Related Courses:  Japanese Across the Curriculum

A survey of the arts of Asia, Africa, and the indigenous peoples of the Pacific and Americas. NOTE: This course fulfills the Fine Arts: Aesthetic Mode of Inquiry and the Intercultural Interconnection Perspective requirements of the LSP.

Myths and mythic patterns inherent in world cultures and literatures, including classical Greek and Roman, South American, North American, African, Asian, Sumerian, and Germanic civilizations. Students should take ENG 208 Writing about Literature either before or in conjunction with this course. NOTE: General Honors Course.

A survey of major works from one of more Asian cultures - Japanese, Chinese, Indian, etc. Classic and contemporary texts will be studied both as reflections and as creators of their culture’s human insights. NOTE: General Honors Course.

A topical and regional study of South, Southeast, and East Asia. Areas of inquiry include economics, political, urban, and environmental geography. NOTE: General Honors Course.

The first half of the two-semester sequence of East Asian Civilization. It deals with cultural, political, and socioeconomic evolution in “traditional” China and Japan.

The second half of the two-semester sequence of East Asian Civilization. It explores the following themes: the interaction between East Asia and the West, nationalism and imperialism, reform and revolution, democracy and modernization, leaders and masses, the future of East Asia and its role in global development.

Since the nineteenth century, Asian immigrants have braved their way to America in search of better economic opportunity. Today Asian Americans belong to the fastest growing ethnic minority group in the United States, and they have been a dynamic part of American socioeconomic and political life. Yet very little is known about them and their history. Why and how did they come to America? What are their American experiences as workers, professionals, family members, and activists? How have issues of gender, race, and class affected their lives? NOTE: General Honors Course.

This course explores the lives and history of Asian American women from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. It focuses on the socio-economic and political forces that have shaped their lives: immigration, settlement, employment, education, family and marriage, community services, and political empowerment. This course shall be counted as either an American elective or an Asian elective within the History major (but not both) at the option of the student and advisor concerned. NOTE: General Honors Course.

The origin and development of the Japanese culture: its social, political, religious and economic aspects from ancient times to the end of the Tokugawa period (1868). NOTE: General Honors Course.

History of modern Japan from the Meiji Reform to the present. Emphasizes political, social, and intellectual developments, including Japan ’s modernization and her role in today’s world. NOTE: General Honors Course.

Directed study of selected topics of Asian History.

Compares and contrasts the portrayals of women in two distinct cultures: Great Britain during the reign of Victoria (1837-1903) and Japan during the Edo period (1615-1868).

An encounter with the cultural blending of several interpenetrating religious traditions of Japan: Shamanism, Shinto Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and contemporary folk religion. How does Japanese culture integrate such a wide variety of religious traditions in a living harmony?