Catalog of Courses

Topics in Asian Studies:

Study of a selected topic in Asian Studies. The course will cover subjects not listed in the regular curriculum and may vary from year to year; taught by Asian Studies faculty and visiting faculty.

.25 or 1 unit — Chandrani, Coleman, Lasmawan, Mehta, Onishi, Tabares, Tu, Weaver

Previously Featured Offering

Block 3, Oct. 2020
Instructor: Nauman Naqvi
The unfolding global climate catastrophe has brought a resurgence of discourse on the question of ‘capitalism’. We will investigate the history and system of the capitalocene and the modern concept of ‘progress’. We will also examine the modern emergence of race and whiteness as a feature of the ecocidal machine of modernity.
Block A, May 2020

This course teaches elementary skills in all four aspects via listening, writing, reading and speaking. Students will gain basic knowledge of grammar and vocabulary through a variety of contextual, situational, and multimedia exercises, and experience South Asian Events and Bollywood movies and songs as part of this course.

Offerings

Term Block Title Instructor Location Student Limit/Available Updated
Fall 2022 Block 1 Topics in Asian Studies: History of Gender and Sexuality in South Asia Purvi Mehta Palmer Hall EAST TENT 25 / -2 03/22/2023
Fall 2022 Block 2 Topics in Asian Studies: Caste: Histories and Theories of Exclusion, Stigma, and Discri Purvi Mehta Palmer Hall EAST TENT 25 / 1 03/22/2023
Fall 2022 Block 2 Topics in Asian Studies: Performing the Hindu Epics Topic Details Made Lasmawan Packard Hall 8 25 / 2 03/22/2023
Fall 2022 Block 2 Topics in Asian Studies: Introduction to Asian American Studies Leland Tabares Palmer Hall 125 25 / 7 03/22/2023
Fall 2022 Block 2 Topics in Asian Studies: Chinoiserie: Chinese Art and its Trans-Culture Interpret Topic Details Ning Zhou Armstrong Hall 307 25 / 12 03/22/2023
Fall 2022 Block 3 Topics in Asian Studies: History of Modern South Asia Niharika Yadav Palmer Hall 233A 25 / 5 03/22/2023
Fall 2022 Block 4 Topics in Asian Studies: The Nakedness of Being Topic Details Eiko Otake Cornerstone Art Center 130 25 / 4 03/22/2023
Fall 2022 Block 4 Topics in Asian Studies: Colonialism & Religion Yogesh Chandrani Armstrong Hall 259B 25 / 3 03/22/2023
Fall 2022 Block 4 Topics in Asian Studies: Music in Ethnomusicology: Indonesia Topic Details Made Lasmawan Packard Hall 8 25 / 7 03/22/2023
Fall 2022 Block 4 Topics in Asian Studies: Performance Away Topic Details Pallavi Sriram Taught Abroad 25 / 14 03/22/2023
Spring 2023 Block 5 Topics in Asian Studies: Gender and Sexuality in Japanese Literature, Film and Magna Joan Ericson Armstrong Hall 340 12 / 10 03/22/2023
Spring 2023 Block 5 Topics in Asian Studies: Japanese American Incarceration Literature Topic Details Brandon Shimoda East Campus Community Center 202 25 / 11 03/22/2023
Spring 2023 Block 6 Topics in Asian Studies: Languages and Cultures of Japan Topic Details Hiromi Onishi Armstrong Hall 234 25 / 2 03/22/2023
Spring 2023 Block 6 Topics in Asian Studies: Politics, Religion and the Secular Yogesh Chandrani Armstrong Hall 257A 25 / 7 03/22/2023
Spring 2023 Block 6 Topics in Asian Studies: Intro to Asian American Literature Aline Lo Palmer Hall 119 25 / 14 03/22/2023
Spring 2023 Block 8 Topics in Asian Studies: Paradoxes of North East Asia Topic Details Jiun Bang Palmer Hall 25A 25 / 13 03/22/2023
Spring 2023 Block 8 Topics in Asian Studies: Japanese Existentialism: The Kyoto School Rick Anthony Furtak TBA 25 / 14 03/22/2023
Spring 2023 Block 8 Topics in Asian Studies: Ethnomusicology: Music and Dance in Bali Topic Details Made Lasmawan Packard Hall 8 25 / 6 03/22/2023
Spring 2023 Block 8 Topics in Asian Studies: The Minority Question in Asia Topic Details Yogesh Chandrani TBA 25 / 18 03/22/2023
Fall 2023 Block 1 Topics in Asian Studies: Intro to Asian American Studies Topic Details Leland Tabares TBA 25 / 25 03/22/2023
Fall 2023 Block 1 Topics in Asian Studies: Calligraphy and Painting Harrison Tu TBA 25 / 25 03/22/2023
Fall 2023 Block 2 Topics in Asian Studies: Performing the Hindu Epics Topic Details Made Lasmawan TBA 25 / 25 03/22/2023
Fall 2023 Block 4 Topics in Asian Studies: History of Gender and Sexuality in South Asia Purvi Mehta TBA 25 / 25 03/22/2023
Fall 2023 Block 4 Topics in Asian Studies: Languages & Cultures of Japan Topic Details Hiromi Onishi TBA 25 / 25 03/22/2023
Fall 2023 Block 4 Topics in Asian Studies: Holy Men, Manly Men Topic Details Tracy Coleman TBA 25 / 25 03/22/2023
Spring 2024 Block 5 Topics in Asian Studies: TBD TBA 25 / 25 03/22/2023
Spring 2024 Block 5 Topics in Asian Studies: Colonialism & Religion Topic Details Yogesh Chandrani TBA 25 / 25 03/22/2023
Spring 2024 Block 5 Topics in Asian Studies: Calligraphy and Painting Harrison Tu TBA 25 / 25 03/22/2023
Spring 2024 Block 6 Topics in Asian Studies: Caste: Histories and Theories of Exclusion, Stigma and Discrimination Purvi Mehta TBA 25 / 25 03/22/2023
Spring 2024 Block 6 Topics in Asian Studies: From Pearl Harbor to Honouliuli Topic Details Jason Weaver TBA 12 / 12 03/22/2023
Spring 2024 Block 7 Topics in Asian Studies: TBD TBA 25 / 25 03/22/2023
Spring 2024 Block 7 Topics in Asian Studies: The Minority Question in Asia Topic Details Yogesh Chandrani TBA 25 / 25 03/22/2023
Spring 2024 Block 8 Topics in Asian Studies: Music and Dance in Bali Topic Details Made Lasmawan TBA 25 / 25 03/22/2023
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