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ASIA 240. Popular Chinese Film and Culture (1 course)

The analytical viewing of popular Hong Kong films is used as the basis for this introduction to the Chinese people and their ways of life and thought.

ASIA 281. Traditional Japanese Literature (1 course)

A survey of Japanese literature, in English translation, from the eighth to the 18th century. Works from a variety of genres (poetry, plays, novels, diaries) are examined.

ASIA 282. Modern Japanese Novelists (1 course)

A study, in translation, of major Japanese novelists of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Natsume Soseki (Kokoro) and the Nobel prizewinner Kawabata Yasunari (Snow Country).

ASIA 290. Topics in Asian Studies (1 course)

Usually a course on aspects of one of the societies and cultures studied in the Asian Studies program (India, China and Japan) or a comparative treatment of aspects of these cultures.

ASIA 390. Topics in East Asian Studies (1 course)

Examines selected themes, genres or periods in Chinese and Japanese literature, or explores, in an interdisciplinary manner, issues and/or periods in Chinese and Japanese cultural and intellectual history. Prerequisite: HIST 107, HIST 108 or REL 130E.

ASIA 470. Directed Readings in East Asian Studies (1 course)

Independent study for majors or, by permission of the instructor, for students with significant coursework in an aspect of East Asian Studies.

ASIA 480. East Asian Studies Senior Seminar (1 course)

Required of majors in East Asian Studies. Normally taken in the fall semester of the senior year.

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