Programs

Undergraduate Studies

Courses Available
East Asian Studies Concentration

[may also include approved seminars (407) or experimental courses (410)]

  • ANTHROPOLOGY. Peoples of East Asia (ANTH 531), Cultures of Island Southeast Asia (ANTH 536), Topics in Old World Prehistory: Chinese Archaeology (ANTH 540), Topics in Old World Prehistory: Southeast Asia (ANTH 540), Japanese Society and Culture (ANTH 586)
  • ARCHITECTURE. Settlement Patterns: Japanese Vernacular II (ARCH 533)
  • ART HISTORY. Problems in Chinese Art (ARH 584), Japanese Prints (ARH 588), Problems in Japanese Art (ARH 594)
  • ASIAN STUDIES. Introduction to Asian Studies Seminar (IST 607), Asian Studies Seminar (IST 607), Colloquium: Asian Studies (IST 608)
  • CHINESE. Fourth-Year Chinese (CHN 511, 512), Modern Chinese Texts (CHN 513), Issues in Early Chinese Literature (CHN 523), Issues in Medieval Chinese Literature (CHN 524), Issues in Modern Chinese Literature (CHN 525), Advanced Chinese (CHN 531, 532, 533), Literary Chinese (CHN 536, 537), Literary Chinese Texts (CHN 538), Structure of the Chinese Language (CHN 541), Post-Mao Fiction and Debate (CHN 551), Chinese Film and Theory (CHN 552), Early Chinese Poetry: Scholar's Lament (CHN 554), The Han-Tang Poetic Tradition (CHN 555), Traditional Chinese Law and Literature (CHN 556), The Confucian Canon (CHN 561), The Beginnings of Chinese Narrative (CHN 562)
  • EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES. Teaching East Asian Languages and Literatures at College Level (EALL 560)
  • GEOGRAPHY. Experimental Course: Geography of the Pacific Rim (GEOG 510), Advanced Geography of Non-European-American Regions: Geography of China (GEOG 575)
  • HISTORY. Thought and Society in East Asia (HIST 585, 586), China (HIST 587, 588, 589), Japan (HIST 590, 591, 592), Topics in Asian History (HIST 598)
  • INTERNATIONAL STUDIES. Gender and International Development (INTL 521), Development and the Muslim World (INTL 523), The Pacific Challenge (INTL 540)
  • JAPANESE. Fourth-Year Spoken Japanese (JPN 511, 512, 513), Fourth-Year Reading and Writing Japanese (JPN 514, 515, 516), Premodern Japanese Literature (JPN 524), Modern Japanese Literature (JPN 525), Major Japanese Writers (JPN 526), Advanced Spoken Japanese (JPN 531, 532, 533), Advanced Readings in Japanese Literature (JPN 534, 535, 536), Classical Japanese Literary Language (JPN 537, 538), Advanced Readings in Classical Japanese (JPN 539), Structure of the Japanese Language (JPN 541), Japanese Discourse Structure (JPN 542), Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language I, II (JPN 543, 544), Japanese Sociolinguistics (JPN 553), The Japanese Cinema (JPN 571), Japanese Film and Literature (JPN 572)
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE. Seminar: Science and Technology in Modern Asia (PS 507), Politics of China II (PS 542), Chinese Foreign Policy (PS 559)
  • RELIGIOUS STUDIES. Readings in Buddhist Scriptures (REL 540)

Southeast Asian Studies Concentration

[may also include approved seminars (407) or experimental courses (410)]

It is expected that the majority of the courses for this concentration deal directly with Southeast Asia. Many graduate courses in addition to those listed below are available to students through the Northwest Regional Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies faculties at the University of Washington and the University of British Columbia.


  • ANTHROPOLOGY. Topics in Pacific Enthnology (ANTH 525), Topics in Old World Prehistory: Chinese Archaeology (ANTH 540)
  • ASIAN STUDIES. Asian Studies Perspectives (AST 611), Asian Studies Issues(AST 612)
  • HISTORY. Philippines (HIST 584), Topics in Asian History (HIST 598)
  • INTERNATIONAL STUDIES. Gender and International Development (INTL 521), Development and the Muslim World (INTL 523), The Pacific Challenge (INTL 540), Southeast Asian Political Novels and Films: Changing Images (INTL 541), South Asia: Development and Social Change (INTL 542)
  • MUSIC. Gamelan (MUS 590)
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE. Seminar: Science and Technology in Modern Asia (PS 507)


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