Course Schedule

Please check this page often for updated information on the course offerings in ASCL. Schedule subject to change.

Explanation of ASCL's course numbering system

ASCL courses are numbered by category, not by their level of difficulty. 
None of the courses numbered in the 50s, 60s and 70s have prerequisites.

ALL TERMS – ARRANGE

  • CHIN 49 Independent Advanced Study in Chinese Language and Literature
  • JAPN 49 Independent Advanced Study in Japanese Language and Literature
  • ASCL 89 Independent Research
  • ASCL 90 Honors Thesis I
  • ASCL 91 Honors Thesis II
 

ASCL Draft Schedule of Courses 2024-25

The course schedule for each term is still subject to change until timetable is published for that term. 

Summer 2024

  • ASCL 61.10 Japanese Martial Arts: History, Philosophy, Practice; Dorsey (2)
  • ASCL 70.18 / COLT 57.10 Social Revolutions East & West: Japan & the United States in the 1960s; Dorsey (10)

Japanese LSA+ Study Abroad in Osaka, Japan:

  • ASCL 09.31, section 90, The Language-Culture Nexus in Contemporary Japan; Schmidt-Hori (LS) Japanese LSA+ director's course
  • JAPN 22, section 90, Intermediate Modern Japanese (Second-year level): Study Abroad (LSA+); Ishida (LS)
  • JAPN 23, section 90, Intermediate Modern Japanese (Second-year level): Study Abroad (LSA+); Ishida (LS)

Chinese LSA+ Study Abroad in Beijing, P.R.C.:

  • ASCL 09.01, section 90, Urban Lives & Livelihoods in Contemporary China: Language, Culture and Narrative; Yan (LS) Chinese LSA+ director's course
  • CHIN 22, section 90, Intermediate Modern Chinese (Second-year level): Study Abroad (LSA+); TBD (LS)
  • CHIN 23, section 90, Intermediate Modern Chinese (Second-year level): Study Abroad (LSA+); TBD (LS)
  • CHIN 31, section 90, Advanced Modern Chinese (Third-year level); TBD (LS)
  • CHIN 32, section 90, Advanced Modern Chinese (Third-year level); TBD (LS)

Fall 2024

  • ASCL 10.02 Introduction to Korean Culture; Kim (2A)
  • ASCL 11.04 Introduction to South Asia: Culture and Identity on the Indian Subcontinent; Kapur (10A)
  • ASCL 54.07 / HIST 075 / AAAS 050 / ENVS 045 Colonialism, Development, and the Environment in Africa and Asia; Zeinstra (11)
  • ASCL 54.09 / HIST 26 The Vietnam War; Miller (2)
  • ASCL 60.05 Love & Desire in Modern Chinese Literature; Gibbs (2A)
  • ASCL 60.10 / COLT 55.03 Eco-Fiction: Ghost Stories in Premodern China; Zheng (2A)
  • ASCL 64.11 / HIST 05.05 The Emergence of Modern Japan; Ericson (12)
  • ASCL 64.16 / HIST 72.04 China to 1800; Lu (10)
  • ASCL 67.01 / GOV 40.03 Politics of Japan; Horiuchi (2)
  • ASCL 70.01 / ARTH 38.01 Sacred Architecture of Asia; Agarwala (10)
  • ASCL 70.07 / THEA 024 Asian Performance; Chin (2A)
  • ASCL 80.12 / REL 80.12 Religions on the Silk Road; Raz (10A)
  • ASCL 80.20 The Tale of Genji Seminar; Washburn (10A)
  • HIST 96.07 US Occupation of Japan; Ericson (3A)
  • CHIN 01, sections 1 & 2, First-Year Courses in Chinese; Yan (8S & 9S)
  • CHIN 04, sections 1-3, Advanced First-Year Chinese; Li & S. Zhang (10, 11 & 12)
  • CHIN 31 Advanced Modern Chinese (Third-year level); BNU exchange professor (10)
  • CHIN 42 Advanced Chinese (Fourth-year level); S. Zhang (12)
  • CHIN 50.01 Dream of the Red Chamber (Fifth-year level); BNU exchange professor (12)
  • JAPN 01 First-Year Courses in Japanese; Ishida & Watanabe (9S & 10)
  • JAPN 32 Advanced Japanese (Third-year level); Ishida (11)
  • JAPN 42 Advanced Japanese (Fourth-year level); Watanabe (11)

"Developing Vietnam" Fall+ Study Abroad:

  • ASCL 70.22 Developing Vietnam: History, Environment, and Culture; Miller & Eom (9L) fall course on campus that is part one of Fall + study abroad program
  • ASCL 59.04 Intensive Foreign Study in Vietnam; Miller & Eom (ARR) winterim course in Vietnam that is part two of Fall + study abroad program

Winter 2025

  • ASCL 07.XX (pending new course approval) First-year Seminar: Cultural Politics of Singers; Gibbs (2)
  • ASCL 10.01 Introduction to Chinese Culture; A. Wang & Xie (11)
  • ASCL 51.08 / PHIL 1.20 / REL 41.08 Buddhist Philosophy; Seton (2)
  • ASCL 51.11 / REL 2.02 Religions of Vietnam; Swenson (12)
  • ASCL 52.03 / ARTH 31.01 Arts of South Asia; Agarwala (10)
  • ASCL 54.04 / HIST 92.04 Partition in South Asia; Kapur (11)
  • ASCL XX (pending new course approval) Indian Film History: From 'Bombay' to 'Bollywood' and Beyond; Kapur (TBD)
  • ASCL 60.26 Thinking of Contemporary Issues in Japan through Graphic Novels (Manga); Schmidt-Hori (11)
  • ASCL 61.11 / REL 46 Daoism: Transformations of Tradition; Raz (10)
  • ASCL 64.08 / HIST 5.03 The History of China since 1800; Lu (10)
  • ASCL 64.12 / HIST 79 Postwar Japan: From Occupied Nation to Economic Superpower; Ericson (12)
  • ASCL 70.12 Literatures and Cultures of Asian Borderlands; Xie (2)
  • ASCL 70.20 / REL 41.04 Buddhist Meditation Theory; Seton (11)
  • ASCL 70.26 / REL 49.01 Apocalyptic Thought in East Asia; Raz (2)
  • ASCL 80.xx / ARTH XX (pending new course approval) Advanced Seminar: Women, Gender, and Art in East Asia; Kim (TBD)
  • CHIN 02, section 1 & 2, First-Year Courses in Chinese; Li & Yan (9S & 11)
  • CHIN 22, section 1 & 2, Intermediate Modern Chinese (Second-year level); S. Zhang & BNU exchange professor (9S)
  • CHIN 32 Advanced Modern Chinese (Third-year level); BNU exchange professor (10)
  • CHIN 40.03 Modern Chinese Short Stories (Fourth-year level); Li (12)
  • JAPN 02, section 1 & 2, First-Year Courses in Japanese; Watanabe (9S & 10)

Spring 2025

  • ASCL 01.01 Urban Asia; Eom (11)
  • ASCL 10.01 Introduction to Chinese Culture; A. Wang & Xie (11)
  • ASCL 10.03 Introduction to Japanese Culture; Washburn (12)
  • ASCL XX Geographies and Ecologies of Warfare in Asia & the Pacific; Ong (2)
  • ASCL 51.05 / REL 2.01 Religions of Southeast Asia; Swenson (10)
  • ASCL 51.06 / REL 41.07 Buddhism, Sexuality, & Gender in Southeast Asia; Swenson (12)
  • ASCL 54.10 / HIST 90.09 Global South Asia; Kapur (10)
  • ASCL 54.12 / HIST 90.15 State and Society in Early Modern India, 1500-1800; Kapur (12)
  • ASCL 55.02 / SOCY 41 (pending x-list approval) Religion in a Global South Asia; Upadhyay (3A)
  • ASCL 55.03 / SOCY 52 (pending x-list approval) Insurgent South Asia; Upadhyay (10A)
  • ASCL 62.02 Traditional Performance in China: Past and Present; Gibbs (2)
  • ASCL 62.06 Exploring Korea Through Film; Kim (3A)
  • ASCL 64.15 / HIST 72.03 Nationalism & Revolution in China, 1890- Present; Lu (TBD)
  • ASCL 70.02 / ARTH 38.02 East Meets West; Kim (2A)
  • ASCL 70.23 / GEOG 30.03 Travel, Migration, and Diaspora in the Transpacific Asias; Eom (2)
  • ASCL 70.25 / COLT 19.07 Translating East Asian Languages: Theory and Practice; Dorsey (10)
  • ASCL 70.XX (pending new course approval) Trauma & Literature in Modern Asia; Xie (2A)
  • ASCL 80.05 Regional Identity in Modern Chinese Literature; Gibbs (2A)
  • CHIN 03, sections 1 & 2, First-Year Courses in Chinese; Li (10 & 2)
  • CHIN 23 Intermediate Modern Chinese (Second-year level); BNU exchange professor (9S)
  • CHIN 33 Advanced Modern Chinese (Third-year level); BNU exchange professor (12)
  • CHIN 40.04 Advanced Chinese for Commerce and Economics; S. Zhang (10)
  • CHIN 45.01 Introduction to Classical Chinese; A. Wang (TBD)
  • JAPN 03, sections 1 & 2, First-Year Courses in Japanese; Ishida & Watanabe (9S & 10)
  • JAPN 33 Advanced Japanese (Third-year level); Ishida (11)
  • JAPN 43 Advanced Japanese (Fourth-year level); Watanabe (11)
  • JAPN 45.01 Classical Japanese Grammar and Translation Workshop; Schmidt- Hori (2)

 

Last updated on  7/3/2024