EALC8728 - Conquest Dynasties

Status
X
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
301
Title (text only)
Conquest Dynasties
Term
2025C
Subject area
EALC
Section number only
301
Section ID
EALC8728301
Course number integer
8728
Meeting times
CANCELED
Level
graduate
Instructors
Brian T Vivier
Description
This course will introduce students to current scholarship on and analytical approaches to the pre-Mongol Inner Asian conquest dynasties that ruled significant portions of China the Liao, Jin, and Xixia regimes. Core readings will consist of secondary scholarship in English, with an additional section covering primary source documents for students with reading ability in Classical Chinese.
Course number only
8728
Use local description
No

EALC8659 - Japanese for Sinologists

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
301
Title (text only)
Japanese for Sinologists
Term
2025C
Subject area
EALC
Section number only
301
Section ID
EALC8659301
Course number integer
8659
Meeting times
TR 10:15 AM-11:44 AM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Linda H. Chance
Description
An accelerated course in scholarly Japanese for Sinologists and others with a knowledge of Chinese characters.
Course number only
8659
Use local description
No

EALC8621 - Advanced Classical Chinese I

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Advanced Classical Chinese I
Term
2025C
Subject area
EALC
Section number only
401
Section ID
EALC8621401
Course number integer
8621
Meeting times
T 3:30 PM-6:29 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Paul Rakita Goldin
Description
Close reading and interpretation of texts in various styles of classical Chinese drawn from the Han, Wei, Tang, and Song periods. Focus on strengthening students' reading ability in classical Chinese. Attention to questions of style, rhetoric, and syntax.
Course number only
8621
Cross listings
CHIN1150401, CHIN8621401, EALC3623401
Use local description
No

EALC8600 - Chinese Language Pedagogy and Methods

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
680
Title (text only)
Chinese Language Pedagogy and Methods
Term
2025C
Subject area
EALC
Section number only
680
Section ID
EALC8600680
Course number integer
8600
Meeting times
TR 1:45 PM-3:14 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Ye Tian
Description
This graduate course is designed to equip students with the most advanced and up-to-date theoretical knowledge and practical skills of teaching modern Chinese with emphasis on the instruction of beginning and intermediate levels. The theoretical component introduces you to both mainstream and innovative theoretical frameworks in second-language acquisition and sociology of education, including teaching within the National Standards; communication-based audio-lingo approach; backward design; prosodic syntax in Chinese; official knowledge; tracking; ecologies of resources; assessment and testing. The practical component emphasizes everyday classroom situations and discusses diverse teaching concepts and the development of individual teaching strategies and styles. Special attention will be given to concrete teaching and learning strategies within the communication-based audio-lingo approach, including Chinese grammar illustration, corrective feedback, teaching techniques, educational technologies, etc.
Chinese proficiency at the advanced level is required because this course will be taught in both Chinese and English, and many of the reading materials are in Chinese.
Course number only
8600
Use local description
No

EALC8241 - Readings in Premodern Japanese Literature

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
301
Title (text only)
Readings in Premodern Japanese Literature
Term
2025C
Subject area
EALC
Section number only
301
Section ID
EALC8241301
Course number integer
8241
Meeting times
T 1:45 PM-4:44 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Linda H. Chance
Description
In this seminar we will read primary texts in varieties of premodern Japanese as well as recent secondary scholarship in English and Japanese. Our purpose is to discover sources and avenues to enliven our research on premodern Japan (900 to 1900, depending on your interests; core work will span 1200-1700). Our themes may include genre, trauma, gender, reading, performance, and material text. If you do not already have Classical Japanese reading ability, please consult the instructor for help in preparing. We will also work with reference materials. Class meetings will use a modular approach. Joint meetings to discuss readings will be two hours. Novices in Classical Japanese will have a separate hour meeting weekly focused on the acquisition of basic grammar. There will be a separate hour meeting weekly to practice reading pre-Edo kuzushiji and hentaigana. You will choose from a menu of assignments those that will best promote the development of your scholarly skills and portfolio.
Course number only
8241
Use local description
No

EALC7742 - City & Citizenship: Samurai Politics and Commoner Culture in Early Modern Japan

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
City & Citizenship: Samurai Politics and Commoner Culture in Early Modern Japan
Term
2025C
Subject area
EALC
Section number only
401
Section ID
EALC7742401
Course number integer
7742
Meeting times
MW 10:15 AM-11:44 AM
Level
graduate
Instructors
David Spafford
Description
In the early modern period (1600-1867), Japan underwent a staggering urban transformation. Edo, the shogunal capital, grew in barely a century from a new settlement to a sprawling metropolis of over a million. Indeed, most of Japan's current urban centers descend directly from the castle towns built by regional warlords in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in an effort keep the peace after over a hundred years of civil war. As a result, Japanese cities in the early modern period became a central component of what historians have called a "re-feudalization" of society, and retained strong vestiges of their military origins. At the same time the samurai-centered space of the new cities created opportunities for the development of alternative cultural practices and values by urban commoners. The juxtaposition of the regimented, honor-driven society designed and longed for by samurai and the fluid, money-driven society that grew out of the burgeoning cities' commoner quarters is one of the animating forces of the early modern period. Through study of scholarship and contemporary sources (laws and sumptuary regulations, codes of conducts, but also diaries, novels, plays), this course will explore the many facets of early modern urban society, its medieval antecedents, and its legacies in contemporary Japan.
Course number only
7742
Cross listings
EALC3742401, HIST0753401
Use local description
No

EALC7721 - Law in Pre-Modern China

Status
X
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Law in Pre-Modern China
Term
2025C
Subject area
EALC
Section number only
401
Section ID
EALC7721401
Course number integer
7721
Meeting times
CANCELED
Level
graduate
Instructors
Paul Rakita Goldin
Description
This course, intended for graduate students and advanced undergraduates, offers a survey of the sources and research problems of pre-modern Chinese law. For reasons to be examined in the course, traditional Sinological education has neglected law as a legitimate field of inquiry; consequently, the secondary literature is surprisingly meager. Our readings will take us from the Warring States Period to the Qing dynasty--an interval of over two millennia--and will cover several varieties of legal documents, including statutes, handbooks, court records, and theoretical treatises. All the readings will be in English, and no knowledge of Chinese is presumed. Graduate students should see the instructor to discuss requirement for graduate credit.
Course number only
7721
Cross listings
EALC3721401
Use local description
No

EALC7621 - Introduction to Classical Chinese I

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Introduction to Classical Chinese I
Term
2025C
Subject area
EALC
Section number only
401
Section ID
EALC7621401
Course number integer
7621
Meeting times
TR 3:30 PM-4:59 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Ori Tavor
Description
Introduction to the classical written language, beginning with Shadick, First Course in Literary Chinese. Students with a background in Japanese, Korean, Cantonese, Taiwanese, and other East Asian languages are welcome; it is not necessary to know Mandarin. The course begins from scratch, and swiftly but rigorously develops the ability to read a wide variety of classical and semi-classical styles. Original texts from the 6th century BC to the 20th century AD are studied. This course is taught in English and there are no prerequisites.
Course number only
7621
Cross listings
CHIN1050401, EALC3621401
Use local description
No

EALC7559 - Gender and Sexuality in Japan

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Gender and Sexuality in Japan
Term
2025C
Subject area
EALC
Section number only
401
Section ID
EALC7559401
Course number integer
7559
Meeting times
M 12:00 PM-2:59 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Ayako Kano
Description
If you have ever wondered about the following questions, then this is the right course for you: Is Japan a hyper-feminine nation of smiling geisha and obedient wives? Is it a hyper-masculine nation of samurai and economic warriors? Is it true that Japanese wives control the household? Is it true that Japanese men suffer from over-dependence on their mothers? What do young Japanese women and young men worry about? What does the government think about the future of Japanese women and men? Assuming that expressions of gender and sexuality are deeply influenced by cultural and social factors, and that they also show profound differences regionally and historically, this course examines a variety of texts--historical, biographical, autobiographical, fictional, non-fictional, visual, cinematic, analytical, theoretical--in order to better understand the complexity of any attempts to answer the above questions.
Course number only
7559
Cross listings
EALC3559401, GSWS3559401
Use local description
No

EALC7211 - Modern Chinese Poetry in a Global Context

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Modern Chinese Poetry in a Global Context
Term
2025C
Subject area
EALC
Section number only
401
Section ID
EALC7211401
Course number integer
7211
Meeting times
M 10:15 AM-1:14 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Chloe Estep
Description
The tumultuous political and economic history of modern China has been mirrored in and shaped by equally fundamental revolutions in language and poetic expression. In this course, we will take Chinese poetry as a crucible in which we can observe the interacting forces of literary history and social change. From diplomats who saw poetry as a medium for cultural translation between China and the world, to revolutionaries who enlisted poetry in the project of social transformation, we will examine the lives and works of some of China’s most prominent poets and ask, what can we learn about modern China from reading their poetry? In asking this question, we will also reckon with the strengths and limitations of using poetry as an historical source. In addition to poems, the course will include fiction, essays, photographs, and films by both Chinese and non-Chinese artists that place our poets in a broader context. We will pay close attention to how these poets represent China’s place in the world, as well as the role of language in social change. Topics of discussion include: national identity, revolution, translation, gender, the body, ethnicity, and technology.
Familiarity with Chinese or related cultural context is beneficial, but not required.
This course introduces students to Chinese poetry in English translation. Students will leave the course with an in-depth understanding of the main figures, themes, and techniques of Chinese poetry, and will be introduced to some of the major developments in the history of China. Through a focus on primary texts, students will develop the vocabulary and analytical skills to appreciate and analyze poetry in translation and will gain confidence as writers thinking about literary texts.
Course number only
7211
Cross listings
ASAM3211401, COML3211401, COML7211401, EALC3211401
Use local description
No