Fall 2022 Undergraduate Courses
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Fall 2022
Asia's Revolution: China/India/Vietnam 1885-1962
Professor Moss Roberts | T: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
HIST-UA 538-001
The aim of this introductory course is to develop a comparative understanding of the national independence movements in China, India, and Vietnam, as well as the context within which they unfolded, in the period 1885-1962. The course will introduce students to some of the figures in modern Asian history who played a major role in the transition of India and Vietnam from colonial subordination to independent nationhood and of China from its semi-colonial status to liberation. The principal figures whose writings will be studied and compared are Mohandas Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Mao Zedong. In addition we will study the biography of Ho Chi Minh in order to develop a third angle of comparison. The course will give due attention to other relevant figures such as Gokhale, Tilak, Jinnah, and M.N. Roy in the case of India; Li Hongzhang, Sun Yatsen, Chen Duxiu, La Dazhao, and Chiang Kai-shek in the case of China; Phan Boi Chau in the case of Vietnam.
Mass Culture: China
Professor Laurence Coderre | TR: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
HIST-UA 551-001
This course examines the important role of mass culture in modern China. Our interest in “mass culture” will be twofold. First, we will consider the development and cultural impact of media technologies and media objects geared towards a mass audience. Second, we will explore the notion of “the masses” as a conceptual framework through which Chinese cultural producers and intellectuals, both before and after the 1949 revolution, made sense of the world and their place in it. Materials to be discussed include literature, film, visual art, and music from the late imperial period to the present day.
Translation through Chinese Literature
Professor Todd Foley | MW: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Rather than simply taking translation for granted as a necessary condition for accessing Chinese literature in English, this course will foreground the issue of translation and the particular challenges that arise when attempting to convey a Chinese work in English. Our examination will range from general theories of translation, to the fraught notion of world literature that inevitably lurks behind literary translation, to the specific historical and ideological conditions that have affected the translation of Chinese literature, to a range of English renderings of a wide array of Chinese texts. Because students will also have the opportunity to produce their own critical translations in English, a rudimentary knowledge of Chinese is recommended.
20th Century Korean Literature in Translation
Professor Yoon Jeong Oh | MW: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
ENGL-UA 59-001
COLIT-UA 611-001
Provides an overview of 20th-century Korean literature, tracing its development under the competing influences of tradition, history, and the West. Readings include drama, poetry, and fiction from modern and contemporary periods. Includes occasional lectures on classical forms of Korean literature and drama.
Topics in Asian Studies: Avant-Garde Art in Post-War South Korea
Professor Sooran Choi | M: 2:00 PM - 4:45 PM
The course examines post-WWII art and visual culture in South Korea and other localities and investigates why Western notions and forms of the avant-garde held such importance. The complex relationship between art and politics will be explored by examining various manifestations of political and social critique by South Korean artists and intellectuals in art and visual culture, as well as by artists in other parts of the world. South Korea during the post-WWII years, was primarily led by the military-oriented, authoritarian governments that operated under a Cold War ideology after the Korean War (1950--1953) until 1993. During this period, while the country’s economic development was on a lightspeed fast track with its American alliance and superficial democratic political system, the negative effects of the economic boom was the severe restriction of human rights and political dissent. Communist witch hunts were prevalent in South Korea as they were in the United States during the McCarthy era.
The course will map out the genealogy of the avant-garde in art in the West, its global circulation, and finally its South Korean renditions. Tracing the origin of avant-garde art from the mid-19th century through the post-WWII period, the class will explore various forms of modern and contemporary created and circulated in diverse parts of the globe. After the midterm exam, the class will focus on several South Korean art collectives which engaged in avant-garde forms of art, music, performance, and literature to advance their cultural and political critique against the pro-American, anti-Communist authoritarian government, and analyze the various artistic strategies and tactics used by these dissidents to promote democratic reforms and protect basic human rights. A group of young South Korean artists were banded together in art collectives to mask their dissidence and resistance utilizing re-contextualized notions of Western avant-garde art. The South Korean renditions of the avant-garde will be discussed in comparison with its European, American, Japanese, Chinese, Latin American, African, and Middle Eastern counterparts.
In addition to addressing various topics related to the South Korean and global avant-gardes, this course will also consider postcolonial theories pertaining to South Korea and non-Western cultures, and the histories and theories of protest and activism in art, as well as a comparative critique of the various global vanguard arts and cultures.
Topics in Asian Studies: Popular Religion in Pre-Modern China and Japan
Professor Ethan Harkness | MW: 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
RELST-UA 983-002
This course will survey aspects of popular religion in East Asia from a sociological perspective. We will begin by examining the roots of China's best-known native religion, Daoism, its connections with pre-existing popular beliefs, and its role in the social upheavals of the late Han Dynasty and early medieval period. Our attention will then turn to the arrival of Buddhism in China and the complex process of cross-fertilization that informed developments in both Buddhist and Daoist circles. Concrete evidence from the spectacular medieval library discovered at Dunhuang will provide material for case studies in religious practice, and theme-based approaches to ritual, magical medicine, and the art of prophecy will highlight the diversity of functions played by religion in society. With some sense of the medieval Chinese context, we will then proceed to consider the case of early Japan by looking at the role of religion in international relations and the development of popular religious movements in Japan. Time permitting, we will try to view some of the related Japanese illustrated manuscripts in the New York Public Library's Spencer Collection. All course readings will be in English.
Topics in Asian Studies: Gender, Revolution, Livelihood: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Women Writers
Professor Xiang He | MW: 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
The goals of this course are two-fold: it surveys and introduces the representative works of modern Chinese women writers on the one hand and on the other examines and tackles general problems, such as equality and liberation, desire, and subjectivity. We ask the following questions: What do patriarchy, the new marriage law, and revolution mean for modern Chinese women? What are their responses to the unprecedented historical and social changes during the 20th century? How do the problems of gender challenge and complicate our understanding of colonization, revolution, modernity, and identity? This course explores the above questions mainly through the novels and short stories written by modern Chinese women writers.
Topics in Korean Studies: Korean Culture and Society through K-pop
Professor Stephanie Choi | MW: 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM (Online)
MUSIC-UA 901-008
Many people worldwide learn about South Korea through the wave of Hallyu that displays glamorous television acts, trendy music and fashion, and vibrant nightlife in Seoul. But how much do we know about those media presentations' local contexts and sociocultural flows? What is the musical landscape of South Korea, and how does that landscape reflect the cultural dynamics of the nation? This course aims to explore multicultural flows of ideas, sounds, images, products, and lifestyles that are mediated, contested, and reshaped in the global circulation of K-pop. While we attempt to acquire media literacy through literature review and song and music video analyses, we will explore the production and consumption of K-pop in relation to the discourses of identity politics of gender/sexuality, race/ethnicity, class, generation, and nationality in the context of cultural globalization.
Topics in Korean Studies: Capitalism in Korea
Professor Jaewoong Jeon | TR: 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Taking both historical and theoretical approaches, this course will introduce students to capitalism in Korea. Proper analysis requires temporal as well as epistemological distance from the world in which we presently inhabit, since we are living deep within capitalism. We will attempt this challenging enterprise, first, by taking a historical journey back to Korea before its capitalist subsumption; secondly, by examining specific capitalist forms in modern Korea; and, finally, by engaging in theoretical discussions of capitalism in a global sense. The ultimate goal of the course, in a nutshell, is to reveal new insights about culture and society in today’s Korea that will resonate across the rest of the world.
Topics in Korean Studies:
Professor | MW: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
This course aims to introduce undergraduate students to modern Korean studies. We have incoming faculty; we will update the course description soon.
Topics in Chinese Studies: Literary Transformations in Post-Mao China
Professor Todd Foley | MW: 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
COLIT-UA 723-002
After the death of Mao Zedong and fall of the Gang of Four in 1976, the ideological stranglehold that had suffocated literary production during the Cultural Revolution gave way to a flourishing of literary exploration and experimentation. This course will look closely at the trajectories, developments, disjunctions, and transformations of literature beginning with the initial post-Mao period and moving through to the present-day. The first part of the course will examine literature from the 1980s, paying close attention to the complex intellectual scene of the “Culture Hot” (wenhua re) and the numerous and diverse schools of literature that arose during this dynamic period. We will then move on to the literature produced after brutal suppression of the 1989 Tian’anmen protests of 1989, which is generally noted for its increased commercialization, popularization, and the death of a “humanistic spirit.” Finally we will look at more recent works of literature produced in the 21st century, examining new genres such as internet literature while revisiting recent productions from earlier major writers, such as Yu Hua and Mo Yan, with whom we began the course. Overall we hope to pursue several overarching, guiding questions: How is literature of the post-Mao period both closely related to and markedly distinct from both the revolutionary May Fourth writing of the early twentieth-century, as well as the Chinese literary tradition in general? What political and theoretical anxieties continue to drive a diverse array of literary activities, and how have these changed over the past four decades? How have changing social and economic conditions both shaped and been reflected in literature? Finally, what can our examination of post-Mao literary transformations tell us about the current state of Chinese society and what the future might hold?
Topics in Chinese Studies: Tales Retold? Modern Contemporary Chinese Art
Professor Xudong Zhang | TR: 4:55 PM - 6:10 PM
This class examines major paradigms of social imagination in modern and contemporary Chinese societies by analyzing some of their major cinematic works. From longings for freedom and individuality in the earlier decades of the twentieth century to nostalgia for a lost collective form of life in today's Chinese metropolises; and from the fervent revolutionary pursuit of justice and equality in the heydays of Mao's China to fantastic wish-fulfillment of desire in a consumer society, Chinese cinema both documents and constructs a social psyche with its attendant dreams, anxiety, hope, and fantasies.
Topics in Japanese Studies: 3.11 and Disaster Capitalism
Professor Ramona Bajema | M: 8:00 AM - 10:30 AM (online)
On March 11, 2011, a triple disaster - earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown - triggered the most financially expensive disaster in human history. The event sent shockwaves through Japan. The earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture, in the northeast of Japan, miles from Japan's political and economic center in Tokyo.
In this class, we will focus on the 3.11 disaster that wrecked Japan's Tôhoku region in economic, political, cultural, and social terms and opened the area to rebuilding, development, and new ideas. We will review texts, including non-fiction and literature, watch videos, and address visual art and films related to 3.11. While the course uses the 2011 disaster as its anchor, we will address disaster capitalism in general, as well as the political ramifications and macroeconomic outcomes that nations must confront following cataclysmic events. Finally, this course will examine local issues that preceded the disaster - ones that characterize Japan's rural landscape and demographic shifts in general - and how the disaster has toppled, reinforced, and overcome obstacles.
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East Asian Art I: China, Korea, Japan to 1000CE
Professor Michele Matteini | MW: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
*Course not sponsored by East Asian Studies
ARTH-UA 510-001
An introduction to the art and culture of the Far East, presented in a chronological and thematic approach corresponding to the major dynastic and cultural changes of China, Korea, and Japan. Teaches how to "read" works of art in order to interpret a culture or a historical period; aims at a better understanding of the similarities and differences among the cultures of the Far East
The Cold War in Asia: 1945-2001
Professor James Peck | M: 2:00 PM - 4:45 PM
*Course not sponsored by East Asian Studies
HIST-UA 709-001
This course will focus on U.S. foreign policy in Asia since 1945. The ways U.S. global interests and concerns sought to shape Asian realities (and were shaped in turn by them) will be the touchstone for examining the Cold War in Asia. We will examine the following topics: the occupation of Japan and early US global economic visions; the US and the Chinese revolution before the Korean War; the Korean War and the isolation of China; the Vietnam War and the Kennedy/Johnson years; Nixon’s global geopolitical vision and his policies towards Vietnam, China, and Japan; Carter and the meaning of human rights diplomacy in Asia; Reagan and the Asian issues involved in an intensified Cold War against Russia; George H. W. Bush and Asia’s place in “a New World Order;” and finally, the Clinton and George W. Bush years
Imperial China
Professor Yijun Wang | MW: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
*Course not sponsored by East Asian Studies
HIST-UA 93-001
This survey introduces the history of imperial China, from the first emperor of a unified China (200 BCE) to the collapse of the last dynasty in 1912. In addition to stories about great men and political changes, this course guides students to understand social changes and cultural identities through the experience of people from different classes. This course will introduce entry-level theories about the history of technology, gender, material culture, and basic debates about modernity. It aims to show how cultural interactions, trade, and exchanges of technologies with surrounding cultures contributed to the configuration of Chinese culture. Primary and secondary sources are supplemented by visual materials and film screenings.
Students and Protest in Modern China
Professor Rebecca Karl | TR: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
* Course not sponsored by East Asian Studies
HIST-UA 562-001
This course traces the history of “students” (in the 1920s and after often overlapping with the category of “youth”) and protest in modern China, from the established culture of memorials/ petitioning in the waning years of China’s dynastic system through to the umbrella and “be water” uprisings in Hong Kong (2014, 2019). We will consider the many ways in which students/youth and protest have been enmeshed in social, political, and cultural movements and how forms and practices of protest have developed in tandem with and in opposition to state power, in alliance with or apart from other social constituencies.
Connections and Encounters: China and the World in the Early Modern Period
Professor Yujin Wang | T: 4:55 PM - 7:40 PM
* Course not sponsored by East Asian Studies
HIST-UA 569-001
From the Silk Road to the Belt and Road Initiative, China has always been connected and intensively interacted with the world. From the 15th to the 18th centuries, China witnessed a series of developments that connected to the making of the modern world in the West. This seminar aims to discuss the dynamics of Chinese history in the early modern period from a global perspective. The class is organized thematically, focusing on connections and encounters in trade, commerce, science, technology, environment, diseases, food, migration, and capitalism. By situating early modern China in world historical time, this seminar encourages students to examine the formation of modernity in Chinese terms and in a global context.
Elementary Chinese I
This course is for students with no previous Mandarin Chinese experience. If you can speak in Mandarin Chinese about matters related to everyday life situations but can not read and write at the same level, you should enroll in EAST-UA 231 Elementary Chinese for Advanced Beginners.
Designed to develop and reinforce language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing as it relates to everyday life situations. The objectives are: to master the Chinese phonetic system (pinyin and tones) with satisfactory pronunciation; to understand the construction of commonly used Chinese Characters (both simplified and traditional) and learn to write them correctly; to understand and use correctly basic Chinese grammar and sentence structures; to build up essential vocabulary; to read and write level appropriate passages; to become acquainted with aspects of Chinese culture and society related to the course materials.
Instructor | Schedule
CANCEL | MTWR: 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM (Section 001)
Chen Gao | MTWR: 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM (Section 002)
Feng Liang | MTWR: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM (Section 003)
CANCEL | MTWR: 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM (Section 004)
Hui Huang| MTWR: 4:55 PM - 6:10 PM (section 005)
Elementary Chinese II
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 201 or equivalent. Please contact the instructor of the course for permission to enroll into this section.
Designed to develop and reinforce language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing as it relates to everyday life situations. The objectives are: to master the Chinese phonetic system (pinyin and tones) with satisfactory pronunciation; to understand the construction of commonly used Chinese Characters (both simplified and traditional) and learn to write them correctly; to understand and use correctly basic Chinese grammar and sentence structures; to build up essential vocabulary; to read and write level appropriate passages; to become acquainted with aspects of Chinese culture and society related to the course materials.
Instructor | Schedule
CANCEL | MTWR: 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM (Section 001)
Catherine Liu | MTWR: 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM (Section 002)
Catherine Liu | MTWR: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM (Section 003)
Wenteng Shao | MTWR: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM (Section 004)
Intermediate Chinese I
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 202 or equivalent. Please contact the instructor of the course for permission to enroll into this section.
Designed to consolidate the student's overall aural-oral proficiency. Focuses gradually on the written aspect of Chinese. The objectives are: to be able to obtain information from extended conversation; to both express and expound on, in relative length, feelings and opinions on common topics; to expand vocabulary and learn to decipher meaning of compound words; to develop reading comprehension of extended narrative, expository and simple argumentative passages; to solve non-complex textual problems with the aid of dictionaries; to write in relative length personal narratives, informational narratives, comparison and discussion of viewpoints with level-appropriate vocabulary and grammatical accuracy, as well as basic syntactical cohesion; to continue being acquainted with aspects of Chinese culture and society related to the course materials.
Instructor | Schedule
CANCEL | MTWR: 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM (Section 001)
Xin Li | MTWR: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM (Section 002)
Feng Liang | MTWR: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM (Section 003)
CANCEL | MTWR: 4:55 PM - 6:10 PM (Section 004)
Intermediate Chinese II
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 203 or equivalent. Please contact the instructor of the course for permission to enroll into this section.
Designed to consolidate the student's overall aural-oral proficiency. Focuses gradually on the written aspect of Chinese. The objectives are: to be able to obtain information from extended conversation; to both express and expound on, in relative length, feelings and opinions on common topics; to expand vocabulary and learn to decipher meaning of compound words; to develop reading comprehension of extended narrative, expository and simple argumentative passages; to solve non-complex textual problems with the aid of dictionaries; to write in relative length personal narratives, informational narratives, comparison and discussion of viewpoints with level-appropriate vocabulary and grammatical accuracy, as well as basic syntactical cohesion; to continue being acquainted with aspects of Chinese culture and society related to the course materials.
Instructor | Schedule
Hanyu Xiao | MTWR: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM (Section 001)
Cong Zhou | MTWR: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM (Section 002)
Hanyu Xiao | MTWR: 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM (Section 003)
Jing Ying Sun | MTWR: 4:55 PM - 6:10 PM (Section 004)
Advanced Chinese I
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 204 or equivalent. Please contact the instructor of the course for permission to enroll into this section.
Designed to further develop proficiency in speaking and writing through readings on and discussions of socio-cultural topics relevant to today's China. Focuses on improving reading comprehension and writing skills. The objectives are: to further improve oral communicative competence by incorporating semi-formal or formal usages; to acquire vocabulary and patterns necessary for conducting semi-formal or formal discussions of socio-cultural topics; to increase reading speed of texts with more advanced syntax; to learn to make context-based guess about the meaning of a new word, conduct sentence analysis and solve textual problems with the aid of dictionaries; to write and present more fully developed narratives or reasoned and structured arguments in length; to learn to employ basic rhetoric methods; to learn to appreciate stylistic usage of Chinese language.
Instructor | Schedule
Wenteng Shao | TR: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM (Section 001, *non-heritage speakers only)
Catherine Liu | TR: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM (Section 002, *heritage speakers only)
Hanyu Xiao | MW: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM (Section 003, *non-heritage speakers only)
Advanced Chinese II
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 205 or equivalent. Please contact the instructor of the course for permission to enroll into this section.
Designed to further develop proficiency in speaking and writing through readings on and discussions of socio-cultural topics relevant to today's China. Focuses on improving reading comprehension and writing skills. The objectives are: to further improve oral communicative competence by incorporating semi-formal or formal usages; to acquire vocabulary and patterns necessary for conducting semi-formal or formal discussions of socio-cultural topics; to increase reading speed of texts with more advanced syntax; to learn to make context-based guess about the meaning of a new word, conduct sentence analysis and solve textual problems with the aid of dictionaries; to write and present more fully developed narratives or reasoned and structured arguments in length; to learn to employ basic rhetoric methods; to learn to appreciate stylistic usage of Chinese language.
Instructor | Schedule
Xiaoxiao Jiao | MW: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM (Section 001, *non-heritage speakers only)
Xiaoxiao Jiao | TR: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM (Section 002, *heritage speakers only)
Topics in Conversational Chinese
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 204 or equivalent. Please contact the instructor of the course for permission to enroll into this section.
This is a 2-credit repeatable course designed for students who have completed Intermediate Chinese II or equivalent, and wish to get additional opportunities to further expand their vocabulary and grammatical knowledge with a focus on strengthening their conversational skills and/or get more chance to practice speaking outside of their regular Advanced Chinese I/II classes. Students will perform in various conversational tasks, such as presenting, discussing, debating, etc. and improve the description and narration skills that the advanced level learners are expected to have. Students will engage in conversation in a clearly participatory manner in order to communicate information on autobiographical topics, as well as topics of community, national, or international interest.
Instructor | Schedule
Xiaohong Hou | F: 2:00 PM - 3:40 PM (Section 001)
Xiaohong Hou | W: 2:00 PM - 3:40 PM (Section 002)
Advanced Conversation Chinese II
*Newly offered course at post-advanced level. Prerequisite: EAST-UA 206 or equivalent. May be repeated once for credit as content changes. If you need a permission code to enroll into the course, please contact the instructor. This course is for students looking to further their learning of Chinese by taking a two-credit course of intensive speaking and listening taught by Professor Gao. Students will learn to detailed narratives, respond to unanticipated complications, and be confident in discussing and supporting opinions and hypotheses. This course has a prerequisite of Advanced Chinese II or if you receive permission from the instructor.
Instructor | Schedule
Chen Gao | T: 12:00 PM - 1:40 PM (Section 001)
Chen Gao | R: 12:00 PM - 1:40 PM (Section 002)
Readings in Chinese Poetry I
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 206 or equivalent. Please contact the instructor of the course for permission to enroll into this section.
Designed to help students understand and appreciate the linguistic and aesthetic features of Chinese language rendered in poetic form and to improve their ability to read and interpret authentic texts in general. Integrates language learning with poetry study, introduces the formal structure of Chinese classical poetry and surveys its stylistic variations at different historical conjunctures. Conducted primarily in Chinese. English translations of the poems are provided as references from time to time.
Instructor | Schedule
Cong Zhou | T: 4:55 PM - 6:35 PM (Section 001)
Cong Zhou | R: 4:55 PM - 6:35 PM (Section 002)
Reading in Chinese Culture I
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 206 or equivalent. Please contact the instructor of the course for permission to enroll into this section.
Designed to enhance Chinese proficiency through reading authentic materials rich in cultural connotations. Stresses primarily reading and writing. The objectives are: to develop speaking skills needed for semi-formal or formal presentation on academic topics; to develop specialized vocabulary; to further improve reading speed and develop skills needed to conduct textual analysis on and, on some occasions, translate texts with syntactical sophistication and stylistic nuance; to develop responsiveness to and ability to interpret linguistic features of different genres and writing styles; to advance strategies for autonomous learning of Chinese from an analytical perspective.
Instructor | Schedule
Xiaoxiao Jiao | TR: 4:55 PM - 6:10 PM (Section 001)
Narrative Texts in Classical Chinese
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 206, 212, 213, 221, 222, 9206, or equivalent. Please contact the instructor of the course for permission to enroll into this section.
This course is a continuation of Introduction to Classical Chinese (EAST-UA 226). It is designed as a post-advanced level intensive reading class for undergraduate students who already have attained advanced proficiency in Modern Mandarin and basic knowledge in Classical Chinese, and for whom Classical Chinese is necessary for them to conduct research in their advanced studies. Texts to be covered in the class will include previously taught materials and be mainly selected from primary historical sources such as 左传，史记, 汉书， 后汉书， 三国志 and literary sources like 赋， 神话， 志怪， 传奇， 笔记 and 小说.
Instructor | Schedule
Shiqi Liao | MW: 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM (Section 001)
Introduction to Classical Chinese
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 206, 212, 213, 221, 222, 9206, or equivalent. Please contact the instructor of the course for permission to enroll into this section.
This course is designed to give students an introduction to basic syntax, grammar, and vocabulary of Classical Chinese through close readings of authentic texts. Almost all these texts are historically significant canon texts that are extremely rich in classical Chinese cultural connotation. They are selected from a wide variety of genres, such as historical literature, philosophical and political writings, written correspondence, poetry, essay, some of which are unique to Chinese culture. The course aims to develop the students' reading and comprehension skills in this highly stylized form of written Chinese, acquaint students not only with the classic Chinese cultural heritage but also underlying working mechanism that is in many ways relevant to the form and usage of today’s Mandarin Chinese.
Instructor | Schedule
Shiqi Liao | TR: 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM (Section 001)
Elementary Chinese for Advanced Beginners
EAST-UA 231 is designed for students who can understand and speak conversational Mandarin related to daily-life situations, but have not learned to read/write Chinese characters. Students with no background in the language should enroll in EAST-UA 201 Elementary Chinese I. If you need a permission code to enroll, please contact the course instructor.
Instructor | Schedule
Wenteng Shao| MTWR: 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM (Section 001)
Xiaohong Hou | MTWR: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM (Section 002)
Xin Li | MTWR: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM (Section 003)
Xin Li | MTWR: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM (Section 004)
Intermediate Chinese for Advanced Beginners
*PREQUISITE: EAST-UA 231 or equivalent. Please contact the instructor of the course for permission to enroll into this section.
Continuation of Elementary Chinese for Advanced Beginners.
Instructor | Schedule
CANCEL | MTWR: 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM (Section 001)
Wenteng Shao | MTWR: 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM (Section 002)
Shiqi Liao | MTWR: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM (Section 003)
Yi Han| MTWR: 4:55 PM - 6:10 PM (Section 004)
Elementary Japanese I
Please contact the course instructor if you need a permission code to enroll.
An introductory course in modern spoken and written Japanese, designed to develop fundamental speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. Gives contextualized instructions to develop both communicative and cultural competency. Systematically introduces the Japanese writing system (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji).
Instructor | Schedule
TBA| MTWR: 8:00 AM - 9.15 AM (online)
Mayumi Matsumoto | MTWR: 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM (Section 001)
Mayumi Matsumoto | MTWR: 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM (Section 002)
Masaki Kinjo | MTWR: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM (Section 003)
TBA | MTWR: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM (Section 006)
TBA | MTWR: 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM (Section 007)
TBA | MTWR: 4:55 PM - 6:10 PM (Section 008)
Elementary Japanese II
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 247 with a minimum grade of C- or equivalent. Please contact the course instructor for permission to enroll in this section.
An introductory course in modern spoken and written Japanese, designed to develop fundamental speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. Gives contextualized instructions to develop both communicative and cultural competency. Systematically introduces the Japanese writing system (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji).
Instructor | Schedule
TBA | MTWR: 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM (online)
Masaki Kinjo | MTWR: 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Yukiko Hanawa | MTWR: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Yukiko Hanawa | MTWR: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Shuichiro Takeda | MTWR: 4:45 PM - 6:10 PM
TBA | MTWR: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Intermediate Japanese I
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 248 with a minimum grade of C- or equivalent. Please contact the course instructor for permission to enroll in this section.
Continuing study of Japanese at the intermediate level. Stresses reading comprehension, spoken fluency, and composition, with materials organized around social and cultural topics. Continues to introduce new Kanji characters.
Instructor | Schedule
Masaki Kinjo | MTWR: 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM (Section 001)
Tsumugi Yamamoto | MTWR: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM (Section 002)
Kayo Nonaka | MTWR: 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM (Section 003)
Intermediate Japanese II
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 249 with a minimum grade of C- or equivalent. Please contact the instructor of the course for permission to enroll into this section.
Continuing study of Japanese at the intermediate level. Stresses reading comprehension, spoken fluency, and composition, with materials organized around social and cultural topics. Continues to introduce new Kanji characters.
Instructor | Schedule
Tsumugi Yamamoto | MTWR: 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM (Section 002)
Kazue Korakawa | MTWR: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM (Section 003)
Kazue Korakawa | MTWR: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM (Section 003)
Advanced Japanese I
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 250 with a minimum grade of C+ or equivalent. Please contact the course instructor for permission to enroll in this section.
Continuing study of Japanese at the advanced level. Stresses reading comprehension, spoken fluency, and composition; uses original materials, such as newspaper/magazine articles, TV news, and video. Introduces additional Kanji characters. Advanced use of Japanese and character dictionaries.
Instructor | Schedule
Yukiko Hanawa | TR: 9:30 PM - 10:45 PM (Section 001)
Tsumugi Yamamoto | MW: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM (Section 002)
Advanced Japanese II
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 252 with a minimum grade of C+ or equivalent. Please contact the course instructor for permission to enroll in this section.
Continuing study of Japanese at the advanced level. Stresses reading comprehension, spoken fluency, and composition; uses original materials, such as newspaper/magazine articles, TV news, and video. Introduces additional Kanji characters. Advanced use of Japanese and character dictionaries.
Instructor | Schedule
Kayo Nonaka | MW: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM (Section 001)
Kayo Nonaka | TR: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM (Section 002)
Readings in Japanese Culture II
A permission code is required if placed into this level through the placement exam.
This course is intended for students who are interested in using Japanese in their future career. In this course, we will 1) discuss and raise awareness of the cultural difference in work environment between Japan and other countries, 2) discuss cultural and social topics through the topic of business cases, 3) reinforce grammatical features from the previous course, including keigo, the honorific language, 4) improve intermediate to advanced grammatical structures, focusing on those of JLPT N1 to N3.
Instructor | Schedule
Kurokawa Kazue | TR: 4:45 PM - 6:10 PM (Section 001)
Intermediate Japanese Reading Practice
*PREQUISITE: EAST-UA 247 or 249 with a minimum grade of C+ or equivalent. Please contact the instructor of the course for permission to enroll into this section.
This course is designed for students whose levels of Japanese are EAST-UA 248 and EAST-UA 249 or EAST-UA 250 and above. The overall goal of this course is to help students build reading speed, reading fluency, and vocabularies and expressions through experiencing the pleasure of reading in Japanese. The focus of the class will be individual reading activity and consultations with the instructor.
Instructor | Schedule
Mayumi Matsumoto | T: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM (Section 001)
Advanced Japanese Reading Practice
*PREQUISITE: EAST-UA 247 or 249 with a minimum grade of C+ or equivalent. Please contact the instructor of the course for permission to enroll into this section.
This course is designed for students whose levels of Japanese are EAST-UA 250 and above. The overall goal of this course is to help students build reading speed, reading fluency, and vocabularies and expressions through experiencing the pleasure of reading in Japanese. The focus of the class will be individual reading activity and consultations with the instructor. Contact the instructor for a permission code to register.
Instructor | Schedule
Mayumi Matsumoto | R: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM (Section 001)
Elementary Korean I
This course is for students with no previous language experience. If you can speak in Korean about matters related to everyday life situations but can not read and write at the same level, you should enroll in EAST-UA 281 Elementary Korean for Advanced Learners.
First-year Korean designed to introduce the Korean language and alphabet, Hangul. This course provides a solid foundation in all aspects of the language, including speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Students study the language’s orthographic and phonetic systems, grammar, syntax, and vocabulary within social and cultural contexts.
Instructor | Schedule
Su Jin Jung | MTWR: 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM (Section 001)
Yongjun Choi | MTWR: 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM (Section 002)
Jeesun Park | MTWR: 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM (Section 003)
Jeesun Park | MTWR: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM (Section 004)
Jiyeon Kim | MTWR 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM (Section 005)
Yun Kim | MTWR 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM (Section 006)
Yang hwan Choi | MTWR 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM (Section 007)
Elementary Korean II
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 254 OR placement exam. For students who did not complete EAST-UA 254, Elementary Korean I, yet can speak in Korean about matters related to everyday life situations but can not read and write at the same level, you should enroll in EAST-UA 281 Elementary Korean for Advanced Learners. If you need a permission code to enroll into the course, please contact the course instructor. If an instructor is not listed, please contact the department.
First-year Korean designed to introduce the Korean language and alphabet, Hangul. This course provides a solid foundation in all aspects of the language, including speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Students study the language’s orthographic and phonetic systems, grammar, syntax, and vocabulary within social and cultural contexts.
Instructor | Schedule
CANCELLED | MTWR: 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM (Section 001)
Kyungmi Jang | MTWR: 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM (Section 002)
Kyungmi Jang | MTWR: 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM (Section 003)
Eunjung Ji | MTWR: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM (Section 004)
Intermediate Korean I
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 255 or placement exam. Please contact the course instructor if you need a permission code to enroll.
The Korean language at the second-year level: phonetics, grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. Emphasizes the development of communicative skills in speaking, reading, and writing. Develops the language's major social and cultural contexts. Requires students to write about and discuss various topics.
Instructor | Schedule
Jiyoung Lee | MTWR: 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM (Section 001)
Dongmin Kim | MTWR: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM (Section 002)
Ku In (Kyuin) Kim | MTWR 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM (Section 003)
Dongmin Kim | MTWR: 4:55 PM - 6:10 PM (Section 004)
Intermediate Korean II
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 256 or placement exam. If you need a permission code to enroll, please contact the course instructor.
The Korean language at the second-year level: phonetics, grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. Emphasizes the development of communicative skills in speaking, reading, and writing. Develops the language's major social and cultural contexts. Requires students to write about and discuss various topics.
Instructor | Schedule
Yun Kim | MTWR: 4:55 PM - 6:10 PM (Section 001)
Advanced Korean I
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 257, 282 or placement exam. If you need a permission code to enroll, please contact the course instructor.
Designed to assist third-year students of Korean language as they continue to learn skills in conversation, reading, and writing. Reading Korean newspapers and visiting Korean websites are integrated as part of instruction.
Instructor | Schedule
Eunjung Ji | MW: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM (Section 001)
Eunjung Ji | TR: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM (Section 002)
Advanced Korean II
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 258 or placement exam. If you need a permission code to enroll, please contact the course instructor.
This course is designed to assist advanced students of Korean language as they continue to learn skills in conversation, reading, and writing. Reading Korean newspapers and visiting Korean Web sites are integrated as part of the course’s instruction.
Instructor | Schedule
Jessun Park | TR: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM (Section 001)
Media Korean
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 255, 281 or placement exam. If you need a permission code to enroll, please contact the course instructor.
Fourth-year Korean. This course is designed to improve students' understanding of written and spoken Korean through exposure to various media sources, such as film, magazine, newspaper, TV, Internet, and user-created content (UCC). Students will learn Korean sentence patterns and vocabularies from the sources, develop advanced communication skills in Korean, and discuss various topics related to contemporary issues in Korea. Class discussions help enhance students' speaking proficiency, as well.
Instructor | Schedule
Cheun Mi Kim | TR: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM (Section 001)
Cheun Mi Kim | TR: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM (Section 002)
Elementary Korean for Advanced Learners
This course is for students who can speak in Korean about matters related to everyday life situations but can not read and write at the same level. This course covers the 1st year Korean material in a semester. Students with no language background should enroll in EAST-UA 254 Elementary Korean I. If you need a permission code to enroll, please contact the instructor.
Covers first-year Korean material in one semester. Designed for students who can understand and speak basic to intermediate conversational Korean but do not have previous formal language training. Aims to develop correct pronunciation, grammatical accuracy, and overall competence in reading and writing.
Instructor | Schedule
Dongmin Kim | MTWR: 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM (Section 001)
CANCEL | MTWR: 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM (Section 002)
Intermediate Korean for Advanced Learners
*PREREQUISITE: EAST UA 255, EAST UA 281 OR PLACEMENT EXAM. This course is for students who can speak in Korean about matters related to everyday life situations but can not read and write at the same level. This course covers the 2nd year Korean material in a semester. If you need a permission code to enroll, please contact the course instructor. If an instructor is not listed, please contact the department.
Covers second-year Korean material in one semester. Designed for students with intermediate-level speaking proficiency who can understand and produce—with near-standard pronunciation and without basic major grammatical errors—conversational Korean related to daily life situations and simple sociocultural topics, but who have reading and writing ability equivalent to a student who has completed elementary-level Korean. Aims to further strengthen correct pronunciation and intonation, grammatical accuracy, ability to understand differences in nuance, and overall competence in reading and writing.
Instructor | Schedule
Cheun Mi Kim | MTWR: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM (Section 001)