East Asian Studies Concentration
Coordinator: Associate Professor Kathleen Ryor
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 (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
HIST 151: History of Japan Since 1868 (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
HIST 152: History of Imperial China (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
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 2002-2003.)
ARTH 209: Chinese Painting
ARTH 220: Gender and Genre in the Floating World: Japanese Prints (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
ARTH 224: Twentieth-Century Chinese Art: Identity and Modernity
ASLN 111: Writing Systems (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
ASLN 260: Historical Linguistics
CHIN 115: The Taoist Way of Health and Longevity (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
CHIN 229: Studies in Chinese Art and Literature: The Dragon, the Mountain and the Hare in the Moon (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
CHIN 235: Beauty, Good and Evil in Chinese Literature (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
CHIN 240: Chinese Cinema
CHIN 242: Women and World Cinema
CHIN 345: Advanced Reading in Chinese Literature: Selected Prose (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
CHIN 346: Advanced Readings in Chinese Fiction (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
CHIN 347: Advanced Reading in Contemporary Chinese Prose: Newspapers (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
CHIN 348: Advanced Chinese: Mass Media
CHIN 349: Advanced Chinese: Social Commentary (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
CHIN 350: Advanced Chinese: Poems and Stories (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
CHIN 351: Advanced Readings in Modern Chinese (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
CHIN 352: Literatue, Culture and Society
ECON 240: Economics of Developing Countries
ECON 283: Contemporary Economics of East Asia
HIST 153: History of Modern China (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
HIST 156: History of Modern Korea (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
HIST 253: Bureaucracy, Law and Religion in East Asia (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
HIST 258: Foreign Relations of East Asia in Modern Times (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
JAPN 232: Autobiography in Modern Japan in Translation
JAPN 236: Classical Japanese Fiction: The Tale of Genji and Its World in Translation (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
JAPN 237: Literature and Arts of Japan 1333-1868 in Translation
JAPN 345: Advanced Reading in Modern Japanese Literature: The Short Story (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
JAPN 346: Advanced Reading in Modern Japanese Literature: Poetry and Drama (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
JAPN 347: Advanced Reading in Contemporary Japanese Prose: Newspapers
JAPN 348: Advanced Conversation and Composition (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
JAPN 349: Advanced Readings in Contemporary Japanese Prose
JAPN 350: Advanced Readings in Contemporary Culture
POSC 324: Chinese Government and Foreign Policy
POSC 325: Japan: Politics and Foreign Policy
POSC 326: America's China Policy (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
POSC 386: Comparing Mexico and China (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
RELG 151: Chinese Religion and Culture
RELG 152: Japanese Religion and Culture
RELG 254: Delusion and Englightenment in Zen Buddhism
RELG 255: East Asian Buddhist Thought and Practice (Not offered in 2002-2003.)
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.