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ART HISTORY 125g
Arts of Asia: Antiquity to 1300
TBA
TTh, 12:30 - 1:50
Please contact the department for course description.
ANTHROPOLOGY 100g
Principles of Human Organization: Non-Western Societies
Weibel-Orlando
TTh, 11:00 - 12:20
This course is designed to look at both universal social organizational themes and their culture-specific variations. We do so by reading and discussing the ethnographies (holistic descriptions of a particular society's cultural tenets and folk ways) of five non-western societies. Having gained an overview of each society in the first third of the course, the next two-thirds of the semester is devoted to cross-cultural comparisons of eight of the societies' shared principles of organization (kinship and family, belief, political, law, and economic systems as well as their understandings of medicine and health, time and them selves as evolving social entities across time, space and intercultural contact.) In the past, Dr. Weibel-Orlando has lectured about the Trobriand Islanders of the Western Pacific, the Yanomano of So. Venezuela, the Cheyennes of Colorado, the Nuer of the So. Sudan, and a Hindi agrarian village in No. India.
Readings and Assignments:
The students are expected to read relevant portions of a classic ethnography about each of the cultures under exploration. Weekly reading assignments average about 50 pages. There are two, in-class mid-term tests and one final test given during exam week. Each test is worth 20 percent of the final grade. A comparative term paper of not less than 10 pages is due the 12th week of class. It, too, constitutes 20 percent of the grade. Discussion group attendance is mandatory. Ones attendance record and intellectual participation in discussion group are evaluated at the end of the semester and constitute 20 percent of the final grade.
Note: The readings and assignments list may be subject to change. Please contact the department for verification.
ANTHROPOLOGY 235g
The Changing Pacific: History, Culture and Politics of the New South Seas
Lutkehaus
MW, 8:00 - 9:30
This Course examines societies of the island Pacific region traditionally identified as Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia, and studies how they have changed since the time of the first European contact to the present day. The course fulfills a General Education requirement in Non-Western Civilizations through an in depth examination of the Trobriand and Manam Island Societies of Papua New Guinea, The Polynesian Cultures of Hawaii, Samoa, Tahiti and Tonga, as Fiji and the Marshall Islands (Micronesia). It also examines the historical processes of exploration, contact, colonization, and nationalism in the wider Pacific region, including relations with the United States, New Zealand, Australia, and Indonesia in order to provide a context for understanding contemporary political, economic, and social relations between these small Pacific island societies and their larger Pacific Rim neighbors and overseers.
Themes to be examined in the course include the different perceptions of contact between the Europeans and indigenous Pacific Islanders, different perceptions of Pacific cultures among missionaries, explorers, and anthropologists, indigenous forms of political economy, forms of exchange, men's and women's roles in exchange, male and female initiation practices, millenarian movements and cargo cults, migration, changing notions of personhood and identity, economic development and change, the impact of tourism, and the contemporary development of independence movements and forms of cultural identity, such as the revival of tattooing and the hula.
Readings and Assignments:
Howe, K.R. 1984. Where the Waves Fall: A New South Seas History from First Settlement to Colonial Rule. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
Lockwood, Victoria S., Thomas G. Harding and Ben J. Wallace, eds. 1993. Contemporary Pacific Societies: Studies in Development and Change. Prentice Hall.
Weiner, Annette. 1988. The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
Also a course reader: still in press.
In past semesters when this course was offered, the assignments were:
- map quiz (10%)
- midterm (25%)
- final exam (25%)
- 8-10 page term paper (30%)
- discussion section attendance and participation (10%)
Expect the work load and assignments to be similar to this in Fall '00. The readings and assignments list may be subject to change. Please contact the department for verification.
ANTHROPOLOGY 263g
Exploring Culture Through Film
Simic
TTh, 2:00 - 3:30
This course will introduce the student to the subject matter and theories of social anthropology through the extensive use of visual media, especially through film. Topics will cover a spectrum of issues, including: marriage and the family; economics; ritual and religion; conflict and conflict resolution; and culture change, among others. The approach will be broadly comparative.
Traditions covered in the course will include those of Africa, Latin America, and the Balkaus, among others.
Readings and Assignments:
Course readings will vary from semester to semester, but will usually include four books. Course requirements are: a midterm, final, film journals, and a term paper.
Note: For other Anthropology 263g sections, see the next 3 entries.
ANTHROPOLOGY 263g
Exploring Culture Through Film
Seaman
TTh, 8:00 - 9:30
Please contact the department for course description.
Note: For other Anthropology 263g sections, see the previous or next 2 entries.
ANTHROPOLOGY 263g
Exploring Culture Through Film
Boehm
TTh, 3:30 - 5:00
Please contact the department for course description.
Note: For other Anthropology 263g sections, see the next or previous 2 entries.
ANTHROPOLGY 263g
Exploring Culture Through Film
TBA
TTh, 9:30 - 10:50
Please contact the department for course description.
Note: For other Anthropology 263g sections, see the previous 3 entries.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 264g
Asian Aesthetic and Literary Tradition
Kim
MW, 10:00 - 12:00
Please contact the department for course description.
EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES 110g
East Asian Humanities: The Great Tradition
Hayden
TTh, 12:30-1:50
This course introduces the fundamental humanistic traditions of China, Japan, and Korea through representative works of traditional literature, esthetics, social philosophy, religion, and historical writing. The readings are mostly from primary sources as translated into English. No previous knowledge of an East Asian culture or language is expected.
Readings and Assignments:
Sources of Chinese Tradition, vol. I
Sources of Japanese Tradition, vol I
Anthology of Chinese Literature, vol. I
Anthology of Japanese Literature
Anthology of Korean Literature
Note: The readings and assignments may be subject to change. Please contact the department for verification.
EAST ASIAN ANGUAGES AND CULTURES 340g
Japanese Civilization
Nosco
TTh, 9:30 -10:50
The principle aim of the course is to heighten the student's awareness of the traditional and modern patterns of the Japanese people. This is done by surveying the main characteristics and historical development of Japanese philosophy, religion, literature, art, and political and social institutions, from earliest times to the present era, and by exploring the cultural traditions of Japan.
Readings:
H. Paul Varley, Japanese Culture
Conrad Schirokauer, A Brief History of Japanese Civilization
Edwin Reischauer, The Japanese Today
K. Yoshida, Essays in Idleness
Note: The readings and assignments may be subject to change. Please contact the department for verification.
EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES 350g
Chinese Civilization
Birge
WF, 10:00 -12:00
Please contact the department for course description.
EAST ASIAN STUDIES CENTER 150g
East Asian Societies
TBA
TTh, 2:00 - 3:30
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HISTORY 105g
The Korean Past: An Introduction to Korean Civilization
Hwang
MW, 12:00 - 1:50
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HISTORY 106g
Chinese Lives: An Introduction to Chinese History
Wills
TTh, 8:00 - 9:20
This class introduces students to some key themes in the history of China from the origins of the civilization down to our own day. The emphasis is not on volume of material read or facts mastered, but on reading, thinking, and writing. Wills, Mountain of Fame provides some continuity of exposition and introduction to some key themes and problems through the study of a series of famous and infamous lives of individuals in Chinese history. Ebrey, Chinese Civilization gives you a sense of the variety of Chinese experience and the challenges of trying to make sense of sources in translation. Very short writing exercises are required regularly, to give you practice in the kinds of writing and thinking we want you to work on in this course, and to push you to keep up with the readings.
Readings and assignments:
Some kind of writing or exam is due in almost every week of this class. Most are brief and based entirely on assigned readings; all are carefully laid out in course materials and sessions. There are a mid-term exam and a final; two short essays, not over 1000 words; a longer paper, not over 2000 words, due at the end of the class; and short assignments, not over 250 words each, which may be handwritten, and due in most weeks when there is no longer paper or exam.
RELIGION 131g
Religions of Asia
Slingerland
MWF, 10:00 -10:50
Please contact the department for course description.
SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE 330g
Russian Thought and Civilization
Levitt
MWF, 10:00 -10:50
Please contact the department for course description.
