East Asian Studies Concentration
Coordinator: Professor Mariko Kaga
East Asia consists of areas encompassed by present day China, Japan, and Korea (and sometimes also Mongolia and Siberia). This concentration will consist of a program of study combining language training, required courses in history, supporting courses in humanities and social sciences and an interdisciplinary senior seminar. The underlying logic of this program will highlight both the similarities and differences in the society of this area and generate increased understanding of a non-Western experience.
Requirements for the Concentration:
The East Asian Studies Concentration requires completion of two core courses, one year of either Chinese or Japanese language, four supporting courses (from at least two different departments) and an advanced paper. Courses completed as part of ACP, AKP, or a Carleton or ACM/GLCA program may apply to concentration requirements. Students wishing to enroll in this concentration should normally be majors in Asian language, economics, history, political science, religion, or sociology and anthropology.
Core Courses:
HIST 150: Japan to 1868 (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
HIST 151: History of Japan Since 1868
HIST 152: History of Imperial China (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
Language Requirement: Japanese or Chinese (One year by time of Senior Seminar)
Supporting Courses: Four courses from the following list; courses must be distributed in at least two departments.
ARTH 100: Sacred Realms: Religious Architecture of Asian Cities
ARTH 164: Buddhist Art
ARTH 165: Japanese Art (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
ARTH 208: Ritual and Rhetoric in Ancient Chinese Art (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
ARTH 209: Chinese Painting (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
ARTH 220: Gender and Genre in the Floating World: Japanese Prints
ARTH 224: Twentieth-Century Chinese Art: Identity and Modernity (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
ASLN 111: Writing Systems
ASLN 260: Historical Linguistics (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
CHIN 115: The Taoist Way of Health and Longevity
CHIN 229: Studies in Chinese Art and Literature: The Dragon, the Mountain and the Hare in the Moon
CHIN 235: Beauty, Good and Evil in Chinese Literature (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
CHIN 239: Chinese Contemporary Culture
CHIN 345: Advanced Reading in Chinese Literature: Selected Prose (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
CHIN 346: Advanced Readings in Chinese Fiction
CHIN 347: Advanced Reading in Contemporary Chinese Prose: Newspapers (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
CHIN 348: Advanced Chinese: Mass Media (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
CHIN 349: Advanced Chinese: Social Commentary
CHIN 350: Advanced Chinese: Poems and Stories (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
CHIN 351: Advanced Readings in Modern Chinese
ECON 240: Economics of Developing Countries
ECON 283: The Contemporary Economics of East Asia
HIST 110: The Chinese Revolution of 1949
HIST 153: History of Modern China (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
HIST 156: History of Modern Korea
HIST 253: Bureaucracy, Law and Religion in East Asia
HIST 258: Foreign Relations of East Asia in Modern Times
HIST 395: Topics in East Asian History
JAPN 234: Modern Japanese Novel in Translation
JAPN 236: Classical Japanese Fiction: The Tale of Genji and Its World in Translation (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
JAPN 237: Literature and Arts of Japan 1333-1868 in Translation (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
JAPN 239: Literature of Early Modern Japanese in Translation
JAPN 345: Advanced Reading in Modern Japanese Literature: The Short Story (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
JAPN 346: Advanced Reading in Modern Japanese Literature: Poetry and Drama (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
JAPN 347: Advanced Reading in Contemporary Japanese Prose: Newspapers (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
JAPN 348: Advanced Conversation and Composition
JAPN 349: Advanced Readings in Contemporary Japanese Prose
JAPN 350: Advanced Readings in Contemporary Culture
POSC 325: Japan: Politics and Foreign Policy
POSC 326: America's China Policy
POSC 386: Comparing Mexico and China (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
RELG 151: Chinese Religious Thought (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
RELG 152: Japanese Religion and Culture
RELG 255: East Asian Buddhist Thought and Practice (Not offered in 2001-2002.)
Courses from ACP, AKP, and Carleton or ACM/GLCA programs may also satisfy the requirement.
Advanced Paper: Students may meet this requirement in three ways:
1) By writing a paper in a 300-level seminar in either Asian Studies, Chinese, History, Japanese, Political Science (Grow), or Religion
2) By writing a major paper in a non-seminar advanced-level course (in addition to the supporting courses, courses chosen from the list of supporting courses.)
3) Writing comps on an East Asian topic.