| |
| |
Apr 27, 2026
|
|
|
|
|
2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
World Languages and Cultures Major, BA - Asian Studies/South and Southeast Asia Concentration
|
|
Megan Bryson, Religious Studies, Chair
|
Concentration Requirements
Majors will be required to take a total of 31 Credit Hours of courses. II. Select 12 credit hours:
III. Select 6 credit hours (other geographical-cultural areas):
- ARAB 320 - Middle Eastern Film 3 Credit Hours
- ARAB 321* - The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture 3 Credit Hours
- ARAB 331* - Culture and Daily Life in the Arab World 3 Credit Hours
- ARAB 332* - Contemporary Issues and Current Events in the Arab World 3 Credit Hours
- ARAB 351 - Languages of the Middle East and North Africa 3 Credit Hours
- ARAB 415 - Topics in Arabic Literature, Language, History, and Culture 3 Credit Hours
- ARAB 431 - Media Arabic 3 Credit Hours
- ARAB 432 - Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature 3 Credit Hours
- ARTH 413 - Art of China: Neolithic Period Through the Song Dynasty 3 Credit Hours
- ARTH 414 - Art of China: Yuan through Qing Dynasties 3 Credit Hours
- ARTH 416 - Chinese Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries 3 Credit Hours
- ARTH 419 - Art of Japan 3 Credit Hours
- ARTH 443* - Islamic Art in Global Context I: Medieval 3 Credit Hours
- ARTH 444* - Islamic Art in Global Context II: Early Modern 3 Credit Hours
- CHIN 300 - A Kaleidoscope of China 3 Credit Hours
- CHIN 310 - The Art of Chinese Calligraphy 3 Credit Hours
- CHIN 331* - Advanced Chinese I 4 Credit Hours
- CHIN 332* - Advanced Chinese II 4 Credit Hours
- CHIN 333 - Tea Cultures in Asia 3 Credit Hours
- CHIN 335 - From Fox Spirits to FemTech: Gender, Myth, and Media in China 3 Credit Hours
- CHIN 360* - Desiring Asia: Sex, Intimacy, and Global Capital 3 Credit Hours
- CHIN 401* - Contemporary Chinese Studies I 3 Credit Hours
- CHIN 402* - Contemporary Chinese Studies II 3 Credit Hours
- CHIN 430 - Women in China 3 Credit Hours
- CHIN 431 - Chinese Literature and Culture 3 Credit Hours
- CHIN 432 - Advanced Reading and Composition 3 Credit Hours
- CHIN 469 - Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Cinema 3 Credit Hours
- CHIN 471* - Introduction to Chinese Linguistics 3 Credit Hours
- GEOG 374* - Emerging Landscapes of East Asia 3 Credit Hours
- HIAS 389* - Pre-Modern Chinese History 3 Credit Hours
- HIAS 390 - Modern Chinese History 3 Credit Hours
- HIAS 392 - History of Pre-Modern Japan 3 Credit Hours
- HIAS 393 - History of Modern Japan 3 Credit Hours
- HIAS 394* - Chinese Intellectual History: Early Times 3 Credit Hours
- HIAS 401 - Life in Early Modern Japan (1600-1868): Society, Culture, and the Outside World 3 Credit Hours
- HIAS 480 - Traditional Chinese Medicine 3 Credit Hours
- HIAS 490 - The History and Cultural Legacy of the Samurai 3 Credit Hours
- HIAS 494* - History of Tokyo 3 Credit Hours
- HIME 366* - History of the Middle East and the Islamic World, 600 – 1050 3 Credit Hours
- HIME 369* - History of the Middle East and the Islamic World, ca. 1050 – 1500 3 Credit Hours
- HIME 370 - History of the Middle East in Global Context 3 Credit Hours
- HIME 384 - Studies in Middle East History 3 Credit Hours
- HIME 450 - Food, Health and Society 3 Credit Hours
- HIME 484 - Studies in Middle East History 3 Credit Hours
- JAPA 300 - Kanji for Japanese II 3 Credit Hours
- JAPA 313 - Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture 3 Credit Hours
- JAPA 314 - Food, Fiction, and Film in Modern Japan 3 Credit Hours
- JAPA 315 - Asian Film 3 Credit Hours
- JAPA 321 - Japanese Popular Media 3 Credit Hours
- JAPA 351* - Advanced Japanese I 3 Credit Hours
- JAPA 352* - Advanced Japanese II 3 Credit Hours
- JAPA 365 - Japanese for Business 3 Credit Hours
- JAPA 413* - Modern Japanese Literature and Culture 3 Credit Hours
- JAPA 451 - Introduction to Classical Japanese 3 Credit Hours
- JAPA 452 - Reading in Modern Japanese Texts 3 Credit Hours
- KORE 330 - Korean Media and Culture 3 Credit Hours
- POLS 454 - Politics in China and Japan: Culture, Power and Competition 3 Credit Hours
- POLS 463 - Politics and Power in the Middle East 3 Credit Hours
- POLS 465 - Nuclear Politics of the Middle East: Conflict, Energy, and the Environment 3 Credit Hours
- REST 332* - Introduction to Islam 3 Credit Hours
- REST 335* - Islam and the Body 3 Credit Hours
- REST 339* - Islam in the Modern World 3 Credit Hours
- REST 379* - Chinese Religions 3 Credit Hours
- REST 383* - Japanese Religions 3 Credit Hours
- REST 436* - Seminar in Islamic Studies 3 Credit Hours
- REST 479* - Seminar in East Asian Religions 3 Credit Hours
IV. Select 12 remaining credit hours
- No more than 8 hours may be at the 100 or 200 level; of these 8 hours, no more than 4 hours may be at the 100 level.
|
|
|
|
