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Classes
ASIAN 1110
Course Description
Long before the steamship, the airplane, the iPad and Snapchat, Buddhist monks, merchants, pilgrims and adventurers created a Buddhist network across the space of the Indian Ocean, including much of what ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall G26
Instructors
Blackburn, A
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.
ASIAN 1111
Course Description
This First-Year Writing Seminar is about Asian Literature, Religion, and Culture and provides the opportunity to write extensively about these issues. Topics vary by section. view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Political Cinema, Cinematic Politics
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall G26
Instructors
Kunigami, A
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Relgion and Ecology in Modern South Asia
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall G24
Instructors
Burgess, V
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: FWS: Women on the Verge
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Uris Hall G24
Instructors
Mendoza, A
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
ASIAN 1193
Course Description
By posing seemingly simple questions such as what is love and who has the right to love, this introductory-level lecture course surveys how love has been experienced and expressed from the pre-modern period ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 1940, HIST 1930, LGBT 1940
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Mcgraw Hall 165
Instructors
Ghosh, D
ASIAN 2208
Course Description
This course introduces key questions in the study of Southeast Asia (Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam) and its diasporas. It combines a ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Sibley Hall 211
Instructors
Fuhrmann, A
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Uris Hall G22
Instructors
Fuhrmann, A
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Rockefeller Hall 110
Instructors
Fuhrmann, A
ASIAN 2211
Course Description
This course provides a general introduction to the study of Japan in the humanities and social sciences. Taking modern Japanese "national histories" as our framework, we will explore how Japan-the-nation ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G64-Kau Aud
Instructors
Mckee, D
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Uris Hall 204
Instructors
Mckee, D
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Sibley Hall 211
Instructors
Mckee, D
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Uris Hall 204
Instructors
Mckee, D
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Sibley Hall 115
Instructors
Mckee, D
ASIAN 2245
Course Description
This course combines hands-on instruction in gamelan, Indonesia's most prominent form of traditional music, and the academic study of the broader range of music found in contemporary Indonesia, including ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: MUSIC 1341, VISST 2744
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MF Lincoln Hall B24
Instructors
Miller, C
- W Lincoln Hall 149
Instructors
ASIAN 2258
Course Description
In August 1945, Japan was a devastated country – its cities burned, its people starving, its military and government in surrender. World War II was over. The occupation had begun. What sort of society ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 2315
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Roebuck, K
ASIAN 2273
Course Description
This course introduces the academic study of religion. The topics vary from year to year. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: NES 2273, RELST 2273
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Sensational Religion
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Rockefeller Hall 122
Instructors
Haines-Eitzen, K
ASIAN 2279
Course Description
Students will study Chinese myths from the earliest times. Focus will be on understanding how people have used myth to create and convey meaning, on examining the form Chinese myths take, and on considering ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Space Sciences Building 105
Instructors
McNeal, R
ASIAN 2297
Course Description
The Crossroads of the World. The Pivot of History. The heart of the Silk Road. For all its grand nicknames and associations, Inner Asia remains a region little-studied in the West. This course endeavors ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 2797, RELST 2297
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 231
Instructors
Eden, J
ASIAN 2299
Course Description
This course will explore the Buddhist tradition from its origins in ancient India to its migrations throughout Asia and eventually to the West. The first part of the course will deal with Indian Buddhism: ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: RELST 2299
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Rockefeller Hall 122
Instructors
Boucher, D
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Rockefeller Hall 127
Instructors
Boucher, D
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Rockefeller Hall 104
Instructors
Boucher, D
ASIAN 3307
Course Description
The course is attached to the Cornell Contemporary China Initiative lecture series, which brings high profile speakers on various aspects of contemporary China to Cornell most Mondays throughout the semester. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Goldwin Smith Hall G64-Kau Aud
Instructors
McNeal, R
ASIAN 3310
Course Description
This course will explore a variety of ways people have envisioned and prepared for the afterlife. We will concentrate on how Buddhists and Christians have described supreme states of bliss, have warned ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: RELST 3310
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Uris Hall 262
Instructors
Boucher, D
ASIAN 3312
Course Description
If you have ever wondered what the Vietnam War was all about, how did it begin, how was it fought, why was it so controversial, why did the American people turn against it, why was it important, why were ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 3312
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 128
Instructors
Taylor, K
ASIAN 3318
Course Description
Beginning with the mid-nineteeth century, the course traces dynamic relays and reciprocal influences among woodblock prints, maps, fiction, films, anime, comics, and digital arts in Japan. We will consider ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3150, VISST 3318
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Rockefeller Hall B16
Instructors
de Bary, B
ASIAN 3327
Course Description
Study of the dramatic rise of China through reviewing major developments in contemporary Chinese foreign policy since the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC), and concentrating ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CAPS 3827, GOVT 3827
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 132
Instructors
Carlson, A
ASIAN 3331
Course Description
Examines the new cinemas of Southeast Asia and their engagement with contemporary discourses of gender and sexuality. It pays special attention to the ways in which sexuality and gendered embodiment are ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 6631, FGSS 3331, FGSS 6331, LGBT 3331, LGBT 6331, PMA 3431, RELST 3331
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 127
Instructors
Fuhrmann, A
ASIAN 3370
Course Description
This course traces the development of travel writing from the Han dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 221) to the Song dynasty (960–1279). Special attention is paid to the ways in which Chinese writers have ceaselessly ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 6670, CAPS 3370
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Uris Hall G20
Instructors
Warner, D
ASIAN 3380
Course Description
The course will be thoroughly comparative in order to highlight both the specificity of each country as well as more generalizable dynamics of 21st century development. It will be divided into a number ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AEM 3388, ASIAN 6680, CAPS 3387, GOVT 3384, GOVT 6384, ILRIC 3380, ILRIC 5380
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Ives Hall 115
Instructors
Friedman, E
Kuruvilla, S
ASIAN 3381
Course Description
As an island nation east of the Asian continent, Japan developed a unique culture that reflects both continental and indigenous characteristics. This course examines pre- and post-contact with continental ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 3820
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G22
Instructors
Pan, A
ASIAN 3388
Course Description
For a long time area studies have overlooked the over-determined links of gender, race/ethnicity, and social class in fields related to East Asia and the trans-Pacific regions. Little attention has been ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 6688, COML 3980, COML 6680, FGSS 3580, FGSS 6580
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 438
Instructors
Sakai, N
ASIAN 3393
Course Description
Examines the development of the Chinese economy and the evolution of China's economic system between the early 1950s and late 1990s. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CAPS 3380, ECON 3380
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 132-HEC Aud
Instructors
Lyons, T
ASIAN 3397
Course Description
This course examines Southeast Asia's history from earliest times up until the mid-eighteenth century. The genesis of traditional kingdoms, the role of monumental architecture (such as Angkor in Cambodia ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 6697, HIST 3950, HIST 6950
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 262
Instructors
Tagliacozzo, E
ASIAN 4401
Course Description
Supervised reading and research on the problem selected for honors work. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
ASIAN 4402
Course Description
The student, under faculty direction, prepares an honors essay. view course details
ASIAN 4403
Course Description
Intensive reading under the direction of a member of the staff. view course details
ASIAN 4415
Course Description
Visions of bodily corruption preoccupy ruler and ruled alike and prompt campaigns for moral, medical, and legal reform in periods of both stability and revolution. This seminar explores the links between ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 6615, CAPS 4127, FGSS 4127, HIST 4127, HIST 6127
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T White Hall 104
Instructors
Roebuck, K
ASIAN 4446
Course Description
This course will treat the classical Indian tradition as a case study in comparative poetics. We will read works of Sanskrit poetry in translation, along with selections from the works of both Sanskrit ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 6648
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Rockefeller Hall 347
Instructors
McCrea, L
ASIAN 4463
Course Description
This course will survey the history of the novel in India in English over the past hundred years, from colonial rule, through the consolidation of the Indian nation, to the growing pressures of globalization. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4996, SHUM 4613
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R A D White House 110
Instructors
Ben-Yishai, A
ASIAN 4473
Course Description
China, a cultural giant of East Asia, made a passive entrance into modernity. With the advent of Western and American colonialism and imperialism, coupled with recent successes in westernization by the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4816, ARTH 6816, ASIAN 6673
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Goldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Pan, A
ASIAN 4475
Course Description
This course focuses primarily on China's evolving role in both Asia and world politics. While China may not necessarily be the sole determinant of the type of security order that will prevail in Asia, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CAPS 4870, GOVT 4877, GOVT 6877
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Uris Hall G26
Instructors
Carlson, A
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Additional Information
Government seniors and juniors given preference. This class fulfills the government senior seminar requirement.
ASIAN 4498
Course Description
This seminar is an advanced introduction to political economy in contemporary South, Southeast, and East Asia. Our central task is to uncover the political underpinnings of economic performance across ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 4194
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Uris Hall 302
Instructors
Pepinsky, T
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
ASIAN 6615
Course Description
Visions of bodily corruption preoccupy ruler and ruled alike and prompt campaigns for moral, medical, and legal reform in periods of both stability and revolution. This seminar explores the links between ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4415, CAPS 4127, FGSS 4127, HIST 4127, HIST 6127
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T White Hall 104
Instructors
Roebuck, K
ASIAN 6619
Course Description
The course provides an introduction to various aspects of translation theory, and emphasizes relations between translation theory and trauma theory, post-structuralism, post-colonial theory, and debates ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6160, VISST 6619
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Rockefeller Hall 376
Instructors
de Bary, B
ASIAN 6631
Course Description
Examines the new cinemas of Southeast Asia and their engagement with contemporary discourses of gender and sexuality. It pays special attention to the ways in which sexuality and gendered embodiment are ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 3331, FGSS 3331, FGSS 6331, LGBT 3331, LGBT 6331, PMA 3431, RELST 3331
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 127
Instructors
Fuhrmann, A
ASIAN 6648
Course Description
This course will treat the classical Indian tradition as a case study in comparative poetics. We will read works of Sanskrit poetry in translation, along with selections from the works of both Sanskrit ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4446
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Rockefeller Hall 347
Instructors
McCrea, L
ASIAN 6670
Course Description
This course traces the development of travel writing from the Han dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 221) to the Song dynasty (960–1279). Special attention is paid to the ways in which Chinese writers have ceaselessly ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 3370, CAPS 3370
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Uris Hall G20
Instructors
Warner, D
ASIAN 6673
Course Description
China, a cultural giant of East Asia, made a passive entrance into modernity. With the advent of Western and American colonialism and imperialism, coupled with recent successes in westernization by the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4816, ARTH 6816, ASIAN 4473
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Goldwin Smith Hall 156
Instructors
Pan, A
ASIAN 6680
Course Description
The course will be thoroughly comparative in order to highlight both the specificity of each country as well as more generalizable dynamics of 21st century development. It will be divided into a number ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AEM 3388, ASIAN 3380, CAPS 3387, GOVT 3384, GOVT 6384, ILRIC 3380, ILRIC 5380
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Ives Hall 115
Instructors
Friedman, E
Kuruvilla, S
ASIAN 6688
Course Description
For a long time area studies have overlooked the over-determined links of gender, race/ethnicity, and social class in fields related to East Asia and the trans-Pacific regions. Little attention has been ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 3388, COML 3980, COML 6680, FGSS 3580, FGSS 6580
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 438
Instructors
Sakai, N
ASIAN 6697
Course Description
This course examines Southeast Asia's history from earliest times up until the mid-eighteenth century. The genesis of traditional kingdoms, the role of monumental architecture (such as Angkor in Cambodia ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 3397, HIST 3950, HIST 6950
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 262
Instructors
Tagliacozzo, E
ASIAN 7703
Course Description
Guided independent study for graduate students. view course details