Academic Requirements for the Minor in Asian Studies
Five courses, as follows:
Two courses must be at the 3000 or 4000 level.
One course must be in history. The remaining four courses may be selected from Asian art history, anthropology, Chinese language (strongly suggested), cinema, literature, philosophy, politics, and theatre arts.
Courses Available for the Minor in Asian Studies
School of Film and Media Studies
CIN 3757/New Waves of East Asian Cinema
School of Humanities
ARH 4710/Exoticism in Modern Art
CHI 1010/Beginning Chinese I
CHI 1020/Beginning Chinese II
CHI 1505/Chinese Culture and Social Life
CHI 2010/Intermediate Chinese I
CHI 2020/Intermediate Chinese II
CHI 3010/Advanced Chinese I
CHI 3020/Advanced Chinese II
HIS 2250/Introduction to Asian Studies
HIS 2600/History of Modern Japan
HIS 2820/Introduction to Chinese Arts and Culture
HIS 2825/Modern South Asian History (added Fall 2017)
HIS 2830/Modern East Asia
HIS 3145/Chinese Cinema and History
HIS 3269/Vietnam and Modern America
HIS 3310/Politics and Literature in Modern China
HIS 3510/China in the Modern Age
HIS 3770/Traditional China
LIT 2387/Literature of the South Asian Diaspora
LIT 2635/Introduction to China: Literature, History and Thought
LIT2645/Gender, Revolution, Livelihood: Modern Chinese Women Writers
LIT 3215/South Asian Literature
LIT 3226/Literature of Decolonization in South Asia
PHI1610/Reorienting Asian Thought
PHI2400/Intro to Asian Thought
PHI 2430/Classical Buddhist Philosophy
PHI 3290/Chinese Philosophy: From Confucius through the Neo-Confucian Synthesis of the Song Dynasty
School of Natural and Social Sciences
ANT 2400/Anthropology of South Asia
ANT 3185/Global Media, Local Cultures
ANT 3600/Contemporary Japan: Aesthetics, Politics, Modernity
POL 2105/Citizens Living Under Islamic Laws
POL 2350/Free Speech, Heresy, and Gender in Islamic Societies
POL 3430/Politics of South Asia
POL 3573/Human Rights and Literature
Conservatory of Theatre Arts
THP 3170/Theatricality and Interculturalism (changed Spring 2018; formerly THP 3155/The Theatrical Avant-Garde: East Meets West)