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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Recommended preparation: Chinese 50 or Japanese 50 or 60. Exploration of travel writing about countries of East Asia, primarily China and Japan, with focus on English translations of works by native writers and by foreign visitors through centuries. Concurrently scheduled with course C238. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, three hours. Investigation of many ways in which religion and religions may be studied, including anthropological, sociological, psychological, phenomenological, political, reductionist, and other approaches. Readings of primary and secondary sources of modern scholarship. Concurrently scheduled with course C270. Letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
(Same as Indo-European Studies M20, Near Eastern Languages M20, Slavic M20, and Southeast Asian M20.) Lecture, three hours. Consideration of concrete means of language representation in writing systems. Earliest representations of language known are those of Near East dating to end of 4th Millennium B.C. While literate civilizations of Egypt, Indus Valley, China, and Mesoamerica left little evidence of corresponding earliest developments, their antiquity and, in case of China and Mesoamerica, their evident isolation mark these centers as loci of independent developments in writing. Basic characteristics of early scripts, assessment of modern alphabetic writing systems, and presentation of conceptual basis of semiotic language representation. Origins and development of early non-Western writing systems. How Greco-Roman alphabet arose in 1st Millennium B.C. and how it compares to other modern writing systems. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 10W. Multidisciplinary examination of history of Asians and Pacific Islanders in U.S. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Requisites: courses 10 or 10W, and 20. Designed for advanced junior/senior Asian American Studies majors and minors. Advanced study of academic writing in specific Asian American studies subfields, with focus on development and analysis of proposals, reports, and academic journal articles (including literary essays and/or social sciences research papers) in common discursive forms, stylistic patterns, and research practices in given subfield. Themes and focus vary by term. Independent research related to course objective may be pursued with guidance from instructor. Sharing and critiquing of other student works in progress. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Designed for juniors/seniors. Introduction to fundamentals of conducting social research on Asian Americans, providing experience in using some research methods and exercises in evaluating nature and quality of scientific research on Asian American issues. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Preparation: one course from 101 through M191F. Development of community profiles on Asian Pacific American communities of students' choice, using various field studies techniques of data collection. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Fieldwork, eight hours minimum. Requisite: course 104A or another Asian American studies course (except 199). Integrates academic and empirical work by providing students challenge of performing public service and community work in Asian Pacific or other multicultural communities, and of bringing their ongoing internship experiences back to classroom. P/NP grading.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, three hours. Requisite: course 10. Introduction to methods used to locate and analyze source materials for research on Asian American history. Historians have used wide range of sources that may include archival materials, oral history, material culture, and more. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or English as a Second Language 36. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 10. Multidisciplinary examination of history of Asians and Pacific Islanders in U.S. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
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