Spring 2027 Course List
The following courses being offered in Spring 2027 can be taken for credit towards a certificate in East Asian Studies. CEAS strives to keep this list updated, but it is possible that not all eligible courses appear on this page. Generally a course containing at least 40% East Asian content can count towards the certificate. Any questions regarding the eligibility of courses not appearing on this list should be directed to David Fields or Laurie Dennis.
Courses by Department/Discipline
Language Coursework (ASIALANG listings)
Chinese
ASIALANG 102 (4 cr) 2nd semester
ASIALANG 202 (4 cr) 4th semester
ASIALANG 302 (4 cr) 6th semester
ASIALANG 312 (3 cr) 2nd semester Classical
ASIALANG 379 (3 cr) Business Chinese
ASIALANG 454 (3 cr) Advanced Chinese through Media
Japanese
ASIALANG 104 (4 cr) 2nd semester
ASIALANG 204 (4 cr) 4th semester
ASIALANG 375 (3 cr) Advanced Japanese: Solidifying the Foundations
ASIALANG 377 (3 cr) Business Japanese Communication
ASIALANG 452 (3 cr) Advanced Japanese through Audio-Visual Media
Korean
ASIALANG 106 (4 cr) 2nd semester
ASIALANG 206 (4 cr) 4th semester
ASIALANG 306 (3 cr) 6th semester
ASIALANG 381 (3 cr) Business Korean
Tibetan
ASIALANG 236 (4 cr) 4th semester
Anthropology
ANTHROPOLOGY 310 (3 cr) Topics in Archaeology: Ceramics Analysis: Archaeology
ANTHROPOLOGY 322 (3 cr) Origins of Civilization
ANTHROPOLOGY 490 (3 cr) Undergraduate Seminar: Archaeology of Ritual and Religion
ANTHROPOLOGY 690 (3 cr) Problems in Anthropology: Art, Technology, Gender
Art History
ART HIST 118 (3 cr) Elegant Revenge: Chinese Arts and Drama
ART HIST 379 (3 cr) Cities of Asia
ART HIST 779 (3 cr) Topics: Archeology & Urbanism of Asia: Cities of Asia
ART HIST 779 (3 cr) Topics: Archeology & Urbanism of Asia: Visual Cultures of India
Asian Languages and Cultures
(See the Language Coursework listing for all ASIALANG listings)
ASIAN 100 (3 cr) Gateway to Asia Special Topics: Asian Punk: Music, Resistance
ASIAN 236 (3 cr) Asia Enchanted
ASIAN 268 (3 cr) Tibetan Cultures & Traditions
ASIAN 300 (3 cr) Topics in Asian Studies: Evangelion
ASIAN 300 (3 cr) Topics in Asian Studies: Silk Road
ASIAN 301 (3 cr) Korean Politics
ASIAN 310 (3 cr) Intro to Comics and Graphic Novels
ASIAN 336 (3 cr) Social Change in Contemporary South Korea
ASIAN 352 (3 cr) Survey of Modern Chinese Literature
ASIAN 354 (3 cr) Early Modern Japanese Literature
ASIAN 360 (3 cr) Topics in Asian Literature: Tibetan Literature in Translation
ASIAN 361 (3 cr) Love & Politics: Tale of Genji
ASIAN 371 (3 cr) Topics in Chinese Literature: Three Kingdoms
ASIAN 388 (3 cr) Food in Asia, Asia in Food
ASIAN 533 (3 cr) Readings in Early Modern Japanese Literature
ASIAN 630 (3 cr) Proseminar: Cultures of Asia: Diasporic Korea
ASIAN 630 (3 cr) Proseminar: Cultures of Asia: Films of Kore-eda
ASIAN 630 (3 cr) Proseminar: Cultures of Asia: Qualitative Studies of Language Use
ASIAN 630 (3 cr) Proseminar: Cultures of Asia: Communism, Anarchism, Other
ASIAN 632 (3 cr) Chinese Pragmatics
ASIAN 672 (3 cr) Studies in Chinese Fiction
ASIAN 951 (3 cr) Seminar in Chinese Literature
Dance
DANCE 121 (3 cr) Asian American Movement
DANCE 319 (3 cr) Afro Asian Improv
Economics
ECON 350 (3 cr) The Chinese Economy
Education Leadership & Policy Analysis
ELPA 886 (3 cr) Internationalization of Higher Education
ELPA 940 (3 cr) Special Topics Seminar in Educational Leadership: Gen AI & HE Leadership: Global
ELPA 940 (3 cr) Special Topics Seminar in Educational Leadership: Critical Ethnography
Educational Policy Studies
ED POL 245 (3 cr) Education in East Asia
Geography
GEOG 340 (3 cr) World Regions in Global Context
History
HISTORY 200 (4 cr) Historical Studies: Japan After 1945
HISTORY 200 (4 cr) Historical Studies: Korean War/Cold War Korea
HISTORY 201 (4 cr) The Historian’s Craft: Shanghai Life and Crime
HISTORY 255 (4 cr) Introduction to East Asian Civilizations
HISTORY 341 (4 cr) History of Modern China, 1800-1949
HISTORY 357 (3-4 cr) The Second World War
HISTORY 500 (3 cr) Reading Seminar in History: Marxism
International Business
INTL BUS 200 (3 cr) International Business
International Studies
INTL ST 210 (3 cr) Korean in Lakeshore
INTL ST 401 (3 cr) Korea and the United States since 1882
Literature in Translation
LITTRANS 373 (3 cr) Love & Politics: Tale of Genji
Political Science
POLI SCI 324 (3-4 cr) Chinese Politics