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4.00 Credits
(Same as Chinese 360.) An examination of woman as trope in modern Chinese cinema and literature in the twentieth century. The course explores how the modern woman became a cultural construct and how that construct has redefined gender role and femininity. This course satisfies area V.C. of the General Education Requirements. When designated WR, this course satisfies the writing requirement.
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4.00 Credits
(Same as Japanese 375W.) Lady Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari, late eleventh century) provides a sensitive, poetic portrait of life in the imperial court in the Heian period, Japan's classical age, and in subsequent generations served as a primary sourcebook for literature and culture in Japan. This course satisfies General Education Requirement area V.C. and the post-freshman writing requirement.
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4.00 Credits
Same as JPN 352WR. An examination of the image of the warrior in Japan through literature and its effect on many areas of Japanese culture, including philosophy, literary history, religion, music, the visual arts. Emphasis is on the exploration of primary texts. Satisfies General Education Requirement post-freshman writing requirement.
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4.00 Credits
(Same as JPN 363WR and Art History 363WR.) The goal of this course is to develop visual literacy in Japanese images and iconography. The course will begin with explorations of basic vocabulary and theory related to visual culture as it is studied in the American academy. We will then view examples of Japanese visual art from the 6th century to the present day, discussing ways to read paintings, picture scrolls, painted screens, sculpture, woodblock prints, theatrical performance, films, animated films, and comic books in the context of discussion of literary texts and aesthetic treatises contemporary to these works.
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4.00 Credits
No course description available.
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4.00 Credits
(May be repeated when topic varies). Possible courses include: The Indian Partition in Literature; Language, Classical Indian Literature; Visions of Youth in Postcolonial Literature, Ethnography, and Film; South Asian Politics since 1945; Mind, Body, Healing: Tibetan and Western Perspectives; Taoism; The Classical Texts of Vedanta; Dance and Embodied Knowledge in the Indian Context; Representations of Asian America; Asian American Literature.
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4.00 Credits
(May be repeated when topic varies). Possible courses include: The Indian Partition in Literature; Language, Classical Indian Literature; Visions of Youth in Postcolonial Literature, Ethnography, and Film; South Asian Politics since 1945; Mind, Body, Healing: Tibetan and Western Perspectives; Taoism; The Classical Texts of Vedanta; Dance and Embodied Knowledge in the Indian Context; Representations of Asian America; Asian American Literature.
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4.00 Credits
(Same as JPN 372WR and ARTHIST 372WR.) Surveys Japanese literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Introduces the nature and range of literary genres as they developed in the context of Japan's confrontation with modernity. The course opens for discussion issues in contemporary literary theory in order to understand aspects of Japanese literature and culture such as gender, nationalism, intertextuality, Orientalism, and identity. Texts are in English translation. Satisfies General Education Requirement area IV.A. (humanities-written) and post-freshman writing requirement.
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4.00 Credits
No course description available.
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4.00 Credits
(May be repeated when topic varies). Possible topics include as: Modern Japanese Women Writers; Confucian Classics; Spiritual Practices and Social Change: A Buddhist and Christian Approach; National Cinemas: Japanese Literature and Film; Culture of Buddhist Tibet; Beyond Orientalism: Hybrid Sounds and Social Identities.
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