Fall 2018 Undergraduate Courses
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Fall 2018
Topics in Asian Studies: Modern Japanese Culture and Politics
Professor Robert Stolz | MW: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
This course is an introduction to the seminal moments of modern politics and culture of Japan. We will do deep dives on four major touchstone events: the Meiji Revolution of 1868, the Manchurian Incident of 1931, the Anpo protests of 1960, and the twin disasters of the Kobe earthquake and the Tokyo subway gas attacks of 1995.
Topics in Asian Studies: Popular Religion in Pre-modern China and Japan
Professor Ethan Harkness | MW: 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
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: The Essay as Form
Professor Xudong Zhang | R: 12:30 PM - 3:15 PM
This class has as its focus the essay as a mode of literary production; a form of intellectual and cultural self-consciousness; and a platform of social-political intervention all at once. Primary texts range from The Analects and Records of the Grand Historian to Montaigne, and from Emerson to Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren and Tanizaki Jun'ichiro
Topics in Asian Studies: Migration and Human Rights in East Asia
Professor June Hee Kwon | M: 11:00 AM - 1:45 PM
Migration and Human Rights is not only a recent journalistic catch but also a long drive that has interrupted the order of the nation state and the sense of belonging. This seminar critically explores the concepts of “freedom” and “rights” in an age of “migration in crisis” in order to better understand the logic and principle that stabilizes as well as destabilizes the long standing apparatus of state and citizenship. What forces decide the membership? What kinds of memberships come into play in the migration scene? What consequences have been brought to individual, familial, and national lives? What constitutes the forced or voluntary/willing migration? Finally, what is the role of globalized economy in de/stabilizing the nation state system or migrant’s life security? The reading materials assigned in this class may help students answer these questions and develop different veins of their own research questions
Topics in Asian Studies: Global East Asia, Global Economy
Professor June Hee Kwon | TR: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
The course construes myriad social shifts and transnationalism, not simply a sudden contemporary appearance in the wake of global capitalism, but geographically connected and historically embedded symptom through the colonialism, socialism, and the Cold War circumstance. Witnessing the coherence of trans/national practice in East Asia on the one hand, the course also explores the radical incoherence and diverse evolution of economic miracle and culture of capitalism on the other. To understand the complexity of trans/nationalism in Global Asia, this course draws from a wide range of sources: anthropological theories, socio-historical- literary narratives, journalistic reports, films, and ethnographies across East Asia. We also engage the analytical comparison among symptomatic globalization across East Asia through critical discussion and the writing process.
Topics in Asian Studies: Japan's Fukushima Disaster
Professor Robert Stolz | M: 11:00 AM - 1:45 PM
This course is an exploration to the triple disaster (earthquake, tsunami, nuclear meltdowns) of March 11, 2011 in Fukushima Japan. We will read a variety of scientific, political, and literary texts to unpack the enormity of the events of 3/11 and develop an expansive, critical approach to the category of a “disaster." Topics include capitalist development, toxicity, trauma, social movements, and an introduction to the field of disaster studies.
Topics in Chinese Studies: Mass Culture China
Professor Laurence Coderre | MW: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
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.
Topics in Chinese Studies: Imperial China
Professor Bingyu Zheng | M: 4:55 PM - 7:35 PM
This lecture course guides students go through the last millennium of imperial Chinese history, from 960 to 1911. Often misunderstood as a stagnant ancient civilization isolated from the rest of the world, the Chinese empire, as this course shows, was actually a living and expanding empire in its own rights that laid the foundation for the multi-ethnic Chinese republic of the 20th century. Imperial China's close interactions with the rest of the world, through trade, cultural exchange, and international law, both contributed to the making of the modern world and deeply affected the historical trajectory of China itself. No prior knowledge in East Asian or Chinese history is required.
Topics in Japanese Studies: History of Modern Japan
Professor Tatiana Linkhoeva | TR: 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
This course offers a thematic and chronological survey of modern Japanese history. The general theme of the course is Japan’s emergence as a world power in two phases, military and economic. During the first few weeks, lectures will familiarize students with premodern Japanese history in order to understand how established patterns of politics, structures of power, and cultural imagination conditioned the modern development of Japanese state and society. In the rest of the course, we will explore several themes: the impact of Western capitalism, liberalism, and socialism on Japanese society and culture; “late” industrialization and its consequences; nation-state building and the emergence of the idea of the “social”; and the changing ways in which the Japanese defined their community: in terms of class, confession, empire, and nation. The course aims to identify Japan’s modern experience as part of a larger, global historical development.
Approaches to Chinese Cinema
Professor Todd Foley | T: 11:00 AM - 1:45 PM
Beginning with one of the earliest Chinese films still in existence and ending with a 2017 blockbuster, our class will examine not only a variety of Chinese films spanning nearly a hundred years of production, but also a number of different intellectual approaches to understanding these films. By focusing on one selected film per week, we will develop our own critical capacities in a way that pays attention to issues of history, politics, ideology, the material conditions of production, aesthetics, and intellectual life. We will generally follow a chronological organization and focus on important works by major directors from different parts of the Sinophone world. We will complement our critical focus on individual films with a selection of secondary readings, some of which will help to paint a broader picture of Chinese cinematic history, and some of which will provide specific readings of films through a variety of interpretive methods. The course is by no means exhaustive, and after being introduced to these several representative films and critical approaches, by the end of the semester students will hopefully be better equipped to continue navigating this rich field of cinematic production on their own.
Asia's Revolution: China/India/Vietnam 1885-1962
Professor Moss Roberts | TR: 6:45 PM - 8:00 PM
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. Also hunder HIST-UA 538-002
East Asian Art I: China, Korea, Japan to 1000 CE
Professors Eileen Hsu and Rie Ong | MW: 4:55 PM - 6:10 PM
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. Also under ARTH-UA 510.
Empire and Imperialism in East Asia
Professors Yoon Jeong Oh and Annmaria Shimabuku | W: 2:00 PM - 4:45 PM
The purpose of this course is to read the colonial and postcolonial literature of Japanese empire from Okinawa, Taiwan, and Korea through the lens of translation theory. Here, translation theory does not assume the one-to-one correspondence between words and ideas across two preconstituted languages, but points to the formation of a set of rules (schemata) through which language, and by extension, cultures and nations, are allowed to become intelligible. Translation theory has been integral to the formation and study of the Japanese empire as it struggled to translate Western modernity into what would become a vision for the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Specifically, imperial Japan’s has made sophisticated contributions to translation theory as a key to understanding the multiethnic landscape of what we might think of as global modernity today. That is, different from Western theorists of modernity who focused on time (whereupon the Rest was called upon to catch up with the West), Japanese empire—as a late comer to global imperialism—focused on space in order to integrate its colonial Others into the vision of a new cosmopolitan region. With this framework in place, this course will address how the institution of a common language presupposes a homogeneous sphere; how the schema of language facilitates the act of bordering; how the regime of translation provides the logic to conceal the contingent origins of capital, and how practices of mobility in an ongoing process of translation eventually suggests a new commonality.
Also under COLIT-UA 951-001
Intro to Buddhism
Professor Andrew Macomber | TR: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
An introduction to this complex religion, emphasizing its history, teachings, and practices. Discusses its doctrinal development in India, then emphasizes certain local practices: Buddhism and the family in China; Buddhism, language, and hierarchy in Japan; the politics of Buddhist Tibet; and Buddhist art. Finally the course touches on Buddhism in the United States.
Mao and The Chinese Revolution
Professor Rebecca Karl | TR: 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
This course examines the mutual relationship between Mao Zedong and the Chinese Revolution. Its premise is that the revolution made Mao as much as Mao made the revolution. As such, the course investigates Mao?s thought and theories, not as products of Mao Zedong alone, but as products of the revolutionary situation in China and the world in the 20th century, and of the revolutionary collective that gathered around Mao prior to and throughout his leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.
Modern Japanese Literature in Translation II (Cancelled)
TBA | TBA
Exposes students to some of the most provocative and entertaining novels written in Japanese since the end of the Second World War. Students see how the collapse of totalizing ideologies brought by Japan's defeat led to an extremely fertile and yet somewhat atomized literary landscape. In this new postwar terrain, it became increasingly difficult to think of literature in terms of schools or influences, as questions of cultural and individual identity became harder and harder to answer in a world of material prosperity and cultural hybridization.
The Cold War in Asia: 1945-2001
Professor James Peck | M: 9:30 AM - 12:15 PM
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. Throughout the course, we shall examine key de-classified National Security documents, interpreting their meaning and language, while carefully assessing the arguments used to justify American policy.
Traditional Drama of China & Japan
Professor Eric Daniel Hodges | TR: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
The course compares a set of Chinese and Japanese pre-modern dramas, mainly as literature but also as performance, by exploring the contrasts and parallels of incident, character, plot design, and theme of the two theatrical traditions. Attention is given to the historical background of each work and to the social conditions and customs that each reflects. The cultural salience of each work is also considered. Where possible and appropriate scenes or entire plays are screened for the class or assigned for viewing.
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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
Ming Zhao | MTWR: 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Wenteng Shao | MTWR: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Jiayi Xu | MTWR: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Chen Gao | MTWR: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Chen Gao | MTWR: 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Qiuxia Shao | MTWR: 4:55 PM - 6:10 PM
Elementary Chinese II
*PREREQUISITE: TEST SCORE GREATER OR EQUAL 3302.02, OR EAST-UA 201, OR EAST-UA 9201, ORCHIN-SHU 101, OR CHIN-SHU 101S, OR CHIN-SHU 101S2.
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 201, 9201 OR EQUIVALENT. For students placed by placement exam: 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 consult the Chinese Language Coordinator Shiqi Liao before enrolling in the course: shiqi@nyu.edu. If you need a permission code to enroll, please contact the course instructor. If an instructor is not listed, please contact the department.
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
Catherine Liu | MTWR: 9:30 AM - 10:45 PM
Catherine Liu | MTWR: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Ruobing Wei | MTWR: 4:55 PM - 6:10 PM
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. If an instructor is not listed, please contact the department.
Instructor | Schedule
Jiayi Xu | MTWR: 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Intermediate Chinese I
*PREREQUISITES: TEST SCORE GREATER OR EQUAL 3302.03, EAST-UA 202,OR EAST-UA 9202, OR CHIN-SHU 102 OR, CHIN-SHU 102S, AND CHIN-SHU 102S2
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 202, 9202 OR EQUIVALENT. For students placed by placement exam: 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 232 Intermediate Chinese for Advanced Beginners. If you need a permission code to enroll, please contact the course instructor. If an instructor is not listed, please contact the department.
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
Cong Zhou | MTWR: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Ruobing Wei | MTWR: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Wenteng Shao | MTWR: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Cong Zhou | MTWR: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Intermediate Chinese II
*PREREQUSITES: TEST SCORE 3302.04, OR EAST-UA 203 , OR EAST-UA 9203 OR CHIN-SHU 201, OR CHIN-SHU 201S1 , OR CHIN-SHU 201S2 .
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 203, 9203 OR EQUIVALENT. For students placed by placement exam: 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 consult the Chinese Language Coordinator: shiqi@nyu.edu. If you need a permission code to enroll, please contact the course instructor. If an instructor is not listed, please contact the department.
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 AM
Hanyu Xiao | MTWR: 12:30 AM - 1:45 PM
Intermediate Chinese for Advanced Beginners
*PREQUISITE: EAST-UA 231, 9231, OR EQUIVALENT. If you need a permission code to enroll, please contact the course instructor. If an instructor is not listed, please contact the department.
Instructor | Schedule
Catherine Liu | MTWR: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Xiaohong Hou | MTWR: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Advanced Chinese I
*PREREQUISITES: TEST SCORE GREATER OR EQUAL 3302.05, OR EAST-UA 204, OR EAST-UA 9204 , OR EAST-UA 232, OR EAST-UA 9232 , OR CHIN-SHU 202 .
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 204, 9204, OR EQUIVALENT. This section is for Non-Heritage Students. 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
Chen Gao | MW: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Wenteng Shao | MW: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Hanyu Xiao | TR: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Advanced Chinese II
*PREREQUISITES: TEST SCORE GREATER OR EQUAL 3302.06, OR EAST-UA 205 , OR EAST-UA 9205 , OR CHIN-SHU 301.
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 205, 9205 OR EQUIVALENT. This section is for Non-heritage students. 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
Cong Zhou | TR: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Ruobing Wei | MW: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Readings in Chinese Poetry I
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 206 OR 9206 ADVANCED CHINESE II OR EQUIVALENT. CONDUCTED IN CHINESE. CONTACT SHIQI LIAO AT SHIQI@NYU.EDU FOR A PERMISSION CODE.
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
Shiqi Liao | R: 4:55 PM - 6:10 PM
Readings in Chinese Culture I
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 206 OR 9206 OR EQUIVALENT. CONDUCTED IN CHINESE. CONTACT SHIQI LIAO AT SHIQI@NYU.EDU FOR A PERMISSION CODE.
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
Shiqi Liao | MW: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Introduction to Classical Chinese
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 206 OR 9206 ADVANCED CHINESE II OR EQUIVALENT. CONDUCTED IN CHINESE. CONTACT SHIQI LIAO AT SHIQI@NYU.EDU FOR A PERMISSION CODE.
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 | MW: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Reading The Dream of The Red Chamber
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 206, 9206 or equivalent AND instructor's permission: jw82@nyu.edu
Instructor | Schedule
Jing Wang | W: 3:30 PM - 6:10 PM
Elementary Japanese I
If you need a permission code to enroll, please contact the course instructor. If an instructor is not listed, please contact the department.
Introductory course in modern spoken and written Japanese, designed to develop fundamental skills in the areas of speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Gives contextualized instructions to develop both communicative and cultural competency. Systematically introduces the Japanese writing system (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji).
Instructor | Schedule
Masaki Kinjo | MTWR: 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Masaki Kinjo | MTWR: 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Mayumi Matsumoto | MTWR: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Tsumugi Yamamoto | MTWR: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Tsumugi Yamamoto | MTWR: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Yukiko Hanawa | MTWR: 9:30 AM - 10:45 PM
Elementary Japanese II
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 247 WITH A MINIMUM GRADE OF C- OR EQUIVALENT.
Instructor | Schedule
Tsumugi Yamamoto | MTWR: 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Masaki Kinjo | MTWR: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Kazue Kurokawa | MTWR: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Kazue Kurokawa | MTWR: 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Intermediate Japanese I
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 249 WITH A MINIMUM GRADE OF C- OR EQUIVALENT. If you need a permission code to enroll, please contact the course instructor. If an instructor is not listed, please contact the department.
Instructor | Schedule
Mayumi Matsumoto | MTWR: 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Yukiko Hanawa | MTWR: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Yukiko Hanawa | MTWR: 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Intermediate Japanese II
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 249 WITH A MINIMUM GRADE OF C- OR EQUIVALENT. If you need a permission code to enroll, please contact the course instructor. If an instructor is not listed, please contact the department.
Instructor | Schedule
Kayo Nonaka | MTWR: 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Kayo Nonaka | MTWR: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Advanced Japanese I
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 250 WITH A MINIMUM GRADE OF C+ OR EQUIVALENT. If you need a permission code to enroll, please contact the course instructor. If an instructor is not listed, please contact the department.
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
Mayumi Matsumoto | TR: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Kazue Kurokawa | MW: 4:55 PM - 6:10 PM
Advanced Japanese II
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 252 with a minimum grade of C+. If you need a permission code to enroll, please contact the course instructor. If an instructor is not listed, please contact the department.
Instructor | Schedule
Kayo Nonaka | TR: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Readings in Contemporary Japanese Writings (Cancelled)
*PREQUISITE: By placement exam and permission from the instructor.
This course will cover all grammatical structures, essential kanji characters (550+) that are introduced in Elementary and Intermediate Japanese courses. Intended for students with high level of oral-aural skills, the course is a self-paced self-study course leading to proficiency in reading and writing skill that will meet CAS foreign language requirement if completed satisfactorily. It will meet the pre-requisite requirement for enrollment (by permission) in Advanced Japanese courses. Enrollment for this course is only through Japanese Language Placement Test. Students who have not taken any Japanese language course(s) at NYU are not eligible to enroll in this course.
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
Eunju Na | MTWR: 9:30 AM - 10:45 PM
Eunju Na | MTWR: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Yongjun Choi | MTWR: 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Elementary Korean II
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 254 OR placement exam. If you need a permission code to enroll, 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
Eunmee Yoon | MTWR: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Eunmee Yoon | MTWR: 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Elementary Korean for Advanced Speakers
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 Korean Language Coordinator, Jeesun Park: jeesun.park@nyu.edu.
This intensive elementary course covers the first-year Korean material in a single semester. The course is designed for students with some Korean-speaking background, who can understand and speak basic to intermediate conversational Korean but do not have previous formal language training in reading and writing. It aims to develop students’ correct pronunciation, grammatical accuracy and overall competence in reading and writing.
Instructor | Schedule
Cheun Mi Kim | MTWR: 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Intermediate Korean I
*PREREQUISITES: EAST-UA 255,OR EAST-UA 281 OR PLACEMENT EXAM.
The Korean language at the intermediate 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
Dongmin Kim | MTWR: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Seunghee Back | MTWR: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Jeehyun Kim | MTWR: 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Intermediate Korean II
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 256 OR PLACEMENT EXAM
Instructor | Schedule
Eunmee Yoon | MTWR: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Intermediate Korean for Advanced Speakers
*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.
This intensive intermediate course covers the second-year Korean material in a semester. The course is designed for students with intermediate-level speaking proficiency but with reading and writing ability equivalent to a student who has completed elementary level Korean, who can understand, with near-standard pronunciation and without basic major grammatical errors, conversational Korean related to daily-life situations and simple sociocultural topics. It aims to further strengthen students’ correct pronunciation and intonation, grammatical accuracy, ability to understand differences in nuances and overall competence in reading and writing.
Instructor | Schedule
Cheun Mi Kim | MTWR: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Advanced Korean I
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 257, EAST-UA 282 OR PLACEMENT EXAM. If you need a permission code to enroll, please contact the course instructor. If an instructor is not listed, please contact the department.
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
Eunju Na | MW: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Advanced Korean II
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 258 OR PLACEMENT EXAM. If you need a permission code to enroll, please contact the course instructor. If an instructor is not listed, please contact the department.
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
Dongmin Kim | TR: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Media Korean
*PREREQUISITE: EAST-UA 259 OR placement exam. Please contact the course instructor for a permission code. If an instructor is not listed, please contact the department.
This course is designed to improve students? understanding of written and spoken Korean through exposure to various media sources, such as newspapers, magazines, TV, and film. Class discussions help enhance the students? speaking proficiency as well.
Instructor | Schedule
Dongmin Kim | TR: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Dongmin Kim | MW: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
First Year Modern Colloquial Tibetan I
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Instructor | Schedule
CONTACT | MTWR: 12:10 PM - 1:00 PM
Second Year Modern Colloquial Tibetan I
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Instructor | Schedule
CONTACT | MW: 2:40 PM - 3:55 PM
First Year Vietnamese I
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Instructor | Schedule
CONTACT | MTWR: 10:10 AM - 11:15 AM
Second Year Vietnamese I
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Instructor | Schedule
CONTACT | MTR: 1:10 PM - 2:25 PM