Carleton College

Asian Studies (ASST)

Director: Professor Roger R. Jackson

Committee Members: Paula K. Arai, Shahzad Bashir, Naran Bilik, James F. Fisher, Ping Fu, Roy F. Grow, Mark Hansell, Mariko Kaga, Adeeb Khalid, Burton Levin, Melinda Russell, Kathleen Ryor, Parna Sengupta, Kathryn W. Sparling, Noboru Tomonari, Nancy C. Wilkie, Seungjoo Yoon, Qiguang Zhao

A committee is in charge of a wide variety of special programs and activities. Courses dealing with Asia are offered by various academic departments. There is no standard major in Asian Studies, but students interested in majoring may submit their own plan for a major to the Asian Studies Committee for its consideration. Students may also major in a regular department with a concentration in either East Asian Studies or South Asian Studies (see Concentrations).

Students interested in studying in Asia may apply to one of several overseas programs. Carleton cooperates with several other colleges to sponsor the Associated Kyoto Program, which takes 50 students and seven faculty members to Japan for an academic year. Carleton also participates in a one year program at Waseda University sponsored by ACM. The Program-in-India consists of six months stay in Pune, where students study Marathi, take academic courses centered on India, and investigate an independent study topic. The program in Hong Kong at the Chinese University, also for students from ACM institutions, normally lasts one year, though a semester-long program is also possible. The Carleton Seminar in Tianjin is a Chinese language and culture program at Nankai University. Students take courses in Chinese languages, civilization and society and culture including art, Taichi and other martial arts. Carleton, Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Swarthmore, Grinnell, Holy Cross, and Whitman jointly sponsor the Inter-collegiate Sri Lanka Educational Program (ISLE) in which students and a faculty member study at Peradeniya University in Kandy, the old capital in the middle of the island. In 1989 and 1991 Carleton offered overseas study programs in Nepal. An alternate-year program emphasizing Political Economy was begun in 1990, in Beijing, China.

Asian Studies Courses

ASST 400. Integrative Exercise 6 credits cr., S/NC, ND, Fall,Winter,Spring—Staff

Overseas Seminar, China

Study in Beijing (Political Economy)

Overseas Seminar, Hong Kong

Study in Hong Kong under ACM Program.

Overseas Seminar, India

Study in India under ACM Program-in-India.

Overseas Seminar, Japan

Study in Kyoto under the Associated Kyoto Program (AKP).

Study in Tokyo under ACM Program.

Overseas Seminar, Sri Lanka

Study in Sri Lanka under ISLE Program.

Pertinent Courses:

      ARTH 164: Buddhist Art (not offered in 2003­2004)

      ARTH 208: Ritual and Rhetoric in Ancient Chinese Art (not offered in 2003­2004)

      ARTH 209: Chinese Painting (not offered in 2003­2004)

      ARTH 220: Gender and Genre in the Floating World: Japanese Prints (not offered in 2003­2004)

      ARTH 224: 20th Century Chinese Art: Identity and Modernity (not offered in 2003­2004)

      ASLN 111: Writing Systems

      CHIN 101, 102, 103: Elementary Chinese

      CHIN 115: The Taoist Way of Health and Longevity: Taichi and Other Forms

      CHIN 204, 205: Intermediate Chinese

      CHIN 206: Chinese in Cultural Context

      CHIN 235: Beauty, Good, and Evil in Chinese Literature (not offered in 2003­2004)

      CHIN 345: Advanced Readings in Chinese Literature: Selected Prose (not offered in 2003­2004)

      CHIN 346: Advanced Readings in Chinese Fiction (not offered in 2003­2004)

      CHIN 347: Advanced Readings in Contemporary Chinese Prose: Newspapers

      CHIN 348: Advanced Chinese: Mass Media (not offered in 2003­2004)

      CHIN 349: Advanced Chinese: Social Commentary (not offered in 2003­2004)

      CHIN 350: Advanced Chinese: Poems and Stories

      JAPN 101, 102, 103: Elementary Japanese

      JAPN 204, 205, 206: Intermediate Japanese

      JAPN 236: Classical Japanese Fiction: The Tale of Genji and Its World

      JAPN 345: Advanced Readings in Modern Japanese Literature: The Short Story (not offered in 2003­2004)

      JAPN 347: Advanced Readings in Modern Japanese Prose: Newspapers (not offered in 2003­2004)

      JAPN 348: Advanced Japanese Conversation and Composition

      ECON 240: Economics of Developing Countries

      HIST 110: Seminars for First Year Students (Yoon, fall)

      HIST 151: History of Japan Since 1868 (not offered in 2003­2004)

      HIST 152: History of Imperial China (not offered in 2003­2004)

      HIST 153: History of Modern China

      HIST 161: History of Modern India (not offered in 2003­2004)

      HIST 258: Foreign Relations of East Asia in Modern Times

      HIST 259: Women in South Asia: Histories, Narratives and Representation (not offered in 2003­2004)

      POSC 253: Communist Political Thought: Marx to Mao (not offered in 2003­2004)

      POSC 326: America's China Policy

      POSC 329: Vietnam War and American Policy (not offered in 2003­2004)

      POSC 378: Beijing Program: Chinese Social and Political Institutions (not offered in 2003­2004)

      POSC 379: Beijing Program: Chinese Decision Making (not offered in 2003­2004)

      POSC 381: Beijing Program: Political Economy of China (not offered in 2003­2004)

      POSC 382: Beijing Program: Chinese Economy in Transition (not offered in 2003­2004)

      RELG 122: Introduction to Islam (not offered in 2003­2004)

      RELG 150: The Religions of South Asia

      RELG 151: Chinese Religious Thought

      RELG 152: Japanese Religion and Culture

      RELG 250: Hindu Traditions

      RELG 251: Theravada Buddhism

      RELG 253: Tibetan Buddhism (not offered in 2003­2004)

      RELG 255: East Asian Buddhist Thought and Practice (not offered in 2003­2004)

      RELG 273: Indian Philosophy (not offered in 2003­2004)

      RELG 371: The Poetics of Englightenment (not offered in 2003­2004)

      SOAN 254: Anthropology of South Asia (not offered in 2003­2004)

      SOAN 312: Actors and Issues in Contemporary Third World "Development" (not offered in 2003­2004)