East Asian Studies Concentration
Coordinator: Associate Professor Mariko Kaga
East Asia consists of areas encompassed by present day China, Japan, and Korea (and sometimes also Mongolia and Siberia). This concentration will consist of a program of study combining language training, required courses in history, supporting courses in humanities and social sciences and an interdisciplinary senior seminar. The underlying logic of this program will highlight both the similarities and differences in the society of this area and generate increased understanding of a non-Western experience.
Requirements for the Concentration:
The East Asian Studies Concentration requires completion of two core courses, one year of either Chinese or Japanese language, four supporting courses (from at least two different departments) and an advanced paper. Courses completed as part of ACP, AKP, or a Carleton or ACM/GLCA program may apply to concentration requirements. Students wishing to enroll in this concentration should normally be majors in Asian language, economics, history, political science, religion, or sociology and anthropology.
Core Courses:
HIST 150: Japan to 1868
HIST 151: History of Japan Since 1868 (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
HIST 152: History of Imperial China
Language Requirement: Japanese or Chinese (One year by time of Senior Seminar)
Supporting Courses: Four courses from the following list; courses must be distributed in at least two departments.
ARTH 164: Buddhist Art
ARTH 165: Japanese Art
ARTH 208: Ritual and Rhetoric in Ancient Chinese Art (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
ARTH 209: Chinese Painting
ARTH 220: Gender and Genre in the Floating World: Japanese Prints (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
ARTH 224: Twentieth-Century Chinese Art: Identity and Modernity (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
ASLN 111: Writing Systems (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
ASLN 260: Historical Linguistics
CHIN 115: The Taoist Way of Health and Longevity
CHIN 235: Beauty, Good and Evil in Chinese Literature
CHIN 345: Advanced Reading in Chinese Literature: Selected Prose
CHIN 346: Advanced Readings in Chinese Fiction (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
CHIN 347: Advanced Reading in Contemporary Chinese Prose: Newspapers
CHIN 348: Advanced Chinese: Mass Media (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
CHIN 349: Advanced Chinese: Social Commentary (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
CHIN 350: Advanced Chinese: Poems and Stories (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
ECON 240: Economics of Developing Countries
HIST 153: Modern China
HIST 251: Late Imperial China (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
HIST 252: The Chinese Revolution (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
HIST 258: Foreign Relations of East Asia in Modern Times
HIST 395: Topics in East Asian History
JAPN 236: Classical Japanese Fiction
JAPN 237: Literature and Arts of Japan (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
JAPN 345: Advanced Reading in Modern Japanese Literature: The Short Story
JAPN 346: Advanced Reading in Modern Japanese Literature: Poetry and Drama (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
JAPN 347: Advanced Reading in Modern Japanese Prose: Newspapers
JAPN 348: Advanced Conversation and Composition (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
POSC 325: Japan: Politics and Foreign Policy (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
POSC 326: America's China Policy
POSC 386: Comparing Mexico and China
RELG 151: Chinese Religious Thought (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
RELG 152: Japanese Religion and Culture (Not offered in 2000-2001.)
RELG 255: East Asian Buddhist Thought and Practice
Courses from ACP, AKP, and Carleton or ACM/GLCA programs may also satisfy the requirement.
Advanced Paper: Students may meet this requirement in three ways:
1) By writing a paper in a 300-level seminar in either Asian Studies, Chinese, History, Japanese, Political Science (Grow), or Religion
2) By writing a major paper in a non-seminar advanced-level course (in addition to the supporting courses, courses chosen from the list of supporting courses.)
3) Writing comps on an East Asian topic.