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4.00 Credits
Fourth-year Japanese. Close readings of contemporary Japanese writing in such genres as social commentary, history, and literature. Emphasizes further reading and writing skills and, to a lesser extent, speaking and listening. Students develop further strategies for autonomous learning.
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4.00 Credits
Fourth-year Japanese. Designed to further develop students' proficiency in speaking, listening, writing, and reading comprehension. The texts of the course are drawn from modern Japanese literature, social commentary, and history. Students learn and practice a wider range of useful vocabulary and expressions, with reinforcement of previously learned grammatical patterns and structures through student-led discussions, presentations, and papers.
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4.00 Credits
Covers all grammatical structures and essential Kanji characters (550+) that are introduced in elementary and intermediate Japanese courses. Intended for students with a post-intermediate level of oral-aural skills, the course is a self-paced study leading to proficiency in reading and writing skills for students seeking exemption from the CAS foreign language requirement or enrollment (by permission) in advanced Japanese courses.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces students to various ways in which Japanese language shapes and is shaped by mass media. Students learn the dynamic challenges posed to the formal structure of the language (for instance, grammar) as it is practiced in multiple mediums such as television, film (including anime), and print culture (graphic novels, and genre literature such as crime novels). The course also addresses the practice of translation-for instance, the grammar of cinematic modes juxtaposed with the grammar of literary language, the vernacular, and so on. This course is for post-Intermediate I through Advanced II students who would like to develop more oral-aural skills at the second-year level. (Post- Advanced II students should take Conversation and Composition in Japanese, EAST-UA 262.)
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4.00 Credits
Designed to further develop students' writing skills using forms of new media, such as wiki and blog. Students will be exposed to various forms of writings Department of East Asian Studies and audiovisual materials, and will work on different types of writings throughout the course.
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4.00 Credits
This fourth-year level reading course provides students the opportunity to enhance their Korean literacy skills while doing some concentrated reading on issues, areas, and genres of their own interest. A wide range of texts is used in class, including fiction, poetry, social and cultural criticism, and journalism.
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4.00 Credits
Topics vary semester by semester.
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4.00 Credits
See description under Religious Studies.
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4.00 Credits
Examines 20th-century Taiwan and China, in their interrelationship and their divergent paths. It is not a diplomatic or international relations course. Rather, it takes up crucial issues in the history of each polity and society, to allow students to attain an understanding of the complexities of this contested region of the world. It is a seminar, with heavy reading requirements and expectations for student participation.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the mutual relationship between Mao Zedong and the Chinese Revolution. Its premise is that the revolution made Mao as much as Mao made the revolution. As such, the course investigates Mao's thoughts and theories, not as products of Mao Zedong alone, but as products of the revolutionary situation in China and the world in the 20th century, and of the revolutionary collective that gathered around Mao prior to and throughout his leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.
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