Summer 2021 Undergraduate Courses
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Summer 2021
Elementary Chinese I
This course is for students with no previous Mandarin Chinese experience.
Designed to develop and reinforce language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing related 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 | Section
Chen Gao | MTWR: 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Section 001
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.
An 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).
NOTE THAT THIS COURSE IS FOR SUMMER SESSION 2 ONLY.
Instructor | Schedule | Section
Tsumugi Yamamoto | MTWRF: 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Section 001
Tsumugi Yamamoto | MTWRF: 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Section 060 **Section seats open to PreCollege High School students only (limited)
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 Speakers in the fall or spring semesters.
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 | Section
Yun Kim | MTWR: 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Section 001
Asian Art in Ny Museums & Galleries
A hands-on fieldwork course that meets at museum storerooms and exhibitions, private collections, and commercial galleries. The material studied varies according to the museum exhibitions available at the time the course is offered. Emphasizes visual analysis and requires active discussion of the works of art.
Instructor | Schedule | Section
Sooran Choi | TR 3:15 PM - 6:15 PM | Section 001
Topics: East Asian Media: On Television
Note: This course is for summer session 2 only
Is television a medium, content, or a mere machine that delivers messages? How and why are K- drama, J-pop, and Chinese reality shows able to travel across their geographical boundaries through television? This course provides students with a theoretical approach to understand East Asian television under larger political and cultural frameworks. It explores television’s content and format, spectatorship and censorship, circulation and distribution, to rethink what television is within and beyond East Asia. After the class, the students are expected to conduct a scholarly exploration of their own understanding of television through a media approach focusing on East Asian media.
Instructor | Schedule | Section
Wan-Chun Huang | MW: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Section 001
Wan-Chun Huang | MW: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Section 060 **Section seats open to PreCollege High School students only (limited)
Topics in Japanese Studies: 21st Century Japanese Art: contemporary shifts before and after 3/11
Note: This course is for summer session 2 only
The primary aim of this course is to explore 21st-century Japanese art, with a focus on shifts in political expression and critique in contemporary art practice since the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster. This course surveys visual and conceptual trends of Japanese contemporary art from the late 1990s to the present, situating artworks and exhibitions within their social, political, and historical contexts. As a class we will conduct close visual analyses of artworks and exhibitions, discussing not only artistic styles and concepts but also curatorial approaches and critical response. We will trace the significance of shifts in artistic production and reception while addressing larger transnational issues of art history, market, and infrastructure; discourses of gender, identity, and race; and Japan’s postcolonial geopolitical relations. In addition to academic texts, this course will present students with news articles and exhibition reviews to highlight the way in which critical reception of Japanese art is framed by and through current events, politics, and the media. Knowledge of Japanese is not required for this course. All reading materials will be linked or posted on NYU Classes.
Instructor | Schedule | Section
Eimi Tagore-Erwin | TR: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Section 001
Eimi Tagore-Erwin | TR: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Section 060 **Section seats open to PreCollege High School students only (limited)