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4.00 Credits
Introduction to Japanese language and culture. Practice in basic sentence patterns and conversational expressions to enable students to speak and write Japanese. Fall semester. (4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
Continuation of Japanese 101. Prerequisite: Japanese 101 or its equivalent. Spring semester. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the history of the idea of Asia and how that concept and region have been explicated both in the West and in China, Japan, and India. We examine Buddhism, Confucianism, and Hinduism, religious and philosophical traditions that have been seen as unifying Asia, and consider how those traditions have been used to address contemporary problems like human rights, economic development, and security. The course traces historical relationships among Asian nations and regions involving cultural borrowing, trade, conquest, and colonialism have shaped contemporary Asia, and considers how under globalization, boundaries separating people, cultural artifacts, and capital have become porous, giving new meaning to the notion "Asia." Every year.(4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the study of Asian religious traditions in South and East Asia (India, China and Japan). Open to everyone but especially appropriate for first and second year students. Every year. (4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
An introductory level course on the popular, classical and contemporary religious traditions of South Asia. Topics include Advaita Vedanta and yoga, popular devotionalism, monastic and lay life in Theravada Buddhism, the caste system, Gandhi and modern India. Prerequisite: Religious Studies 124 or permission of instructor. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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3.00 Credits
An introductory level course on popular, classical and contemporary religious traditions of China and Japan. Topics include Confucian thought, Taoist classics, sectarian Buddhism, popular religion, and Zen. No prerequisite. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
An introductory study of some of the great philosophers and philosophical problems of the Indian philosophical tradition focusing on Buddhist and Hindu philosophical debate from the time of the Buddha to around 1000 CE. Topics will include the role of philosophy in the Indian intellectual and religious tradition; Indian logic; the relationship between philosophy and practice (yoga, meditation); what counts as knowledge (pramana theory); ultimate truth versus conventional truth; Buddhist/Hindu debate on the nature of persons, rebirth and karma; competing theories of reality (momentariness, emptiness, non-dualism, realism) and methodologies of crosscultural philosophy. Students will learn the basic Sanskrit terminology of Indian philosophy and will work with primary source material in translation. Every year. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces the cultures and societies of China, Japan and Korea from the earliest times to the present day. Primarily an introductory course for beginners in East Asian civilization, this course considers a variety of significant themes in religious, political, economic, social and cultural developments in the region. Every fall. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
Research in fields as different as genetics and anthropology has suggested that gender (Webster: "the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex") is a cultural rather than innate phenomenon. Looking closely at the expectations for and characteristics of "male" and "female" across cultures can help recognize how those expectations and characteristics are created in one's own culture. This course examines closely some of the many written and visual prescriptions for being male and female in Japanese culture, through selections from fictional narratives, poetry, drama, and non-fiction ranging from very early times (circa 700 AD) to the present. We will examine how various art, film, manga (graphic novels), and animation produced both for Japanese audiences as well as for the "export" of Japanese culture to the West invoke,reinforce, or challenge stereotypes of male and female. Offered once every three years. (4 credits)
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4.00 Credits
This course provides a broad thematic survey of artistic production in China from prehistoric jades to experimental installations in contemporary Beijing. While encouraging the close analysis of visual materials and exploring the methods appropriate to interpreting works of art, this course also emphasizes the specific historical, political and religious contexts that made, used and inspired these materials. Topics include the funerary art of early tombs, Buddhist cave temples and monumental ink landscape paintings. Fall semester. (4 credits)
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