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Program Requirements
This program may be expanded to the Major Concentration East Asian Studies.
Introduction to East Asian Culture
6 credits, two of the following courses:
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EAST 211 Introduction: East Asian Culture: China (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Chinese culture. The course will also examine the changing representations of the Chinese cultural tradition in the West. Readings will include original sources in translation from the fields of literature, philosophy, religion, and cultural history.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Knight, David (Winter)
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EAST 212 Introduction: East Asian Culture: Japan (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : An introduction to Japan which presents various aspects of Japanese literature, culture, history, religions, philosophy and society.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Bergstrom, Brian (Fall)
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EAST 213 Introduction: East Asian Culture: Korea (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Korean culture, including Korean literature, religions, philosophy, and socio-economic formations.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Thomas, James (Fall)
East Asian Literature, Culture and Society
12 credits of courses in East Asian Literature, Culture and Society selected from the list below.
East Asian Studies (EAST)
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EAST 214 Japanese Animation & New Media (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Animation and new media in Japan, with an emphasis on postwar developments.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Lamarre, Thomas (Fall)
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EAST 215 Introduction to East Asian Art (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Introductory survey of some of the major developments in the visual arts of Japan, China, and Korea. Emphasis will be placed on the diversity of artistic traditions in East Asia and the intersections among these traditions.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Restriction: Not open to students taking or who have taken ARTH 215.
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EAST 303 Current Topics: Chinese Studies 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of important issues in Chinese Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Chang, Jennie H; Wang, Renzhong (Fall)
- Fall
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 304 Current Topics: Chinese Studies 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of important issues in Chinese Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Chang, Jennie H (Winter)
- Winter
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 305 Current Topics: Japanese Studies 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of important issues in Japanese studies. The content of the course will vary from year to year.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Hasegawa, Sumi (Fall)
- Fall
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 306 Current Topics: Japanese Studies 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of important issues in Japanese studies. The content of the course will vary from year to year.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Hurley, Adrienne; Uesaka, Miwako (Winter)
- Winter
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 307 Topics: Chinese Language and Literature 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese literature and/or language. The content of the course may vary from year to year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: EAST 211 or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 308 Topics: Chinese Language and Literature 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese literature and/or language. The content of the course may vary from year to year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: EAST 211 or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 313 Current Topics: Korean Studies 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of important issues in Korean Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Thomas, James; Kim, Myunghee (Fall)
- Fall
- Restriction: Departmental approval required.
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EAST 314 Current Topics: Korean Studies 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of important issues in Korean Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Thomas, James (Winter)
- Winter
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 315 Survey: Modern Korean Literature in Translation (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : This course will include modern Korean prose, poetry, and drama and will study major representative works from the 19th century times to the present day.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
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EAST 350 Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Literature (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Gender and sexuality in modern and/or premodern Chinese literature with emphasis on representation of gender relations, notions of masculinity and femininity, morality and sexuality. Readings from fiction, drama, poetry, and/or other genres are approached from a variety of critical perspectives.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Knight, David (Winter)
- Prerequisite: EAST 211 or permission of instructor.
- Note: Readings in English translation.
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EAST 351 Women Writers of China (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : A study of fiction, drama, and poetry by women writers in imperial, modern, and/or contemporary China.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Core course for the Women's Studies program
- Prerequisite: EAST 211 or permission of instructor.
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EAST 352 Critical Approaches to Chinese Literature (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : This course will examine traditional and/or modern genres of Chinese literature with a focus on different forms of Chinese and Western literary analysis.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: EAST 211.
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EAST 353 Approaches to Chinese Cinema (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Development of Chinese film in the 20th century, with an emphasis on both critical approaches to film as well as film history.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Fan, Ho Lok Victor (Fall)
- Prerequisite: EAST 211.
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EAST 354 Taoist and Buddhist Apocalypses (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Visions of the end of the world in Medieval Chinese Buddhist and Taoist literature will be contrasted with Western apocalyptic materials. The course will trace the development of Buddhism and Taoism in China, focusing on millennarian movements, soteriology, public worship, and ritual.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
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EAST 356 Modern & Contemporary Chinese Art (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Examination of modern Chinese art and visual culture from the 1920's to the present. Emphasis will be placed on the formation of the artistic avant-garde in the 20th century and its relation to socialist and post-socialist mass culture.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Yi, Lidu (Winter)
- Restriction: Not open to students taking or who have taken ARTH 356.
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EAST 362 Japanese Cinema (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : This course will study the development of film in Japan during the 20th century with a particular focus on the analysis of film form, genres and history.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Furuhata, Yuriko (Fall)
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EAST 363 Aesthetics and Politics of Vision Premodern Japan (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : This course examines cultural production in early and medieval Japan, focusing on calligraphy, painting, picture scrolls, gestures and their relation to textual production. Readings explore various classic texts, taboos against seeing and narrative modes of cognition.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: EAST 212 or permission of instructor
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EAST 364 Mass Culture and Postwar Japan (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : This course addresses a number of analytic approaches to mass culture in order to examine the culture industry of post-war Japan. Emphasis on narrative strategies in popular or consumer fiction and on the problems of marginalized writers.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Furuhata, Yuriko (Fall)
- Prerequisite: Any introductory course in literature or cultural studies, or permission of instructor
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EAST 370 History of Sexuality in Japan (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Social and cultural history of sexuality in Japan. Possible topics include pre-modern sexuality and relations to court, religion and anthropology; pre-modern sex and gender relations; modern sexuality and gender identities; sexuality and the rise of science; relation to nationalism; feminism and queer movements.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
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EAST 385 Society and Community in Korea (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : This course will analyze topics in colonial and contemporary Korean life with a focus on the social institutions of family, school and workplace.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Thomas, James (Winter)
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EAST 390 The Chinese Family in History (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Exploration of the Chinese family in history both as an institution - in its religious, legal, economic, political aspects - and as a lived reality.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Vankeerberghen, Griet (Winter)
- Prerequisite: EAST 211 or HIST 208 or HIST 218 or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking HIST 344.
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EAST 453 Topics: Chinese Literature (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Advanced seminar in selected genres, themes and issues in Chinese literature.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: A 300-level course in any literature.
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EAST 454 Topics: Chinese Cinema (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in Chinese film.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisites: EAST 353, a 300-level film studies course, or permission of the instructor.
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EAST 456 Chinese Drama and Popular Culture (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : This course will examine the regional background of popular culture in Late Imperial China, focusing on the development of distinct traditions of regional drama. The levels of texts and audiences and the social and ritual contexts of theatrical performance in pre-modern China will also be considered.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: EAST 211 or permission of instructor
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EAST 457 Brushwork in Chinese Painting (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : The seminar takes an in-depth look at the function and meaning of the brushwork in traditional Chinese painting. Analysis of paintings will be combined to close readings of theoretical texts in translation.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: At least one EAST or ARTH course or permission of instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students taking or who have taken ARTH 457.
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EAST 461 Inventing Modern Japanese Novel (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : An examination of the modern Japanese novel as a form which both affirms and resists the form of the European novel. Readings explore the particular problems of the Japanese novel in the context of modernization, westernization, and colonialism.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Hurley, Adrienne (Fall)
- Prerequisite: Any course in literature or cultural studies above the introductory level, or permission of instructor
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EAST 462 Japan in Asia (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : This course introduces theories of cultural interaction, interpellation, and intertexuality in order to reconsider Japanese modes of reception and selection of Chinese texts and technologies. Readings range from early Japanese to 20th century texts. Readings in translation.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: Any East Asian Studies course above the introductory level, or permission of the instructor
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EAST 464 Image, Text, Performance (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Drawing on theoretical approaches from a variety of media studies, including cinema, performance and performativity, and elsewhere, this course looks at cultural production in premodern and modern Japan. Topics to be addressed range from calligraphy and writing, to theatre, and film.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: Any East Asian Studies course above the introductory level, or permission of the instructor
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EAST 466 Feminism and Japan (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Seminar dealing with issues relating to gender, the feminine, especially in the context of Japan. The course will draw on a range of theoretical frameworks, and may include the analysis of literature, film, art and popular culture.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: Any East Asian Studies course above the introductory level, or permission of instructor
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EAST 467 Topics: Japanese Cinema (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Topics in the study of Japanese cinema.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Furuhata, Yuriko (Winter)
- Prerequisites: EAST 214, EAST 362 or permission of the instructor.
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EAST 490 Confucius and the Classics (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : This course will examine the Five Classics and their relation to the figure of Confucius. It will survey various interpretations of Confucius and the Classics and the role these played in various periods of Chinese history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: EAST 211 or HIST 208 or HIST 218 or permission of instructor.
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EAST 491 Tutorial: East Asian Languages and Literatures 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Advanced reading course in language or literature.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Chang, Jennie H; Wang, Renzhong (Fall)
- Fall
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 492 Tutorial: East Asian Languages and Literatures 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Advanced reading course in language or literature.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Chang, Jennie H; Kim, Myunghee (Winter)
- Winter
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 493 Special Topics: East Asian Studies 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Advanced reading course under supervision of instructor on certain aspects of East Asian Studies. Topics will vary from year to year.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011
Instructors: Yi, Lidu (Fall) Ng, Wee-Siang (Winter)
- Fall
- Prerequisite: Any EAST course at the 300-level or above or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 494 Special Topics: East Asian Studies 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Advanced reading course under supervision of instructor on certain aspects of East Asian Studies. Topics will vary from year to year.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Yi, Lidu (Winter)
- Winter
- Prerequisite: Any EAST course at the 300-level or above or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 501 Advanced Topics in Japanese Studies 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Japanese culture and society.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Hasegawa, Sumi; Furuhata, Yuriko; Uesaka, Miwako (Fall)
- Fall
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 502 Advanced Topics in Japanese Studies 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Japanese culture and society.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Hurley, Adrienne (Winter)
- Winter
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 503 Advanced Topics in Chinese Studies 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese culture and society.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011
Instructors: Wang, Renzhong (Fall) Fan, Ho Lok Victor (Winter)
- Fall
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 504 Advanced Topics in Chinese Studies 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese culture and society.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Fan, Ho Lok Victor (Winter)
- Winter
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 515 Seminar: Beyond Orientalism (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Examines the cultural stakes and ethical implications of applying Western European models of understanding to East Asian societies. Provides background on interdisciplinary debates around "otherness", "cultural appropriation", and "postcolonialism", focusing on their history within East Asian Studies and their impact on that field's methodological assumptions, self-definition, and institutional practices.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): any EAST course at the 300 level or above or permission of instructor
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EAST 550 Classical Chinese Poetry Themes and Genres (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : A study of major themes and genres of classical Chinese poetry from its beginnings to the Yuan dynasty (14th century), with emphasis on critical analysis of text and context. Readings of poems in the original.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): EAST 433 or permission of instructor
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EAST 551 Technologies of Self in Early China (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Readings on self-cultivation drawn from Confucian, Legalist, and Taoist philosophic texts of early China (5th-2nd centuries B.C.) in translation will be compared with historical and archaeological materials on the evolving construction of the "individual'' in Chinese social structure, military organization, political and ritual codes.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): One advanced course in EAST or permission of the instructor
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EAST 552 The Yijing (Book of Changes) (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : In-depth examination of the Yijing, known in the West as the Book of Changes. The course will combine a close reading of this pivotal text and its numerous commentaries with a social and cultural analysis of the diverse functions it fulfilled through Chinese history - philosophical, political, religious, aesthetic and cosmological.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: Any 300-level or above EAST course or permission of instructor.
- Note: No prior knowledge of Chinese required.
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EAST 559 Advanced Topics: Chinese Literature (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese literature. The content of the course may vary from year to year, ranging from contemporary to modern to pre-modern literature.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): one advanced course in EAST or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 562 Japanese Literary Theory and Practice (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : This course examines Japanese theories of literary production and practice with an emphasis on 20th century thought.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): Any course in EAST above the 200 level and at least a year of an East Asian Language, or permission of instructor
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EAST 563 Images, Ideograms, Aesthetics (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : This course explores theories and usage of ideograms and images in Asian texts, both modern and premodern.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): EAST 320 or EAST 330 or EAST 340 or equivalent, or permission of instructor
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EAST 564 Structures of Modernity: Japan (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : This course explores relations between some of the principal sites which structure the experience of "modernity" in Japan (and elsewhere) - from bodies and cities, to the urban context in general. Along with general approaches (e.g. the idea of everyday life; questions of time), specific topics may include speed, music, architecture, crime, etc.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Lamarre, Thomas (Fall)
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): Any East Asian Studies course above the introductory level, or permission of the instructor
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EAST 569 Advanced Topics: Japanese Literature (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature : Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Japanese literature. The content of the course may vary from year to year from contemporary to modern to pre-modern literature.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: one advanced course in EAST or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Departmental approval required
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EAST 582 Japanese Culture and Society (3 credits)
Overview
Asian Language & Literature
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Anthropology (ANTH)
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ANTH 329 Modern Chinese Society and Change (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : 20th and 21st century Chinese economic, social and cultural changes and continuities. Topics include rural development, revolution and reform policies, gender and households, family planning, minorities, urbanization, and human rights.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Winter
- Prerequisites: ANTH 202, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 212, or East Asian Studies Honours/Major, or permission of instructor
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ANTH 331 Prehistory of East Asia (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Comparative study of prehistoric hunting and gathering cultures in China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia and Eastern Siberia; origins and dispersal of food production; cultural processes leading to the rise of literate civilizations in certain regions of East Asia.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: ANTH 201 or permission of instructor
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ANTH 431 Problems in East Asian Archaeology (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Critical examination of major issues in East Asian archaeology. Focus may change from year to year. Possible topics include: origins and evolution of Asian population; processes of plant domestication; development of complex societies based on hunting-gathering-fishing; and rise of civilizations and state formation in China, Japan, and Korea.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: ANTH 331 or permission of instructor
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ANTH 500 Chinese Diversity and Diaspora (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Explores ethnic diversity within mainland China, as well as the diversity of Chinese cultures of diaspora, living outside the mainland, often as minorities subject to other dominant cultures.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Winter
- Restrictions: Reserved for U3 Anthropology undergraduate students or graduate students, any other students by permission of instructor.
- Enrolment Limit: 25 students.
Economics (ECON)
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ECON 335 The Japanese Economy (3 credits)
Overview
Economics (Arts) : The first part of the course covers the economic institutions in, changing structure of, and public policies employed by the Japanese economy. The second part probes the economic "logic" of the Japanese capitalist system, explores its relationship to the ideas of Joseph Schumpeter, and makes comparisons with the American economy.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Kurien, John C (Winter)
- Prerequisites: ECON 208 and ECON 209 or those listed under Prerequisites above
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ECON 411 Economic Development: A World Area (3 credits)
Overview
Economics (Arts) : An advanced course in the economic development of a pre-designated underdeveloped country or a group of countries.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Kurien, John C (Fall)
- Prerequisites: ECON 230 or ECON 250 and one semester of economic development
History (HIST)
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HIST 208 Introduction to East Asian History (3 credits)
Overview
History : An introduction to the history of East Asian civilization from earliest times to 1600, with emphasis on China and Japan, including social, intellectual, and economic developments as well as political history.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Vankeerberghen, Griet (Fall)
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 101-208D
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HIST 218 Modern East Asian History (3 credits)
Overview
History : An introduction to the history of China and Japan from the seventeenth century to the present, including modernization, nationalism, and the interaction of the two countries.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Ransmeier, Johanna (Winter)
- Winter
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HIST 308 Formation of Chinese Tradition (3 credits)
Overview
History : An examination of the multiple sources of the Chinese imperial system from the period of the neolithic culture interaction sphere to the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 C.E. Special attention is paid to socio-economic developments as well as to the evolution of philosophy, ideology, and social practice. The sequel to this course is HIST 358.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 101-308D
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HIST 318 History of Japan 1 (3 credits)
Overview
History : A survey of Japanese history and culture from earliest times to the 17th century, this course aims to provide students with a broad understanding of important themes in Japanese history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 101-318D or 101-293A
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HIST 328 The Qing Empire (3 credits)
Overview
History : Explores the origins and crises faced by China's final dynasty. Topics include Manchu conquest and identity, questions of empire and expansion, central and provincial government, the place of women in Qing China, encounters with Europe and the Americas, the Opium Wars, the Taiping Rebellion, and Boxer uprising.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: One previous course in Chinese or Asian history or permission of instructor
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HIST 337 Japanese Intellectual History 1 (3 credits)
Overview
History : An overview of the history of Japanese thought and mentality from earliest times to 1700. By examining not only texts of representative thinkers but also other (especially literary) materials, it aims at elucidating changing and continuing characteristics of the Japanese intellectual history. The sequel to this course is HIST 352.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 101-337D
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HIST 338 Twentieth-Century China (3 credits)
Overview
History : Examines 20th Century China from the fall of the Qing, through Republican China, the emergence of communism, war with Japan, revolution and civil war, the Cultural Revolution, and later economic reforms.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Ransmeier, Johanna (Fall)
- Prerequisite: one previous course in Chinese or Asian history or permission of instructor
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HIST 348 China: Science-Medicine-Technology (3 credits)
Overview
History : An introduction to traditional Chinese ideas about human beings and their relationship with heaven and earth. Special emphasis on the history of medicine and the body, alchemy, geomancy and divination techniques, agriculture and sericulture, astronomy, and engineering and their relation to changing social and cultural formations.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: HIST 208 or HIST 218 or permission of instructor
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HIST 352 Japanese Intellectual History 2 (3 credits)
Overview
History : An overview of the history of Japanese thought and mentality from 1700 to the present. By examining not only texts of representative thinkers but also other (especially literary) materials, it aims at elucidating changing and continuing characteristics of the Japanese intellectual history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: one previous course in East Asian history, including Japanese history and Chinese history, or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 101-337D
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HIST 358 Medieval to Early Modern China (3 credits)
Overview
History : This course studies the changes in Chinese society from the age of the aristocracy to the dominance of the literati; the rise of Buddhism and religious Daoism, the resurgence of Confucianism; and the impact of foreign conquests on the development of Chinese traditional culture.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: HIST 208 or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 101-308D
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HIST 359 History of Japan 2 (3 credits)
Overview
History : A survey of Japanese history and culture from the 17th century to the present, this course aims to provide students with a broad understanding of important themes in Japanese Civilisation.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 101-294B or 101-318D
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HIST 439 History of Women in China (3 credits)
Overview
History : This course examines the changing roles of women in traditional and modern China. Topics include political, social, and legal status, sexuality and medicine, religion and culture.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: a previous course in Chinese history
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HIST 441 Topics: Culture and Ritual in China (3 credits)
Overview
History : An examination of selected aspects of the cultural and intellectual life of China. Topics vary from year to year, but include the history of popular religion, Chinese science and medicine, the esoteric arts including divination practices, law, and the influence of ideas in the production of Chinese culture.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: HIST 208 and HIST 218 and permission of instructor
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HIST 442 Asian Diaspora: Chinese Overseas (3 credits)
Overview
History : The contexts and causes of Chinese emigration; historical patterns of migration; Overseas Chinese communities on five continents, with emphasis on Southeast Asia and North America; alienation and identity in Chinatown; relations between the Overseas Chinese and China.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: One previous course in Chinese or Asian history or permission of instructor
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HIST 443 China in the Modern World (3 credits)
Overview
History : An examination of the various trajectories of China, in the context of its immediate periphery and of the world, in the last fifty years; topics will include the history of Hong Kong,Taiwan, and Chinese Central Asia, and China's encounter with the Soviet Union (Russia), Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: HIST 328 or HIST 338 or permission of the instructor
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HIST 445 Late Imperial China (3 credits)
Overview
History : An introduction to the social and economic history of Late Imperial China, focusing on the Ming and early to mid Qing Dynasties (1368 - 1800), and current interpretations thereof. Was this a discrete period in Chinese history? If so, why.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: HIST 208 or HIST 218
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HIST 485D1 Seminar in Japanese History (3 credits)
Overview
History : Particular attention will be paid to Japanese responses to the impact of Western culture from the sixteenth century, and to aspects of Japanese intellectual history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: HIST 208 or HIST 218 or consent of instructor
- Students must register for both HIST 485D1 and HIST 485D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 485D1 and HIST 485D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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HIST 485D2 Seminar in Japanese History (3 credits)
Overview
History : See HIST 485D1 for course description.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: HIST 485D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 485D1 and HIST 485D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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HIST 497D1 Topics in Chinese History (3 credits)
Overview
History : A research seminar on aspects of Chinese history from early time to the present, with emphasis on social history.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Ransmeier, Johanna (Fall)
- Prerequisite: HIST 208 and HIST 218 and a 300-level course in Chinese History or permission of instructor
- Students must register for both HIST 497D1 and HIST 497D2.
- No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 497D1 and HIST 497D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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HIST 497D2 Topics in Chinese History (3 credits)
Overview
History : See HIST 497D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Ransmeier, Johanna (Winter)
- Prerequisite: HIST 497D1
- No credit will be given for this course unless both HIST 497D1 and HIST 497D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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HIST 579 The Arts of Healing in China (3 credits)
Overview
History : An historical perspective on the diverse arts of healing in China focusing on Key formations such as popular traditions, the emergence of classical medicine, the creation of Traditional Chinese medicine in modern China. Emphasis on healing as part of social, historical, intellectual, and cultural processes.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): At least two courses at the 300 level or above in East Asian history or permission of instructor
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HIST 581 The Art of War in China (3 credits)
Overview
History : A study of the historical development of military theory and practice from earliest times to 1911 from a variety of perspectives, technological, scientific, social, and cultural.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite (Undergraduate): at least two 300-level or above courses in East Asian history, or permission of instructor
Management (ORGB)
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ORGB 380 Cross Cultural Management (3 credits)
Overview
Organizational Behaviour : Cross-cultural awareness and communication skills necessary to manage in multicultural organizations. Focus on the relationship between cultural values and communication style as they affect inter and intra cultural communication of managers, personnel and clients of multinational and multicultural organizations.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011, Summer 2011
Instructors: Lvina, Elena (Fall) Lvina, Elena (Winter) Jaeger, Alfred M (Summer)
Political Science (POLI)
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POLI 323 Developing Areas/China and Japan (3 credits)
Overview
Political Science : A survey of traditional and modern political society in China and Japan. Special emphasis is placed on governmental policy and institutions in relation to ideology in the Peoples' Republic of China and post-1945 Japan.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor
- Note: The area in the field of Comparative Politics is Developing Areas.
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POLI 349 Foreign Policy: Asia (3 credits)
Overview
Political Science : An overview of the foreign policies of two rising powers - China and India - in addition to Japan, covering the historical evolution, goals and determinants of their foreign policies, interactions with the rest of Asia and the world, and efforts at institutionalised cooperation in South and East Asia.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Paul, T V (Fall)
- Prerequisites: POLI 243 or 244, or permission of the instructor.
- Note: The field is International Politics.
Religious Studies (RELG)
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RELG 253 Religions of East Asia (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : Harmony with nature, society, and cosmos to be explored through the religions of the Far East (Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and Shinto).
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Hori, G (Winter)
- Winter
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RELG 264 Introductory Tibetan 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : An introduction to the language of Classical Tibetan, specifically Tibetan script and basic grammar.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Turenne, Philippe (Fall)
- Fall
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RELG 265 Introductory Tibetan 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : A continuation of the introduction to the language of Classical Tibetan, specifically Tibetan script and basic grammar.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Turenne, Philippe (Winter)
- Winter
- Prerequisite: RELG 264
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RELG 339 Gender & Sexuality in Buddhism (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : Religious perspectives on the body, gender and sexual activity in Buddhist cultures.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Core course for the Women's Studies Minor program
- Prerequisite: RELG 252 or permission of the instructor
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RELG 344 Mahayana Buddhism (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : Investigation of Mahayana schools of thought based on reading of key sutras and commentarial literature.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Lai, Lei Kuan (Fall)
- Fall
- Prerequisites: RELG 252 or RELG 253.
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RELG 352 Japanese Religions (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : A study of early Shinto mythology, Shinto-Buddhist syncretism, Neo-Confucianism and its influence upon the resurgence of Shinto during the Tokugawa period, folk religion and the New Religions.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Hori, G (Winter)
- Fall
- Prerequisite: RELG 253 or permission of instructor
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RELG 354 Chinese Religions (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : This course studies the Confucian classics, philosophical and religious Taoism, and Neo-Confucianism and also examines the syncresis between the Chinese religions and Indian Buddhism.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
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RELG 364 Intermediate Tibetan 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : Advanced Tibetan grammar, and translation of selected Tibetan texts.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Turenne, Philippe (Fall)
- Fall
- Prerequisite: RELG 265 or permission of the instructor.
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RELG 365 Intermediate Tibetan 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : Continuation of advanced Tibetan grammar and translation of selected Tibetan texts.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Turenne, Philippe (Winter)
- Winter
- Prerequisite: RELG 364 or permission of the instructor.
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RELG 442 Pure Land Buddhism (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : The concept of Buddha Countries and Pure Lands in Buddhism, the Western Pure Land of Amida (Jodokyo) and its basic scriptures, the Chinese Buddhist schools, the introduction to Japan and the foundation of the Pure Land school by Honen, the Pure Land School of Shinran and its development, and the other Pure Land related schools.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisite: RELG 252 and RELG 253, or RELG 342 or RELG 344, or permission of instructor
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RELG 443 Japanese Esoteric Buddhism (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : The development of esoteric Buddhism in India and Tibet; its Chinese formation and introduction to Japan; Kukai, Shingonshu and Tendai esotericism; the Tachikawa traditions of sexual esotericism; Mandal, iconography and liturgy.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisites: RELG 252 and RELG 253, or RELG 342, or RELG 344
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RELG 451 Zen: Maxims and Methods (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : Through the reading of such key Zen writings as The Platform Sutra and selections from Zen Masters Chinul of Korea and Dôgen of Japan, an attempt will be made to relate Zen anecdote to meditational practice.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisites: RELG 252, RELG 342 or RELG 344, or permission of instructor
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RELG 452 East Asian Buddhism (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : Topic for 2000: Precept and Ritual in East Asian Buddhism and Confucianism.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Lai, Lei Kuan (Winter)
- Winter
- Prerequisite: RELG 253 or RELG 344
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RELG 464 Advanced Tibetan 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : Translation of specially selected Tibetan texts.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Braitstein, Lara E (Fall)
- Fall
- Prerequisite: RELG 365 or permission of instructor.
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RELG 465 Advanced Tibetan 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : Continuation of translation of specially selected Tibetan texts.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Braitstein, Lara E (Winter)
- Winter
- Prerequisite: RELG 464 or permission of the instructor.
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RELG 549 Japanese Buddhist Philosophy (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : Major figures of the Kyoto School of Buddhist philosophy (Nishida, Tanabe, Nishitani), emphasizing their intellectual debts to both modern European philosophy (Hegel, Neitzsche, Heidegger) and Mahayana Buddhism (Zen and Pure Land Buddhism).
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisites: RELG 344, or RELG 451, or permission of the instructor.
- Note: Taught in alternate years.
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RELG 557 Asian Ethical Systems (3 credits)
Overview
Religious Studies : An examination of the ethical ideals that have evolved in Asia with reference to Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism. Issues to be explored include competing views of the individual's duties to social and political institutions, the individual's right to non-conformity, the relationship between morality and metaphysics, and a comparison of moral principles in theistic and atheistic contexts.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Prerequisites: RELG 252, RELG 253, or permission of instructor
Faculty of Arts—2010-2011 (last updated Jan. 19, 2011) (disclaimer)