East Asian Studies

2026–2027

46 courses

EAST 0320Tokyo
EAST 0401Chinese Painting and Culture
EAST 0601Hell, Karma, and Pure Land: Death in Buddhism
EAST 2201Introduction to Chinese Philosophy
EAST 2202The Chinese Tradition
EAST 2301China from Present to Past
EAST 2302The Making of Japan's Great Peace, 1550–1850
EAST 2403Time in Chinese Art
EAST 2520The Rise of China
EAST 2521Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy
EAST 3121Contemporary Japan and the Ghosts of Modernity
EAST 3122Politics of Memory
EAST 3204The Culture of Landscape in China
EAST 3221Japanese Literature After 1970: The Art of Losing
EAST 3222Sinological Methods
EAST 3250Socialist '80s: Aesthetics of Reform in China and the Soviet Union
EAST 3322Korea and the Japanese Empire in Critical Contexts
EAST 3520Chinese Foreign Policy
EAST 3521Politics of China
EAST 3603Buddhism Through Storytelling and Narratives
EAST 3621Religion and Culture in Korea
EAST 3623Buddhist Monastic Experience
EAST 3820Against the West: Sino-Russian Relations
EAST 4102Pastoralist States of East Asia
EAST 4220Japanese Detective Fiction
EAST 4232East Asian Animation: History, Theory, and Aesthetics
EAST 4302Antiquarianism in East Asian History
EAST 4323Taiwan: A Global History (17th century to Present)
EAST 4330The City in Modern East Asia
EAST 4602Good Life, Care, and Ethics in Buddhism
EAST 4625Liberation by Hearing: Sound and Listening to the Liminal
EAST 4720Migration in East Asia and Beyond
EAST 4721Power, Exclusion and Resistance in South Korea
EAST 4722Politics and Society in South Korea
EAST 4890Independent Study
EAST 4900One-Term Senior Essay
EAST 4910Senior Research Project
EAST 4920Senior Research Project
EAST 5301Advanced Readings in Tokugawa Documents
EAST 5620Readings in Buddhist Studies
EAST 6221Japanese Literature after 1970
EAST 6222Sinological Methods
EAST 8221Research in Japanese Film History
EAST 8301Research in Japanese History
EAST 9100Independent Study
EAST 9900Master’s Thesis