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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
Seminar version of AALL 195
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1.00 Credits
Required for AMES seniors completing an honors thesis. Course will guide students through the writing of the thesis, the preliminary research for which will have been completed in the Fall. Students will share and critically evaluate portions of each other's projects. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Staff
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3.00 Credits
Concentration on a theoretical problem or set of issues germane to the study of Asian and Middle Eastern cultures
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3.00 Credits
Focus on documentary films from various regions in East Asia, including China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan, studying the specific historical and social context of each while attending to their interconnected histories and cultures. Emphasis on the ethical implications of documentary in terms of its deployment of visual-audio apparatus to represent different groups of people and beliefs, values and conflicts, both intra- and inter-regionally in East Asia. Special attention paid to the aesthetics and politics of the documentary form in terms of both its production of meanings and contexts of reception. Instructor: Hong
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3.00 Credits
Graduate credit for a course in any of the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Hindi, Korean, Persian, Swahili. Instructor: Staff
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3.00 Credits
Wide variety of epics across linguistic, geographical, and community orientations. Moral discourses, literary theory relating to epic form, performance traditions and media representations of epic narrative, and connections between political ideology and epic visions. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Prasad
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3.00 Credits
Same as Asian and African Languages and Literature 137. Instructor: Staff
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3.00 Credits
Examination, through visual and literary texts, of the way in which girlhood, girl culture, and girl bodies have figured in the construction of gender, nation, and consumer culture in modern to contemporary Japan. Same as AALL 142, but requires extra assignments. Instructor: Staff
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3.00 Credits
Current issues of contemporary Chinese media and popular culture within the context of globalization. Cultural politics, ideological discourse, and intellectual debates since gaige kaifang (reform and opening up); aspects of Chinese media and popular culture: cinema, television, newspapers and magazines, the Internet, popular music, comics, cell phone text messages, and fashion. Instructor: Liu
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3.00 Credits
Explores religious revival in the Islamic world: revival as reinterpretation of sacred texts, revival as revolution, revival as social movement, revival as spiritual awakening, revival as political mobilization, revival as cultural renaissance. Graduate students will pursue in depth research in their specific area of concentration, read selected sources in the original languages, and design a final project that furthers their course of study. Instructor: McLarney
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