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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F4, F9. This course introduces one of the world's richest literary heritages: traditional Chinese literature. It conducts a general survey of Chinese literature from high antiquity up to modern times with the focus on some representative writers and their works. It consists of three major sections: poetry and prose, drama, and fiction. All readings are in English. No prior knowledge of Chinese language and culture is required.
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F4, F9. This course introduces students to the discipline of comparative literature. It selects some representative works from the Chinese and European literary traditions and groups them into several units centering round a genre and headed by a theme. All readings are in English. Prerequisites: None.
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4.00 Credits
Fall or Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F3, F9. This course introduces students to Chinese civilization and culture from the multiple perspectives of geography, history, philosophy, language, literature, religion, art, people, society, and general ways of life. Major concerns will include, but are not restricted to, forms of material and spiritual culture that have developed and changed through China's continuous traditions; individual and collective values that underlie social life, political organization, economics systems, family structure, human relationships, and individual behavior; and the rationales that have made Chines culture what it is. Prerequisites: None.
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F4, F9. This course offers a critical survey of women's images in traditional Chinese literature, and in films about Chinese society. It aims at a critical examination of how femininity and gender roles are conceived in traditional Chinese society, how women are victimized by male prescribed moral codes, and how they resist and subvert the patriarchal order. Prerequisites: None.
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities, F5. An introductory course on contemporary Chinese cinema that combines film viewing with readings of film theory and criticism. The aim is to provide a window for students to glimpse the complexity of contemporary Chinese culture. Students will view selected Chinese films produced in mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong from the 1980's to the present and be required to read essays of critical studies which explore the interrelations of various issues in Chinese society. Prerequisites: None.
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Humanities. An introductory course of the cultural traditions of Asia. While it covers a wide range of Asian cultures (Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, and other South Asian countries and regions), it focuses on three major civilizations: India, China and Japan. It introduces students to the rudimentary aspects of Asian humanities such as geography, history, ethnicity, language, literature, religion, philosophy, and arts. All readings are in English. Prerequisites: None.
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4-4. This course lays greater emphasis on further developing students' proficiency in reading for understanding and enhancing their ability to write in Chinese and to translate from Chinese into English and vice versa. At the end of the year-long course students should be able to read Chinese materials in everyday life, to write compositions in Chinese characters for daily communication, and to translate non-technical materials from Chinese into English and vice versa with the help of dictionaries.
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4.00 Credits
Fall, Spring. Credits: 4. Degree Requirements: Social Science. Degree Requirements for Economics 101: F2 (some sections), F8. A survey of economic analysis and institutions combining economic theory with a discussion of applications to the U. S. economic system for majors and non-majors. First semester (microeconomics): Study of the behavior of consumers and firms in competitive and noncompetitive markets, and the consequences of this behavior for resource allocation and income distribution. Consideration of government's role in competitive and noncompetitive markets. Second semester (macroeconomics): Study of the determination of the domestic levels of income, output, employment and prices; study of international trade and finance. Consideration of economic growth and international trade. Must be taken in sequence, but students can take Economics 101 without taking 102.
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4.00 Credits
Spring. Credits: 4. An examination of public sector economics. The structure of the major revenue raising and expenditure operations of the government will be analyzed using microeconomic tools to determine their allocative and distributive effects. Additional topics include an introduction to public choice theory and an examination of market failures and public policy responses to them. (Normally offered in alternate years.) Prerequisites: Economics 101-102 or may be taken concurrently with Economics 102.
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4.00 Credits
Fall. Credits: 4. A study of the theory, institutions, and commercial policies of international trade and finance. Barriers to free trade; private and public policies; international monetary problems and solutions with emphasis on balance-of-payments disequilibrium, its causes and adjustments and the current need for international liquidity and monetary reform. Prerequisites: Economics 101-102.
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