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East Asian Studies Concentration

Director: Assistant Professor Sengjoo Yoon

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 2003-2004)

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

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 (not offered in 2003­2004)

      ARTH 165: Japanese 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

      ASLN 111: Writing Systems

      ASLN 260: Historical Linguistics (not offered in 2003­2004)

      CHIN 115: The Taoist Way of Health and Longevity

      CHIN 229: Studies in Chinese Art and Literature: The Dragon, the Mountain and the Hare in the Moon (not offered in 2003­2004)

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

      CHIN 240: Chinese Cinema

      CHIN 242: Women and World Cinema (not offered in 2003­2004)

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

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

      CHIN 347: Advanced Reading 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

      CHIN 351: Advanced Readings in Modern Chinese (not offered in 2003­2004)

      CHIN 352: Culture, Literature, and Society (not offered in 2003­2004)

      ECON 240: Economics of Developing Countries

      ECON 283: Contemporary Economics of East Asia(not offered in 2003­2004)

      HIST 153: History of Modern China

      HIST 156: History of Modern Korea (not offered in 2003­2004)

      HIST 253: Bureaucracy, Law and Religion in East Asia

      HIST 258: Foreign Relations of East Asia in Modern Times

      JAPN 232: Autobiography in Modern Japan in Translation (not offered in 2003­2004)

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

      JAPN 237: Literature and Arts of Japan 1333-1868 in Translation (not offered in 2003­2004)

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

      JAPN 347: Advanced Reading in Contemporary Japanese Prose: Newspapers (not offered in 2003­2004)

      JAPN 348: Advanced Conversation and Composition

      JAPN 349: Advanced Readings in Contemporary Japanese Prose (not offered in 2003­2004)

      JAPN 350: Advanced Readings in Contemporary Culture (not offered in 2003­2004)

      POSC 324: Chinese Government and Foreign Policy (not offered in 2003­2004)

      POSC 326: America's China Policy

      POSC 386: Comparing Mexico and China (not offered in 2003­2004)

      RELG 151: Chinese Religion and Culture

      RELG 152: Japanese Religion and Culture

      RELG 254: Delusion and Englightenment in Zen Buddhism (not offered in 2003­2004)

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

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.