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EALC B115 Introduction to Korean Culture and Society

Fall 2026

This course offers an introductory survey of Korean culture and society, focusing on major transformations and continuities during the modern period. Students will investigate various themes essential to comprehending Korea, such as Confucianism, modernization, colonialism, nationalism, industrialization, democratization, gender relations, US-Korea relations, and contemporary popular culture. In addition to class lectures, the course utilizes audio-visual materials, films, and slides to enhance the learning experience. No prior knowledge of Korea or Korean language is required.

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)

Inquiry into the Past (IP)

Counts Toward: East Asian Languages & Culture.

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EALC B131 Chinese Civilization

Not offered 2026-27

A broad chronological survey of Chinese culture and society from the Bronze Age to the 1800s, with special reference to such topics as belief, family, language, the arts and sociopolitical organization. Readings include primary sources in English translation and secondary studies.

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)

Inquiry into the Past (IP)

Counts Toward: East Asian Languages & Culture; East Asian Languages Cultures; History.

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EALC B200 Major Seminar: Methods and Approaches

Not offered 2026-27

This course is a writing intensive course for EALC majors and minors to introduce some foundational ideas and concepts in the study of East Asia. Beginning with close readings of primary source texts, students are introduced to the philosophy and culture of China, and its subsequent transmission and adaptation across the vast geographical area that is commonly referred to as "East Asia." Students will gain familiarity with methods in this interdisciplinary field and develop skills in the practice of close critical analysis, bibliography, and the formulation of a research topic. Required of EALC majors and minors. Majors should take this course before the senior year.

Writing Intensive

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)

Inquiry into the Past (IP)

Counts Toward: Comparative Literature; East Asian Languages & Culture; History.

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EALC B210 K-Pop and The Korean Wave

Not offered 2026-27

This course provides an introduction to the globalization of K Pop and Hallyu, the recent cultural phenomenon from Korea. To fully understand this phenomenon, the course will delve into the diverse contexts that have shaped K - Pop and other Korean media products, including their historical, political, economic, social, and cultural backgrounds. Additionally, the course offers an opportunity to explore key aspects of Korean culture that are reflected in K - Pop and other Korean media products. Students will have the chance to listen to K - Pop songs, watch Korean films, excerpts from K - Drama, Korean documentaries, and more, making the course both informative and enjoyable. No prior knowledge of the Korean language is required

Critical Interpretation (CI)

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)

Counts Toward: East Asian Languages & Culture.

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EALC B263 The Chinese Revolution

Fall 2026

Places the causes and consequences of the 20th century revolutions in historical perspective, by examining its late-imperial antecedents and tracing how the revolution has (and has not) transformed China, including the lives of such key revolutionary supporters as the peasantry, women, and intellectuals.

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)

Inquiry into the Past (IP)

Counts Toward: East Asian Languages & Culture; History.

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EALC B264 Human Rights in China

Not offered 2026-27

This course will examine China's human rights issues from a historical perspective. The topics include diverse perspectives on human rights, historical background, civil rights, religious practice, justice system, education, as well as the problems concerning some social groups such as migrant laborers, women, ethnic minorities and peasants.

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)

Inquiry into the Past (IP)

Counts Toward: East Asian Languages & Culture; Gender Sexuality Studies; History; International Studies; International Studies.

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EALC B265 Chinese Empires: Yuan, Ming, and Qing

Not offered 2026-27

The Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties (1271-1912) witnessed fundamental transformations in imperial China. The Mongols made China part of its vast land empire in the Yuan; Han Chinese restored the ethnic Han dominance in the Ming; and the Manchus established China's largest conquest empire during the Qing. These imperial experiences not only enriched Chinese cultural traditions but also left profound and ever-lasting legacies for contemporary China. From a historical perspective, this course examines the Chinese empires by focusing on such topics as the formation and growth of imperial government; the changing relationship between the central bureaucracy and local society; the interaction of diverse ethnic groups; the tension between agrarian economy and commercialization; the roles of women in family and society; the dynamics of elite and popular cultures; the interplay between Chinese empires and foreign forces; and China's search for m odernity. This course will meet the College requirements for "Approaches to Inquiry" in "Cross-cultural Analysis" and "Inquiry into the Past." Class time: 70% lecture, and 30% discussion.

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)

Inquiry into the Past (IP)

Counts Toward: East Asian Languages & Culture.

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EALC B281 Food in Translation: Theory and Practice

Fall 2026

This semester we will explore the connections between what we eat and how we define ourselves in the context of global culture. We will proceed from the assumption that food is an object of culture, and that our contemplation of its transformations and translations in production, preparation, consumption, and distribution will inform our notions of personal and group identity. This course takes Chinese food as a case study, and examines the way that Chinese food moves from its host country to diasporic communities all over the world, using theories of translation as our theoretical and empirical foundation. From analyzing menu and ingredient translations to producing a short film based on interviews, we will consider the relationship between food and communication in a multilingual and multicultural world. Readings include theoretical texts on translation (Apter), recipe books and menus, Chinese and Chinese-American literature (Classic of Poetry, Mo Yan, Hong Kingston). Films include Ian Cheney's "Searching for General Tso," Wayne Wang's "Soul of a Banquet" and "Eat a Bowl of Tea," Ang Li's "Eat Drink Man Woman," and Wong Karwai's "In the Mood for Love."

Critical Interpretation (CI)

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)

Counts Toward: Comparative Literature; East Asian Languages & Culture.

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EALC B311 Foreign Exchange: China Scholars in the Archive

Fall 2026

This course introduces students to archival research through the study of early Chinese international students and their admissions files at this college. Students learn how to read institutional records critically, paying attention to the fragments of their voices-and the voluminous silences-that shape what survives in the archive. Placing these materials alongside history, literature, film, and objects from special collections, the course examines how higher education was shaped by empire, missionary networks, gender, immigration law, and global politics in the early twentieth century. Students develop skills in close reading, interdisciplinary analysis, and connecting individual lives to global history and politics. The course emphasizes careful use of evidence and ethical reflection on what can-and cannot-be known about the past.

Writing Intensive

Power, Inequity, and Justice (PIJ)

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EALC B315 Spirits, Saints, Snakes, Swords: Women in East Asian Literature & Film

Not offered 2026-27

This interdisciplinary course focuses on a critical survey of literary and visual texts by and about Chinese women. We will begin by focusing on the cultural norms that defined women's lives beginning in early China, and consider how those tropes are reflected and rejected over time and geographical borders (in Japan, Hong Kong and the United States). No prior knowledge of Chinese culture or language necessary.

Counts Toward: Comparative Literature; East Asian Languages & Culture; Film Studies; Gender Sexuality Studies.

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EALC B325 Topics in Chinese History and Culture

Section 001 (Fall 2025): Law and Society/Imperial China
Section 001 (Spring 2026): Chinese Environmental Culture
Section 001 (Fall 2026): Rituals in Imperial China

Fall 2026

This is a topics course. Course content varies.

Counts Toward: East Asian Languages & Culture; History; International Studies; International Studies.

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EALC B345 Topics in East Asian Culture

Section 001 (Fall 2026): Food and Culture of the Chinese Diaspora

Fall 2026

This is a topics course. Course contents vary.

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EALC B353 The Environment on China's Frontiers

Not offered 2026-27

This seminar explores environmental issues on China's frontiers from a historical perspective. It focuses on the particular relationship between the environment and the frontier, examining how these two variables have interacted. The course will deal with the issues such as the relationship between the environment and human ethnic and cultural traditions, social movements, economic growth, political and legal institutions and practices, and changing perceptions. The frontier regions under discussion include Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, and the southwestern ethnic areas, which are all important in defining what China is and who the Chinese are.

Counts Toward: East Asian Languages & Culture; Environmental Studies; International Studies.

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EALC B355 Animals, Vegetables, Minerals in East Asian Literature & Film

Not offered 2026-27

This semester, we will explore how artists question, explore, celebrate, and critique the relationships between humans and the environment. Through a topics-focused course, students will examine the ways that narratives about environment have shaped the way that humans have defined themselves. We will be reading novels and short stories and viewing films that contest conventional binaries of man and animal, civilization and nature, tradition and technology, and even truth and fiction. "Animals, Vegetables, Minerals" does not follow chronological or geographical frameworks, but chooses texts that engage the three categories enumerated as the major themes of our course. We will read and discuss animal theory, theories of place and landscape, and theories of modernization or mechanization; and there will be frequent (and intentional) overlap between these categories. We will also be watching films that extend our theoretical questions of thes e themes beyond national, linguistic, and generic borders. You are expected to view this course as a collaborative process in which you share responsibility for leading discussion. There are no prerequisites or language expectations, but students should have some basic knowledge of East Asian, especially Sinophone, history and culture, or be willing to do some additional reading (suggested by the instructor) to achieve an adequate contextual background for exploring these texts.

Writing Attentive

Counts Toward: Comparative Literature; East Asian Languages & Culture; Environmental Studies; Visual Studies.

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EALC B398 Senior Seminar

A research workshop culminating in the writing and presentation of a senior thesis. Required of all majors; open to concentrators and others by permission.

Counts Toward: East Asian Languages & Culture.

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CNSE B001 Intensive First-Year Chinese

Fall 2026

An intensive introductory course in modern spoken and written Chinese. The development of oral-aural skills is integrated through grammar explanations and drill sessions designed to reinforce new material through active practice. Six hours a week of lecture and oral practice plus one-on-one sessions with the instructor. This is a year-long course; both semesters are required for credit. Requires attendance at class and drills.

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Counts Toward: East Asian Languages & Culture.

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CNSE B002 Intensive First-Year Chinese

Not offered 2026-27

An intensive introductory course in modern spoken and written Chinese. The development of oral-aural skills is integrated through grammar explanations and drill sessions designed to reinforce new material through active practice. Six hours a week of lecture and oral practice plus one-on-one sessions with the instructor. This is a year-long course; both semesters are required for credit. Attendance required at class and drills

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Counts Toward: East Asian Languages & Culture.

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CNSE B003 Second-Year Chinese

Fall 2026

Second-Year Chinese aims for further development of language skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Five hours of class plus individual conference. This is a year-long course; both semesters (CNSE 003 and 004) are required for credit. Prerequisite: First-year Chinese or a passing score on the Placement Exam. Requires attendance at class and drills

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Counts Toward: East Asian Languages & Culture.

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CNSE B004 Second-Year Chinese

Not offered 2026-27

Second-year Chinese aims for further development of language skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Five hours of class plus individual conference. This is a year-long course; both semesters (CNSE 003 and 004) are required for credit. Prerequisite(s): First-year Chinese or a passing score on the Placement Exam. Attendance required at class and drills. Prerequisite(s): CNSE 003

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Counts Toward: East Asian Languages & Culture; East Asian Languages Cultures.

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CNSE B007 First-Year Chinese Non-Intensive

Fall 2026

This course is designed for students who have some facility in listening, speaking, reading and writing Chinese but have not yet achieved sufficient proficiency to take Second Year Chinese. It is a year-long course that covers the same lessons as the intensive First Year Chinese, but the class meets only three hours a week. Students must place into Chinese B007 through the Chinese Language Placement exam.

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Counts Toward: East Asian Languages & Culture.

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CNSE B008 First Year Chinese (Non-intensive)

Not offered 2026-27

This course is designed for students who have some facility in listening, speaking, reading and writing Chinese but have not yet achieved sufficient proficiency to take Second Year Chinese. It is a year-long course that covers the same lessons as the intensive First Year Chinese, but the class meets only three hours a week. Prerequisite: CNSE B007

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Counts Toward: East Asian Languages & Culture; East Asian Languages Cultures.

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CNSE B101 Third-Year Chinese

Fall 2026

A focus on overall language skills through reading and discussion of modern short essays, as well as on students' facility in written and oral expression Audio- and videotapes of drama and films are used as study aids. Prerequisite(s): Second-year Chinese or consent of instructor

Critical Interpretation (CI)

Counts Toward: East Asian Languages & Culture.

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CNSE B102 Third-Year Chinese

Not offered 2026-27

A focus on overall language skills through reading and discussion of modern short essays, as well as on students' facility in written and oral expression. Audio- and videotapes of drama and films are used as study aids. Prerequisite(s): CNSE 101

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Counts Toward: East Asian Languages & Culture; East Asian Languages Cultures.

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COML B213 Theory in Practice: Critical Discourses in the Humanities

Not offered 2026-27

What is a postcolonial subject, a queer gaze, a feminist manifesto? And how can we use (as readers of texts, art, and films) contemporary studies on animals and cyborgs, object-oriented ontology, zombies, storyworlds, neuroaesthetics? By bringing together the study of major theoretical currents of the 20th century and the practice of analyzing literary works in the light of theory, this course aims at providing students with skills to use literary theory in their own scholarship. The selection of theoretical readings reflects the history of theory (psychoanalysis, structuralism, narratology), as well as the currents most relevant to the contemporary academic field: Post-structuralism, Post-colonialism, Gender Studies, and Ecocriticism. They are paired with a diverse range of short stories across multiple language traditions (Poe, Kafka, Camus, Borges, Calvino, Morrison, Djebar, Murakami, Ngozi Adichie) that we discuss along with our study of theoretical texts. We will discuss how to apply theory to the practice of interpretation and of academic writing, and how theoretical ideas shape what we are reading. The class will be conducted in English, with an additional hour taught by the instructor of record in the target language for students wishing to take the course for language credit.

Critical Interpretation (CI)

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)

Counts Toward: Africana Studies; Africana Studies; East Asian Languages & Culture; English; French and Francophone Studies; Gender & Sexuality Studies; Gender Sexuality Studies; Gender Sexuality Studies; German and German Studies; History of Art; Italian and Italian Studies; Philosophy; Russian; Spanish.

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HART B120 History of Chinese Art

Fall 2026

This course is a survey of the arts of China from Neolithic to the contemporary period, focusing on bronze vessels of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the Chinese appropriation of Buddhist art, and the evolution of landscape and figure painting traditions.This course was formerly numbered HART B274; students who previously completed HART B274 may not repeat this course.

Critical Interpretation (CI)

Inquiry into the Past (IP)

Counts Toward: East Asian Languages & Culture; Museum Studies.

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HART B320 Topics in Chinese Art

Section 001 (Fall 2025): Chinese Painting
Section 001 (Spring 2026): Logic/Space/Ancient China
Section 001 (Fall 2026): Theories and Methods in Chinese Calligraphy

Fall 2026

This is a topics course. Course content varies. Prerequisite: one course in History of Art at the 100- or 200-level or permission of the instructor. Enrollment preference given to majors and minors in History of Art.

Current topic description: Traditional Chinese calligraphy is one of the few subfields of art history in which relatively little theorization has been conducted in modern scholarship. This is partly due to the absence of a real Western counterpart. Calligraphy never rose to the status of an equal of painting in the West, but in traditional China, it was the most privileged art category and regarded as the foundation of painting. This course explores the unique theoretical and historical underpinnings of ancient Chinese calligraphy in light of contemporary critical theories and ancient Chinese calligraphy theories and practices. Aspects to be examined include ontology, embodiment, topology, technique, agency, ethics, politics, religion, etc.

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Counts Toward: East Asian Languages & Culture; East Asian Languages Cultures.

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KORN B101 Elementary Korean

Fall 2026

An intensive introductory course in modern spoken and written Korean. Six hours a week of lecture and oral practice plus one-on-one sessions with the instructor. This is a year-long course; both semesters are required for credit. Requires attendance at class and drills. This course is associated with the 2023-2024 Flexner lecture.

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Counts Toward: East Asian Languages & Culture; East Asian Languages Cultures.

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KORN B102 Elementary Korean

Not offered 2026-27

An intensive introductory course in modern spoken and written Korean. Six hours a week of lecture and oral practice plus one-on-one sessions with the instructor. This is a year-long course; both semesters are required for credit. Requires attendance at class and drills.

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Counts Toward: East Asian Languages & Culture; East Asian Languages Cultures.

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KORN B103 Intermediate Korean

Fall 2026

An intermediate course in modern spoken and written Korean. Five hours a week of lecture and oral practice. This is a year-long course; both semesters are required for credit.

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Counts Toward: East Asian Languages & Culture; East Asian Languages Cultures.

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KORN B104 Intermediate Korean II

Not offered 2026-27

An intermediate course in modern spoken and written Korean. Five hours a week of lecture and oral practice. This is a year-long course; both semesters are required for credit

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Counts Toward: East Asian Languages & Culture; East Asian Languages Cultures.

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KORN B403 Supervised Work

Counts Toward: East Asian Languages & Culture.

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SOCL B336 Modernizing China

Not offered 2026-27

Today, China is the world's second-largest economy and a major contender for the global superpower status to the United States. Yet, China was once one of the world's poorest countries in the mid-twentieth century. How did China modernize itself from the "Sick Man of Asian" to an emergent global economic, cultural, and political superpower? How are these changes impacting Chinese society and the world? At what/whose cost? This course takes a sociology of development lens to understand contemporary China's modernization projects. We will critically examine various modernization projects, including the "Great Leap Forward," the post-socialist market reform, and "One Belt One Road." Together, we will also consider how these measures create sweeping social changes in every fabric of Chinese social life-from the shifting relationship between the state and society, the one-child policy, to profound changes in family, kinship structure, and the most intimate aspects of life. Through examining and reflecting on various modernization projects in China, students will be able to critically analyze how social policies generate both intended and unintended consequences to social life. Prerequisite: One course in the Social Sciences or permission of instructor.

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Counts Toward: East Asian Languages & Culture; International Studies.

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