East Asian Studies

2026–2027

95 courses

EAST 0010Beyond Orientalism: Understanding “East Asia”
EAST 0040Foundations of Chinese Religions (RELS 0040)
EAST 0100Introduction to Buddhism (RELS 0100)
EAST 0130Sex, Gender, and Society in Imperial China
EAST 0140Childhood, Media, and Culture in Japan
EAST 0141Catastrophic Japan
EAST 0150Language, Culture, and Society: Korea
EAST 0152Worlds of Korean Cinema
EAST 0160Buried History, Hidden Wonders: Discovering East Asian Archaeology (ARCH 0160)
EAST 0290EEngaged Buddhism (RELS 0290E)
EAST 0303Literature, Science, and Technology in China
EAST 0304Words on Things: Literature and Material Culture in Early Modern China
EAST 0305China Modern: An Introduction to the Literature of Twentieth-Century China
EAST 0306Literature and Science in Early Modern China
EAST 0307China Through the Lens: History, Cinema, and Critical Discourse
EAST 0309Courtesans, Concubines, and Wives: Gender Relations in Imperial China
EAST 0311Chinese Language, Arts, and Culture
EAST 0315Beyond the K-Wave: A Deep Dive into Korea's Energy Industry
EAST 0401Japanese Aesthetics
EAST 0402Japan's Floating World
EAST 0403Off the Beaten Path: A Survey of Modern Japanese Literature
EAST 0405From Basho to Banana: Four Centuries of Japanese Literature
EAST 0406Foreign Bodies in Japan, 600–1600
EAST 0410Introduction to East Asian Civilization: China (HIST 0410)
EAST 0411Diplomats, Drunkards, and Anarchists: Competing Visions of the Future in Japan’s Global Past
EAST 0412Off the Beaten Path: The Diversity of Modern Japanese Literature (COLT 0711O)
EAST 0413Explore Multicultural Japan
EAST 0415Moments in Japanese Poetry from the Beginnings to Today
EAST 0501Korean Youth, Identity, and Nation
EAST 0531Complicating Korean History: Topics and Issues
EAST 0532Korean Controversies and Negotiations: Moving Beyond Colonial Origins of National Division
EAST 0533Beyond Gangnam Style: Seoul, Dislocation, and the Search for Place
EAST 0534Patriots, Communists, and Traitors in Modern Korea
EAST 0535Korean Popular Culture
EAST 0560Forms of Attachment: Writing Love in Korean Literature
EAST 0610AThe Far Side of the Old World: Perspectives on Chinese Culture (COLT 0610A)
EAST 0655Savoring History: The Story of Vietnamese Food Across Regions and Time
EAST 0701Empire and its Aftermath: Modern Culture in Japan and the Koreas
EAST 0703Confucianism and Its Critics
EAST 0710ULeaves of Words: A Survey of Japanese Literature (COLT 0710U)
EAST 0910DTwo Virgins in the Attic: Advanced Japanese Readings in Canonical and Popular Literature (JAPN0910D)
EAST 1120KSkeptical Traditions East and West (CLAS 1120K)
EAST 1202EExtreme Asian Cinema: Contemporary Genre Cinemas in an East Asian Context (MCM 1202E)
EAST 1210Imagining Modern China
EAST 1230Edo Woodblock Printing
EAST 1301Word for Word: Linguistic Principles in Chinese-English Translation
EAST 1302Returnees in China's Modernization
EAST 1303Chinese: A History of the Language
EAST 1304Crafting Early Modern China: Handicraft, Witchcraft and Statecraft
EAST 1307Sex and Society in Modern China
EAST 1308Transnational Chinese Cinema
EAST 1309Media, Environment, and the (Post-)Human in Contemporary China
EAST 1310Silk Road Fictions
EAST 1313China's Socialist Dreams (HIST 1123).
EAST 1314The Modern Chinese Nation: An Idea and Its Limits (HIST 1121)
EAST 1370Performances in the Asias (TAPS 1270)
EAST 1401Japanese Linguistics: Communication and Understanding Utterances
EAST 1403Buddhist Classics
EAST 1410NLost in Translation: The Adaptation of Literature to Film in Japan (COLT 1410N)
EAST 1412Sinners and Seers in Japanese Literature
EAST 1415Reading Japanese Video Games
EAST 1415AClassical Daoist Thought (RELS 1415A)
EAST 1420The Confucian Mind
EAST 1430Classics of East Asian Buddhism (RELS 1430)
EAST 1430CClassical Japanese Poetry (COLT 1430C)
EAST 1430TLeaves of Words: Japanese Poetry and Poetics (COLT 1430T)
EAST 1440Themes in Japanese Buddhism: Original Enlightenment (RELS 1440)
EAST 1501Korean Culture and Film
EAST 1502The Korea Brand: Understanding KPop, Film, and Culture of the Two Koreas in the Global Context
EAST 1503Korean Film and Culture: The Appeal of Korean Film
EAST 1504Asia Extreme: Beauty and Violence in Korean Media
EAST 1505Two Koreas
EAST 1506Women Make Movies: Feminist Practices in Asia and Beyond
EAST 1510Chinese: A History of the Language
EAST 1510AChina's Late Empires (HIST 1510A)
EAST 1530Modern Korea (HIST 1530)
EAST 1540Power, Profit, and Pillage: The Rise and Fall of Trading Kingdoms in Asia (ANTH 1540)
EAST 1701Women's Literature in Japan and Korea
EAST 1702Pacific Indigeneities: From Māori Mythology to James Cameron’s Avatar
EAST 1704Anarchisms in Asia and Beyond