East Asian Studies

2026-2027

55 courses

EAS 207History of East Asia to 1800
EAS 208East Asia since 1800
EAS 211Manga: Visual Culture in Modern Japan
EAS 213Aesthetics and Politics of Chinese Painting
EAS 216Writing and Culture of Premodern Korea
EAS 217The Arts of Japan
EAS 218The Origins of Japanese Culture and Civilization: A History of Japan until 1600
EAS 219Japanese Literature to 1800: The Major Texts
EAS 221Introduction to Modern Japanese Literature
EAS 223The Three Kingdoms Across Media: Characters in History, Fiction, and Video Games
EAS 225Japanese Society and Culture
EAS 226The Religions of China
EAS 228Religion in Japanese Culture
EAS 231Chinese Martial Arts Classics: Fiction, Film, Fact
EAS 232Great Works of Chinese Literature
EAS 233East Asian Humanities I: The Classical Foundations
EAS 234East Asian Humanities II: Traditions and Transformations
EAS 242Korean Women: Postmodern to Premodern
EAS 280Nomadic Empires: From the Scythian Confederation to the Mongol Conquest
EAS 281Zen Buddhism
EAS 282The Historian's Craft: Approaches to Asian History
EAS 300Junior Seminar
EAS 301The Passionate Eye: Documentary Film in East Asia
EAS 304Translating East Asia
EAS 308Communism and Beyond: China and Russia
EAS 310Empire to Nation: 20th Century Japanese Fiction and Film
EAS 312Mind, Body, and Bioethics in Japan and Beyond
EAS 320Early Japanese History
EAS 321Early Modern Japan
EAS 322Buddhism in Japan
EAS 32420th-Century Japan
EAS 331Chinese Poetry
EAS 334Modern Chinese Literature and Film
EAS 342Southeast Asia's Global History
EAS 343Modern Japanese Literature: Early Years
EAS 344Postwar Japanese Narrative: Modern to Postmodern
EAS 349North Korean Imaginaries
EAS 351Korean Cinema
EAS 354Early Modern China: the Ming-Qing Transition
EAS 355Modern China: Empire, Nation, Revolution
EAS 358Japanese Mythology
EAS 362Chinese Politics
EAS 370Brainwashing, Conversion and Other Technologies of Belief Contagion
EAS 376A Global History of Monsters
EAS 401Readings in Modern Japanese I
EAS 402Readings in Modern Japanese II
EAS 405Readings in Modern Korean l
EAS 406Readings in Modern Korean II
EAS 411Readings in Modern Chinese Intellectual History
EAS 412Readings in Classic Chinese Short Stories
EAS 415Intellectual History of China to the Fifth Century
EAS 416Intellectual History of China from the Ninth to the 19th Century
EAS 425The Japanese Print
EAS 498Senior Thesis I (Year-Long)
EAS 499Senior Thesis II (Year-Long)