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Core curriculum
East Asian and South Asian Studies are by nature inherently interdisciplinary, and the cluster curriculum is based on the expectation that students from a range of disciplines––history, religion, political science, and art history will benefit from an interdisciplinary exchange early in their intellectual formation. In the first year, students will enroll in three seminars, one from each of the three groups, A,B and C. A second-year research seminar offers the opportunity to develop a dissertation topic addressing interdisciplinary concerns and literature.
Group A
Religious Foundations of Asian Cultures
Asia and Intellectual History
Arts of India, China, and Japan
Group B
Literature of Modern East Asian Studies
Readings in South Asian Cultures
Governance and Development in Asia
Asian Modernities
Colonialism and Imperialism in the Modern World
Group C
Research Methods (core skills for conducting research in Asian Studies)
Second Year Research Seminar
First-year students in the religion, art history and history programs take seminars both within their departments and Asian Studies courses to establish core skills. Beyond the first year, Asian Studies cluster students are also expected to enroll in a second-year research seminar designed to provide an environment for engaging each other intellectually across disciplinary lines and to work independently with their advisers to produce a major research paper, to be coordinated with their home department's requirements. E.g. this seminar would provide history students a framework for their 580 independent research projects rather than an additional two credits. The cluster group will meet three times each in the winter and spring quarters to discuss research strategies and provide feedback on written work. This course provides structure for Asian Studies students to formulate a dissertation research agenda and share it with other like-minded scholars from various disciplines to encourage greater breadth, clarity and theoretical sophistication. Faculty coordinators will rotate regularly.
Asia Related Graduate Courses Offered in the 2007-2008 school year (Constantly Updated!):
Group A (Religious Foundation, Intellectual History, Art)
Fall: Art History 485- Studies in Indian Art: The Anthropology of Art (Pinney)
Fall: History 4**- Chinese social history (Carroll)
Winter: Religion- Contemporary Chinese Religion (Yu) [Note, designated as an undergraduate course, but graduate participation may be allowed. Watch for updates!!]
Spring: Art History 475 Studies of Japanese Art: Creation of National Design (Teasley)
Group B (Literature, Culture, Governance, Development, Colonialism)
Fall: History 483- The Literature of Modern Japanese History: The Modern State, 1860-1941 (Hein)
Winter: History 492 -Readings in Late Imperial Chinese History and Culture (MacAuley)
Winter: History 483, 2- The Literature of Modern Japanese History: The Modern State, 1942-2000 (Hein)
Winter: Political Science 451- Comparative Political Economy of Developing Countries (Shih)
Spring: Political Science 490- The Politics of Oligarchy (Winters)
Group C (Research Methods)
Winter: History 492 -Readings in Late Imperial Chinese History and Culture (MacAuley)
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Fall: History 483- The Literature of Modern Japanese History: The Modern State, 1860-1941 (Hein)
Or
A course approved by the head of the Asian Studies Cluster
Last updated: Sep 27 2007 7:11PM
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