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Minor concentrations in East Asian Studies (18 credits):

Minor Concentration East Asian Cultural Studies: [program medium BA X EAC8 MINOR]

Supplementary Minor Concentration East Asian Language: [program medium BA X SEA8 MINOR]

Minor Concentration East Asian Language and Literature: [program medium BA X EAL8 MINOR]

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Major concentration

East Asian Studies Major Concentration (B.A.) (36 credits)

Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Degree: Bachelor of Arts; Bachelor of Arts and Science
Program credit weight: 36

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Complementary Courses (36 credits)

Introduction to East Asian Culture

3-6 credits from the following courses:

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Course	Title	Credits
EAST 211	Introduction: East Asian Culture: China.	3
Introduction: East Asian Culture: China. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Chinese culture. The course will also examine the changing representations of the Chinese cultural tradition in the West. Readings will include original sources in translation from the fields of literature, philosophy, religion, and cultural history.
EAST 212	Introduction: East Asian Culture: Japan.	3
Introduction: East Asian Culture: Japan. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to Japan which presents various aspects of Japanese literature, culture, history, religions, philosophy and society.
EAST 213	Introduction: East Asian Culture: Korea.	3
Introduction: East Asian Culture: Korea. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Korean culture, including Korean literature, religions, philosophy, and socio-economic formations.

0-3 credits from the following:

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Course	Title	Credits
EAST 215	Introduction to East Asian Art.	3
Introduction to East Asian Art. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introductory survey of some of the major developments in the visual arts of Japan, China, and Korea. Emphasis will be placed on the diversity of artistic traditions in East Asia and the intersections among these traditions.
EAST 250	Introduction to Asian Media Studies.	3
Introduction to Asian Media Studies. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course explores core methods and theoretical approaches to media in Asia and beyond: material culture, technicity, media infrastructures, intermediality, circulation, platforms, regionalism, and institutional history.

East Asian Language

6-9 credits of East Asian language courses selected from the list below.

Note: Admission to language courses is subject to placement tests.

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Course	Title	Credits
EAST 220D1	First Level Korean.	4.5
First Level Korean. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to the basic structures of the standard Korean language. The aim of this course is to give students a basic knowledge of the Korean language. Special emphasis is put on handling everyday conversation, reading and writing short texts, and mastering basic grammar rules.
EAST 220D2	First Level Korean.	4.5
First Level Korean. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 220D1 for course description.
EAST 230D1	First Level Chinese.	4.5
First Level Chinese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to the basic structures of Mandarin Chinese, Pin-yin romanization and 750 characters for reading and writing. Emphasis on developing aural and oral skills through communication games and interaction activities. Animated films are used as part of teaching materials.
EAST 230D2	First Level Chinese.	4.5
First Level Chinese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 230D1 for course description.
EAST 240D1	First Level Japanese.	4.5
First Level Japanese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to the basic grammar and sentence patterns of the Japanese language in both oral and written forms. In reading and writing skills students will be introduced to katakana, hiragana and kanji.
EAST 240D2	First Level Japanese.	4.5
First Level Japanese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 240D1 for course description.
EAST 241	Japanese Writing Beginners 1.	3
Japanese Writing Beginners 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Grammar, vocabulary, kanji, and introduction ofsome new expressions.
EAST 242	Japanese Writing Beginners 2.	3
Japanese Writing Beginners 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Grammar, vocabulary, kanji, and introduction ofsome new expressions.
EAST 320D1	Second Level Korean.	4.5
Second Level Korean. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The aim of this course is to give students a fluent speaking ability in daily conversation, advanced grammar knowledge, improved reading and writing skills. Special emphasis is put on the efficient use of grammar, enrichment of vocabulary, and mastering useful expressions encountered in everyday life.
EAST 320D2	Second Level Korean.	4.5
Second Level Korean. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 320D1 for course description.
EAST 330D1	Second Level Chinese.	4.5
Second Level Chinese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The same communicative approach as in EAST 230 is used to develop aural and oral skills on daily topics. In addition to textbooks, Chinese films on videotapes will be incorporated as teaching materials.
EAST 330D2	Second Level Chinese.	4.5
Second Level Chinese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 330D1 for course description.
EAST 340D1	Second Level Japanese.	4.5
Second Level Japanese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Continuation of the study of oral and written Japanese.
EAST 340D2	Second Level Japanese.	4.5
Second Level Japanese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 340D1 for course description.
EAST 341	Japanese Writing Intermediate 1.	3
Japanese Writing Intermediate 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Intermediate grammar, vocabulary and kanji,focusing on writing skills and reading comprehension.
EAST 342	Japanese Writing Intermediate 2.	3
Japanese Writing Intermediate 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Intermediate grammar, vocabulary and kanji, focusing on writing skills and reading comprehension.
EAST 420	Third Level Korean 1.	3
Third Level Korean 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. grammar, enhancing written and oral comprehension and improving writing and speaking skills.
EAST 421	Third Level Korean 2.	3
Third Level Korean 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced grammar, enhancing written and oral comprehension and improving writing and speaking skills.
EAST 430D1	Third Level Chinese.	3
Third Level Chinese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A communicative approach will be used to provide students with skills to communicate in various situations, express their ideas and feelings, and discuss various aspects of culture and life in China and in Canada. Teaching materials include Chinese movies on videotape and slides depicting Chinese life and culture.
EAST 430D2	Third Level Chinese.	3
Third Level Chinese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 430D1 for course description.
EAST 440D1	Third Level Japanese.	3
Third Level Japanese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. More advanced study of the Japanese language. Emphasis will be placed on reading.
EAST 440D2	Third Level Japanese.	3
Third Level Japanese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 440D1 for course description.
EAST 530D1	Fourth Level Chinese.	3
Fourth Level Chinese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Development of skills required to conduct academic discussions in oral as well as in written forms. Teaching materials include original texts from Chinese newspapers, Chinese literature and videos.
EAST 530D2	Fourth Level Chinese.	3
Fourth Level Chinese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 530D1 for course description.
EAST 533	Classical Chinese 1.	3
Classical Chinese 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the grammar and syntax of classical Chinese. Readings are selected from well-known Confucian and Taoist classics, and philosophical and historical writings from premodern China.
EAST 534	Classical Chinese 2.	3
Classical Chinese 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Continuation of EAST 533 at a more advanced level.
EAST 535	Chinese for Business 1.	3
Chinese for Business 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course aims to provide advanced students of Chinese with training in the terminology and syntax necessary for business communications. Topics will include many different aspects of business negotiations, such as price negotiation, methods of payment, etc.
EAST 536	Chinese for Business 2.	3
Chinese for Business 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course is a continuation of EAST 535. It is designed to further develop students' linguistic competence for business communication, and to provide students with some knowledge on China's trade policies as well as on different methods of trading with China.
EAST 540D1	Fourth Level Japanese.	3
Fourth Level Japanese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced study of Japanese, with emphasis on reading Japanese newspapers. Classes will be conducted entirely in Japanese.
EAST 540D2	Fourth Level Japanese.	3
Fourth Level Japanese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 540D1 for course description.
EAST 544	Classical Japanese 2.	3
Classical Japanese 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The grammar and syntax of classical Japanese. Readings in well-known writings of pre-modern Japan.

East Asian Literature, Culture and Society

21-24 credits of courses in East Asian Literature, Culture and Society selected from the list below. At least 6 credits must be taken at the 400 or 500 level.

East Asian Studies (EAST)

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Course	Title	Credits
EAST 215	Introduction to East Asian Art.	3
Introduction to East Asian Art. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introductory survey of some of the major developments in the visual arts of Japan, China, and Korea. Emphasis will be placed on the diversity of artistic traditions in East Asia and the intersections among these traditions.
EAST 250	Introduction to Asian Media Studies.	3
Introduction to Asian Media Studies. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course explores core methods and theoretical approaches to media in Asia and beyond: material culture, technicity, media infrastructures, intermediality, circulation, platforms, regionalism, and institutional history.
EAST 279	Introduction to Film History.	3
Introduction to Film History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to representative periods, movements and styles in the history of cinema, as well as questions of film historiography.
EAST 303	Current Topics: Chinese Studies 1.	3
Current Topics: Chinese Studies 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of important issues in Chinese Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
EAST 304	Current Topics: Chinese Studies 2.	3
Current Topics: Chinese Studies 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of important issues in Chinese Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
EAST 305	Current Topics: Japanese Studies 1.	3
Current Topics: Japanese Studies 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of important issues in Japanese studies. The content of the course will vary from year to year.
EAST 306	Current Topics: Japanese Studies 2.	3
Current Topics: Japanese Studies 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of important issues in Japanese studies. The content of the course will vary from year to year.
EAST 307	Topics: East Asian Language and Literature 1.	3
Topics: East Asian Language and Literature 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of selected topics and aspects of East Asian literature and/or language.
EAST 308	Topics: East Asian Language and Literature 2.	3
Topics: East Asian Language and Literature 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of selected topics and aspects of East Asian literature and/or language.
EAST 310	Borderlands of Modern China	3
Borderlands of Modern China Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Investigation of the relationship of China to its frontiers from the Qing Dynasty to the present, examining the history and cultural and literary production of regions like Manchuria, Mongolia, Tibet, Xinjiang, southwestern China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong as well as Chinese depictions of and approaches to these regions. Explores how China came to take its present geographical form while exploring questions of ethnicity, religion, language, and colonialism.
EAST 311	Rebellion and Revolution in Modern China	3
Rebellion and Revolution in Modern China Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Exploration of the role of rebellion and revolution in shaping 19th and 20th century China. Covers major movements like the Taiping, the Boxers, the Kuomintang, and the Chinese Communist Party, with attention to their political, social, and cultural impact.
EAST 313	Current Topics: Korean Studies 1.	3
Current Topics: Korean Studies 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of important issues in Korean Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
EAST 314	Current Topics: Korean Studies 2.	3
Current Topics: Korean Studies 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of important issues in Korean Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
EAST 328	Archaeology East Asian Empires.	3
Archaeology East Asian Empires. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An examination of utilitarian and elite objects, art, architecture, cities and tombs from the early to medieval period dynastic states (ca. 221 BCE1-279 CE) to gain understandings of developments and changes in economic organization, art, religion, political orgranization, internal interactions, and external connections, along with both elite and commoner life based on recent archaeological discoveries and research. Issues in archaeological practices and theories, and the use of received texts to understand the past will also be examined.
EAST 350	Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Literature.	3
Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Gender and sexuality in modern and/or premodern Chinese literature with emphasis on representation of gender relations, notions of masculinity and femininity, morality and sexuality. Readings from fiction, drama, poetry, and/or other genres are approached from a variety of critical perspectives.
EAST 351	Women Writers of China.	3
Women Writers of China. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of fiction, drama, and poetry by women writers in imperial, modern, and/or contemporary China.
EAST 352	Critical Approaches to Chinese Literature.	3
Critical Approaches to Chinese Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course will examine traditional and/or modern genres of Chinese literature with a focus on different forms of Chinese and Western literary analysis.
EAST 353	Approaches to Chinese Cinema.	3
Approaches to Chinese Cinema. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Development of Chinese film in the 20th century, with an emphasis on both critical approaches to film as well as film history.
EAST 356	Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art.	3
Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examination of modern Chinese art and visual culture from the 1920's to the present. Emphasis will be placed on the formation of the artistic avant-garde in the 20th century and its relation to socialist and post-socialist mass culture.
EAST 361	Animation and New Media.	3
Animation and New Media. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Animation and new media in East Asia, with an emphasis on postwar developments.
EAST 362	Japanese Cinema.	3
Japanese Cinema. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course will study the development of film in Japan during the 20th century with a particular focus on the analysis of film form, genres and history.
EAST 363	Early and Medieval Japan.	3
Early and Medieval Japan. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course examines cultural production in early and medieval Japan, focusing on calligraphy, painting, picture scrolls, gestures and their relation to textual production. Readings explore various classic texts, taboos against seeing and narrative modes of cognition.
EAST 364	Mass Culture and Postwar Japan.	3
Mass Culture and Postwar Japan. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course addresses a number of analytic approaches to mass culture in order to examine the culture industry of post-war Japan. Emphasis on narrative strategies in popular or consumer fiction and on the problems of marginalized writers.
EAST 369	Gender and Sexuality in Asian Media.	3
Gender and Sexuality in Asian Media. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. In this course, we examine contesting notions of gender, sexuality, femininity, and masculinity in Asian cinema and media. We study how individual works negotiate the social discourses on gender and sexual representation, identities, and performance, and how we may borrow conceptual frameworks from queer theories and histories at large to discuss them.
EAST 370	History of Sexuality in Japan.	3
History of Sexuality in Japan. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Social and cultural history of sexuality in Japan. Possible topics include pre-modern sexuality and relations to court, religion and anthropology; pre-modern sex and gender relations; modern sexuality and gender identities; sexuality and the rise of science; relation to nationalism; feminism and queer movements.
EAST 372	Topics in Television: Asia.	3
Topics in Television: Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course approaches television and televisuality historically, in regional, transnational, and global perspectives.
EAST 375	Korean Media and Popular Culture.	3
Korean Media and Popular Culture. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course approaches popular culture and mass media in postwar Korea from historical and theoretical perspectives, with a focus on the connections between activism, mass media, and commodity culture.
EAST 377	Topics: Transnational Asian Culture.	3
Topics: Transnational Asian Culture. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Investigation of cinema's border-crossing modes of cultural production, reception, and circulation, to uncover the ways that the study of culture enriches current theories and approaches to the transnational.
EAST 385	Global Korea.	3
Global Korea. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course considers Korean culture and society in the modern period by examining changing attitudes about the relationship between the national and the global, across social institutions, political discourse, and popular media.
EAST 388	Asian Migrations and Diasporas.	3
Asian Migrations and Diasporas. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to the interdisciplinary study of Asian migrations and diasporas. Topics include colonialism and diaspora, transnationalism, globalization, citizenship, migration and the state, gender and migration, human trafficking, and forced migration.
EAST 389	Global Cinema and Media Asia.	3
Global Cinema and Media Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Ascendancy of East Asian cinema and media as global culture; the aesthetic, technological, economic and political conditions of cinema as a transnational commodity; and the history of globalization and East Asia media platforms.
EAST 390	The Chinese Family in History.	3
The Chinese Family in History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Exploration of the Chinese family in history both as an institution - in its religious, legal, economic, political aspects - and as a lived reality.
EAST 402	Age of Samurai	3
Age of Samurai Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examination of the history, society, and culture of early modern Japan in the period of rule by the warrior class: the samurai. Examination of the formation and collapse of the samurai-dominated political order of the Tokugawa shogunate, as well as themes like social status, gender and sexuality, religion, and connections to the outside world during the period of Tokugawa rule.
EAST 453	Topics: Chinese Literature.	3
Topics: Chinese Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced seminar in selected genres, themes and issues in Chinese literature.
EAST 445	Late Imperial China	3
Late Imperial China Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examination of Chinese society in the Ming and Qing eras (1368-1912) through the exploration of themes like gender and sexuality, family, law, ethnicity and borderlands, education, literary production, and political organization.
EAST 454	Topics: Chinese Cinema.	3
Topics: Chinese Cinema. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in Chinese film.
EAST 461	Inventing Modern Japanese Novel.	3
Inventing Modern Japanese Novel. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An examination of the modern Japanese novel as a form which both affirms and resists the form of the European novel. Readings explore the particular problems of the Japanese novel in the context of modernization, westernization, and colonialism.
EAST 462	Japan in Asia.	3
Japan in Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course introduces theories of cultural interaction, interpellation, and intertexuality in order to reconsider Japanese modes of reception and selection of Chinese texts and technologies. Readings range from early Japanese to 20th century texts. Readings in translation.
EAST 464	Image, Text, Performance.	3
Image, Text, Performance. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Drawing on theoretical approaches from a variety of cultural and media studies, including cinema, performance and performativity, and elsewhere, this course addresses cultural production in premodern and/or modern East Asia. Topics to be addressed range from calligraphy and writing, to theatre, and film.
EAST 467	Topics: Japanese Cinema.	3
Topics: Japanese Cinema. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Topics in the study of Japanese cinema.
EAST 468	Science and Technology: Asia.	3
Science and Technology: Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. History of science and technology in Asia with an emphasis on social and cultural impact and the legacy non-Western traditions.
EAST 477	Media and Environment in Asia.	3
Media and Environment in Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course explores the intersection between media and "environment" in Asia and beyond; topics range from media ecology, cybernetics, environmental art and activism, urban planning, and the history of communications networks in Asia in the modern period.
EAST 478	Topics: Korean Film and Media.	3
Topics: Korean Film and Media. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced seminar in the study of Korean film and media. Taught in English.
EAST 491	Tutorial: East Asian Languages and Literatures 1.	3
Tutorial: East Asian Languages and Literatures 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced reading course in language or literature.
EAST 492	Tutorial: East Asian Languages and Literatures 2.	3
Tutorial: East Asian Languages and Literatures 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced reading course in language or literature.
EAST 493	Special Topics: East Asian Studies 1.	3
Special Topics: East Asian Studies 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced reading course under supervision of instructor on certain aspects of East Asian Studies. Topics will vary from year to year.
EAST 494	Special Topics: East Asian Studies 2.	3
Special Topics: East Asian Studies 2. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Advanced reading course under supervision of instructor on certain aspects of East Asian Studies. Topics will vary from year to year.
EAST 501	Advanced Topics in Japanese Studies 1.	3
Advanced Topics in Japanese Studies 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Japanese culture and society.
EAST 502	Advanced Topics in Japanese Studies 2.	3
Advanced Topics in Japanese Studies 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Japanese culture and society.
EAST 503	Advanced Topics in Chinese Studies 1.	3
Advanced Topics in Chinese Studies 1. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese culture and society.
EAST 504	Advanced Topics in Chinese Studies 2.	3
Advanced Topics in Chinese Studies 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese culture and society.
EAST 505	Advanced Topics in Korean Studies.	3
Advanced Topics in Korean Studies. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Korean culture and society. Taught in English.
EAST 515	Seminar: Beyond Orientalism.	3
Seminar: Beyond Orientalism. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examines the cultural stakes and ethical implications of applying Western European models of understanding to East Asian societies. Provides background on interdisciplinary debates around "otherness", "cultural appropriation", and "postcolonialism", focusing on their history within East Asian Studies and their impact on that field's methodological assumptions, self-definition, and institutional practices.
EAST 525	Critical Area Studies in Asia.	3
Critical Area Studies in Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course introduces students to foundational concepts, key debates, recent research areas, theoretical methods, and critical approached in area studies.
EAST 527	Culture and Capital in Asia.	3
Culture and Capital in Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This seminar introduces the major anthropological, psychological, and political economic theories of the relation between culture and capital that have affected social and political formations in East Asia. Language of Instruction: English.
EAST 550	Classical Chinese Poetry Themes and Genres.	3
Classical Chinese Poetry Themes and Genres. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of major themes and genres of classical Chinese poetry from its beginnings to the Yuan dynasty (14th century), with emphasis on critical analysis of text and context. Readings of poems in the original.
EAST 551	Technologies of Self in Early China.	3
Technologies of Self in Early China. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Readings on self-cultivation drawn from Confucian, Legalist, and Taoist philosophic texts of early China (5th-2nd centuries B.C.) in translation will be compared with historical and archaeological materials on the evolving construction of the "individual'' in Chinese social structure, military organization, political and ritual codes.
EAST 559	Advanced Topics: Chinese Literature.	3
Advanced Topics: Chinese Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese literature. The content of the course may vary from year to year, ranging from contemporary to modern to pre-modern literature.
EAST 562	Japanese Literary Theory and Practice.	3
Japanese Literary Theory and Practice. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course examines Japanese theories of literary production and practice with an emphasis on 20th century thought.
EAST 564	Structures of Modernity: Asia.	3
Structures of Modernity: Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course explores relations between some of the principal sites which structure the experience of "modernity" in Asia (and elsewhere) - from bodies and cities, to the urban context in general. Along with general approaches (e.g. the idea of everyday life途 questions of time), specific topics may include speed, music, architecture, crime, etc.
EAST 569	Advanced Topics: Japanese Literature.	3
Advanced Topics: Japanese Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Japanese literature. The content of the course may vary from year to year from contemporary to modern to pre-modern literature.
LLCU 279	Introduction to Film History.	3
Introduction to Film History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to representative periods, movements and styles in the history of cinema, as well as questions of film historiography.

Anthropology (ANTH)

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ANTH 331	Prehistory of East Asia.	3
Prehistory of East Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Comparative study of prehistoric hunting and gathering cultures in China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia and Eastern Siberia; origins and dispersal of food production; cultural processes leading to the rise of literate civilizations in certain regions of East Asia.
ANTH 500	Chinese Diversity and Diaspora.	3
Chinese Diversity and Diaspora. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Explores ethnic diversity within mainland China, as well as the diversity of Chinese cultures of diaspora, living outside the mainland, often as minorities subject to other dominant cultures.

Economics (ECON)

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ECON 335	The Japanese Economy.	3
The Japanese Economy. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The first part of the course covers the economic institutions in, changing structure of, and public policies employed by the Japanese economy. The second part probes the economic "logic" of the Japanese capitalist system, explores its relationship to the ideas of Joseph Schumpeter, and makes comparisons with the American economy.
ECON 411	Economic Development: A World Area.	3
Economic Development: A World Area. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An advanced course in the economic development of a pre-designated underdeveloped country or a group of countries.

Geography (GEOG)

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GEOG 408	Geography of Development.	3
Geography of Development. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examines the geographical dimensions of development policy, specifically the relationships between the process of development and human-induced environmental change. Focuses on environmental sustainability, struggles over resource control, population and poverty, and levels of governance (the role of the state, non-governmental organizations, and local communities).

History (HIST)

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HIST 208	Introduction to East Asian History.	3
Introduction to East Asian History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the history of East Asian civilization from earliest times to 1600, with emphasis on China and Japan, including social, intellectual, and economic developments as well as political history.
HIST 218	Modern East Asian History.	3
Modern East Asian History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the history of China and Japan from the seventeenth century to the present, including modernization, nationalism, and the interaction of the two countries.
HIST 308	Formation of Chinese Tradition.	3
Formation of Chinese Tradition. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An examination of the multiple sources of the Chinese imperial system from the period of the neolithic culture interaction sphere to the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 C.E. Special attention is paid to socio-economic developments as well as to the evolution of philosophy, ideology, and social practice. The sequel to this course is HIST 358.
HIST 338	Twentieth-Century China.	3
Twentieth-Century China. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examines 20th Century China from the fall of the Qing, through Republican China, the emergence of communism, war with Japan, revolution and civil war, the Cultural Revolution, and later economic reforms.
HIST 358	China's Middle Empires.	3
China's Middle Empires. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Developments of China's middle empires, ca. 600-1300 CE. Studies changing international relations, rapid commercialization, religious developments, the rise of the civil service examination system, and ensuing social change.
HIST 439	History of Women in China.	3
History of Women in China. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course examines the changing roles of women in traditional and modern China. Topics include political, social, and legal status, sexuality and medicine, religion and culture.
HIST 441	Topics: Culture and Ritual in China.	3
Topics: Culture and Ritual in China. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An examination of selected aspects of the cultural and intellectual life of China. Topics vary from year to year, but include the history of popular religion, Chinese science and medicine, the esoteric arts including divination practices, law, and the influence of ideas in the production of Chinese culture.
HIST 442	Asian Diaspora: Chinese Overseas.	3
Asian Diaspora: Chinese Overseas. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The contexts and causes of Chinese emigration; historical patterns of migration; Overseas Chinese communities on five continents, with emphasis on Southeast Asia and North America; alienation and identity in Chinatown; relations between the Overseas Chinese and China.
HIST 443	Topics: Modern Japan.	3
Topics: Modern Japan. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An intensive study of selected aspects related to the history of modern Japan.
HIST 445	Late Imperial China.	3
Late Imperial China. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the social and economic history of Late Imperial China, focusing on the Ming and early to mid Qing Dynasties (1368 - 1800), and current interpretations thereof. Was this a discrete period in Chinese history? If so, why.
HIST 508	The Art of War in China.	3
The Art of War in China. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of the historical development of military theory and practice from earliest times to 1911 from a variety of perspectives, technological, scientific, social, and cultural.
HIST 568D1	Topics in Chinese History.	3
Topics in Chinese History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A research seminar on aspects of Chinese history from early time to the present, with emphasis on social history.
HIST 568D2	Topics in Chinese History.	3
Topics in Chinese History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See HIST 568D1 for course description.
HIST 578D1	Seminar in Japanese History.	3
Seminar in Japanese History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Particular attention will be paid to Japanese responses to the impact of Western culture from the sixteenth century, and to aspects of Japanese intellectual history.
HIST 578D2	Seminar in Japanese History.	3
Seminar in Japanese History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See HIST 578D1 for course description.

Management (ORGB)

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ORGB 380	Cross Cultural Management.	3
Cross Cultural Management. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Addresses dilemmas and opportunities that managers experience in international, multicultural environments. Development of conceptual knowledge and behavioural skills (e.g. bridging skills, communication, tolerance of ambiguity, cognitive complexity) relevant to the interaction of different cultures in business and organizational settings, using several methods including research, case studies and experiential learning.

Political Science (POLI)

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Course	Title	Credits
POLI 349	Foreign Policy: Asia.	3
Foreign Policy: Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An overview of the foreign policies of two rising powers - China and India - in addition to Japan, covering the historical evolution, goals and determinants of their foreign policies, interactions with the rest of Asia and the world, and efforts at institutionalised cooperation in South and East Asia.

Religious Studies (RELG)

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Course	Title	Credits
RELG 253	Religions of East Asia.	3
Religions of East Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course introduces East Asia's major religions comparatively by addressing the continuous exchange of ideas and practices between traditions. Rather than adopting a mere chronological approach, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism will be discussed thematically, taking in to account topics such as gender constructs, the secular and the sacred, material culture, and the apparent contrast between doctrine and practice.
RELG 264	Introductory Tibetan 1.	3
Introductory Tibetan 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the language of Classical Tibetan, specifically Tibetan script and basic grammar.
RELG 265	Introductory Tibetan 2.	3
Introductory Tibetan 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A continuation of the introduction to the language of Classical Tibetan, specifically Tibetan script and basic grammar.
RELG 344	Mahayana Buddhism.	3
Mahayana Buddhism. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Investigation of Mahayana schools of thought based on reading of key sutras and commentarial literature.
RELG 352	Japanese Religions: History and Thought.	3
Japanese Religions: History and Thought. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course provides an in-depth introduction to the religious traditions of Japan from the emerging of the Japanese state to the role of religion in contemporary Japan. Kami worship, the Buddhist tradition, Yin Yang divination, Confucianism, and the modern construct of Shinto are addressed in an interdisciplinary approach, taking into account insights from the fields of History, Literature, and Art.
RELG 354	Chinese Religions.	3
Chinese Religions. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to the diverse religiosities in the Chinese cultural sphere. Examination of the everyday practice of ancestor worship, longevity practices, morality, rituals, and the veneration of deities and spirits.
RELG 364	Intermediate Tibetan 1.	3
Intermediate Tibetan 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced Tibetan grammar, and translation of selected Tibetan texts.
RELG 365	Intermediate Tibetan 2.	3
Intermediate Tibetan 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Continuation of advanced Tibetan grammar and translation of selected Tibetan texts.
RELG 442	Pure Land Buddhism.	3
Pure Land Buddhism. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The concept of Buddha Countries and Pure Lands in Buddhism, the Western Pure Land of Amida (Jodokyo) and its basic scriptures, the Chinese Buddhist schools, the introduction to Japan and the foundation of the Pure Land school by Honen, the Pure Land School of Shinran and its development, and the other Pure Land related schools.
RELG 451	Zen Buddhism: Poetry and Art.	3
Zen Buddhism: Poetry and Art. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A general overview of Japanese Zen Buddhism through the reading of poetry, diaries, sculpture and architecture.
RELG 464	Advanced Tibetan 1.	3
Advanced Tibetan 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Translation of specially selected Tibetan texts.
RELG 465	Advanced Tibetan 2.	3
Advanced Tibetan 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Continuation of translation of specially selected Tibetan texts.
RELG 549	Japanese Buddhism in Historical Context.	3
Japanese Buddhism in Historical Context. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This research-oriented seminar critically analyses key-questions from the field of pre-modern Japanese Buddhism. By engaging with recent research, students are expected to adopt an interdisciplinary approach and address questions and methodologies from both History and Buddhist Studies.

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Honours

East Asian Studies Honours (B.A.) (60 credits)

Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Degree: Bachelor of Arts
Program credit weight: 60

Program Description

According to Faculty regulations, Honours students must maintain a minimum CGPA of 3.00. In addition, Honours students must maintain a minimum GPA of 3.30 in program courses.

Degree Requirements 鈥� B.A. students

To be eligible for a B.A. degree, a student must fulfil all Faculty and program requirements as indicated in .

We recommend that students听consult an Arts OASIS advisor听for degree planning.

Required Courses (6 credits)

Honours thesis:

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EAST 498D1	Honours Thesis: East Asian Studies.	3
Honours Thesis: East Asian Studies. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Supervised reading and preparation of an Honours thesis under the direction of a member of staff.
EAST 498D2	Honours Thesis: East Asian Studies.	3
Honours Thesis: East Asian Studies. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 498D1 for course description.

Complementary Courses (54 credits)

Introduction to East Asian Culture

3-6 credits from:

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EAST 211	Introduction: East Asian Culture: China.	3
Introduction: East Asian Culture: China. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Chinese culture. The course will also examine the changing representations of the Chinese cultural tradition in the West. Readings will include original sources in translation from the fields of literature, philosophy, religion, and cultural history.
EAST 212	Introduction: East Asian Culture: Japan.	3
Introduction: East Asian Culture: Japan. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to Japan which presents various aspects of Japanese literature, culture, history, religions, philosophy and society.
EAST 213	Introduction: East Asian Culture: Korea.	3
Introduction: East Asian Culture: Korea. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Korean culture, including Korean literature, religions, philosophy, and socio-economic formations.

0-3 credits from:

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EAST 215	Introduction to East Asian Art.	3
Introduction to East Asian Art. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introductory survey of some of the major developments in the visual arts of Japan, China, and Korea. Emphasis will be placed on the diversity of artistic traditions in East Asia and the intersections among these traditions.
EAST 250	Introduction to Asian Media Studies.	3
Introduction to Asian Media Studies. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course explores core methods and theoretical approaches to media in Asia and beyond: material culture, technicity, media infrastructures, intermediality, circulation, platforms, regionalism, and institutional history.

East Asian Language

24 credits of an East Asian language selected from the list below.

Note: Admission to language courses is subject to placement tests.

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EAST 220D1	First Level Korean.	4.5
First Level Korean. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to the basic structures of the standard Korean language. The aim of this course is to give students a basic knowledge of the Korean language. Special emphasis is put on handling everyday conversation, reading and writing short texts, and mastering basic grammar rules.
EAST 220D2	First Level Korean.	4.5
First Level Korean. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 220D1 for course description.
EAST 230D1	First Level Chinese.	4.5
First Level Chinese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to the basic structures of Mandarin Chinese, Pin-yin romanization and 750 characters for reading and writing. Emphasis on developing aural and oral skills through communication games and interaction activities. Animated films are used as part of teaching materials.
EAST 230D2	First Level Chinese.	4.5
First Level Chinese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 230D1 for course description.
EAST 240D1	First Level Japanese.	4.5
First Level Japanese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to the basic grammar and sentence patterns of the Japanese language in both oral and written forms. In reading and writing skills students will be introduced to katakana, hiragana and kanji.
EAST 240D2	First Level Japanese.	4.5
First Level Japanese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 240D1 for course description.
EAST 241	Japanese Writing Beginners 1.	3
Japanese Writing Beginners 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Grammar, vocabulary, kanji, and introduction ofsome new expressions.
EAST 242	Japanese Writing Beginners 2.	3
Japanese Writing Beginners 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Grammar, vocabulary, kanji, and introduction ofsome new expressions.
EAST 320D1	Second Level Korean.	4.5
Second Level Korean. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The aim of this course is to give students a fluent speaking ability in daily conversation, advanced grammar knowledge, improved reading and writing skills. Special emphasis is put on the efficient use of grammar, enrichment of vocabulary, and mastering useful expressions encountered in everyday life.
EAST 320D2	Second Level Korean.	4.5
Second Level Korean. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 320D1 for course description.
EAST 330D1	Second Level Chinese.	4.5
Second Level Chinese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The same communicative approach as in EAST 230 is used to develop aural and oral skills on daily topics. In addition to textbooks, Chinese films on videotapes will be incorporated as teaching materials.
EAST 330D2	Second Level Chinese.	4.5
Second Level Chinese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 330D1 for course description.
EAST 340D1	Second Level Japanese.	4.5
Second Level Japanese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Continuation of the study of oral and written Japanese.
EAST 340D2	Second Level Japanese.	4.5
Second Level Japanese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 340D1 for course description.
EAST 341	Japanese Writing Intermediate 1.	3
Japanese Writing Intermediate 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Intermediate grammar, vocabulary and kanji,focusing on writing skills and reading comprehension.
EAST 342	Japanese Writing Intermediate 2.	3
Japanese Writing Intermediate 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Intermediate grammar, vocabulary and kanji, focusing on writing skills and reading comprehension.
EAST 420	Third Level Korean 1.	3
Third Level Korean 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. grammar, enhancing written and oral comprehension and improving writing and speaking skills.
EAST 421	Third Level Korean 2.	3
Third Level Korean 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced grammar, enhancing written and oral comprehension and improving writing and speaking skills.
EAST 430D1	Third Level Chinese.	3
Third Level Chinese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A communicative approach will be used to provide students with skills to communicate in various situations, express their ideas and feelings, and discuss various aspects of culture and life in China and in Canada. Teaching materials include Chinese movies on videotape and slides depicting Chinese life and culture.
EAST 430D2	Third Level Chinese.	3
Third Level Chinese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 430D1 for course description.
EAST 440D1	Third Level Japanese.	3
Third Level Japanese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. More advanced study of the Japanese language. Emphasis will be placed on reading.
EAST 440D2	Third Level Japanese.	3
Third Level Japanese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 440D1 for course description.
EAST 530D1	Fourth Level Chinese.	3
Fourth Level Chinese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Development of skills required to conduct academic discussions in oral as well as in written forms. Teaching materials include original texts from Chinese newspapers, Chinese literature and videos.
EAST 530D2	Fourth Level Chinese.	3
Fourth Level Chinese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 530D1 for course description.
EAST 533	Classical Chinese 1.	3
Classical Chinese 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the grammar and syntax of classical Chinese. Readings are selected from well-known Confucian and Taoist classics, and philosophical and historical writings from premodern China.
EAST 534	Classical Chinese 2.	3
Classical Chinese 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Continuation of EAST 533 at a more advanced level.
EAST 540D1	Fourth Level Japanese.	3
Fourth Level Japanese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced study of Japanese, with emphasis on reading Japanese newspapers. Classes will be conducted entirely in Japanese.
EAST 540D2	Fourth Level Japanese.	3
Fourth Level Japanese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 540D1 for course description.
EAST 544	Classical Japanese 2.	3
Classical Japanese 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The grammar and syntax of classical Japanese. Readings in well-known writings of pre-modern Japan.

East Asian Literature, Culture and Society

24 credits of courses in East Asian Literature, Culture and Society.

East Asian Studies (EAST)

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EAST 303	Current Topics: Chinese Studies 1.	3
Current Topics: Chinese Studies 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of important issues in Chinese Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
EAST 304	Current Topics: Chinese Studies 2.	3
Current Topics: Chinese Studies 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of important issues in Chinese Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
EAST 305	Current Topics: Japanese Studies 1.	3
Current Topics: Japanese Studies 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of important issues in Japanese studies. The content of the course will vary from year to year.
EAST 306	Current Topics: Japanese Studies 2.	3
Current Topics: Japanese Studies 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of important issues in Japanese studies. The content of the course will vary from year to year.
EAST 307	Topics: East Asian Language and Literature 1.	3
Topics: East Asian Language and Literature 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of selected topics and aspects of East Asian literature and/or language.
EAST 308	Topics: East Asian Language and Literature 2.	3
Topics: East Asian Language and Literature 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of selected topics and aspects of East Asian literature and/or language.
EAST 310	Borderlands of Modern China	3
Borderlands of Modern China Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Investigation of the relationship of China to its frontiers from the Qing Dynasty to the present, examining the history and cultural and literary production of regions like Manchuria, Mongolia, Tibet, Xinjiang, southwestern China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong as well as Chinese depictions of and approaches to these regions. Explores how China came to take its present geographical form while exploring questions of ethnicity, religion, language, and colonialism.
EAST 311	Rebellion and Revolution in Modern China	3
Rebellion and Revolution in Modern China Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Exploration of the role of rebellion and revolution in shaping 19th and 20th century China. Covers major movements like the Taiping, the Boxers, the Kuomintang, and the Chinese Communist Party, with attention to their political, social, and cultural impact.
EAST 313	Current Topics: Korean Studies 1.	3
Current Topics: Korean Studies 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of important issues in Korean Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
EAST 314	Current Topics: Korean Studies 2.	3
Current Topics: Korean Studies 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of important issues in Korean Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
EAST 350	Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Literature.	3
Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Gender and sexuality in modern and/or premodern Chinese literature with emphasis on representation of gender relations, notions of masculinity and femininity, morality and sexuality. Readings from fiction, drama, poetry, and/or other genres are approached from a variety of critical perspectives.
EAST 351	Women Writers of China.	3
Women Writers of China. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of fiction, drama, and poetry by women writers in imperial, modern, and/or contemporary China.
EAST 352	Critical Approaches to Chinese Literature.	3
Critical Approaches to Chinese Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course will examine traditional and/or modern genres of Chinese literature with a focus on different forms of Chinese and Western literary analysis.
EAST 353	Approaches to Chinese Cinema.	3
Approaches to Chinese Cinema. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Development of Chinese film in the 20th century, with an emphasis on both critical approaches to film as well as film history.
EAST 356	Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art.	3
Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examination of modern Chinese art and visual culture from the 1920's to the present. Emphasis will be placed on the formation of the artistic avant-garde in the 20th century and its relation to socialist and post-socialist mass culture.
EAST 358	Later Chinese Art (960-1911).	3
Later Chinese Art (960-1911). Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Survey of art and visual culture in later imperial China from Song to Qing dynasties. A broad range of media (e.g. painting, calligraphy, print, architecture) will be examined to explore the development of literati aesthetics and its intersections with the arts of the court, the temple, and the marketplace.
EAST 361	Animation and New Media.	3
Animation and New Media. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Animation and new media in East Asia, with an emphasis on postwar developments.
EAST 362	Japanese Cinema.	3
Japanese Cinema. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course will study the development of film in Japan during the 20th century with a particular focus on the analysis of film form, genres and history.
EAST 363	Early and Medieval Japan.	3
Early and Medieval Japan. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course examines cultural production in early and medieval Japan, focusing on calligraphy, painting, picture scrolls, gestures and their relation to textual production. Readings explore various classic texts, taboos against seeing and narrative modes of cognition.
EAST 364	Mass Culture and Postwar Japan.	3
Mass Culture and Postwar Japan. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course addresses a number of analytic approaches to mass culture in order to examine the culture industry of post-war Japan. Emphasis on narrative strategies in popular or consumer fiction and on the problems of marginalized writers.
EAST 369	Gender and Sexuality in Asian Media.	3
Gender and Sexuality in Asian Media. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. In this course, we examine contesting notions of gender, sexuality, femininity, and masculinity in Asian cinema and media. We study how individual works negotiate the social discourses on gender and sexual representation, identities, and performance, and how we may borrow conceptual frameworks from queer theories and histories at large to discuss them.
EAST 370	History of Sexuality in Japan.	3
History of Sexuality in Japan. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Social and cultural history of sexuality in Japan. Possible topics include pre-modern sexuality and relations to court, religion and anthropology; pre-modern sex and gender relations; modern sexuality and gender identities; sexuality and the rise of science; relation to nationalism; feminism and queer movements.
EAST 372	Topics in Television: Asia.	3
Topics in Television: Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course approaches television and televisuality historically, in regional, transnational, and global perspectives.
EAST 375	Korean Media and Popular Culture.	3
Korean Media and Popular Culture. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course approaches popular culture and mass media in postwar Korea from historical and theoretical perspectives, with a focus on the connections between activism, mass media, and commodity culture.
EAST 377	Topics: Transnational Asian Culture.	3
Topics: Transnational Asian Culture. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Investigation of cinema's border-crossing modes of cultural production, reception, and circulation, to uncover the ways that the study of culture enriches current theories and approaches to the transnational.
EAST 385	Global Korea.	3
Global Korea. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course considers Korean culture and society in the modern period by examining changing attitudes about the relationship between the national and the global, across social institutions, political discourse, and popular media.
EAST 388	Asian Migrations and Diasporas.	3
Asian Migrations and Diasporas. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to the interdisciplinary study of Asian migrations and diasporas. Topics include colonialism and diaspora, transnationalism, globalization, citizenship, migration and the state, gender and migration, human trafficking, and forced migration.
EAST 389	Global Cinema and Media Asia.	3
Global Cinema and Media Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Ascendancy of East Asian cinema and media as global culture; the aesthetic, technological, economic and political conditions of cinema as a transnational commodity; and the history of globalization and East Asia media platforms.
EAST 390	The Chinese Family in History.	3
The Chinese Family in History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Exploration of the Chinese family in history both as an institution - in its religious, legal, economic, political aspects - and as a lived reality.
EAST 402	Age of Samurai	3
Age of Samurai Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examination of the history, society, and culture of early modern Japan in the period of rule by the warrior class: the samurai. Examination of the formation and collapse of the samurai-dominated political order of the Tokugawa shogunate, as well as themes like social status, gender and sexuality, religion, and connections to the outside world during the period of Tokugawa rule.
EAST 445	Late Imperial China	3
Late Imperial China Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examination of Chinese society in the Ming and Qing eras (1368-1912) through the exploration of themes like gender and sexuality, family, law, ethnicity and borderlands, education, literary production, and political organization.
EAST 453	Topics: Chinese Literature.	3
Topics: Chinese Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced seminar in selected genres, themes and issues in Chinese literature.
EAST 454	Topics: Chinese Cinema.	3
Topics: Chinese Cinema. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in Chinese film.
EAST 461	Inventing Modern Japanese Novel.	3
Inventing Modern Japanese Novel. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An examination of the modern Japanese novel as a form which both affirms and resists the form of the European novel. Readings explore the particular problems of the Japanese novel in the context of modernization, westernization, and colonialism.
EAST 462	Japan in Asia.	3
Japan in Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course introduces theories of cultural interaction, interpellation, and intertexuality in order to reconsider Japanese modes of reception and selection of Chinese texts and technologies. Readings range from early Japanese to 20th century texts. Readings in translation.
EAST 464	Image, Text, Performance.	3
Image, Text, Performance. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Drawing on theoretical approaches from a variety of cultural and media studies, including cinema, performance and performativity, and elsewhere, this course addresses cultural production in premodern and/or modern East Asia. Topics to be addressed range from calligraphy and writing, to theatre, and film.
EAST 467	Topics: Japanese Cinema.	3
Topics: Japanese Cinema. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Topics in the study of Japanese cinema.
EAST 468	Science and Technology: Asia.	3
Science and Technology: Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. History of science and technology in Asia with an emphasis on social and cultural impact and the legacy non-Western traditions.
EAST 477	Media and Environment in Asia.	3
Media and Environment in Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course explores the intersection between media and "environment" in Asia and beyond; topics range from media ecology, cybernetics, environmental art and activism, urban planning, and the history of communications networks in Asia in the modern period.
EAST 478	Topics: Korean Film and Media.	3
Topics: Korean Film and Media. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced seminar in the study of Korean film and media. Taught in English.
EAST 491	Tutorial: East Asian Languages and Literatures 1.	3
Tutorial: East Asian Languages and Literatures 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced reading course in language or literature.
EAST 492	Tutorial: East Asian Languages and Literatures 2.	3
Tutorial: East Asian Languages and Literatures 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced reading course in language or literature.
EAST 493	Special Topics: East Asian Studies 1.	3
Special Topics: East Asian Studies 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced reading course under supervision of instructor on certain aspects of East Asian Studies. Topics will vary from year to year.
EAST 494	Special Topics: East Asian Studies 2.	3
Special Topics: East Asian Studies 2. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Advanced reading course under supervision of instructor on certain aspects of East Asian Studies. Topics will vary from year to year.
EAST 501	Advanced Topics in Japanese Studies 1.	3
Advanced Topics in Japanese Studies 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Japanese culture and society.
EAST 502	Advanced Topics in Japanese Studies 2.	3
Advanced Topics in Japanese Studies 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Japanese culture and society.
EAST 503	Advanced Topics in Chinese Studies 1.	3
Advanced Topics in Chinese Studies 1. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese culture and society.
EAST 504	Advanced Topics in Chinese Studies 2.	3
Advanced Topics in Chinese Studies 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese culture and society.
EAST 505	Advanced Topics in Korean Studies.	3
Advanced Topics in Korean Studies. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Korean culture and society. Taught in English.
EAST 515	Seminar: Beyond Orientalism.	3
Seminar: Beyond Orientalism. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examines the cultural stakes and ethical implications of applying Western European models of understanding to East Asian societies. Provides background on interdisciplinary debates around "otherness", "cultural appropriation", and "postcolonialism", focusing on their history within East Asian Studies and their impact on that field's methodological assumptions, self-definition, and institutional practices.
EAST 525	Critical Area Studies in Asia.	3
Critical Area Studies in Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course introduces students to foundational concepts, key debates, recent research areas, theoretical methods, and critical approached in area studies.
EAST 527	Culture and Capital in Asia.	3
Culture and Capital in Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This seminar introduces the major anthropological, psychological, and political economic theories of the relation between culture and capital that have affected social and political formations in East Asia. Language of Instruction: English.
EAST 550	Classical Chinese Poetry Themes and Genres.	3
Classical Chinese Poetry Themes and Genres. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of major themes and genres of classical Chinese poetry from its beginnings to the Yuan dynasty (14th century), with emphasis on critical analysis of text and context. Readings of poems in the original.
EAST 551	Technologies of Self in Early China.	3
Technologies of Self in Early China. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Readings on self-cultivation drawn from Confucian, Legalist, and Taoist philosophic texts of early China (5th-2nd centuries B.C.) in translation will be compared with historical and archaeological materials on the evolving construction of the "individual'' in Chinese social structure, military organization, political and ritual codes.
EAST 559	Advanced Topics: Chinese Literature.	3
Advanced Topics: Chinese Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese literature. The content of the course may vary from year to year, ranging from contemporary to modern to pre-modern literature.
EAST 562	Japanese Literary Theory and Practice.	3
Japanese Literary Theory and Practice. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course examines Japanese theories of literary production and practice with an emphasis on 20th century thought.
EAST 564	Structures of Modernity: Asia.	3
Structures of Modernity: Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course explores relations between some of the principal sites which structure the experience of "modernity" in Asia (and elsewhere) - from bodies and cities, to the urban context in general. Along with general approaches (e.g. the idea of everyday life途 questions of time), specific topics may include speed, music, architecture, crime, etc.
EAST 569	Advanced Topics: Japanese Literature.	3
Advanced Topics: Japanese Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Japanese literature. The content of the course may vary from year to year from contemporary to modern to pre-modern literature.

Anthropology (ANTH)

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ANTH 331	Prehistory of East Asia.	3
Prehistory of East Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Comparative study of prehistoric hunting and gathering cultures in China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia and Eastern Siberia; origins and dispersal of food production; cultural processes leading to the rise of literate civilizations in certain regions of East Asia.
ANTH 500	Chinese Diversity and Diaspora.	3
Chinese Diversity and Diaspora. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Explores ethnic diversity within mainland China, as well as the diversity of Chinese cultures of diaspora, living outside the mainland, often as minorities subject to other dominant cultures.

Economics (ECON)

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ECON 335	The Japanese Economy.	3
The Japanese Economy. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The first part of the course covers the economic institutions in, changing structure of, and public policies employed by the Japanese economy. The second part probes the economic "logic" of the Japanese capitalist system, explores its relationship to the ideas of Joseph Schumpeter, and makes comparisons with the American economy.
ECON 411	Economic Development: A World Area.	3
Economic Development: A World Area. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An advanced course in the economic development of a pre-designated underdeveloped country or a group of countries.

Geography (GEOG)

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GEOG 408	Geography of Development.	3
Geography of Development. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examines the geographical dimensions of development policy, specifically the relationships between the process of development and human-induced environmental change. Focuses on environmental sustainability, struggles over resource control, population and poverty, and levels of governance (the role of the state, non-governmental organizations, and local communities).

History (HIST)

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HIST 208	Introduction to East Asian History.	3
Introduction to East Asian History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the history of East Asian civilization from earliest times to 1600, with emphasis on China and Japan, including social, intellectual, and economic developments as well as political history.
HIST 218	Modern East Asian History.	3
Modern East Asian History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the history of China and Japan from the seventeenth century to the present, including modernization, nationalism, and the interaction of the two countries.
HIST 308	Formation of Chinese Tradition.	3
Formation of Chinese Tradition. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An examination of the multiple sources of the Chinese imperial system from the period of the neolithic culture interaction sphere to the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 C.E. Special attention is paid to socio-economic developments as well as to the evolution of philosophy, ideology, and social practice. The sequel to this course is HIST 358.
HIST 338	Twentieth-Century China.	3
Twentieth-Century China. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examines 20th Century China from the fall of the Qing, through Republican China, the emergence of communism, war with Japan, revolution and civil war, the Cultural Revolution, and later economic reforms.
HIST 358	China's Middle Empires.	3
China's Middle Empires. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Developments of China's middle empires, ca. 600-1300 CE. Studies changing international relations, rapid commercialization, religious developments, the rise of the civil service examination system, and ensuing social change.
HIST 439	History of Women in China.	3
History of Women in China. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course examines the changing roles of women in traditional and modern China. Topics include political, social, and legal status, sexuality and medicine, religion and culture.
HIST 441	Topics: Culture and Ritual in China.	3
Topics: Culture and Ritual in China. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An examination of selected aspects of the cultural and intellectual life of China. Topics vary from year to year, but include the history of popular religion, Chinese science and medicine, the esoteric arts including divination practices, law, and the influence of ideas in the production of Chinese culture.
HIST 442	Asian Diaspora: Chinese Overseas.	3
Asian Diaspora: Chinese Overseas. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The contexts and causes of Chinese emigration; historical patterns of migration; Overseas Chinese communities on five continents, with emphasis on Southeast Asia and North America; alienation and identity in Chinatown; relations between the Overseas Chinese and China.
HIST 443	Topics: Modern Japan.	3
Topics: Modern Japan. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An intensive study of selected aspects related to the history of modern Japan.
HIST 445	Late Imperial China.	3
Late Imperial China. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the social and economic history of Late Imperial China, focusing on the Ming and early to mid Qing Dynasties (1368 - 1800), and current interpretations thereof. Was this a discrete period in Chinese history? If so, why.
HIST 508	The Art of War in China.	3
The Art of War in China. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of the historical development of military theory and practice from earliest times to 1911 from a variety of perspectives, technological, scientific, social, and cultural.
HIST 568D1	Topics in Chinese History.	3
Topics in Chinese History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A research seminar on aspects of Chinese history from early time to the present, with emphasis on social history.
HIST 568D2	Topics in Chinese History.	3
Topics in Chinese History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See HIST 568D1 for course description.
HIST 578D1	Seminar in Japanese History.	3
Seminar in Japanese History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Particular attention will be paid to Japanese responses to the impact of Western culture from the sixteenth century, and to aspects of Japanese intellectual history.
HIST 578D2	Seminar in Japanese History.	3
Seminar in Japanese History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See HIST 578D1 for course description.

Management (ORGB)

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ORGB 380	Cross Cultural Management.	3
Cross Cultural Management. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Addresses dilemmas and opportunities that managers experience in international, multicultural environments. Development of conceptual knowledge and behavioural skills (e.g. bridging skills, communication, tolerance of ambiguity, cognitive complexity) relevant to the interaction of different cultures in business and organizational settings, using several methods including research, case studies and experiential learning.

Political Science (POLI)

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Course	Title	Credits
POLI 349	Foreign Policy: Asia.	3
Foreign Policy: Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An overview of the foreign policies of two rising powers - China and India - in addition to Japan, covering the historical evolution, goals and determinants of their foreign policies, interactions with the rest of Asia and the world, and efforts at institutionalised cooperation in South and East Asia.

Religious Studies (RELG)

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Course	Title	Credits
RELG 253	Religions of East Asia.	3
Religions of East Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course introduces East Asia's major religions comparatively by addressing the continuous exchange of ideas and practices between traditions. Rather than adopting a mere chronological approach, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism will be discussed thematically, taking in to account topics such as gender constructs, the secular and the sacred, material culture, and the apparent contrast between doctrine and practice.
RELG 264	Introductory Tibetan 1.	3
Introductory Tibetan 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the language of Classical Tibetan, specifically Tibetan script and basic grammar.
RELG 265	Introductory Tibetan 2.	3
Introductory Tibetan 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A continuation of the introduction to the language of Classical Tibetan, specifically Tibetan script and basic grammar.
RELG 344	Mahayana Buddhism.	3
Mahayana Buddhism. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Investigation of Mahayana schools of thought based on reading of key sutras and commentarial literature.
RELG 352	Japanese Religions: History and Thought.	3
Japanese Religions: History and Thought. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course provides an in-depth introduction to the religious traditions of Japan from the emerging of the Japanese state to the role of religion in contemporary Japan. Kami worship, the Buddhist tradition, Yin Yang divination, Confucianism, and the modern construct of Shinto are addressed in an interdisciplinary approach, taking into account insights from the fields of History, Literature, and Art.
RELG 354	Chinese Religions.	3
Chinese Religions. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to the diverse religiosities in the Chinese cultural sphere. Examination of the everyday practice of ancestor worship, longevity practices, morality, rituals, and the veneration of deities and spirits.
RELG 364	Intermediate Tibetan 1.	3
Intermediate Tibetan 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced Tibetan grammar, and translation of selected Tibetan texts.
RELG 365	Intermediate Tibetan 2.	3
Intermediate Tibetan 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Continuation of advanced Tibetan grammar and translation of selected Tibetan texts.
RELG 442	Pure Land Buddhism.	3
Pure Land Buddhism. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The concept of Buddha Countries and Pure Lands in Buddhism, the Western Pure Land of Amida (Jodokyo) and its basic scriptures, the Chinese Buddhist schools, the introduction to Japan and the foundation of the Pure Land school by Honen, the Pure Land School of Shinran and its development, and the other Pure Land related schools.
RELG 451	Zen Buddhism: Poetry and Art.	3
Zen Buddhism: Poetry and Art. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A general overview of Japanese Zen Buddhism through the reading of poetry, diaries, sculpture and architecture.
RELG 464	Advanced Tibetan 1.	3
Advanced Tibetan 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Translation of specially selected Tibetan texts.
RELG 465	Advanced Tibetan 2.	3
Advanced Tibetan 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Continuation of translation of specially selected Tibetan texts.
RELG 549	Japanese Buddhism in Historical Context.	3
Japanese Buddhism in Historical Context. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This research-oriented seminar critically analyses key-questions from the field of pre-modern Japanese Buddhism. By engaging with recent research, students are expected to adopt an interdisciplinary approach and address questions and methodologies from both History and Buddhist Studies.

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Joint Honours

East Asian Studies Joint Honours Component (B.A.) (36 credits)

Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Degree: Bachelor of Arts; Bachelor of Arts and Science
Program credit weight: 36

Program Description

Students wishing to study at the Honours level in two disciplines can combine Joint Honours program components in any two Arts disciplines. For a list of available Joint Honours programs, see "Overview of Programs Offered" and "Joint Honours Programs".听

According to Faculty regulations, Joint Honours students must maintain a minimum CGPA of 3.00. In addition, Joint Honours students must maintain a minimum GPA of 3.30 in program courses.

Degree Requirements 鈥� B.A. students

To be eligible for a B.A. degree, a student must fulfil all Faculty and program requirements as indicated in .

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Required Course (3 credits)

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EAST 495D1	Joint Honours Thesis: East Asian Studies.	1.5
Joint Honours Thesis: East Asian Studies. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Supervised reading and preparation of an Honours thesis under the direction of a member of staff.
EAST 495D2	Joint Honours Thesis: East Asian Studies.	1.5
Joint Honours Thesis: East Asian Studies. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 495D1 for course description.

Complementary Courses (33 credits)

Introduction to East Asian Culture

3-6 credits from:

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EAST 211	Introduction: East Asian Culture: China.	3
Introduction: East Asian Culture: China. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Chinese culture. The course will also examine the changing representations of the Chinese cultural tradition in the West. Readings will include original sources in translation from the fields of literature, philosophy, religion, and cultural history.
EAST 212	Introduction: East Asian Culture: Japan.	3
Introduction: East Asian Culture: Japan. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to Japan which presents various aspects of Japanese literature, culture, history, religions, philosophy and society.
EAST 213	Introduction: East Asian Culture: Korea.	3
Introduction: East Asian Culture: Korea. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Korean culture, including Korean literature, religions, philosophy, and socio-economic formations.

0-3 credits selected from:

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EAST 215	Introduction to East Asian Art.	3
Introduction to East Asian Art. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introductory survey of some of the major developments in the visual arts of Japan, China, and Korea. Emphasis will be placed on the diversity of artistic traditions in East Asia and the intersections among these traditions.
EAST 250	Introduction to Asian Media Studies.	3
Introduction to Asian Media Studies. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course explores core methods and theoretical approaches to media in Asia and beyond: material culture, technicity, media infrastructures, intermediality, circulation, platforms, regionalism, and institutional history.

East Asian Language

18 credits in an East Asian language above the introductory level selected from the following courses:

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EAST 320D1	Second Level Korean.	4.5
Second Level Korean. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The aim of this course is to give students a fluent speaking ability in daily conversation, advanced grammar knowledge, improved reading and writing skills. Special emphasis is put on the efficient use of grammar, enrichment of vocabulary, and mastering useful expressions encountered in everyday life.
EAST 320D2	Second Level Korean.	4.5
Second Level Korean. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 320D1 for course description.
EAST 330D1	Second Level Chinese.	4.5
Second Level Chinese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The same communicative approach as in EAST 230 is used to develop aural and oral skills on daily topics. In addition to textbooks, Chinese films on videotapes will be incorporated as teaching materials.
EAST 330D2	Second Level Chinese.	4.5
Second Level Chinese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 330D1 for course description.
EAST 340D1	Second Level Japanese.	4.5
Second Level Japanese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Continuation of the study of oral and written Japanese.
EAST 340D2	Second Level Japanese.	4.5
Second Level Japanese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 340D1 for course description.
EAST 341	Japanese Writing Intermediate 1.	3
Japanese Writing Intermediate 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Intermediate grammar, vocabulary and kanji,focusing on writing skills and reading comprehension.
EAST 342	Japanese Writing Intermediate 2.	3
Japanese Writing Intermediate 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Intermediate grammar, vocabulary and kanji, focusing on writing skills and reading comprehension.
EAST 420	Third Level Korean 1.	3
Third Level Korean 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. grammar, enhancing written and oral comprehension and improving writing and speaking skills.
EAST 421	Third Level Korean 2.	3
Third Level Korean 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced grammar, enhancing written and oral comprehension and improving writing and speaking skills.
EAST 430D1	Third Level Chinese.	3
Third Level Chinese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A communicative approach will be used to provide students with skills to communicate in various situations, express their ideas and feelings, and discuss various aspects of culture and life in China and in Canada. Teaching materials include Chinese movies on videotape and slides depicting Chinese life and culture.
EAST 430D2	Third Level Chinese.	3
Third Level Chinese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 430D1 for course description.
EAST 440D1	Third Level Japanese.	3
Third Level Japanese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. More advanced study of the Japanese language. Emphasis will be placed on reading.
EAST 440D2	Third Level Japanese.	3
Third Level Japanese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 440D1 for course description.
EAST 530D1	Fourth Level Chinese.	3
Fourth Level Chinese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Development of skills required to conduct academic discussions in oral as well as in written forms. Teaching materials include original texts from Chinese newspapers, Chinese literature and videos.
EAST 530D2	Fourth Level Chinese.	3
Fourth Level Chinese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 530D1 for course description.
EAST 533	Classical Chinese 1.	3
Classical Chinese 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the grammar and syntax of classical Chinese. Readings are selected from well-known Confucian and Taoist classics, and philosophical and historical writings from premodern China.
EAST 534	Classical Chinese 2.	3
Classical Chinese 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Continuation of EAST 533 at a more advanced level.
EAST 540D1	Fourth Level Japanese.	3
Fourth Level Japanese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced study of Japanese, with emphasis on reading Japanese newspapers. Classes will be conducted entirely in Japanese.
EAST 540D2	Fourth Level Japanese.	3
Fourth Level Japanese. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. See EAST 540D1 for course description.
EAST 544	Classical Japanese 2.	3
Classical Japanese 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The grammar and syntax of classical Japanese. Readings in well-known writings of pre-modern Japan.

East Asian Studies (EAST)

9 credits chosen from the following East Asian Studies courses, at least 3 credits must be at the 400-level or above.

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Course	Title	Credits
EAST 303	Current Topics: Chinese Studies 1.	3
Current Topics: Chinese Studies 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of important issues in Chinese Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
EAST 304	Current Topics: Chinese Studies 2.	3
Current Topics: Chinese Studies 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of important issues in Chinese Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
EAST 305	Current Topics: Japanese Studies 1.	3
Current Topics: Japanese Studies 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of important issues in Japanese studies. The content of the course will vary from year to year.
EAST 306	Current Topics: Japanese Studies 2.	3
Current Topics: Japanese Studies 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of important issues in Japanese studies. The content of the course will vary from year to year.
EAST 307	Topics: East Asian Language and Literature 1.	3
Topics: East Asian Language and Literature 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of selected topics and aspects of East Asian literature and/or language.
EAST 308	Topics: East Asian Language and Literature 2.	3
Topics: East Asian Language and Literature 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of selected topics and aspects of East Asian literature and/or language.
EAST 311	Rebellion and Revolution in Modern China	3
Rebellion and Revolution in Modern China Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Exploration of the role of rebellion and revolution in shaping 19th and 20th century China. Covers major movements like the Taiping, the Boxers, the Kuomintang, and the Chinese Communist Party, with attention to their political, social, and cultural impact.
EAST 313	Current Topics: Korean Studies 1.	3
Current Topics: Korean Studies 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of important issues in Korean Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
EAST 314	Current Topics: Korean Studies 2.	3
Current Topics: Korean Studies 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of important issues in Korean Studies. Content of the course will vary from year to year.
EAST 350	Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Literature.	3
Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Gender and sexuality in modern and/or premodern Chinese literature with emphasis on representation of gender relations, notions of masculinity and femininity, morality and sexuality. Readings from fiction, drama, poetry, and/or other genres are approached from a variety of critical perspectives.
EAST 351	Women Writers of China.	3
Women Writers of China. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of fiction, drama, and poetry by women writers in imperial, modern, and/or contemporary China.
EAST 352	Critical Approaches to Chinese Literature.	3
Critical Approaches to Chinese Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course will examine traditional and/or modern genres of Chinese literature with a focus on different forms of Chinese and Western literary analysis.
EAST 353	Approaches to Chinese Cinema.	3
Approaches to Chinese Cinema. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Development of Chinese film in the 20th century, with an emphasis on both critical approaches to film as well as film history.
EAST 356	Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art.	3
Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examination of modern Chinese art and visual culture from the 1920's to the present. Emphasis will be placed on the formation of the artistic avant-garde in the 20th century and its relation to socialist and post-socialist mass culture.
EAST 358	Later Chinese Art (960-1911).	3
Later Chinese Art (960-1911). Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Survey of art and visual culture in later imperial China from Song to Qing dynasties. A broad range of media (e.g. painting, calligraphy, print, architecture) will be examined to explore the development of literati aesthetics and its intersections with the arts of the court, the temple, and the marketplace.
EAST 361	Animation and New Media.	3
Animation and New Media. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Animation and new media in East Asia, with an emphasis on postwar developments.
EAST 362	Japanese Cinema.	3
Japanese Cinema. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course will study the development of film in Japan during the 20th century with a particular focus on the analysis of film form, genres and history.
EAST 363	Early and Medieval Japan.	3
Early and Medieval Japan. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course examines cultural production in early and medieval Japan, focusing on calligraphy, painting, picture scrolls, gestures and their relation to textual production. Readings explore various classic texts, taboos against seeing and narrative modes of cognition.
EAST 364	Mass Culture and Postwar Japan.	3
Mass Culture and Postwar Japan. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course addresses a number of analytic approaches to mass culture in order to examine the culture industry of post-war Japan. Emphasis on narrative strategies in popular or consumer fiction and on the problems of marginalized writers.
EAST 369	Gender and Sexuality in Asian Media.	3
Gender and Sexuality in Asian Media. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. In this course, we examine contesting notions of gender, sexuality, femininity, and masculinity in Asian cinema and media. We study how individual works negotiate the social discourses on gender and sexual representation, identities, and performance, and how we may borrow conceptual frameworks from queer theories and histories at large to discuss them.
EAST 370	History of Sexuality in Japan.	3
History of Sexuality in Japan. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Social and cultural history of sexuality in Japan. Possible topics include pre-modern sexuality and relations to court, religion and anthropology; pre-modern sex and gender relations; modern sexuality and gender identities; sexuality and the rise of science; relation to nationalism; feminism and queer movements.
EAST 372	Topics in Television: Asia.	3
Topics in Television: Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course approaches television and televisuality historically, in regional, transnational, and global perspectives.
EAST 375	Korean Media and Popular Culture.	3
Korean Media and Popular Culture. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course approaches popular culture and mass media in postwar Korea from historical and theoretical perspectives, with a focus on the connections between activism, mass media, and commodity culture.
EAST 377	Topics: Transnational Asian Culture.	3
Topics: Transnational Asian Culture. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Investigation of cinema's border-crossing modes of cultural production, reception, and circulation, to uncover the ways that the study of culture enriches current theories and approaches to the transnational.
EAST 385	Global Korea.	3
Global Korea. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course considers Korean culture and society in the modern period by examining changing attitudes about the relationship between the national and the global, across social institutions, political discourse, and popular media.
EAST 388	Asian Migrations and Diasporas.	3
Asian Migrations and Diasporas. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Introduction to the interdisciplinary study of Asian migrations and diasporas. Topics include colonialism and diaspora, transnationalism, globalization, citizenship, migration and the state, gender and migration, human trafficking, and forced migration.
EAST 389	Global Cinema and Media Asia.	3
Global Cinema and Media Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Ascendancy of East Asian cinema and media as global culture; the aesthetic, technological, economic and political conditions of cinema as a transnational commodity; and the history of globalization and East Asia media platforms.
EAST 390	The Chinese Family in History.	3
The Chinese Family in History. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Exploration of the Chinese family in history both as an institution - in its religious, legal, economic, political aspects - and as a lived reality.
EAST 402	Age of Samurai	3
Age of Samurai Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examination of the history, society, and culture of early modern Japan in the period of rule by the warrior class: the samurai. Examination of the formation and collapse of the samurai-dominated political order of the Tokugawa shogunate, as well as themes like social status, gender and sexuality, religion, and connections to the outside world during the period of Tokugawa rule.
EAST 445	Late Imperial China	3
Late Imperial China Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examination of Chinese society in the Ming and Qing eras (1368-1912) through the exploration of themes like gender and sexuality, family, law, ethnicity and borderlands, education, literary production, and political organization.
EAST 453	Topics: Chinese Literature.	3
Topics: Chinese Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced seminar in selected genres, themes and issues in Chinese literature.
EAST 454	Topics: Chinese Cinema.	3
Topics: Chinese Cinema. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced seminar in selected themes and issues in Chinese film.
EAST 461	Inventing Modern Japanese Novel.	3
Inventing Modern Japanese Novel. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An examination of the modern Japanese novel as a form which both affirms and resists the form of the European novel. Readings explore the particular problems of the Japanese novel in the context of modernization, westernization, and colonialism.
EAST 462	Japan in Asia.	3
Japan in Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course introduces theories of cultural interaction, interpellation, and intertexuality in order to reconsider Japanese modes of reception and selection of Chinese texts and technologies. Readings range from early Japanese to 20th century texts. Readings in translation.
EAST 464	Image, Text, Performance.	3
Image, Text, Performance. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Drawing on theoretical approaches from a variety of cultural and media studies, including cinema, performance and performativity, and elsewhere, this course addresses cultural production in premodern and/or modern East Asia. Topics to be addressed range from calligraphy and writing, to theatre, and film.
EAST 467	Topics: Japanese Cinema.	3
Topics: Japanese Cinema. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Topics in the study of Japanese cinema.
EAST 468	Science and Technology: Asia.	3
Science and Technology: Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. History of science and technology in Asia with an emphasis on social and cultural impact and the legacy non-Western traditions.
EAST 477	Media and Environment in Asia.	3
Media and Environment in Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course explores the intersection between media and "environment" in Asia and beyond; topics range from media ecology, cybernetics, environmental art and activism, urban planning, and the history of communications networks in Asia in the modern period.
EAST 478	Topics: Korean Film and Media.	3
Topics: Korean Film and Media. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced seminar in the study of Korean film and media. Taught in English.
EAST 491	Tutorial: East Asian Languages and Literatures 1.	3
Tutorial: East Asian Languages and Literatures 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced reading course in language or literature.
EAST 492	Tutorial: East Asian Languages and Literatures 2.	3
Tutorial: East Asian Languages and Literatures 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced reading course in language or literature.
EAST 493	Special Topics: East Asian Studies 1.	3
Special Topics: East Asian Studies 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Advanced reading course under supervision of instructor on certain aspects of East Asian Studies. Topics will vary from year to year.
EAST 494	Special Topics: East Asian Studies 2.	3
Special Topics: East Asian Studies 2. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Advanced reading course under supervision of instructor on certain aspects of East Asian Studies. Topics will vary from year to year.
EAST 501	Advanced Topics in Japanese Studies 1.	3
Advanced Topics in Japanese Studies 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Japanese culture and society.
EAST 502	Advanced Topics in Japanese Studies 2.	3
Advanced Topics in Japanese Studies 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Japanese culture and society.
EAST 503	Advanced Topics in Chinese Studies 1.	3
Advanced Topics in Chinese Studies 1. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese culture and society.
EAST 504	Advanced Topics in Chinese Studies 2.	3
Advanced Topics in Chinese Studies 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese culture and society.
EAST 505	Advanced Topics in Korean Studies.	3
Advanced Topics in Korean Studies. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Korean culture and society. Taught in English.
EAST 515	Seminar: Beyond Orientalism.	3
Seminar: Beyond Orientalism. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Examines the cultural stakes and ethical implications of applying Western European models of understanding to East Asian societies. Provides background on interdisciplinary debates around "otherness", "cultural appropriation", and "postcolonialism", focusing on their history within East Asian Studies and their impact on that field's methodological assumptions, self-definition, and institutional practices.
EAST 525	Critical Area Studies in Asia.	3
Critical Area Studies in Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The course introduces students to foundational concepts, key debates, recent research areas, theoretical methods, and critical approached in area studies.
EAST 527	Culture and Capital in Asia.	3
Culture and Capital in Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This seminar introduces the major anthropological, psychological, and political economic theories of the relation between culture and capital that have affected social and political formations in East Asia. Language of Instruction: English.
EAST 550	Classical Chinese Poetry Themes and Genres.	3
Classical Chinese Poetry Themes and Genres. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. A study of major themes and genres of classical Chinese poetry from its beginnings to the Yuan dynasty (14th century), with emphasis on critical analysis of text and context. Readings of poems in the original.
EAST 551	Technologies of Self in Early China.	3
Technologies of Self in Early China. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Readings on self-cultivation drawn from Confucian, Legalist, and Taoist philosophic texts of early China (5th-2nd centuries B.C.) in translation will be compared with historical and archaeological materials on the evolving construction of the "individual'' in Chinese social structure, military organization, political and ritual codes.
EAST 559	Advanced Topics: Chinese Literature.	3
Advanced Topics: Chinese Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Chinese literature. The content of the course may vary from year to year, ranging from contemporary to modern to pre-modern literature.
EAST 562	Japanese Literary Theory and Practice.	3
Japanese Literary Theory and Practice. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course examines Japanese theories of literary production and practice with an emphasis on 20th century thought.
EAST 564	Structures of Modernity: Asia.	3
Structures of Modernity: Asia. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course explores relations between some of the principal sites which structure the experience of "modernity" in Asia (and elsewhere) - from bodies and cities, to the urban context in general. Along with general approaches (e.g. the idea of everyday life途 questions of time), specific topics may include speed, music, architecture, crime, etc.
EAST 569	Advanced Topics: Japanese Literature.	3
Advanced Topics: Japanese Literature. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Consideration of selected topics and aspects of Japanese literature. The content of the course may vary from year to year from contemporary to modern to pre-modern literature.

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FAQ-Honours

Major Undergraduate Program Director

Marianne Tarcov
680 Sherbrooke St. W. Room听
Phone: 514-398-5882
Email:听marianne.tarcov [at] mcgill.ca

Office hours: By appointment

Minor Program Advisors

Mrs. Myung Hee Kim
Office Hours: Tuesdays 10:00 - 11:00 or by appointment
680 Sherbrooke St. W. Room 255
Phone: 514-398-5872
Email: myung.kim [at] mcgill.ca

Ms. Yasuko Senoo
Office Hours:听
680 Sherbrooke St. W. Room
Phone:听514-398-6755
Email: yasuko.senoo [at] mcgill.ca

EAST Languages REGISTRATION policies

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JAPANESE language registration policy:

A听placement test prior to registration is not required.听 A placement test will be administered on the first day of class in the language course the student has registered in.听 If you miss the placement test, you may not be able to remain in the course.听

Students with听little or no prior knowledge can register for EAST 240. If you have taken a Japanese course at 黑料社, you can register for the next level. Based on the results of the placement test, instructors might recommend a change in level. We do not guarantee, however, that places will be available in the suggested course/level.

If you need consultation, you can send e-mail to one of the instructors. (Please note that they may not be available during the summer.)

All students with or without any background in Japanese MUST complete and submit the听EAS Regulations for Registration Form听and Japanese Placement Questionnaire and submit to the Instructor on the first day of class in the Fall.听Students who fail to do so may not be able to remain in the course.

For the FALL 2023 semester: A placement test is not required prior to registration. Your course instructor will contact you about the first class and placement test before the first day of class.

For the WINTER 2025 semester: Japanese placement test (EAST 242 & EAST 342):
east242_342_japanese_placement_test_winter2025.pdf

For summer Japanese language courses: If you have studied Japanese before, including self-study, and/or you use Japanese at home, you must contact听tomoko.ikeda [at] mcgill.ca (Ms. Tomoko Ikeda)听or听yasuko.senoo [at] mcgill.ca (Ms. Yasuko Senoo)听before registering for the summer course.

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CHINESE language听registration policy:

Students with no prior or little knowledge of Chinese听should register in EAST 230. A placement test is not required prior to registration.听These students must fill out the EAS Waiver Form 听and submit it to the instructor during the first day听of class. Students who fail to do so will听not be able to remain in the course.

All students with or without any background in Chinese Language must complete the EAS Regulations for Registration Form听and return it to the instructor on the first day of class in the Fall semester.

Students who have registered in EAST 330, EAST 430, EAST 530, EAST 491 or EAST 535 must take a placement test or have an interview听if they have not taken the next lower level course at 黑料社. Placement tests will be given on the first day of class.听 Placement interviews, if necessary, will be administered by appointment during the first week of class. 听If students miss the placement test or interview,听they will not be able to remain in the course.听 Based on the results of the placement test, instructors might recommend a change in level. We do not guarantee, however, that places will be available in the suggested course/level.

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KOREAN language registration policy:

Students with no prior or little knowledge of Korean should register in EAST 220. No placement test or interview are required prior to registration. All students should complete the EAS Waiver Form and hand it to the instructor during the first week of class. Students who fail to do so may not be able to remain in the course.

Students who successfully completed EAST 220 with a grade of "C" or better and wish to register in EAST 320, should do so without placement test.

All students registered in EAST 320, with or without any background in Korean Language, must complete the听korean_language_regulations_2020_final.pdf, and return it to the Instructor on the first day of class. Students who fail to do so may not be able to remain in the course.

Students with background in Korean:

If you have studied Korean before, including self-study, and/or you use Korean at home, you can register in the course which seems appropriate to your level, but you must contact the instructor with a description of your level of Korean by email: myunghee.kim [at] mcgill.ca. Depending on the description, the instructor may suggest a change of the course you registered in or will schedule an interview with you to assess your level.

All students must complete the korean_language_regulations_2020_final.pdf听and return it to the Instructor on the first day of class. Students who fail to do so may not be able to remain in the course.

Korean Language Summer courses:

If you have studied Korean before, including self-study, and/or you use Korean at home, you must contact myunghee.kim [at] mcgill.ca (Ms. Myunghee Kim) before registering for the summer course.

Study Away:

Please follow the procedures outlined on the听OASIS (Arts Advising) website.听

Once your study away activity has been approved by your Department Advisor/Academic Unit, a travel registry form (only for international activity) will be created on Minerva.

Students planning to register at a university outside of Qu茅bec, must see a Department Advisor PRIOR to leaving for their study away. Retroactive credit will not be approved upon return from studies. Provide your advisor with detailed course descriptions, course syllabi, including methods of evaluation and reading lists.听

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Please consult the Faculty of Arts Office of Advising and Student Information Services for the Policy concerning Reassessment of Course Work and Rereads of Final Exams.
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Reread Policy: Department of East Asian Studies

Rereads for graduate courses are governed by policies of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research.

Rereads for undergraduate courses (including 500-level courses) are governed by policies of the Faculty of Arts. In addition, the following departmental policy concerning only undergraduate rereads is to be followed:

Students desiring their work to be re-evaluated shall first have a meeting concerning their assignment with the instructor.
If this discussion does not satisfy the student's desire for a reread, the student may contact the Undergraduate Program Director (UPD). The student will submit a form (downloadable below), signing the form to indicate that the meeting in item 1. above has occurred, and attaching the assignment with the corrections and marks intact.
The Undergraduate Program Director (UPD) will send this form to the instructor for counter-signature. In the event that the instructor claims that the meeting described in item 1. has not occurred, the Undergraduate Program Director (UPD) will bring the two parties together, and the process will not proceed until student and instructor have engaged in dialogue and tried to reach an agreement. After this discussion has taken place, if the student wishes, the process will move forward.
The reread will take place according to Faculty of Arts policies. Please note: New Faculty policy requires that a request for a reread must occur within 10 working days of the date of the return of course work. Students must use diligence in obtaining corrected work.
When the reread is complete, and the second reader has submitted a report, the Undergraduate Program Director (UPD) will inform both the student and the instructor of the result. The new grade may be higher, lower or remain unchanged, and will be final.
In the case where the course instructor is also the UPD, the request for a reassessment should be submitted to the department Chair. The Chair will carry out the reassessment process as described above in the place of the UPD.

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EAST Languages REGISTRATION policies

JAPANESE language registration policy:

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CHINESE language听registration policy:

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KOREAN language registration policy:

Students with background in Korean:

Korean Language Summer courses:

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