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Course
Descriptions Spring 2009 |
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Buddhism Courses |
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Please
note that the "Buddhsm" category is no longer used.
These courses can now be found under other EALC categories. |
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Chinese Language and
Literature Courses |
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Chinese
1B |
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1B.
Elementary Chinese. A continuation of Chinese 1A, Chinese 1B
develops
listening, speaking,
reading, and writing skills in modern standard Chinese, using
pinyin and simplified characters. Five hours in class, two hours
in the language laboratory, and one required half-hour tutorial meeting
every week. Prerequisites: Chinese 1A; or consent of
instructor. |
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Please
note: Chinese 1B is for students who: 1) are of
non-Chinese origin and were not raised in a Chinese-speaking
environment; or 2) are of Chinese origin but do not speak any
dialect of Chinese and whose parents do not speak any dialect
of Chinese. Students are responsible for enrolling in the appropriate
level and section. They must also accurately inform instructors
about their language proficiency level. Any student who enrolls
in a class below his/her level will be dropped from the class. The required tutorial sections will be scheduled once classes begin. |
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Chinese
1BX |
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1BX.
Elementary Chinese for Mandarin Speakers. The course teaches
both pinyin and traditional characters, introduces
functional vocabulary, and provides a systematic review of grammar.
The class meets on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, one hour
a day. Prerequisites: Chinese 1AX; or consent of instructor. |
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Please
note: Chinese 1BX is for students who: 1) were born in a non-Chinese-speaking
country but were raised in a home where Mandarin was spoken and
possess little or no reading and writing skills in Chinese, or
2) were born in a Chinese-speaking country and received zero
or limited formal education in that country up to the second
grade, or 3) can speak a non-Mandarin dialect and Mandarin. All students must take the online Chinese Language Placement
Test at ealc.berkeley.edu before enrolling. Any student who enrolls
in a class below his/her level will be dropped. |
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Chinese
1BY |
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1BY.
Elementary Chinese for Speakers of Other Dialects. Chinese
1BY, an elementary Mandarin Chinese course for non-Mandarin
speaking Chinese dialect heritage learners,
is a continuation of Chinese 1AY. The course
provides further training in language skills. Linguistic forms
and ways of using them are taught to meet
learners' language needs. The course prepares
Chinese dialect heritage learners to merge with Mandarin heritage learners
at an intermediate level for continuous learning.one Five in-class hours and an additional one-hour tutorial meeting
is required every week. Prerequisites:
Chinese 1AY; or consent
of instructor. |
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Please
note: Chinese 1BY is for students who: 1) were born in a non-Chinese
speaking country but were raised in a home where a non-Mandarin
Chinese dialect was spoken and possess little or no reading and
writing skills in Chinese, or 2) were born in a Chinese-speaking
country in a home where a non-Mandarin Chinese dialect was spoken
and received zero or limited formal education in that country
up to the second grade. All students must take the online Chinese
Language Placement Test at ealc.berkeley.edu before enrolling.
Any student who enrolls in a class below his/her level will be
dropped. The required tutorial sections will be scheduled once classes begin. |
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Chinese
7B |
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7B.
Introduction to Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. Chinese 7B is the second semester in a year long
sequence introducing students to the literatures and cultures of China.
We will read many of the major authors, works, and literary genres from
the Yuan Dynasty to modern times, and place these writings in their
historical, cultural, and material contexts. This course does not assume
or require any previous exposure to or coursework in Chinese literature,
history, or language. |
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This semester we will pay particular attention to the emergence of vibrant
new urban and vernacular cultures in the late imperial period and their
relation with classical traditions and literati culture, as well the
revolutionary cultural transformations of the late 19th and 20th
centuries. The course will both survey the literary and cultural
topography that every serious student of China ought to know, while at the
same time developing the critical reading and writing skills necessary to
traverse and imaginatively engage with that historical terrain.
Prerequisites: None. Recommended: Chinese 7A. |
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Chinese
10B |
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10B.
Intermediate Chinese. The course, a continuation of Chinese 10A, is designed to develop
the student's reading, writing, listening, and speaking abilities
in Chinese, and teaches both simplified and traditional characters.
Additional time is required for tutorials and language lab. Prerequisites: Chinese 10A; or consent of instructor. |
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Chinese
10BX |
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10BX.
Intermediate Chinese for Mandarin Speakers. Continuation of
Chinese 10AX, an intermediate-level course for Mandarin speakers.
The course teaches both pinyin and traditional characters,
develops a functional vocabulary, and provides a systematic
review of grammar. Three one-hour meetings in class and two
one-hour periods in the language or computer lab per week.
Prerequisites: Chinese 10AX; or consent of instructor. |
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Chinese
100B |
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100B.
Advanced Chinese. The goal of the course is to introduce modern
Chinese culture while developing competence in reading, speaking
and writing standard modern Chinese. The readings include stories,
essays, and plays, mostly by leading writers of recent decades.
Students prepare in advance, then read and discuss in Chinese
in class. Literary aspects are discussed in addition to problems
of vocabulary and syntax. A half-hour tutorial meeting
is required every week. Prerequisites: Chinese 100A; or consent
of instructor. |
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note: The required tutorial sections will be scheduled once classes begin. |
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Chinese
100BX |
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100BX.
Advanced Chinese for Mandarin Speakers. Continuation of Chinese
100AX, an advanced-level course for Mandarin speakers with
intermediate-level knowledge of reading and writing in Chinese.
The goal of the course is to introduce modern Chinese society
through reading materials and discussion. The reading materials
include stories, essays, and plays, mostly by leading writers
of recent decades. Three one-hour meetings in class and two
one-hour periods in the language or computer lab per week.
Prerequisites: Chinese 100AX; or consent of instructor. |
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Chinese
102 |
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102.
Readings in Modern Chinese - Social Sciences and Literature.
The emphasis of this course is on Chinese social, political,
and
journalistic readings. The readings are further supplemented
by newspaper articles. Students are required to turn in essays
written in journalistic style in Chinese. Prerequisites: Chinese
100B; or consent of instructor. |
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Chinese
110B |
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110B.
Introduction to Literary Chinese. The second half of a one-year introductory course in literary Chinese, continuing the study of grammatical structures and classical usage from the first semester, and introducing the use of basic reference sources. Readings for this semester will be drawn from a range of literary, philosophical, and historiographical texts through the Song Dynasty. Prerequisites: Chinese 110A; or consent of instructor. |
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Chinese
112 |
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112.
Fifth-Year Chinese B. This course is designed to bring up the
students to advanced-high competence in all aspects of modern
Chinese; it aims to prepare students for research or employment
in a variety of China-related fields. Materials are drawn from
native-speaker target publications, including modern Chinese
literature, film, intellectual history, and readings on contemporary
issues. Radio and TV broadcasts will also be included among
the teaching materials. Texts will be selected, in part, according
to the students' interests. With the instructor's guidance,
students will conduct their own research projects based on
specialized readings in their own fields of study. The research
projects will be presented both orally and in written form
by the end of the semester. Prerequisites: Chinese 102; or
consent of instructor. |
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Chinese
130 |
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130.
Topics in Taoism. This course covers the topics in premodern Daoism (a.k.a. Taoism) in China
using a modular approach. The presentation of each topic begins with a
cross-cultural comparison, continues with a chronological survey of
relevant aspects of Daoism, and ends with a case study drawn from primary
sources. Examples of topics that may be covered include: divination and
medicine, the Zhuangzi, politics and legitimation, Mysticism, and death
and the afterlife. Prerequisites: Chinese 110A; or consent of instructor.
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Chinese
155 |
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155.
Readings in Vernacular Chinese Literature: "TheStory of the Stone." This course will be centered around intensive reading and analysis of Cao Xueqin's 18th-century masterpiece of Chinese fiction, The Story of the Stone (also known as the Dream of the Red Chamber). Students will be introduced to the literary, cultural, philosophical, and material world from which this work emerged, as well as various approaches to the world within the text. Prerequisites: All readings will be available in English translation. Students who are conversant in Chinese are encouraged to read the original texts when possible, and some class sessions will focus on issues relating to the style and structure of the Chinese text in particular. No previous exposure to or course work in Chinese history, culture, and literature, however, is assumed or required |
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Chinese
156 |
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156.
Modern Chinese Literature. This course will introduce students to selected works of modern Chinese literature produced in the first half of the twentieth century, as well as the cultural and historical context from which they were produced. We will read autobiographical essays, novellas, romances, and ghost stories by several major modern authors, including Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, Xiao Hong, Eileen Chang, and others. What did it mean to tell stories about love and tales of the supernatural in a time of turmoil and transformation? How did writers attempt to make themselves ‘at home’ in a world profoundly dislocated by the forces of colonialism, war, and revolution? We will explore these and other questions by examining the politics of literary style, representations of gender, and the problem of colonial modernity in these texts. We will read all the stories and essays in the original Chinese, supplemented by critical and biographical articles in English. Prerequisites: Chinese 100B (may be taken concurrently); good reading knowledge of Chinese and prior coursework in literature; or consent of instructor. |
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Chinese
165 |
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165.
History of the Chinese Language. The course is designed to introduce students in Chinese language and Culture to important phonological and grammatical features in different periods in the history of the Chinese language. Rhyme dictionaries and rhyme tables will be examined for their contribution to our understanding of earlier stages in the phonological system of the Chinese language, and of changes in rhyming practice. Development of grammatical features in the history of the language will also be examined. Included as part of the course will be a cursory look at the origin and evolution of the Chinese writing system, literary poetry and its patterns, and earlier dictionaries. Other topics may also be included. Prerequisites: Chinese 100B (may be taken concurrently); or consent of instructor. Recommended: Linguistics 5 or 100. |
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186.Confucius and His Interpreters. This course examines the development of Confucianism in pre-modern China
using a dialogical model that emphasizes its interactions with competing
viewpoints. Particular attention will be paid to issues of ritual, human
nature and morality, stressing the way that varieties of Confucianism were
rooted in more general theories of value. Prerequisites:
None. |
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Chinese
C223 |
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C223.
Readings in Chinese Buddhist. This semester the seminar will focus
on Chinese Buddhist materials related to the particular research
interests of the Ph.D. students enrolled in the course, with
a focus on hermeneutic issues, research tools, and translation
strategies. The selection of primary texts will include works
on visualization practices, liturgical manuals, early Shingon
materials attributed to Kukai, and an assortment of Daoist
works.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and a good reading knowledge
of classical Chinese; or consent of instructor. |
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Chinese
234 |
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234.
Texts on the Civilization of Medieval China. This seminar will attempt to accomplish two distinct but complementary aims. First, in terms of “coverage,” we will become familiar with a wide range of representative works from the tradition we generally refer to as “ci poetry,” with its origins in repertoires of Tang court and banquet music and becoming a full-fledged and fully “literary” lyric genre during the Song. We will also do readings in traditional criticism and accumulate the relevant bibliographical expertise needed to conduct research in the area. Second, we will explore the range of issues that define the genre and its problems, and that come to bear on broader cultural questions, such as the relation of textual authorities to voice and the aural dimension, gender fashioning as an aspect both of social relations and of individual psychology, and at the most general level, how the history of this genre relates to and reflects on the broader project and pretensions of elite textual culture. Prerequisites: Primarily for graduate students. Good command of classical Chinese is required; basic knowledge of Chinese literary history of the medieval and early modern periods is desirable. |
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East Asian Languages
and Cultures Courses |
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EA
Lang 109 new |
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109.
History of the Culture of Tea in China and Japan. This course uses
the framework of the history of tea in China and Japan to consider
how religion, philosophy and the arts (especially literature,
ceramics, garden design and architecture) stimulated and were
stimulated by practices related to the consumption of tea.
It considers tea's role in defining elite and powerful social
circles and intercourse between different centers of power.
It also considers how each country uses tea to represent its
traditions in particular ways. Understanding the tea culture
of these countries informs students of important and enduring
aspects of both cultures, offers an opportunity to consider
how tea ritual draws on religion and art to promote specific
social practice, creates a forum for cultural comparisons between
the two countries, and, provides an example of the transfer
of cultural knowledge from China to Japan. Prerequisites:
None. |
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EA
Lang 181 new |
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181.
East Asian Film: Topics in Genre: "Asian Horror Cinema."
While theoretical speculations have taken American and European films as
their models, they seem totally unprepared for the vibrant horror films
emerging from Asia, India to Japan, and this is exactly our charge for the
course—to better understand the cinematic style of Asian horror films. As
any cinephile would testify, while these films have the stock figures of
ghosts and monsters, haunted houses and possessed women, they also
question our settled ideas of beauty and disgust that imperceptibly shape
ur notions of racial, sexual, and national differences.
Prerequisites: None. |
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EA
Lang 202 New! |
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202. Close Reading Area Studies: China and Japan in the World.
This course will consider alternative strategies and modes of close reading that can be relevant to the study of East Asia with a focus on China and Japan. As we concentrate on the historical role of philological research, translation studies, interdisciplinary scholarship and ask how "knowledge" about East Asia is produced in our fields, our readings on "close reading" will help us question the common sense of "civilization," culture," and "tradition," and explore new ways of asking questions about text and context, aesthetics and politics, cultural memory, historical narratives, and regimes of knowledge. Prerequisites: Graduate standing. |
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EA Lang
C220 |
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C223.
Seminar in Buddhism and Buddhist Texts: "Candrakirti's Prasannapada
Madhyamakavrtti, Chapter 24." This semester the seminar will
focus on Candrakirti's Prasannapada Madhyamakavrtti, Chapter
24, using both the Sanskrit and Tibetan texts. This text is
among the most important philosophical works in the Indian
Buddhist Madhyamika tradition, and is known for the beauty
of its prose as well as its lucid and historically influential
approach to the notion of "emptiness." Students will also read
various secondary studies of Madhyamika thought in Indian and
Tibet.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and a good reading knowledge
of classical Chinese; or consent of instructor. |
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Japanese Language and
Literature Courses |
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Japan
1B |
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1B.
Elementary Japanese. Continuation of Elementary Japanese 1A
using the same general format (written and oral/aural quizzes
every Friday) and textbook. Emphasis is on spoken, reading,
and written Japanese. Grades will be determined on the basis
of attendance, quiz scores, homework, in-class final examination,
and class participation. Prerequisites: Japanese 1A; or consent
of instructor. |
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Japan
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1BL.
Supplementary Work in Listening - Elementary. Designed to supplement
1A-1B, respectively, in order to facilitate students' listening
proficiency. 1AL will cover a variety of listening strategies.
1BL is a continuation of 1AL where students will apply these
strategies in listening activities. |
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Japan
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1BS.
Supplementary Work in Kanji. A course designed to be taken
concurrently with 1B to help students improve overall kanji
performance. The course will make the kanji learning process
easier by providing exercises and background information about
the relationships between characters and how they function. |
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Japan
7B |
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7B.
Introduction to Modern Japanese Literature and Culture.
7B offers students the opportunity to consider a wide variety
of
prose fiction and poetry from Japan’s 19th through 21st
centuries,
that is, from the time of the Meiji Restoration (1868) until
the
present. About ten of the works will be read in their unabridged
form. The first text we will discuss is what is often called
the
earliest Japanese work styled after the Western concept of
the novel.
The last work is a set of short stories exploring the impact
of the
Kobe earthquake. In between we will read authors who narrate
pre-War,
post-war and post-modern Japan. Rarely do these authors represent
the
most common values of their time but they always have a sharp
understanding of the world within which they live. There will
be
abundant opportunity to explore Japanese social and cultural
issues
through the themes these authors set before the reader. This
class is
designed to include students with no background in Japan or
the
Japanese language. Prerequiste: None.
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Japan
10B |
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10B.
Intermediate Japanese. In this course, students will learn
how to integrate the basic structures and vocabulary which
they learned in Japanese 1A/B and Japanese 10A in order to
express a wider range of ideas, and will study the new structures
and vocabulary necessary to express such ideas in a manner
appropriate for many social situations. Students are expected
to participate fully in classroom activities and discussions.
Prerequisites: Japanese 10A; or consent of instructor.
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Japan
10BG |
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10BG.
Supplementary Work in Grammar - Intermediate. This supplementary
course is designed for students who are concurrently enrolled
in 10B to enable their acquisition of a better understanding
of Japanese grammar in general and clause linkage in particular. |
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Japan
10BS |
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10BS.
Supplementary Work in Kanji - Intermediate. For students who
are concurrently enrolled in 10B to acquire a better understanding
of kanji writing system and to improve overall kanji performance. |
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Japan
100B |
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100B.
Advanced Japanese. Continuation of J100A. This course aims
to develop further communicative skills in speaking, listening,
reading and writing in a manner appropriate to the context.
It concentrates on enabling students to use acquired grammar
and vocabulary with more confidence in order to express functional
meanings, while increasing linguistic competence. Course materials
include the textbook, supplemented by newspaper and magazine
articles and short stories to provide insight into Japanese
culture and society. Active student participation is not only
encouraged but required. Prerequisites: Japanese 100A;
or consent of instructor. |
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Japan
102 |
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102.
Fourth-Year Readings: Japanese Culture. This course is designed
for students who have studied Japanese for three years or more
at college
level to improve their reading, writing, speaking and listening
skills. It aims to develop further the vocabulary and knowledge
of kanji and Japanese grammar through reading and discussing
various topics related to Japanese culture. Students will
research culture topics and give a short presentation on their
findings. Prerequisites: Japanese 100B; or consent of instructor.
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Japan
104 |
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112.
Fourth-Year Readings: Japanese History. This course provides further development of reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills to enable students to express their points of view and construct argumentative discourse. Students read a variety of texts on Japanese history as sources for discussions to deepen their understanding of Japanese society and people. Prerequisites:
Japanese 100B or equivalent; or consent of instructor. |
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Japan
132 |
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132.
Pre-Modern Japanese Diary (Nikki) Literature: "Women Diarists
in Premodern Japan." Together
with the great classics The Tale of Genji and The
Pillow Book,
court
women in Japan produced some of most exciting poetic memoirs
in the Japanese literary corpus. Whereas male courtiers were
generally required by convention to compose formulaic and unemotional
diaries in Chinese, court women were free to write in their
native language about their deepest concerns. The course will
read the poetic memoirs of Lady Kagerô, Lady Murasaki,
and Lady Nijô in their entirety in English translation
then focus on select passages in classical Japanese dealing
with adoption, childbirth, and seduction. We will also compare
those diaries to passages from the Sino-Japanese diaries kept
by men.
Prerequisites: Japanese 100A and Japanese 120; or consent of
instructor. |
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155.
Modern Japanese Literature. This course introduces students to various aspects of modern Japanese literature by reading prose selections, primarily short stories, by highly regarded authors from the Meiji to Heisei periods (1868- ). Selected passages in Japanese will be assigned for close reading, analysis and discussion. Prerequisites:
J100B (may be taken concurrently); or consent of instructor. |
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161.
Introduction to Japanese Linguistics: Usage.
This course deals
with issues of the usage of the Japanese language and how they
have been treated in the field of linguistics. It concentrates
on pragmatics, speech varieties (politeness, gender, written
vs. spoken), topic management, historical changes, and genetic
origins. Students are required to have advanced knowledge of
Japanese. No previous linguistics training is required. Prerequisites:
100B (may be taken concurrently) or equivalent, or consent of instructor. |
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Japan
188 new |
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188.
Japanese Visual Culture: "Anime." This course is an introduction to Japanese animation, or anime, from its earliest forms (in relationship to manga) to recent digital culture, art, and games. We will analyze and study mainly animated feature films and read the critical work they inspired. We will address such issues as cultural memory and apocalyptic imagination, robots and the post-human, cities, nature, and the transnational; gender, shôjo, and the aesthetics
of “cute,” as well as consider specific issues in the theoretical understanding of anime within technology and media theory. Prerequisites: None. |
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Japan
230 |
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230.
Seminar in Classical Japanese Poetry: "Seminar in Japanese Linked
Verse (Renga)."
Linked verse was one of the most popular forms of poetry in
premodern Japanese history, both in its "orthodox" (ushin)
form, practiced by such late medieval poets as Sôgi,
Shôhaku, and Sôchô, and in its "unorthodox" (haikai)
interation, adopted and then transformed by the great Edo-period
poet Bashô. Orthodox renga is also the most difficult
form of Japanese poetry to interpret, given its brevity and
allusiveness. The goal of this course is to establish an overall
appreciation of the history of linked verse and its rules,
and to gain practice in reading the hundred-verse sequence
(hyakuin) by those rules. Particular attention will be paid
to the role of convention and intertextuality in the art of
linking (tsukeai), to progression (yukiyô), and to the
relationship between formula and creativity. We will also look
at how contemporary poets "read" the hyakuin, by
using one or more "self commentaries" (jichû).
The course will conclude with an exploration of the haikai form of the genre, via a kasen (thirty-six-verse sequence)
by Bashô and his coterie. Prerequisites: Graduate
standing; or consent of instructor. |
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Japan
259 |
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255.
Seminar in Prewar Japanese Literature. Close reading of modern
Japanese literary and cultural texts within their literary historical,
cultural, historical, and theoretical contexts. Particular themes and time
periods change with each seminar. Spring 2009 description not available. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor
required.
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Korean Language and
Literature Courses |
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Korean
1B |
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1B.
Elementary Korean for Non-heritage Speakers. Building on the
basic grammar of the Korean language learned from Korean
1A, Korean 1B will introduce more vocabulary
and expressions that are useful for everyday conversation.
Students will also learn about the Korean culture.. Prerequisites:
Korean 1A; or consent of instructor. |
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Please
note: Korean 1B is not open to heritage students who have
some background
knowledge in Korean. |
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Korean
1BX |
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1BX.
Elementary Korean for Heritage Speakers. Continuation of Elementary
Korean 1AX. Building on
the basic grammar of the Korean language learned from Korean
1AX, Korean 1BX will introduce more vocabulary
and expressions that are useful for everyday
conversation as well as for improving reading and writing skills
of students. Students who wish to enroll in
K1BX without prior taking K1AX will need to
have an oral interview and take a short written proficiency
test on the first day of the class. Prerequisites: Korean 1AX;
or
consent of instructor. |
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Korean
7B |
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7B.
Introduction to Modern Korean Literature and Culture. This
course explores various aspects of modern Korean literature
and culture in the twentieth century. We will examine a range
of literary works as well as art and film, in the contexts
of colonialism and nationalism, the Korean War and national
division, and the various issues that emerged in the process
of modernization. No previous course work in Korean or Korean
studies required. All readings are in English translation. |
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Through
critical analysis of the works of fiction, poetry, and visual
media, we will consider the following set of matters:
1) how the issues of national identity, gender, and socio-economic
class are articulated in a diverse array of texts; 2) the complex
relations between colonialism and a rise of modernist thinking
about the national culture, and between cultural production and
formation of identity; 3) modern views on urban and rural space;
and 4) how the major events in modern Korean history (colonial
occupation, war, urban unrest, political violence, dislocation
and relocation) have been represented and remembered in literary
texts and in popular culture. Prerequisites:
None. |
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Korean
10B |
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10B.
Intermediate Korean. Korean 10B is a continuation of Korean
10A and will continue to use the materials and methods used
in 10A. The aim of the course is to help the students develop
the language skills necessary to pursue the study of Korean
at a more advanced level. The course will introduce vocabulary
and idioms beyond basic level, complex grammatical patterns,
and varieties of speech styles. Prerequisites: Korean
10A; or consent of instructor. |
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Korean
10BX |
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10BX.
Internediate Korean for Heritage Speakers. A second-year
course in modern Korean for students whose Korean proficiency
level is higher in speaking than in reading or writing due
to Korean-heritage background. Prerequisites: Korean 10AX;
or consent of instructor. |
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Korean
100B |
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100B.
Advanced Korean. Continuation of Advanced Korean 100A using
similar methods and format to 100A. Readings in modern Korean
selected as appropriate for the advanced Korean course, i.e.,
presupposing two and one-half years of college-level Korean.
A variety of texts from textbooks, essays, journals, and newspapers
will be introduced. About 100 Sino-Korean characters will be
systematically introduced. Prerequisites: Korean 100A; or consent
of instructor. |
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Korean
102 |
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102.
Fourth-Year Readings – Social Sciences and History.
An
advanced course in the reading and analysis of texts in modern
Korean drawn from history, sociology, economics, etc. Advanced
conversation, writing skills, and practice in the use of standard
reference tools will also be emphasized, with the goal of preparing
students to do independent research in Korean. Prerequisites:
Korean 100B; or consent of instructor. |
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Korean
112 |
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112.
Fifth-Year Korean B. This course is designed to increase the
students' proficiency to advanced-high level in all aspects
of modern Korean; it aims to prepare students for research
or employment in a variety of Korea-related fields. Text materials
are drawn from authentic sources including modern Korean literature,
film, intellectual history, and readings on contemporary issues.
Radio and TV broadcasts will also be included in the teaching
materials. Texts will be selected, in part, according to student
interests. With the instructor's guidance, students will conduct
research projects based on specialized readings in their own
fields of study. The research projects will be presented both
orally and in written form at the end of the semester. Prerequisites:
Korean 111; or consent of instructor. |
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Korean
180 |
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180.
Critical Approaches to Modern Korean Literature. This course examines the literary and other cultural representations of the war and political violence in modern Korea during the second half of the twentieth century. Readings will focus on such topics as narrative temporality, representations of gender and sexuality, and the cultural implications of the postwar development and displacement. All readings are in English. Prerequisites: one upper division literature course in any language. |
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Tibetan Language and Literature Courses |
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Tibetan
1B |
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1B.
Elementary Tibetan. This course is an intensive introduction
to both standard spoken
Tibetan (Lhasa dialect) and written literary Tibetan. As such,
it will serve the needs of students who intend to continue the
study of modern Tibetan so as to function in a Tibetan-speaking
environment, as well as the needs of students who will concentrate
on classical Tibetan and its rich literature. Prerequisites:
Tibetan 1A; or consent of instructor. |
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Tibetan
10B |
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10B.
Intermediate Tibetan. This course, a continuation of 10A,
is designed to develop the student's reading, writing, listening,
and speaking abilities in standard Tibetan (Lhasa dialect).
The course focuses on both modern vernacular Tibetan as well
as literary Tibetan, with a particular emphasis on reading
classical Buddhist materials. Prerequisites: Tibetan 10A; or
consent of instructor. |
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Tibetan
110B |
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110B.
Intermediate Tibetan. This course is an intensive course in
reading modern and classical Tibetan literature, with an emphasis
on classical Buddhist texts. It builds on basic reading skills
acquired in 1A-1B (elementary Tibetan), and is designed to
be taken either concurrently with 10A-10B (intermediate Tibetan)
or independently. Prerequisites: Tibetan 10A; or consent of
instructor. |
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Tibetan
C114 |
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C114.
Tibetan Buddhism. This course is an introduction to the history, institutions, doctrines, and ritual practices of Buddhism in Tibet. The course will progress along two parallel tracks, one chronological and the other thematic, providing on the one hand a sense of the historical development of Tibetan Buddhism, and on the other a general overview of some central themes. Along the historical track, the course proceeds from Buddhism's initial arrival into Tibet through to the present day, with each week addressing another period in this history. At the same time, each week will focus on a given theme that relates to the historical period in question. Themes include tantric myth, 'treasure' (terma) revelation, hidden valleys, the Dalai Lamas, exile, and more. Prerequisites: None. |
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