Fall 2021 registration begins Monday, May 3, 2021. For more information regarding registration dates and times, please see the Academic Calendar.
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
Instructor: Thomas Looser
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: Mondays, 11:00am-1:45pm
Instructor: Laurence Coderre
This course examines twentieth-century Chinese culture through the lens of gender and sexuality. Our main focus will be non-normative constructions in literature and film. Materials will be taken from the PRC, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the broader Sinosphere.
Meeting Time: Thursdays, 3:30pm-6:30pm
Instructor: Xudong Zhang | Frank Upham
This is a graduate seminar open to law students and graduate students in the Faculty ofArts and Sciences and the Institute for Law and Society who are interested in exploring the interdisciplinary area between law, culture, and society in modern China and Japan.Its main goals are to examine how cultural norms and social conventions constitute both the premise and subtext of law as positive codification and as public service; and to understand law in a larger, more holistic and practical setting. Therefore, the films are not only viewed and analyzed as visual representation of law at work in these societies, but more importantly, provide narrative, dramatic, symbolic, and allegorical cases in which law is comprehended and lived by ordinary people as well as those in power, in both legal and extra-legal terms that give substance to law as a social institution. While engaging in the filmic texts, our central concerns are the conflicts between the concrete and the abstract; the empirical and the theoretical; the customary or “natural” and the positivistic; and the moral, ethical sense of justice, and its delivery in the form of legal procedure and verdict. No previous experience with either Asia or film studies is necessary.
Instructor: 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.