Courses

Asian Studies courses are also cross-referenced with the following deparments:

• Modern and Classical Languages
• Art
• History
• Economics
• Environmental Studies
• Theology
• English
• Political Science
• Philosophy

Depending on the semester, courses offered include:

• ART 208 Non-Western Art Survey: Asia (4)
• ART 240 Topics in Art History (4)
• CHIN 111, 112 Elementary Chinese (4, 4)
• CHIN 211, 212 Intermediate Chinese. (4, 4)
• CHIN 311/312, Third-Year Chinese (4, 4)
• JAPN 111/112 Elementary Japanese (4, 4)
• JAPN 211 Intermediate Japanese (4)
• JAPN 212 Intermediate Japanese (4)
• JAPN 311/312 Third-Year Japanese
• ECON 316 Asian Economies (4)
• ENGL 385 Literature of the Indian Subcontinent (4)
• ENGL 386 Tinsel Dreams: Cinema and Social Change in India (4)
• ENV 312/GEOG 312 Geography of Asia (4)
• HIST 114 East Asia Before 1800 (4)
• HIST 115 East Asia Since 1800 (4)
• HIST 116 South Asia Before 1500 (4)
• HIST 117 South Asia Since 1500 (4)
• HIST 300 Topics in Asian American History (4)
• HIST 300 Gandhi, Non-Violence and Islamic Movements in India (4)
• HIST 300 Public Culture in Modern India (4)
• HIST 315 History of Islam in South Asia: Confronting Modernity (4)
• HIST 316 China in Revolution, 1800-1949 (4)
• HIST 317 The People’s Republic of China. (4)
• HIST 318 The United States and China Since 1800 (4)
• HIST 319 Modern Japan, 1868-Present (4)
• MCLT 315 Chinese Literature in Translation (4)
• MCLT 319 East Asian Literature in Translation (4)
• PHIL 272 Asian Philosophy (4)
• PHIL 339 Chinese Philosophy (4)
• POLS 346 Asian Politics (4)
• THEO 365 Islam and the Judeo-Christian Tradition (4)

Additional Courses

• CORE 390-03A "The Tao of Lagom: A Middle Way for the Middle Kingdom" (4)
• COLG 280 May Term: Economic Development & Social Change in China (2)

Selected survey of great architecture, sculpture and painting of Asia and other non-Western cultures. A study of artworks in relation to religion, culture, philosophy and geography of the non-Western world.