Fall 2020 registration begins Monday, April 20, 2019. For more information regarding registration dates and times, please see the Academic Calendar.
All graduate classes from the department will be held remotely in the Fall 2020 semester. Course offerings are subject to sufficient student enrollment and other factors. Any updates will be added here and on the student course search system. If you have any questions, please contact us.
Meeting Time: Friday, 11:00-1:45pm
Meeting Location: Online - Remote Acceess
Instructor: Laurence Coderre
Required for all first-year students. This course is an introductory seminar offered to first-year graduate students in East Asian studies. The seminar provides a critical overview of the social, political, intellectual, and institutional history of the field of East Asian studies.
Meeting Time: Wednesday, 2:00-4:45pm
Meeting Location: Blended - Mainly Remote Access | With some possible supplementary in-person or field trip meetings
Instructor: Tom Looser
Even before the 2020 shutting down of the world economy, there had long been signs that the landscape of modern everyday life was undergoing fundamental transformation; arguments commonly appear that we are entering an era described as, for example, post-rational, post-political, post-enlightenment, and ultimately, post-human. This course takes up some of the terms, and possibilities, that might arise out of this moment. The starting point is a historical genealogy of the idea of the “public,” comparing traditions in the East (China and Japan, in particular) and the West. More specifically, however, the course will focus on two basic categories of the human which now seem to be particularly relevant to the way changes in our world are currently playing out: labor, and love. Again, the approach will be comparative, looking at everything from new forms of work communities arising in Japan, Korea, and China, to the rhetoric of “love” arising in remarkably diverse contexts (labor, politics, robotics) almost globally. In sketching out the idea of the public human, the course will also look at the boundaries of humanistic and post-humanistic thought. Material will be drawn from anthropology, philosophy, popular culture, and (circumstances permitting) may include field trips.
Meeting Time: Wednesday, 2:00-4:45pm
Meeting Location: Online
Instructor: Tatiana Linkhoeva
This seminar will explore the history of capitalism in Japan in a global perspective to identify the roots of the current Japanese capitalist system. We will conceptualize capitalism from different, overlapping perspectives: as a story of national “development”; as the latest phase in a far longer process of globalization; as the intrinsic feature of modernity itself. We will also deal with political, social and cultural forms of resistance to capitalism in modern and contemporary Japan. The course will put particular emphasis on the regional and global comparative context of Japanese development and situate it deeply in the political and social developments of the age.
Instructor: Various
Meeting Location: Determined in consultation with faculty supervisor
For more information on the course, please see Independent Study.
An Independent Study course provides students with the opportunity to work one-on-one with an instructor on a particular topic or creative project. Registration for this course requires approval of the Director of Graduate Studies. You will be asked to submit a proposal, that must include a project abstract (200-250 words) and a bibliography, approved by the professor supervising the course.