PROSEMINAR: STUDIES IN CULTURES OF ASIA

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the different histories and historiographies of cultural studies of Asia. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Use different materials, such as academic analysis, literature, memoir and legal documents, and also cultural political production beyond text, such as film and visual art, to interrogate what is at stake (intellectually, politically, culturally and socially) in how stories about the past, and its resonances in the present, are recorded, represented, and circulated. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Critically discuss comparative theories (across time, across identity, across space) thinking about Asia. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Understand multiple perspectives scholars use to study society in Asia and use these perspectives in a comparative analysis. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the different histories and historiographies of cultural studies of Asia. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Use different materials, such as academic analysis, literature, memoir and legal documents, and also cultural political production beyond text, such as film and visual art, to interrogate what is at stake (intellectually, politically, culturally and socially) in how stories about the past, and its resonances in the present, are recorded, represented, and circulated. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Critically discuss comparative theories (across time, across identity, across space) thinking about Asia. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Understand multiple perspectives scholars use to study society in Asia and use these perspectives in a comparative analysis. Audience: Graduate