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ART HISTORY 125g
Arts of Asia: Antiquity to 1300
TBA
TTh, 8:00 - 9:30
Please contact the department for course description.
ANTHROPOLOGY 100g
Principles of Human Organization: Non-Western Societies
Moore
TTh, 8:00 - 9:30
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.)
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
Nancy Lutkehaus
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.
The last time this course was offered (Spring 99) 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 99.
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.
ANTHROPOLOGY 263g
Exploring Culture Through Film
Seaman
MW, 8:00 - 9:30
Please contact the department for course description.
ANTHROPOLOGY 273g
Folk Belief Systems: Non-Western Traditions
Hoskins
TTh, 12:30 - 2:00
Please contact the department for course description.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 250g
Cultures of Latin America
Diaz
MW, 10:00 - 12:00
This course explores the heterogeneous character of civilization in Latin America, especially the interaction of Native American, European, African and North American elements in the region's various countries. By drawing mostly on literature, by also on music, the visual arts, history, and cultural theory, the course addresses a series of questions that lie at the heart of identity- thinking in Latin America. What, if any, are the "distinctive properties" of Latin American cultural forms? How do these forms interact with counterparts in Europe and the United States, or in other "post-colonial" societies? How do others represent Latin America? How do Latin Americans seek to represent themselves son their own terms?
The course is divided into four parts: 1) the emergence of new cultural forms in the colonial period, exemplified by the reformulation of baroque aesthetics in Mexico and other regions; 2) the construction of national identities in the 19th century, with an emphasis on Argentina; 3) rethinking of Latin America as a
supranational entity in the 20th century, particularly from the viewpoint of the Cuban revolution; and 4) the ascent of Latino culture(s) in the United States and of North American cultural norm in Latin America.
Required Texts:
Alejo Carpentier. Concierto Barroco.
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. A Sor Juana Anthology.
Roberto Fernandez Retamar. Caliban
Alberto Fuguet. Bad Vibes.
Helen Hunt Jackson. Ramona.
William Shakespeare. The Tempest.
Source book
Grading and Course Requirements:
Class Participation 10%
Short Paper (5-6 pages) 15%
Midterm Examination 25%
Term Paper 25%
Final Examination 25%
Note: The readings and assignments list may be subject to change. Please contact the department for verification.
EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES 110g
East Asian Humanities: The Great Tradition
Hayden
TTh, 11:00-12:20
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 LANGUAGES AND CULTURES 130g
East Asian Ethical Thought
Nosco
TTh, 9:30 -10:50
This course examines the Confucian, Taoist, Legalist, Buddhist, Neo-Confucian, and Shinto traditions of China and Japan. Major themes include various perspectives on the question of human nature and religious options available to the East Asian believer, and the contextual relationship between thought and society.
Readings and Assignments:
W. T. deBary, ed., Sources of Chinese Tradition
R. Tsunoda, ed., Sources of Japanese Tradition
W. T. Chan, ed, Source Book in Chinese Philosophy
Arthur Waley, trans., The Analects of Confucius
H. B. Earhart, Japanese Religion: Unity and Diversity
Note: The readings and assignments list may be subject to change. Please contact the department for verification.
EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES 342g
Japanese Literature and Culture
Bialock
MWF, 1:00 -1:50
The object of this course is to explore fundamental patterns in the culture and civilization of Japan through an examination of key literary, historical, religious, and philosophical texts from the ancient through modern periods. Since standard narratives of Japan's cultural past have been heavily influenced by Japan's emergence as a modern nation state, particular attention will be paid throughout this course to how the cultural dialogue and conflict between Japan and the West that accompanied modernization have consistently shaped both Japanese and Western views of Japan's evolution as a civilization. Issues discussed in the course will include the role of myth, story-telling, and historical narrative in Japanese culture, with comparisons to western epic and Greek historical narrative; conceptions of authority as reflected in evolving notions of imperial, sacred, and secular power; the role of ritual, performance and sociality in Japanese literary and art forms, with specific comparisons to western theatrical and novelistic traditions; the centrality of aesthetics in Japanese self-identity; concepts of self, gender, and otherness, with comparisons to western notions of individuality and subject; the uses of geography, place, and boundary as markers of cultural identity and difference; the role of nature and time in Japanese culture with comparisons to western notions of time and nature.
Readings and assignments:
Readings will include mythical and historical narratives from the Kojiki (The Record of Ancient Matters), and ancient poetry from the Man'yôshû, Heian and medieval fictional narrative, dramatic texts from the Noh and puppet theaters, haiku poetry, modern novels, and other selections as well. Each student will be required to write two analytical papers of at least six pages (excluding bibliography and notes, 40% of final grade); and complete a midterm exam (essay and identifications, 20% of final grade) and a final exam (essay and identifications, 30% of final grade). Attendance and participation in discussion will constitute of 10% of final grade. Students will also be required to master a basic vocabulary of proper names and technical terms in Japanese. Both paper topics must be related to the texts mentioned in the reading list, and submitted for the instructor's approval.
Note: The readings and assignments list may be subject to change. Please contact the department for verification.
EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES 350g
Chinese Civilization
Birge
TTh, 11:00 -12:20
Please contact the department for course description.
EAST ASIAN STUDIES CENTER 150g
East Asian Societies
Kim
TTh, 2:00 - 3:30
Please contact the department for course description.
HISTORY 105g
The Korean Past
Hwang
WF, 2:00 - 3:20
Please contact the department for course description.
HISTORY 106g
Chinese Lives: An Introduction to Chinese History
Wills
MWF, 9:00 - 9:50
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.
HISTORY 107g
Japanese History
Berger
TTh, 12:30 -1:50
This course has two essential purposes. The first is to acquaint you with a survey of Japanese history. Our purpose will not be to memorize names, dates and places, but rather to see how a civilization quite different from those of the West evolved, developed, and met human needs. We may thereby learn quite a bit not only about Japan, but about our own cultural traditions. At a time when comparisons between contemporary Japan and America appear daily in the mass media, seeing the patterns of Japanese history may help us understand the patterns of contemporary Japan, and evaluate those comparisons with a more educated eye.
The second purpose is to explore what "history" means as an intellectual discipline, and how materials from other branches of knowledge, such as archaeology, economics, fine arts, literature and political science may be deployed to enrich our understanding of the past.
The major cultural traditions explored are Japan's agrarian-village tradition, warrior (samurai) tradition, aristocratic/bureaucratic (court nobility) tradition, and the patterns of embracing or rejecting traditions encountered from foreign sources.
Readings:
DeBary, et.al. Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume I;
Murasaki Shikibu, Tale of Genji;
Shirokaues, A Brief History of Japanese Civilization;
and collected photocopied materials.
Assignments:
Midterm (25% OF GRADE); Final Examination (40% of grade); term paper exploring how a piece of literature, art, or architecture reflects the times in which it was created by the Japanese (35% of grade).
Note: The readings and assignments list may be subject to change. Please contact the department for verification.
POLITICAL SCIENCE 255g
Cultures, Civilizations and Ethnicities in World Politics
Dekmejian
MW, 3:30 - 4:50
Please contact the department for course description.
RELIGION 131g
Religions of the East
TBA
MWF, 10:00 -10:50
Please contact the department for course description.
SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE 330g
Russian Thought and Civilization
Postoutenko
TTh, 11:00 -12:20
Please contact the department for course description.
