An examination of the lived experiences of Asians living in diaspora throughout the world via their contributions to national and transnational cultures. Case studies will be drawn from examples such as Vietnamese, Chinese, and Japanese diasporic communities in the United States; Korean diaspora in Japan, Russia and China; Filipino diaspora in China and Japan; and Japanese diaspora in South America. Senior Seminar in East Asian Studies.

An introduction to the Japanese language emphasizing primarily speaking and listening. Entry level reading and writing is introduced. Students will be required to work with audio materials to develop these skills.

This intensive course, intended for East Asian Studies majors but open to all, aims to familiarize students with major critical approaches that characterize elements of the study of East Asian cultures. Gateway course for the East Asian Studies major.

This course examines the figure of the superhero in East Asian cultures and uses it as a case study to examine how these cultures treat issues like the self, the body, nationalism, gender, sexuality, politics and religion. It also examines American interpretations of East Asian superheroes and asks questions of Asian American identity. As a ConnCourse, this course makes connections across the liberal arts.

This course delves into the lived conditions and experiences of members, both voluntary and unwitting, of Japan’s colonial project. Through the investigation of literature and film by and about colonized subjects in Manchuria, Taiwan and Korea, as well as contemporary representations of this time period, students will interrogate questions of identity, nation, gender, empire, urban space, and media.

A Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum (FLAC) supplement to Superheroes and Underdogs in East Asian Cultures. An exploration of topics and issues related to superheroes in East Asian Cultures, taught in Japanese.

This course takes the topic of “controversy” as its starting point, and “East Asia,” broadly defined, as its context. In this course, students will learn how to analyze arguments that form the basis of controversies regarding the East Asian region, in topics such as politics, religion, gender, race and sexuality. As a ConnCourse, this course makes connections across the liberal arts.

First Year Seminar. An examination of the historical discourses of the self within Japanese culture that operate from the 1970s to the present day. We will investigate the ways that Japanese media represents and discusses the body and the self, looking at concrete manifestations of these themes in literature, film, television, anime, manga and video games.

Independent study in intermediate to lower advanced Japanese language.

An introduction to the history and cultures of East Asia (China, Japan, and Korea), their major institutions and their religious and philosophical traditions from ancient times to the present. Asynchronous online course. Conducted in English, no knowledge of Chinese, Japanese or Korean languages is required.

Survey of the essential elements of traditional Korean civilization, early contacts with the West, and modern development. Focus on the evolution of basic Korean social, political, economic, and aesthetic ideas. Conducted in English; no knowledge of Korean is required.

This course explores contemporary Japanese culture from the late 1970s to the present day through a shift in discourses of the self from the realm of the corporeal to that of the virtual.

Survey of the essential elements of traditional Japanese civilization and their transformation in the post-Meiji era and 20th century. Focus on the development of basic Japanese social, political, and aesthetic ideas. Conducted in English; no knowledge of Japanese is required.

Japan’s popular culture is well known to those familiar with the global reach of anime, manga and video games. This course aims to trace the roots of this popular culture, as well as to ask questions of its underlying functions through close analysis of texts and their broader contexts, both local and global.

The family is a concept of particular concern in Japan following the Meiji Restoration in 1868, when it was considered integral in cultivating a modern nation based on perceptions of Western society. This course aims to understand and interrogate that viewpoint through careful examination of various texts from multiple forms of media, multiple perspectives, and multiple times.

Survey of the essential elements of traditional Japanese civilization and their transformation in the post-Meiji era and 20th century. Focus on the development of basic Japanese social, political, and aesthetic ideas. Conducted in English; no knowledge of Japanese is required.

This course examines representations of space in modern Japanese literature and film. By looking at Japanese prose literature and film, this course considers how space operates and how it acts to contextualize and situate the individual, examining spaces of the shogun capital Edo, the various iterations of cosmopolitan Tokyo, the countryside, ethnic minority spaces and contemporary virtual spaces.

This course explores contemporary Japanese culture from the late 1970s to the present day through a shift in discourses of the self from the realm of the corporeal to that of the virtual.