Concentration in
ASIAN STUDIES

Lower-division pre-requisites:
Two courses from: AST 030, JPN 035, AST 045, RLST005
Additionally, you are required to complete any course-specific pre-requisites.

Primary Concentration: Select 7 courses from the following:
Secondary Concentation: Select 4 courses from the following:

Anthropology
ANTH 140-I: Cultures of Southeast Asia

Arts
AST 127: Music Cultures of Southeast Asia
AST 128: Performing Arts of Asia

Art History
AST 140: Chinese Painting of the Song & Yuan Dynasties
AST 141: Chinese Painting of the Ming & Qing Dynasties
AST 143: Text and Image in Chinese Painting
AST 144: Japanese Painting: 12 th to 19 th Century
AST 147: The Japanese House

Chinese
AST 135: Great Novels of China
AST 136: Family and Gender in the Chinese Short Story
AST 148: Chinese Poetry and Poetics in Translation
AST 185: New Chinese Cinema
AST 142: Chuang-tzu
CHN 101A-B-C: Third-year Chinese*
CHN 104: Intro. to Classical Chinese Texts*
CHN 105: Classical Chinese Prose*
CHN 108: Intro. to Classical Chinese Poetry*
CHN 110(E-Z): Readings in 20 th Century Chinese Literature*

Comparative Literature
AST 163: Nationalism and the Novel
CPLT 142: Women’s Writing in Modern Asia and Asian-America

Ethnic Studies
ETST 150: Asian American Family and Culture

History
HIST 180: Early Traditional China
HIST 181: Late Traditional China
HIST 182: Modern China

Japanese
AST 151: Early Japanese Literature
AST 152: Themes in Modern Japanese Literature
AST 153: Themes in Early Japanese Literature
JPN 101A-B-C: Third-year Japanese*
JPN 150: In Women’s Hands: Reading Japanese Women Writers

Religious Studies
AST 107: Taoist Traditions
RLST 101: Religions of India
RLST 103: Confucianism
RLST 105: Religions of Japan
RLST 108: Modern Hinduism

Vietnamese
AST 162: Vietnamese Literary History
AST 165: Themes in Vietnamese Literature

*Specific language pre-requisite