinal exegeses and charts, missionary letters, polemical and apologetic writings, catechism, folklores, and ritual paintings. Designed for both undergraduate and graduate students, this course introduces Tibetan belles-lettres and vernacular works all in English translation spanning from the imperial period to the present day.
We will engage in close readings, together with discussion of the genre each text represents and its salience in current Tibetan intellectual discourse. In the final four weeks, we will read landmark works from the post-Mao period, with a view to the negotiation of traditional forms amidst the advent of new literary genres and the economics of cultural production. Questions to address include: How have Tibetan literary forms and content developed throughout history? How has the very concept of "Tibetan literature" been conceived?
How have Tibetan writers and scholars—past and present—negotiated literary innovation? Each session will consist of a brief lecture followed by discussion. Lectures will incrementally provide students with a general timeline of Tibetan literary and related historical developments, as well as biographical material regarding the authors assigned for that week.
Tibetan language students and heritage learners will be offered three optional sessions to read excerpts of selected texts in Tibetan. How do documentaries inform, provoke and move us? What formal devices and aesthetic strategies do documentaries use to construct visions of reality and proclaim them as authentic, credible and authoritative? What can documentary cinema teach us about the changing Chinese society, and about cinema as a medium for social engagement?
This seminar introduces students to the aesthetics, epistemology and politics of documentary cinema in China from the s to the present, with an emphasis on contemporary films produced in the past two decades. We examine how documentaries contended history, registered subaltern experiences, engaged with issues of gender, ethnicity and class, and built new communities of testimony and activism to foster social change. Besides documentaries made by Chinese filmmakers, we also include a small number of films made on China by western filmmakers, including those by Joris Ivens, Michelangelo Antonioni, Frank Capra and Carma Hinton.
Topics include documentary poetics and aesthetics, evidence, performance and authenticity, the porous boundaries between documentary and fiction, and documentary ethics. This course is designed for students interested in gaining a broad view of Tibetan history in the 20th century. We will cover the institutional history of major Tibetan state institutions and their rivals in the Tibetan borderlands, as well as the relations with China, Britain, and America.
Discussion sessions throughout the semester will focus on important historical issues. Group s : C. Writings by women in the early period had a deep impact on subsequent cultural production, and these vernacular writings as well as the figure of these early women writers acquired a new, contested significance from the end of the nineteenth century as part of the process of modern nation-building.
Gender became a major organizing category in constructing discourse on literature, literary language, and literary modernity, particularly with regard to the novel. All readings are in English. Original texts will be provided for those who can read in the original.
China's transformation under its last imperial rulers, with special emphasis on economic, legal, political, and cultural change. While the rise of women's history and feminist theory in the s and s fostered more general reevaluations of social and cultural history in the West, such progressions have been far more modest in Korean history. To introduce one of the larger challenges in current Korean historiography, this course explores the experiences, consciousness and representations of women Korea at home and abroad from premodern times to the present.
Historical studies of women and gender in Korea will be analyzed in conjunction with theories of Western women's history to encourage new methods of rethinking "patriarchy" within the Korean context.
By tracing the lives of women from various socio-cultural aspects and examining the multiple interactions between the state, local community, family and individual, women's places in the family and in society, their relationships with one another and men, and the evolution of ideas about gender and sexuality throughout Korea's complicated past will be reexamined through concrete topics with historical specificity and as many primary sources as possible.
With understanding dynamics of women's lives in Korean society, this class will build an important bridge to understand the construction of New Women in early twentieth-century Korea, when women from all walks of life had to accommodate their "old-style" predecessors and transform themselves to new women, as well as the lives of contemporary Korean women. This will be very much a reading-and-discussion course. Lectures will review the readings in historical perspective and supplement them.
The period to be studied ranges from the pre-modern time up to the turn of twentieth century, with special attention to the early modern period.
An introduction to major issues of concern to legal historians as viewed through the lens of Chinese legal history. Issues covered include civil and criminal law, formal and informal justice, law and the family, law and the economy, the search for law beyond state-made law and legal codes, and the question of rule of law in China. Chinese codes and course case records and other primary materials in translation will be analyzed to develop a sense of the legal system in theory and in practice.
The history of the Chinese family, its changing forms and cultural expressions: marriage and divorce; parent and child; clan and lineage; ancestor worship; the role of women; the relation of family and state; Western parallels and contrasts. The program is designed to develop basic skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing colloquial Chinese. This course is designed for beginners of the Chinese langauge. The goal of the course is to develop basic communication skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing modern colloquial Chinese.
Students who can already speak Mandarin will not be accepted into this course. The course is designed to develop basic skills in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing modern colloquial Chinese. Standard Chinese pronunciation, traditional characters. Section subject to cancellation if under-enrolled. The course is specially designed for students of Chinese heritage and advanced beginners with good speaking skills.
It aims to develop the student's basic skills to read and write modern colloquial Chinese. Pinyin system is introduced; standard Chinese pronunciation, and traditional characters.
Classes will be conducted mostly in Chinese. Open to students with Mandarin speaking ability in Chinese only. This course is designed to further the student's skills acquired in the elementary course.
This program aims to develop higher level of proficiency through comprehensive oral and written exercises. Cultural aspects in everyday situations are introduced. See Admission to Language Courses. Designed to further the students four skills acquired in the elementary course, this program aims to develop higher level of proficiency through comprehensive oral and written exercises.
Traditional characters. This course fulfills the language requirement for east Asian studies majors. Prepares for more advanced study of Chinese through rigorous vocabulary expansion, more sophisticated language usage patterns, and introduction to basics of formal and literary styles. Materials are designed to advance the student's fluency for everyday communicative tasks as well as reading skills.
Simplified characters are introduced. Admission after Chinese placement exam and an oral proficiency interview with the instructor. Especially designed for students who possess good speaking ability and who wish to acquire practical writing skills as well as business-related vocabulary and speech patterns.
Introduction to semiformal and formal Chinese used in everyday writing and social or business-related occasions. Materials are designed to advance the students fluency for everyday communicative tasks as well as reading skills. The Business Chinese I course is designed to prepare students to use Chinese in a present or future work situation.
Prerequisites: two years of Chinese study at college level. This course is designed for students who have studied Chinese for two years at college level and are interested in business studies concerning China. It offers systematic descriptions of Chinese language used in business discourse.
Prerequisites: at least 3 years of intensive Chinese language training at college level and the instructor's permission. This advanced course is designed to specifically train students' listening and speaking skills in both formal and colloquial language through various Chinese media sources. Students view and discuss excerpts of Chinese TV news broadcasts, soap operas, and movie segments on a regular basis. Close reading of newspaper and internet articles and blogs supplements the training of verbal skills.
This Level 4 Chinese language course emphasizes systematic development of lexical knowledge and the enhancement of reading and writing skills. Through an in-depth exploration of video clips, expository essays and short stories, students will expand their vocabulary, learn to analyze syntactically and semantically complicated texts, and develop their narrative and summary writing skills.
This Level 4 Chinese language class engages students in reading and discussion of current events. Course materials consist of news stories, commentaries and documentary films. This is a non-consecutive reading course designed for those whose proficiency is above 4th level. Selections from contemporary Chinese authors in both traditional and simplified characters with attention to expository, journalistic, and literary styles. The evolution of the Chinese language. Topics include historical phonology, the Chinese script, the classical and literary languages, the standard language and major dialects, language and society, etc.
This course targets the development of productive skills. Course materials and homework assignments focus on helping students improve their abilities in describing people, places and objects, narrating events, stating opinions, and summarizing oral or written texts.
The course culminates in a research project, for which students will investigage a problem related to one of the course topics. Student will critically examine the successes and failures of firms within the Chinese business arena.
Prerequisites: completion of three years of modern Chinese at least, or four years of Japanese or Korean. Please see department. Admission after placement exam. Focusing on Tang and Song prose and poetry, introduces a broad variety of genres through close readings of chosen texts as well as the specific methods, skills, and tools to approach them.
Strong emphasis on the grammatical and stylistic analysis of representative works. For more than forty years, second language acquisition SLA has been emerging as an independent field of inquiry with its own research agenda and theoretical paradigms. The study of SLA is inherently interdisciplinary, as it draws on scholarship from the fields of linguistics, psychology, education, and sociology.
This course explores how Chinese is acquired by non-native speakers. Students will learn about general phenomena and patterns during the process of acquiring a new language.
They will become familiar with important core concepts, theoretical frameworks, and research practices of the field of SLA, with Chinese as the linguistic focus. Read More. Declaring a Major or Minor. Foreign Language Requirements. Academic Advising. Office Hours. Doctor of Philosophy. Master of Arts in East Asian Studies. Apply Today! There are no upcoming events. Please check back later.
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