East Asian Studies Minor
Minor Requirements
Code | Title | Credits |
---|---|---|
Required Courses | ||
Group A | ||
Select two or three of the following: | 6-8 | |
Elementary Chinese I (Mandarin) 1 | ||
Elementary Chinese II (Mandarin) | ||
Chinese Culture and Literature | ||
Elementary Japanese I 1 | ||
Elementary Japanese II | ||
Intermediate Japanese I | ||
Intermediate Japanese II | ||
Topic: Modern Japanese Literature and Film in English Translation | ||
Group B | ||
Select three or four courses from the following: | 12-18 | |
Art History: Aspects of Asian Art | ||
The Asian World: A Historical Survey | ||
Modern East Asia in Film | ||
Nonviolent Activism in Modern Asia | ||
Wars in the Asia-Pacific | ||
Modern China | ||
Modern Japan | ||
Barbarians and Mandarins: China and Her Inner Asian Neighbor | ||
Topic: Tolstoy, Turks and Taliban: Russia's "Orient" | ||
Topic: Cultural Heritages and Learning in Inner Asia 2 | ||
Topic: Bible and Gun: Christianity in China since 1500 | ||
The Sacred and the Secular in East Asia 3 | ||
Hong Kong and Bollywood: Globalization of Asian Cinema | ||
Worlds In Literature: The Asian Diaspora | ||
Great Ideas in Eastern Religious Thought | ||
Total Credits | 18-26 |
1 | Students may not count the credit from CHI 101 Elementary Chinese I (Mandarin) or JPN 101 Elementary Japanese I unless the corresponding 102 course is completed. |
2 | HIS 296I Topic: Cultural Heritages and Learning in Inner Asia: (travel course) |
3 | Students completing INT 196J The Sacred and the Secular in East Asia may not count HIS 131 The Asian World: A Historical Survey or RES 202 Great Ideas in Eastern Religious Thought towards the EAS Minor. |
Note: Other history and culture courses in the field of Asian Studies can be substituted with approval of program director.
One course from a professional program (e.g., business, accounting) with a clearly defined focus on East Asia may be counted towards this minor with approval of the program director.