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ART HISTORY 126g
Introduction to Asian Art: 1300-1900
Pradel
MW, 10:00-11:20
Please contact the department for course description.
ANTHROPOLOGY 235g
The Changing Pacific
Lutkehaus
TTh, 2:00-3:30
Please contact the department for course description.
ANTHROPOLOGY 250g
Race and Sexual Politics in South East Asia
Hoskins
TTh, 2:00-3:30
Southeast Asia is a meeting point of different races (Chinese, Arabs, Malays, Indians) and religions (Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, animism) and also a place where women have traditionally played an important and visible role in public life. People in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam challenge Western ideas of femininity and masculinity in a number of ways, which are explored by looking comparatively at problems of sexual identity, dualism prostitution, factory labor, Muslim veiling, migration, and post colonial politics.
Required Texts:
Aihwa Ong and Michael Peletz. Bewitching Women and Pious Men.
Laurie Sears. Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia.
Lillian Robinson. Night Market: Prostitution in Thailand.
Janet Hoskins. Biographical Objects: How to Tell the Stories of Peoples' Lives.
Midterm Examination 25%
Term Paper 35%
Class Participation in Section 10%
Take Home Final Examination 30%
ANTHROPOLOGY 263g
Exploring Culture Through Film
Simic
TTh, 12:30-2:00
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.
For other sections, see the next three entries.
ANTHROPOLOGY 263g
Exploring Culture Through Film
Boehm
TTh, 3:30-5:00
Please contact the department for course description.
ANTHROPOLOGY 263g
Exploring Culture Through Film
Seaman
TTh, 2:00-3:30
Please contact the department for course description.
ANTHROPOLOGY 263g
Exploring Culture Through Film
Lutkehaus
TTh, 9:30-11:00
Please contact the department for course description.
ANTHROPOLOGY 315g
North American Indians
Weibel - Orlando
MW, 2:00-3:30
This course explores the incredible and (largely) unperceived cultural diversity across the indigenous peoples of North America. Through lectures, slides, written and filmed ethnographies, and guest presentations by Native Americans, USC students are familiarized with the rich cultural heritages and vibrancy of contemporary Native American lifestyles. This course aims to provide USC students with an understanding and appreciation of the diversity of human cultural choices and to encourage students to develop a more analytical and relativistic view of their own cultures vis-à-vis one American "other." Native American students at USC are encouraged to share their life experiences with their fellow class mates. Eight Native American culture areas are studied each semester the course is taught. Pre-, historic and contemporary lifestyles are presented written and filmic records of the Northeast, Southeast, Prairie/Plains, Southwest, California, Northwest, Arctic, and Mexico culture areas.
Readings and Assignments:
The students are expected to read relevant portions of classic ethnographies about 4 of the culture groups under exploration. In addition, relevant chapters of a basic North American Indian reader are assigned weekly. The reading assignments average about 75 pages per week. 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. 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.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 250g
Cultures of Latin America
Diaz
MW, 2:00-3:20
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.
Sourcebook
Grading and Course Requirements:
Class Participation 10%
Short Paper (5-6 pages) 15%
Midterm Examination 25%
Term Paper 25%
Final Examination 25%
EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES 110g
East Asian Humanities: The Great Tradition
Hayden
TTh, 9:30-10:50
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
EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES 130g
East Asian Ethical Thought
Birge
MWF, 12:00-12:50
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 for Spring of 1999 may be subject to change. Please contact the department for verification.
EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES 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
EAST ASIAN STUDIES CENTER 150g
East Asian Societies
Rust
TTh, 12:30-1:50
Please contact the department for course description.
HISTORY 106g
Chinese Lives: An Introduction to Chinese History
Orlinski
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, may be handwritten, due in most weeks when there is no longer paper or exam.
HISTORY 107g
Japanese History
Gordon 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 xeroxed 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).
RELIGION 131g
Religions of the East
Lucas
TTh, 11:00-12:20
Please contact the department for course description.
