Asian Studies

2026-2027

124 courses

ASIAN 1104FWS: Songs of Love and War: South Asian Lyrics
ASIAN 1106FWS: The Great Epic of India
ASIAN 1109FWS: Connected Cities in Asia, 16th-18th Centuries
ASIAN 1111FWS: Literature, Culture, Religion
ASIAN 1118FWS: Power, Protection, and Liberation: Buddhist Paths to Flourishing
ASIAN 2208Introduction to Southeast Asia
ASIAN 2211Introduction to Japan
ASIAN 2218Introduction to Korea
ASIAN 2222From Samurai to Superpower: Japan in World History II
ASIAN 2225Literature, Politics, and Genocide in Cambodia
ASIAN 2230Introduction to China: Outsiders in History
ASIAN 2232Introduction to China: Getting Rich in Modern China
ASIAN 2245Gamelan in Indonesian History and Cultures
ASIAN 2248Indian Ocean Buddhism
ASIAN 2250Introduction to Asian Religions
ASIAN 2252Introduction to Japanese Film
ASIAN 2254South Asian Religions in Practice: The Healing Traditions
ASIAN 2259Music in and of East Asia
ASIAN 2262Medicine and Healing in China
ASIAN 2272Food and Asia
ASIAN 2274Mughal India and the Early Modern World, c. 1500-1800
ASIAN 2275History of Modern India
ASIAN 2276Tales of the Samurai
ASIAN 2278East Asian Medical and Martial Arts
ASIAN 2279Chinese Mythology
ASIAN 2280Law and Society in Early Modern and Modern China
ASIAN 2281Gender, Family, and Confucianism in East Asia
ASIAN 2285Introduction to Asian Art: Material Worlds
ASIAN 2288Introduction to the Arts of China
ASIAN 2291Engendering China
ASIAN 2294Of Saints, Poets, and Revolutionaries: Medieval and Modern Iran and Central Asia
ASIAN 2295Orientalism and East Asia
ASIAN 2296Korea and East Asia
ASIAN 2299Buddhism
ASIAN 2425Global Maoism: History and Present
ASIAN 2501History of the Silk Roads
ASIAN 2502Hot Cold War: Asia and Culture
ASIAN 2503Demons in Buddhism
ASIAN 2575Tyranny and Dignity: Chinese Women from the Cultural Revolution to the White Paper Protests
ASIAN 2740Imperial China
ASIAN 2920Modern China
ASIAN 2930A Global History of Love
ASIAN 2952The Arts of Hindu Devotion
ASIAN 3021History of Korea-China Relations
ASIAN 3022Science and Discovery: Japan and the "New World," 16th–17th Centuries
ASIAN 3023Partition: Violence, Citizenship and the Making of Modern South Asia
ASIAN 3049History, Theory, and Methods in the Academic Study of Religion
ASIAN 3315Game Studies and Japan
ASIAN 3319From Meditation to Mat, Cave to Cartoon: Yoga as Philosophy, Practice, and Public Performance
ASIAN 3329Literature of Leaving China
ASIAN 3331Opt Out, Tune In: Hermits, Pilgrims and Dharma Bums, from East Asia to Ithaca
ASIAN 3341Mahayana Buddhism
ASIAN 3344Introduction to Indian Philosophy
ASIAN 3350The Arts of Southeast Asia
ASIAN 3362Kingship, Nation, and Heritage in Asia
ASIAN 3380The Asian Century: The Rise of China and India
ASIAN 3383Imagining Indian Pasts: History, Heritage, and Cultural Memory
ASIAN 3392Objects in Motion: Transoceanic Japan and the Port Cities of Asia
ASIAN 3395What is China?
ASIAN 3396Transnational Local: Southeast Asian History from the Eighteenth Century
ASIAN 3397Monsoon Kingdoms: Pre-Modern Southeast Asian History
ASIAN 3980The Pacific Horizon: Oceania, Asia, and the Americas
ASIAN 4020Buddhist Moderns: Visions of Human Flourishing
ASIAN 4021Zen Buddhism and its Japanese Context: Major Thinkers
ASIAN 4023Buddhism and Politics in South and Southeast Asia
ASIAN 4024Science, Medicine, and Media Technologies in East Asia
ASIAN 4076History of US-China Relations, 1949-2025
ASIAN 4377Issues in South Asian Studies
ASIAN 4401Asian Studies Honors Course
ASIAN 4402Asian Studies Honors: Senior Essay
ASIAN 4403Supervised Reading
ASIAN 4404Supervised Reading
ASIAN 4413Religion and Politics in Southeast Asia
ASIAN 4415The Body Politic in Asia
ASIAN 4424Objects, Rituals, and Tea
ASIAN 4435Making Sense of China: The Capstone Seminar
ASIAN 4443Work and Labor in China
ASIAN 4448China, Tibet and Xinjiang
ASIAN 4452Critical Filipino and Filipino American Studies
ASIAN 4473Modern Chinese Art