Concentration in Asia
Jane Geaney, Advisor
8 units, including
- Three units from area A chosen in consultation with the concentration advisor
- Three units from area B chosen in consultation with the concentration advisor
- Two units from area A or B chosen in consultation with the concentration advisor
For eligibility of other relevant courses for inclusion in the major, see the concentration advisor.
Note: Students taking courses marked with an * can receive credits toward the concentration, provided they have the concentration advisor's approval and their papers/projects are related to Asia.
Area A: Humanities
- ART 212 Introduction to Asian Art
- ART 226 Art and Culture of Japan
- ART 378 Topics in Asian Art
- ART 383 East Asian Painting, Poetry and Calligraphy
- CHIN 311 Insights into Chinese Culture
- CHIN 401-402 Advanced Chinese Language, Literature and Culture
- ENGL 214 Literature of India
- ENGL 333 Literatures of South Asia
- ENGL 337 Postcolonial Literatures*
- HIST 130 East Asian Civilizations
- HIST 250 Modern East Asia 1600-1960
- HIST 251 Chinese Revolutions
- HIST 252 China Modern 1900-1940
- HIST 253 Empires and Nations in Modern East Asia
- HIST 254 Modern Japan
- HIST 255 Meiji Japan: An Emperor and the World Named for Him
- HIST 290 British Empire and Commonwealth*
- JAPN 310 Japanese Culture
- MLC 235 Special Topics in Japanese Film
- MUS 124 Asian Music and Globalization
- REGL 250 Introduction to World Religions
- RELG 251 Sacred Arts of India
- RELG 253 Body/Sex in World Religious Literature
- RELG 255 Queers in Religion*
- RELG 352 Buddhism in India and Tibet
- RELG 355 Selected Asian Religions
- RELG 366 Buddhist Philosophy
Area B: Social Sciences
- ANTH 328 Anthropology of Human Rights*
- ANTH 339 Pacific Island Cultures and Ethnographies
- ANTH 340 Southeast Asia: Cultural Representations
- ECON 105 Introduction to Global Economics
- ECON 211 Economic Development in Asia, Africa and Latin America
- GEOG 207 World Regional Geography-Developing Regions*
- GEOG 345 Society, Economy and Nature: Global Perspective on Sustainable Development*
- GEOG 370 Geographies of Economic Development and Globalization*
- HIST 340 Imagining the Other: China and the West
- HIST 341 History and Memory: WWII in East Asia
- HIST 390 Food and Power in Asia and Africa
- IBUS 390 International Business Issues (Asia/Pacific Management)*
- IS 245 Introduction to South Asia
- IS 301 Dependency and Development: An Introduction to the Third World*
- IS 310 Tribe, Nation, World: The Anthropology of Globalization*
- IS 320 Power, Space and Territory: Geographies of Political Change*
- IS 351 Globalization*
- PLSC 343 Politics of Asia
- PLSC 345 Politics of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
- PLSC 347 Politics of Developing Nations*
- PLSC 357 International Relations of East Asia
- PLSC 358 The United States and the Pacific Rim
- SOC 306 Social Change in a Global Perspective*
- SOC 335 Feast and Famine: Inequalities in the Global Food System*