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 ACM Program in India consists of five 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 Education Program (ISLE) in which students and a faculty member study at Peradeniya University near Kandy, the old capital in the middle of the island. In 1989 and 1991 Carleton offered overseas study programs in Nepal. A triennial program emphasizing Political Economy was begun in 1990, in Beijing, China.

Also available by special arrangement: Advanced Nepali (J. Fisher), Uzbek (A. Khalid); Sanskrit, Tibetan, Pali (R. Jackson)

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

 

Other Courses Pertinent to Asian Studies:

ARTH 164 Buddhist Art (not offered in 2004­2005)

ARTH 165 Japanese Art (not offered in 2004­2005)

ARTH 166 Chinese Art

ARTH 182 History of South Asian Art (not offered in 2004-2005)

ARTH 208 Ritual and Rhetoric in Ancient Chinese Art

ARTH 209 Chinese Painting (not offered in 2004­2005)

ARTH 220 Gender and Genre in the Floating World: Japanese Prints

ARTH 224 Twentieth Century Chinese Art: Identity and Modernity (not offered in 2004­2005)

ARTH 229 Studies in Chinese Art and Literature: The Dragon, The Mountain and the Hare in the Moon (not offered in 2004-2005)

ASLN 111 Writing Systems (not offered in 2004-2005)

ASLN 260 Historical Linguistics

CCST 395 Man and Water in East China Seas

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

CHIN 240 Chinese Cinema (not offered in 2004-2005)

CHIN 345 Advanced Readings in Chinese Literature: Selected Prose

CHIN 346 Advanced Readings in Chinese Fiction (not offered in 2004­2005)

CHIN 347 Advanced Readings in Contemporary Chinese Prose: Newspapers (not offered in 2004-2005)

CHIN 348 Advanced Chinese: The Mass Media (not offered in 2004­2005)

CHIN 349 Advanced Chinese: Social Commentary

CHIN 350 Advanced Chinese: Poems and Stories (not offered in 2004-2005)

JAPN 101, 102, 103 Elementary Japanese

JAPN 204, 205, 206 Intermediate Japanese

JAPN 230 Topics in Pre-Modern Literature in Translation

JAPN 231 Japanese Cinema in Translation (not offered in 2004-2005)

JAPN 236 Classical Japanese Fiction: The Tale of Genji and Its World (not offered in 2004-2005)

JAPN 240 Literature and Society of Modern Japan in Translation

JAPN 345 Advanced Readings in Modern Japanese Literature: The Short Story

JAPN 347 Advanced Readings in Modern Japanese Prose: Newspapers

JAPN 348 Advanced Japanese Conversation and Composition (not offered in 2004-2005)

ECON 240 Economics of Developing Countries

HIST 110 The Chinese Revolution of 1949

HIST 151 History of Modern Japan

HIST 152 History of Imperial China

HIST 153 History of Modern China (not offered in 2004-2005)

HIST 156 History of Modern Korea (not offered in 2004-2005)

HIST 160 History of Classical India

HIST 161 History of Modern India

HIST 200 The Zen of Asian and Western Woodworking (not offered in 2004-2005)

HIST 258 Foreign Relations of East Asia in Modern Times

HIST 259 Women in South Asia: Histories, Narratives and Representation (not offered in 2004­2005)

HIST 262 Post-Colonial South Asia

HIST 265 Empires of the Steppe (not offered in 2004-2005)

LING 180 Structure of Japanese (not offered in 2004-2005)

MUSC 180 or 280 Raga: Vocal or Instrumental Study of Hindustani Music

MUSC 182 or 282 Chinese Musical Instruments

MUSC 248 Music of India (not offered in 2004-2005)

POSC 232 Taiwan: Political and Economic Change (not offered in 2004-2005)

POSC 242 Hong Kong: A Relic of the Past or a Model for the Future

POSC 243 The Politics of Burma: Democratic Challenges Military Response (not offered in 2004-2005)

POSC 253 Communist Political Thought: Marx to Mao (not offered in 2004­2005)

POSC 324 Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy (not offered in 2004-2005)

POSC 326 America's China Policy (not offered in 2004-2005)

POSC 329 Vietnam War and American Policy

POSC 378 Beijing Program: Chinese Social and Political Institutions (not offered in 2004­2005)

POSC 379 Beijing Program: Chinese Decision Making (not offered in 2004-2005)

POSC 381 Beijing Program: Political Economy of China (not offered in 2004­2005)

POSC 382 Beijing Program: Chinese Economy in Transition (not offered in 2004­2005)

RELG 100 The Poetics of Enlightenment

RELG 122 Introduction to Islam

RELG 150 The Religions of South Asia

RELG 151 Chinese Religion and Culture

RELG 152 Japanese Religion and Culture

RELG 218 Hindu Classics (not offered in 2004-2005)

RELG 219 Buddhist Classics (not offered in 2004-2005)

RELG 250 Hindu Traditions (not offered in 2004-2005)

RELG 251 Theravada Buddhism (not offered in 2004-2005)

RELG 253 Tibetan Buddhism

RELG 254 Delusion and Enlightenment in Zen Buddhism (not offered in 2004-2005)

RELG 258 Women in Buddhist Traditions

RELG 273 Indian Philosophy

RELG 350 Emptiness (not offered in 2004-2005)

RELG 355 Buddhist Ethics (not offered in 2004-2005)

RELG 356 Buddhism, Belief and Religious Authority (not offered in 2004-2005)

SOAN 254 Anthropology of South Asia (not offered in 2004­2005)

SOAN 282 Anthropology of Japan

SOAN 284 Anthropology of China

SOAN 312 Actors and Issues in Contemporary Third World "Development" (not offered in 2004­2005)