This is the third course in a four-semester sequence. By completing all four semesters, students fulfill the College language requirement. The objective of the course is to continue building a solid foundation of the four basic skills--listening, speaking, reading and writing. By the end of this course, students should achieve the following goals: 1) pronounce all the sounds in Mandarin accurately and comfortably with a good command of the four tones; 2) carry out simple dialogues of familiar topics; 3) recognize and reproduce approximately 450-500 characters; and 4) read short textbook stories and write simple notes. In order to develop students' listening and speaking ability, oral communication tasks are given on each lesson.

This is the third course in a four-semester sequence. By completing all four semesters, students fulfill the College language requirement. The objective of the course is to continue building a solid foundation of the four basic skills--listening, speaking, reading and writing. By the end of this course, students should achieve the following goals: 1) pronounce all the sounds in Mandarin accurately and comfortably with a good command of the four tones; 2) carry out simple dialogues of familiar topics; 3) recognize and reproduce approximately 450-500 characters; and 4) read short textbook stories and write simple notes. In order to develop students' listening and speaking ability, oral communication tasks are given on each lesson.

This is the third course in a four-semester sequence. By completing all four semesters, students fulfill the College language requirement. The objective of the course is to continue building a solid foundation of the four basic skills--listening, speaking, reading and writing. By the end of this course, students should achieve the following goals: 1) pronounce all the sounds in Mandarin accurately and comfortably with a good command of the four tones; 2) carry out simple dialogues of familiar topics; 3) recognize and reproduce approximately 450-500 characters; and 4) read short textbook stories and write simple notes. In order to develop students' listening and speaking ability, oral communication tasks are given on each lesson.

Mongolian is the national language of the independent State of Mongolia and the

Where are East Asian economies and education headed? Can a new model of East Asian economy and education be established to achieve economic sustainability and equity in rapidly changing global contexts?
In this seminar, we will survey 1) evolution of the East Asian economic model, focusing on changes in economic development strategies, labor market structures, and relationships with global economies; and 2) features of East Asian educational systems, focusing on educational opportunities and learning outcomes. In reviewing East Asian economy and education, a central question is not only how productive East Asian economy and education is but also how equal economic and educational opportunities are in the region. In the final part of the seminar, students will come up with some policy recommendations for East Asian economy and education to better achieve economic sustainability and equity.
This graduate-level course is also open to advanced undergraduate students.

This course examines the nexus between language, nation, and diaspora by bringing literary and cultural texts together with foundational and cutting-edge scholarship. Recent scholarship has attempted to account for the history, politics, aesthetics, and rich complexity of texts produced at or across the boundaries of national and linguistic communities. This course focuses on East Asia in the modern period and the texts produced by diasporic, migrant, exile, and other global communities thereof in order to investigate and reconsider how scholars might account for such texts. Topics for discussion include, for example: diaspora and migration, cosmopolitanism and universalism, nation and nationalism, translation and multilingualism, media and mediation, gender and sexuality, and the human and posthuman. Our readings will include a wide range of scholarship drawn from across disciplines and regions of focus, as well as literary, cultural, and cinematic texts which will allow us to think through the ideas put forth in scholarship.

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.

How have gender and sexuality been historically constructed and shifted in modern and contemporary Korea? How did terms like “new woman,” “t'ibu,” or “soybean paste girl” enter the popular discourse at different points of its capitalist modernity? This graduate seminar investigates gender/sexuality at large in relation to heteropatriarchal kinship system, ableist national biopolitics, and normative citizenship on the Korean peninsula from late Chosŏn to current times. Moving through the eras of Japanese occupation, the Korean War and division, developmental dictatorships, to the current millennia, we focus on the critical role that gender and sexuality played—and continue to play—in the political, social, cultural, and economic dimensions of nation-building, democratization, and neoliberalization that shaped the contemporary Korean societies. In this discussion-based seminar, we will read a broad range of secondary sources and explore different methods in interdisciplinary Korean studies including historiography, feminist cultural anthropology, queer and crip theories, among others.

This course provides a survey of Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910), focusing on the insights this period and place offer us into fundamental problems that have engaged societies throughout history, including those of our present time. Through translated primary-source readings, images, and objects, we will explore topics such as public duties and private desires, exclusion and belonging, the pursuit of power and wealth, legal justice, gender and class relations, the politics of language and writing, and ecological vulnerability and resilience. Students will be invited to
contribute comparative perspectives that draw on their knowledge of other societies and times; they will also assess contemporary dramatizations of this period with the historical understanding they will develop throughout the course. On completion, students will gain an overview of politics, society, and culture in traditional Korea that will serve as the foundation for their further study of modern Korean history and contemporary affairs. No prior knowledge of Korea or the Korean language is required.

This course provides a survey of Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910), focusing on the insights this period and place offer us into fundamental problems that have engaged societies throughout history, including those of our present time. Through translated primary-source readings, images, and objects, we will explore topics such as public duties and private desires, exclusion and belonging, the pursuit of power and wealth, legal justice, gender and class relations, the politics of language and writing, and ecological vulnerability and resilience. Students will be invited to
contribute comparative perspectives that draw on their knowledge of other societies and times; they will also assess contemporary dramatizations of this period with the historical understanding they will develop throughout the course. On completion, students will gain an overview of politics, society, and culture in traditional Korea that will serve as the foundation for their further study of modern Korean history and contemporary affairs. No prior knowledge of Korea or the Korean language is required.