East Asian Studies Minor
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Students who seek a minor in East Asian Studies must complete 24 credits distributed as follows:
- ASIA 350, “What is Asia?” (4 credits) – Required Course for East Asian Studies Minors.
- This course is an interdisciplinary seminar designed to introduce students to current theoretical debates about Asia, modernization, and area studies.
- East Asia Regional Focus Courses (20 credits), drawn from at least two departments. See course list below.
- Two years of study in a relevant Asian language (Japanese, Chinese, or Korean) or its equivalent level of proficiency.
Other East Asian Studies Minor Requirement Notes:
- At least 12 of the 24 credits must by upper division (300 or 400-level).
- First- and second-year language courses cannot be used to satisfy requirements for the minor.
- Courses must be passed with grades of C- or better.
East Asian Studies Minor – Course List
| Dept | Number | Title | Credits | Advisory Notes |
| ANTH | 223 | Anthropology of Chocolate | 4.00 cr. | See ***Lower-division course note |
| ANTH | 345 | Archaeology of East Asia | 4.00 cr. | |
| ARH | 208 | History of Chinese Art | 4.00 cr. | See ***Lower-division course note |
| ARH | 209 | History of Japanese Art | 4.00 cr. | See ***Lower-division course note |
| ARH | 210 | Contemporary Asian Art & Architecture | 4.00 cr. | See ***Lower-division course note |
| ARH | 350 | History of Manga | 4.00 cr. | |
| ARH | 382 | Arts of the Silk Road | 4.00 cr. | |
| ARH | 387 | Chinese Buddhist Art | 4.00 cr. | |
| ARH | 399 | Sp St Global Asia; Sp St Arch East Asia; Sp Studies: Japan – Any Japan or Asia-related ARH 399 course is approved as an elective for this minor | 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| ARH | 407 | Sem: Women Contemp Asia | 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| ARH | 407 | Sem: Japan | 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| ARH | 410 | Identity Polit Asia-Am | 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| ARH | 410 | Contemp Korean Art | 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| ARH | 481 | Chinese Art: [Topic] | 4.00 cr. | |
| ARH | 485 | Japanese Art: [Topic] | 4.00 cr. | |
| ARH | 488 | Japanese Prints | 4.00 cr. | |
| ASIA | 111 | Great Books on Modern Asia | 4.00 cr. | See ***Lower-division course note |
| ASIA | 399 | Special Studies: [When Topic China, Japan, or Korea and HUM-related] | 1.00 – 5.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| ASIA | 425 | Asian Foodways | 4.00 cr. | |
| ASIA | 480 | Chinese Economy: Transition, Development, Globalization | 4.00 cr. | |
| CHN | 150 | Introduction to Chinese Narrative | 4.00 cr. | See ***Lower-division course note |
| CHN | 151 | Introduction to Chinese Film | 4.00 cr. | See ***Lower-division course note |
| CHN | 152 | Introduction to Chinese Popular Culture | 4.00 cr. | See ***Lower-division course note |
| CHN | 301 | 3rd Year Chinese | 5.00 cr. | See **Upper-division language course note |
| CHN | 302 | 3rd Year Chinese | 5.00 cr. | See **Upper-division language course note |
| CHN | 303 | 3rd Year Chinese | 5.00 cr. | See **Upper-division language course note |
| CHN | 305 | History of Chinese Literature | 4.00 cr. | |
| CHN | 306 | History of Chinese Literature | 4.00 cr. | |
| CHN | 307 | History of Chinese Literature | 4.00 cr. | |
| CHN | 308 | Literature of Modern Taiwan | 4.00 cr. | |
| CHN | 350 | Gender & Sexuality in Traditional Chinese Literature | 4.00 cr. | |
| CHN | 351 | Gender & Sexuality in Traditional Chinese Literature | 4.00 cr. | |
| CHN | 380 | Self and Society in Traditional Chinese Literature | 4.00 cr. | |
| CHN | 399 | Special Studies: [Topic] | 1.00 – 5.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| CHN | 407 | Seminar: [Topic] | 1.00 – 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| CHN | 410 | Experimental Course: [Topic] | 1.00 – 5.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| CHN | 411 | Fourth-Year Chinese | 4.00 cr. | See **Upper-division language course note |
| CHN | 412 | Fourth-Year Chinese | 4.00 cr. | See **Upper-division language course note |
| CHN | 413 | Modern Chinese Texts: [Topic] | 4.00 cr. | |
| CHN | 420 | Intermediate Language Strategies | 4.00 cr. | |
| CHN | 421 | Intermediate Language Strategies | 4.00 cr. | |
| CHN | 422 | Intermediate Language Strategies | 4.00 cr. | |
| CHN | 436 | Literary Chinese | 4.00 cr. | |
| CHN | 437 | Literary Chinese | 4.00 cr. | |
| CHN | 439 | Chinese Academic Writing | 4.00 cr. | |
| CHN | 445 | Advanced Chinese: [Topic] | 4.00 cr. | |
| CHN | 452 | Chinese Film and Theory | 4.00 cr. | |
| CHN | 480 | Chinese Linguistics | 4.00 cr. | |
| CHN | 481 | Pedagogical Grammar of Chinese | 4.00 cr. | |
| CHN | 482 | History of the Chinese Language | 4.00 cr. | |
| CINE | 440 | Top Transnat Asian Flm | 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| CINE | 151M | Introduction to Korean Cinema | 4.00 cr. | |
| CINE | 362M | Contemporary Korean Film | 4.00 cr. | |
| CLAS | 310 | Early China, Ancient Greece | 4.00 cr. | |
| COLT | 380 | Top Tokyo Cyberpunk | 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| COLT | 380 | Top Asian Horror | 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| COLT | 462 | Top Abstraction | 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| EALL | 199 | Sp St Writing in E Asia | 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note; See ***Lower-division course note |
| EALL | 199 | Special Studies: [when China, Japan, or Korea-related Topic] | 1.00 – 5.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note; See ***Lower-division course note |
| EALL | 209 | Languages & Society in East Asia | 4.00 cr. | See ***Lower-division course note |
| EALL | 211 | Japan: A Cultural Odyssey | 4.00 cr. | See ***Lower-division course note |
| EALL | 399 | Special Studies: [when China, Japan, or Korea-related Topic] | 1.00 – 5.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| EALL | 407 | Seminar: Culture of Protest | 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| EALL | 407 | Seminar: [when China, Japan, or Korea-related Topic] | 1.00 – 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| EALL | 410 | Experimental Course: [when China, Japan, or Korea-related Topic] | 1.00 – 5.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| EALL | 440 | Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Phonetics | 4.00 cr. | |
| EALL | 441 | Japanese and Korean Syntax | 4.00 cr. | |
| EALL | 442 | Second-Language Acquisition | 4.00 cr. | |
| EALL | 443 | Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Pedagogy | 4.00 cr. | |
| EALL | 460 | Teaching East Asian Language and Literatures at College Level | 2.00 cr. | |
| ENG | 242 | Introduction to Asian-American Literature | 4.00 cr. | See ***Lower-division course note |
| ENG | 362 | Asian American Writers | 4.00 cr. | |
| ENG | 468 | Ethnic Literature: [when topic related to China] | 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| ES | 252 | Introduction to Asian-American Studies | 4.00 cr. | See ***Lower-division course note |
| ES | 410 | Asian Am Femnst Theo | 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| ES | 410 | Experimental Course: [When China, Japan, or Korea-related Topic] | 1.00 – 5.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| ES | 452 | Top Japanese Internmnt | 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| GEOG | 201 | World Regional Geography | 4.00 cr. | See ***Lower-division course note |
| GEOG | 342 | Geography of Globalization | 4.00 cr. | |
| GLBL | 444 | Development and Social Change in Southeast Asia | 4.00 cr. | |
| HIST | 190 | East Asia Civilization | 4.00 cr. | See ***Lower-division course note |
| HIST | 191 | China, Past and Present | 4.00 cr. | See ***Lower-division course note |
| HIST | 192 | Japan, Past & Present | 4.00 cr. | See ***Lower-division course note |
| HIST | 387 | Early China | 4.00 cr. | |
| HIST | 389 | Food in Chinese Culture | 4.00 cr. | |
| HIST | 396 | Samurai in Film | 4.00 cr. | |
| HIST | 399 | Sp St The Pacific War | 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| HIST | 407 | Sem Women of China | 5.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| HIST | 407 | Seminar [when China, Japan, or Korea topic] | 5.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| HIST | 410 | Experimental Course [when China, Japan, or Korea topic] | 1.00 – 6.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| HIST | 415 | Top Pacific Islands | 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| HIST | 449 | Race and Ethnicity in the American West | 4.00 cr. | |
| HIST | 487 | China: [Topic] | 4.00 cr. | |
| HIST | 490 | Japan: [Topic] | 4.00 cr. | |
| HIST | 491 | Medicine & Society in Premodern Japan | 4.00 cr. | |
| HIST | 497 | Culture, Modernity, and Revolution in China: [Topic] | 4.00 cr. | |
| HIST | 498 | Early Japanese Culture and Society: [Topic] | 4.00 cr. | |
| J | 429 | Top Social Media Asia | 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| J | 467 | Top Digt Media in Asia | 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| JPN | 199 | Top Japan Pop Culture | 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note; See ***Lower-division course note |
| JPN | 250 | Manga Millennium | 4.00 cr. | See ***Lower-division course note |
| JPN | 301 | Third Year Japanese | 5.00 cr. | See **Upper-division language course note |
| JPN | 302 | Third Year Japanese | 5.00 cr. | See **Upper-division language course note |
| JPN | 303 | Third Year Japanese | 5.00 cr. | See **Upper-division language course note |
| JPN | 305 | Introduction to Japanese Literature | 4.00 cr. | |
| JPN | 306 | Introduction to Japanese Literature | 4.00 cr. | |
| JPN | 307 | Introduction to Japanese Literature | 4.00 cr. | |
| JPN | 315 | Introduction to Japanese Linguistics | 4.00 cr. | |
| JPN | 399 | Special Studies: [Topic] | 1.00 – 5.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| JPN | 399 | Sp St Ghost & Monsters | 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| JPN | 407 | Seminar: [Topic] | 1.00 – 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| JPN | 410 | Experimental Course: [Topic] | 1.00 – 5.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| JPN | 410 | Women in Modern Japan | 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| JPN | 411 | Fourth-Year Spoken Japanese | 4.00 cr. | See **Upper-division language course note |
| JPN | 412 | Fourth-Year Spoken Japanese | 4.00 cr. | See **Upper-division language course note |
| JPN | 413 | Fourth-Year Spoken Japanese | 4.00 cr. | See **Upper-division language course note |
| JPN | 414 | Fourth-Year Reading and Writing Japanese | 4.00 cr. | See **Upper-division language course note |
| JPN | 415 | Fourth-Year Reading and Writing Japanese | 4.00 cr. | See **Upper-division language course note |
| JPN | 416 | Fourth-Year Reading and Writing Japanese | 4.00 cr. | See **Upper-division language course note |
| JPN | 425 | Modern Japanese Literature: [Topic] | 4.00 cr. | |
| JPN | 425 | Top Youth in JPN Lit | 4.00 cr. | |
| JPN | 434 | Advanced Readings in Japan Literature | 4.00 cr. | |
| JPN | 435 | Advanced Readings in Japan Literature | 4.00 cr. | |
| JPN | 436 | Advanced Readings in Japan Literature | 4.00 cr. | |
| JPN | 437 | Classical Japanese Literary Language | 4.00 cr. | |
| JPN | 455 | Japanese Business Culture & Language | 4.00 cr. | |
| JPN | 471 | The Japanese Cinema | 4.00 cr. | |
| JPN | 480 | Early Modern Comics | 4.00 cr. | |
| JPN | 490 | Translation and Japan Literature | 4.00 cr. | |
| KRN | 301 | Third Year Korean | 5.00 cr. | See **Upper-division language course note |
| KRN | 302 | Third Year Korean | 5.00 cr. | See **Upper-division language course note |
| KRN | 303 | Third Year Korean | 5.00 cr. | See **Upper-division language course note |
| KRN | 309 | Languages and Cultural Formation in Korea | 4.00 cr. | |
| KRN | 315 | Introduction to Korean Linguistics | 4.00 cr. | |
| KRN | 361 | Korean Popular Culture & Transnationalism | 4.00 cr. | |
| KRN | 399 | Special Studies: [Topic] | 1.00 – 5.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| KRN | 399 | Sp St Global KRN Lit | 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| KRN | 410 | Experimental Course: [Topic] | 1.00 – 5.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| KRN | 410 | North Korea | 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| KRN | 410 | Female Figures | 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| KRN | 151M | Introduction to Korean Cinema | 4.00 cr. | See ***Lower-division course note |
| KRN | 362M | Contemporary Korean Film | 4.00 cr. | |
| PS | 342 | Politics of China | 4.00 cr. | |
| PS | 345 | Southeast Asian Politics | 4.00 cr. | |
| PS | 391 | Non-Western Political Theory | 4.00 cr. | |
| PS | 460 | Political Economy of East Asia | 4.00 cr. | |
| REL | 101 | World Religions: Asian Traditions | 4.00 cr. | See ***Lower-division course note |
| REL | 199 | Sp St Buddhism | 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note; See ***Lower-division course note |
| REL | 302 | Chinese Religions | 4.00 cr. | |
| REL | 303 | Japanese Religions | 4.00 cr. | |
| REL | 353 | Dark Self, East/West | 4.00 cr. | |
| REL | 407 | Sem Bddhsm & Psythrpy | 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
| REL | 440 | Readings in Buddhist Scriptures | 4.00 cr. | |
| REL | 444 | Medieval Japanese Buddhism | 4.00 cr. | |
| SOC | 455 | Top Sex & Gender in China | 4.00 cr. | See *Non-regularized course note |
Advisory Notes
*Non-regularized course note: Courses with an asterisk in the Advisory Note may not be pre-coded into Degree Guide as Elective; may require advisor adjustment. Course topic and title varies. Course number only accepted as elective if listed in term course list.
**Upper-division language course note: Upper division language courses may be considered as electives for the East Asian Studies minor but students are encouraged to take a breadth of courses. (Note: Lower-division language courses can not be used to satisfy requirements for the minor.)
***Lower-division course note: 12 out of 24 credits for the East Asian Studies minor must be upper-division (300-level or higher). Keep this in mind when considering using lower level courses for your East Asian Studies minor.