Courses in Asian Studies

Anthropology

• ANTH 016 PZ - Introduction to Nepal
• ANTH 051 PO - Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
• ANTH 062 PZ - Embodying the Voice of History
• ANTH 088 PZ - China: Gender, Cosmology, and the State
• ANTH 099 PZ - China in the 21st Century
• ANTH 107 PO - Medical Anthropology
• ANTH 111 PZ - Historical Archaeology
• ANTH 119 SC - East Asia in Ethnography and Film

Art History

For complete course descriptions, see the Art History  section of this catalog.

• ARHI 150 SC - The Arts of China
• ARHI 151 SC - The Arts of Japan
• ARHI 152 SC - Arts of Late Imperial China
• ARHI 153 SC - Art and Architecture of India
• ARHI 154 SC - Japanese Prints
• ARHI 155 SC - The History of Gardens, East and West
• ARHI 156 SC - Indian Miniature Painting from Landscapes to Erotica
• ARHI 157 SC - Modern Art of South Asia
• ARHI 186C SC - Topics in Asian Art

Asian Languages and Literatures

Please consult the courses listed under the Asian languages  major.

Economics

• ECON 123 PO - International Economics
• ECON 126 PO - Economic Development

Government/International Relations

• GOVT 140 CM - Korean Politics and Economy
• GOVT 145 CM - Conflict and Cooperation in Southeast Asia
• GOVT 146 CM - Chinese Foreign Policy
• GOVT 147 CM - Japanese Foreign and Defense Policy
• GOVT 154 CM - International Relations of Asia

History

• HIST 059 CM - Civilizations of East Asia
• HIST 060 PO - Asian Traditions
• HIST 061 CM - The New Asia
• HIST 100J PO - State and Citizen in Modern Japan
• HIST 100M PO - Rethinking Modern Asian History
• HIST 100O PO - India and Britain, 1750 to the Protest
• HIST 100T PO - Tokugawa Thought
• HIST 161 CM - Modern Korean History
• HIST 162 CM - Traditional China
• HIST 163 CM - Modern China
• HIST 164 CM - People’s Republic of China
• HIST 165 CM - China and the U.S. in the Twentieth Century
• HIST 166 CM - Imperial China
• HIST 167 PO - Early Modern Japan
• HIST 168 PO - Modern Japan
• HIST 169 PO - State and Citizen in Modern Japan
• HIST 181 PO - Early Modern Japan
• HIST 189 CM - The Cultural Revolution

Music

• MUS 041 PO - Balinese Gamelan Ensemble
• MUS 065 PO - Introduction to World Music
• MUS 070 PO - Introduction to Ethnomusicology
• MUS 126 SC - Music in East Asia and its American Diasporas

Politics

• POLI 008 PO - Introduction to International Relations
• POLI 082 PO - Seminar: The Vietnam War
• POLI 115 SC - Politics of Identity in South Asia: Religion, Caste and Ethnicity
• POLI 118 SC - Korea and Korean Americans
• POLI 142 SC - Marxist and Post-Marxist Political Thought
• POLI 152 SC - Women and the Law
• POLI 161 PO - Japanese Politics
• POLI 163 PO - Comparative Asian Politics
• POLI 183 PO - America’s Pacific Century: The United States and East Asia in a Changing World

Religious Studies and Philosophy

• RLST 010 CM - Introduction to South Asian Religious Traditions
• RLST 016 PO - The Life Story of the Buddha
• RLST 100 PO - Worlds of Buddhism
• RLST 102 CM - Hinduism and South Asian Culture
• RLST 103 PO - Religious Traditions of China
• RLST 104 PO - Religious Traditions of Japan
• RLST 106 PZ - Zen Buddhism
• RLST 107 PO - Tradition or Innovation? The Making of Modern Chinese Buddhism
• RLST 117 PO - The World of Mahayana Scriptures: Art, Doctrine and Practice
• RLST 118 CM - Hindu Goddess Worship
• RLST 119 PZ - Religion in Medieval East Asia
• RLST 128 CM - The Religion of Islam
• RLST 148 PO - Sufism
• RLST 149 PO - Islamic Thought
• RLST 164 PO - Engendering and Experience: Women in Islamic Traditions
• RLST 166A PO - The Divine Body: Religion and the Environment
• RLST 166D CM - Asian Religions through Art
• RLST 180 PO - Interpreting Religious Worlds

Theatre

• THEA 115D PO - Theatre and Dance of Asia