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3.00 Credits
This course introduces and compares the experiences of women in Asia and Asian women in migration to the United States in the modern period, including rural and urban women, and ordinary and elite women in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Topics include women in households, women and work, and women’s activism.
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SECTION 001 (MAIN CAMPUS): Asian Biographies: Traditional and Otherwise. In the Confucian and Islamic traditions the writing of the lives of virtuous men has been central to the establishment of state legitimacy and the transmission of cultural values. In the past women were only rarely been included in the pantheon of heroes. This course considers the traditions and uses of biography and autobiography in Asia, a crucial issue in historiography, by examining traditional approaches to biography and autobiography, and by tracing the evolution of these traditions, as adapted to the needs of modern civil society and state.SECTION 101 (AMBLER): Comparative Revolutions in South and Southeast Asia: Nationalism, Communism, and Tradition. This course examines 20th century transformations of Afghanistan, Indonesia and Vietnam, with an emphasis on the sources of ideas for revolutionary change. We will contrast the role of Western concepts, including those spread to colonial countries via the Communist International in Moscow, with the importance of indigenous beliefs and Asian religions in the revolutions in these three countries. We’ll also consider the role of colonial and imperial powers in encouraging obscurantist (often referred to as traditional) doctrines.
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3.00 Credits
Provides a cross listing for honors courses in other departments when they have substantial Asian Studies content. Also used for directed readings and new courses. Click on the blue 6-digit CRN to see the topic.
Prerequisite:
Permission of Instructor
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3.00 Credits
What is, or should be, our relation to the natural world? Especially since we are presently living in a modern urban environment, have we perhaps outgrown nature? Is it something we have mastered? Is it primarily a luxury of sorts that we can go to for periodic enjoyment or relaxation? On the other hand, why do we seem to be in a burgeoning environmental crisis? Is it just greed? Too many people? Insufficient technology? How did we get to where we are? Or more immediately--and perhaps deeply--what fundamental beliefs, attitudes, and values shape our everyday actions, how we perceive and use (or misuse) the earth? What creative alternatives can we find, and how can we apply them? In addressing these kinds of questions we will explore both Western and Asian ways of conceiving and interacting with the natural world, past and present. Our approach will also be interdisciplinary, including materials from art, film and literature, as well a range of academic disciplines. Note: This is an University Honors course.
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3.00 Credits
This is an honors version of Metropolitan Tokyo. The course looks at the growth and development of Tokyo, Japan, past and present. It includes a profile of the city’s many neighborhoods, economic activities, architecture, and challenges for urban planners. Note: Usually offered at Temple Japan.
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3.00 Credits
This Honors course analyzes the changing position of women in Japanese society from ancient times to the present. Through discussions, lectures, and audiovisual materials, students learn about goddesses, female diviners, empresses, the classical female writers, women in warrior culture, women in industrializing Japan, and Japanese women’s movements. Note: This is an Honors course.
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3.00 Credits
A sociological look at the conditions that have contributed to Japan’s emergence as a world-class economic force. How did culture, social organization, lifestyle, ideology, and global political change fit together and react to affect Japan’s rapid rise to power? Is Japan a closed society? What significance do factors such as racism, religion, education, family, the military, class, and population changes hold for understanding what happened in Japan and in Japan’s relations with outsiders, particularly the United States? How does this analysis affect the future of American sociology? Note: This is an Honors course.
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3.00 Credits
In this capstone writing course you will do independent research on Asia. You’ll deepen your skills in choosing bibliographic tools, in finding and evaluating authoritative sources, including primary materials translated from Asian languages, and organizing and properly formatting a research paper. In consultation with the instructor, you’ll choose a topic to meet your interests and professional needs. Required for majors; good to take in junior year. Note: Required for the Asian Studies major. Mode: Seminar.
Prerequisite:
Prior Asian Studies coursework
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3.00 Credits
Beginnings of Indian philosophical thinking in the
hymns of Rig Veda and The Upanishads and the
major schools of Indian philosophy as they took
shape during the next thousand years. The latter
include Samkhya, the Buddhist schools, the
Vaiseskika, the Nyaya, and the major schools of
Vedanta. Issues in metaphysics, epistemology, and
logic emphasized.
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3.00 Credits
Was early modern Japan (1600-1867) static or dynamic? Do the roots of Japan’s modern achievements (1868-1945) lie in her early modern culture? What happened to Japan after the 1868 Meiji Restoration, and why? Was modernity a blessing or a curse? We’ll find answers to questions like these as we survey Japanese society, culture, and events and trends at home and abroad from the Tokugawa shogunate to the Pacific War. Assignments focus on writing a comparative review.
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