East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Department Chairman: Anthony C. Yu, S 301, 702-8245

Director of Undergraduate Studies: Edward Shaughnessy,

Wb 301J, 702- 5801

Department Secretary: Carol Hennessy, Wb 301, 702-1255

Program of Study

The Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations offers a Bachelor of Arts program in East Asian studies that introduces students to the traditional and modern civilizations of China and Japan and provides them with the opportunity to achieve a basic reading and speaking knowledge of Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. Although the program is located in the Humanities Collegiate Division, its approach is interdisciplinary, and students with interests in the social sciences have ample opportunities to take courses in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division and other appropriate areas of the University.

Program Requirements

Students in the concentration program normally fulfill the College's language requirement with courses in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean; the concentration further requires a second three-quarter sequence in the language elected. In addition, concentrators are directed to take East Asian Languages and Civilizations 108-109-110 (Introduction to the Civilizations of East Asia I, II, III) to satisfy the Common Core civilizational studies requirement. Beyond the basic language requirement, the concentration requires ten courses related to East Asia, three of which may be either a third year of the East Asian language used to satisfy the College language requirement, or a year of a second East Asian language. A maximum of six quarters of language counts toward concentration requirements. A minimum of three of the ten courses should be in the same discipline, for example history, sociology, literature, or art history. A maximum of six approved courses taken while studying abroad may count toward concentration requirements.

Summary of Requirements

General EALC 108-109-110 (=SocSci 235-236-237)

Education 3 quarters of an East Asian language

Concentration 3 second year of an East Asian language

10 courses related to East Asia, three of which may be a further year of an East Asian language, or a year of a second East Asian language, and three of which

should be in the same discipline

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Bachelor's Thesis. The department does not require a bachelor's thesis for graduation except from students competing for honors. However, all students are eligible to write a bachelor's thesis upon submitting an acceptable proposal to the department early in the fourth year, usually by the fifth week of the autumn quarter. Interested students should consult the director of undergraduate studies for details concerning the proposal.

Grading. East Asian concentrators may receive P/N grades in their electives but must receive letter grades in their required course work. No P/N or R grades are offered in language courses.

Honors. Any student who has maintained an overall grade point average of 3.0 or better is eligible to be considered for honors. Students who wish to compete for honors submit a bachelor's thesis. This paper is read by two members of the department and, if judged to be of superior quality, the student is recommended to the College for graduation with honors. The final decision on the award of honors rests with the College. With the consent of the departmental adviser, honors students may include a senior tutorial in their program in preparation for the thesis.

Faculty

GUY S. ALITTO, Associate Professor, Departments of East Asian Languages & Civilizations and History and the College

CHENG YANG BORCHERT, Senior Lecturer, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations

CAI-FANG-PEI, Senior Lecturer, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations

CHIH-CH'AO CHAO, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations

JAE-OHK CHO, Lecturer, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations

PRASENJIT DUARA, Associate Professor, Departments of East Asian Languages & Civilizations and History

NORMA M. FIELD, Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations

JAMES KETELAAR, Professor, Departments of East Asian Languages & Civilizations and History

HARUMI LORY, Senior Lecturer, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations

JAMES D. MCCAWLEY, Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of East Asian Languages & Civilizations and Linguistics

TETSUO NAJITA, Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of East Asian Languages & Civilizations and History and the College

HIROYOSHI NOTO, Senior Lecturer, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations

DAVID T. ROY, Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations

EDWARD SHAUGHNESSY, Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations

JAE-HOON SHIM, Lecturer, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations

WILLIAM F. SIBLEY, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations

XIAOBING TANG, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations

YOSHIKO UCHIDA, Lecturer, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations

EUGENE WANG, Assistant Professor, Departments of Art History and East Asian Languages & Civilizations

WU HUNG, Harrie Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of Art History and East Asian Languages & Civilizations

ANTHONY C. YU, Carl Darling Buck Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities; Professor, Divinity School, Departments of East Asian Languages & Civilizations, English Language & Literature, and Comparative Literature; Committee on Social Thought; Chairman, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations

JUDITH T. ZEITLIN, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations

Courses

The courses listed below are open to students in the College, regardless of level, subject to the consent of the instructor where indicated. East Asian linguistic knowledge is not required for nonlanguage courses unless indicated. Transfer students who wish to enroll in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean language courses beyond the first-year level must take the placement examination offered during Orientation in late September. Over the summer, information that describes these tests is sent to all incoming students, or students may consult Lewis Fortner (HM 286, 702-8613).

Chinese

108-109-110. Elementary Modern Chinese I, II, III. This course sequence fulfills the Common Core foreign language requirement. Must be taken for a letter grade. No auditors permitted. This course introduces the fundamentals of modern Chinese. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing are equally emphasized. Accurate pronunciation is also stressed. One section is for "true beginners," and another section is for "partial beginners."("Partial beginners" are students who can speak Mandarin fluently with or without dialectal accent, but do not know how to read and write Chinese.) C. Chao, Staff, Autumn; C. Chao, F. Cai, Winter, Spring.

208-209-210. Intermediate Modern Chinese I, II, III. PQ: Chin 110 or consent of instructor. No P/N or P/F grades are permitted. No auditors permitted. Class sessions, conducted in Chinese, emphasize drills and the discussion of readings in a variety of source materials, including contemporary Chinese short stories, lectures, newspapers, and some original academic articles, supplemented by sessions with video material. Simplified characters and cursive script are also introduced. The class meets for five eighty-minute periods a week. C. Chao, C. Borchert. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

211-212-213. Elementary Literary Chinese I, II, III. PQ: Chin 210 or consent of instructor. This course provides an introduction to the grammatical foundations of the classical language or wenyan. It includes supplementary readings from Mencius, Zhuangzi, Sima Qian's Records of the Historian, and other texts. X. Tang, Autumn; J. Zeitlin, Winter; E. Shaugnnessy, Spring.

220. Early Chinese Philosophy. In this course we survey the writings of the classical philosophers of China's Warring States period, beginning with the Analects of Confucius and moving through such works as the Mozi, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, and Han Feizi, as well as other writings of the third century B.C., the authorship of which is unknown. E. Shaughnessy. Winter.

240. Chinese Cinema (=ArtH 194, CMS 244, EALC 240). PQ: Knowledge of Chinese helpful but not required. This course covers Chinese cinema from its earliest inception in the beginning of the century to works of recent decades. Issues explored include the cinematic appropriation of theatrical traditions, the ordering of cinematic narration through vernacular architectural forms, the persistence of melodramatic impulse, the making of lyrical mode, and the taste of Chinese urban spectatorship. E. Wang. Winter.

250. Art of Ancestral Worship. This course focuses on various art forms, including ritual jades and bronzes, tomb murals and sculptures, and family temples, which were created between the third millennium B.C. and the second century A.D. for ancestral worship, the main religious tradition in China before the introduction of Buddhism. Central questions include how visual forms convey religious concepts and serve religious communication, and how artistic changes reflect trends in the ancestral cult. H. Wu. Spring.

260. Representations of the Modern Chinese City. In this upper-level class, we examine literary and visual (for example, poster and film) presentations of Chinese cities from this century, focusing on the impact of urbanization and on the visions of life expressed through a changing cityscape. We explore the three stages of modern Chinese urbanism in relation to images of pre-1949 Shanghai, socialist Beijing, and contemporary city life. All texts in English. X. Tang. Winter.

261. Art of Asia: China (Prehistory to Second Century) (=ArtH 161, Chin 261, EALC 261). An introduction to ancient Chinese art and architecture from prehistory to the third century A.D., examined in its religious and cultural context. Ritual bronzes, monumental tombs, and funerary shrines are studied in the light of religious texts, such as temple hymns, ritual canons, poems, and songs. Students reconstruct the physical and cultural context of individual works of art, and study original art objects in Chicago museums. H. Wu. Winter.

262. Art of Asia: China, (Third Century to the Present) (=ArtH 162, Chin 262, EALC 262). For non-art history concentrators, this course fulfills the Common Core requirement in the musical, visual, and dramatic arts. Students must attend the first class to confirm enrollment. An introduction to Chinese art from the third century to the recent avant garde movement. Major subjects include the appearance of the individual artist and scroll painting; the introduction and Sinification of Buddhist art; the formation of different art genres, schools, and theories; and the influence of Western art in pre-modern and modern ages. E. Wang. Autumn.

279. Civilization and Popular Culture in China (=EALC 279, Hist 239). PQ: Chin 108-109-110 or consent of instructor. We think of the peasants and the cultured elites of imperial China as inhabiting separate worlds. Yet the peasants who sustained the superstructure came into contact with the elites in a myriad of ways. We try to create a dialogue between the two worlds and to problematize the issue of the "unity of Chinese culture." We study elite and popular understandings of such phenomena as the state, commerce, religion, kinship, nation, and the "people" in late traditional and revolutionary China. P. Duara. Winter.

290-291. History of Modern China: 1600 to the Present I, II (=EALC 290-291, Hist 243-244/343-344). PQ: Hist 151 or consent of instructor. This two-quarter lecture course presents the main intellectual, political, economic, and social trends in modern China (1600 to the present). We study the ideological and organizational structures, and the social movements that define a process variously described in Western literature as modernization, reform and revolution, or political development. We emphasize institutional and intellectual developments during this period, especially in the twentieth century. Some attention is paid to historiographic analysis and criticism. All readings in English. G. Alitto. Autumn, Winter.

308-309-310. Advanced Modern Chinese I, II, III. PQ: Chin 210 or consent of instructor. This course emphasizes drills for more advanced sentence structures and requires discussions in Chinese on academic and scholarly subject matter. It provides exercises designed to increase reading comprehension and the ability to translate accurately original Chinese source materials, ranging over various topics, authors, and styles, to broaden students' experience, and to enhance their capacity for independent study. F. Cai. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

317. Medieval Chinese Art (=ArtH 283/383, Chin 317). PQ: Any 100-level ArtH or COVA course, or consent of instructor. Knowledge of Chinese helpful. This course covers medieval Chinese art between the third and tenth century, in which the notion of "Great Masters" and generic distinctions took shape and art theory was fully articulated. The currency of Buddhism gave impetus to fervent image making, and "neo-Daoism" refined the visual sensibility. We focus on wall paintings, engravings, and sculptures in the context of mortuary structures, Buddhist cave-chapels, and monuments. Issues include the relationship between art and religious practices, art as visual constructs evoking other possible worlds, and visual sensibility and its verbal articulation. E. Wang. Winter.

340. Literature and Disease. PQ: Consent of instructor. The use of disease as a metaphor and device in modern Chinese literature effectively brings together a host of complicated issues, such as the new individual, the modern nation-state, and the gendered body. Descriptions of sickness often help writers articulate and think through these difficult issues in Chinese modernity. We read a wide range of writers (for example, Yu Dafu, Ding Ling, Lao She, Ba Jin, and Su Tong) that forms a historical trajectory. We also engage in some theoretical works from other intellectual traditions. Texts in English and the original. X. Tang. Spring.

342. Modern Chinese Literature: Historiography. PQ: Consent of instructor. This seminar serves two purposes: an in-depth survey of twentieth-century Chinese literature as a historical continuity, and a theoretical investigation into the problems of writing a literary history. We read theoretical texts, literary works, and histories to assess the basic issues underlying modern Chinese literary discourse. In the process we examine the ideological implications of historical models and periodizations. Literary texts in English and historiographical texts in Chinese. X. Tang. Autumn.

408-409-410. Fourth-Year Rapid Readings and Discussion I, II, III. PQ: Chin 310 or equivalent, and consent of instructor. C. Borchert. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

414-415-416. Readings in Literary Chinese I, II, III. PQ: Chin 213 or equivalent. A sequence of reading courses designed to introduce the student to examples of literary Chinese from different periods and different genres. This year's texts include selections from the historical novel Sanguo zhi yanyi. G. Alitto, Autumn; D. Roy, Winter, Spring.

418. The Making of Mental Topography in Medieval China (=ArtH 483, Chin 418). This seminar explores the concepts of mental topography and symbolic universe that shaped and ordered medieval Chinese visual experience. Wall paintings, architectural monuments, and other visual artifacts are treated as partial visual manifestations evoking larger entities of collectively shared mental or visionary constructs, such as Purgatory, the Phantom City, Pure Lands, foreign lands, and others. The primary drive behind this course is to ask what kinds of pragmatic art-historical strategies can be profitably developed to address the subject. E. Wang. Autumn.

425. Eastern Zhou Funerary Art (=ArtH 476, Chin 425). PQ: Reading knowledge of modern Chinese and consent of instructor. This course analyzes new archeological evidence for Eastern Zhou funerary art and architecture. Focuses include changing tomb structure and symbolism, the grouping of tomb furnishings and their possible ritual significance, the development of "spirit articles" (mingqi), the appearance of mortuary sculpture and painting, and other phenomena pertaining to the changing concept of the afterlife. H. Wu. Winter.

430. Between Han and Tang: Funerary Art in a Formative Period (=ArtH 487, Chin 430). PQ: Reading knowledge of modern Chinese and consent of instructor. The four centuries between the Han and Tang dynasties (the third through sixth centuries) witnessed many crucial changes in Chinese art. More than a dozen great tombs with extraordinary murals have been found through recent excavations, indicating both new conventions and individual styles in funerary art. This course investigates these tombs and links them to other changes at the time, such as the appearance of individual artists and the popularity of Buddhist art. H. Wu. Spring.

440. Qing Tales of the Strange. PQ: Two years literary Chinese or consent of instructor. The focus of this course is on the reading of two major collections of tales, Pu Songling's Liaozhai zhiyi and Ji Yun's Yuewei caotang biji, but we also introduce some important later nineteenth-century collections. We end by considering the role literature of the strange may have played in mediating the foreign and the modern toward the turn of the twentieth century, particularly through the new medium of popular press. J. Zeitlin. Winter.

442. Traditional Chinese Literary Criticism. PQ: Chin 213 or consent of instructor. This course introduces the first two steps in dealing with early Chinese texts: the constitution of the text and the determination of its context. We deal with such texts as the Laozi, Zuozhuan, Wenzi, and Shangshu. E. Shaughnessy. Spring.

445. Colloquium: Modern Chinese History (=EALC 445, Hist 442). This discussion course examines Chinese political, social, and intellectual change through the nine decades of this century (the last years of monarchy, the Republic, and the People's Republic). Students read monographs that present disparate interpretations for some of the major historical issues of the period and write a paper that argues a particular position on one of these issues. G. Alitto. Autumn.

446. Literature, History, and Memory: Configuring the Fall of Ming. PQ: Consent of instructor. The middle decades of the seventeenth century witnessed the cataclysmic events of the Ming dynasty's collapse and the Manchu conquest. How did writers of the early Qing come to terms with this national trauma and collective loss? The course focuses on Kong Shangren's famous historical drama, Peach Blossom Fan (written in the 1690s), but we also read a range of supporting materials including eyewitness accounts, ghost stories, and memoirs of a vanished world. EALC students are expected to work with original texts and sources, while students with no classical Chinese may work with translations. J. Zeitlin. Spring.

454. Western Zhou Bronze Inscriptions. The primary focus of this seminar is to provide students with the skills needed to use Western Zhou bronze inscriptions as historical documents, though attention is also given to artistic and archeological considerations. In this year's seminar we explore relationships among different families, especially as manifested through the movement of women. E. Shaughnessy. Winter.

561-562. Seminar on the Chin P'ing Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase) I, II. A careful reading and discussion of this major work of traditional Chinese fiction, with excursions into the relevant secondary scholarship. Text in English and the original. D. Roy. Winter, Spring.

576-577. The Story of the Stone I, II (=ComLit 510-511, DivRL 562-563, EALC 576-577, Fndmtl 267-268, RelHum 562-563). PQ: Consent of instructor. In this two-quarter sequence on the monumental classic of eighteenth-century China, The Story of the Stone (or Dream of the Red Chamber), lectures and discussion are supplemented by readings in a common core of criticism and student presentations. EALC students are expected to work with original texts and sources, while students with no Chinese may use either the five-volume edition by Penguin or the French translation. A. C. Yu. Autumn, Winter.

East Asian Languages and Civilizations

108-109-110. Introduction to the Civilizations of East Asia I, II, III (=EALC 108-109-110, Hist 151-152-153, SocSci 235-236-237). PQ: Must be taken in sequence. This course sequence fulfills the Common Core requirement in civilizational studies. This is a three-quarter sequence on the civilizations of China, Japan, and Korea, with emphasis on major transformation in these cultures and societies from the Middle Ages to the present. This year's sequence focuses on Japan from 1600 to the present, China from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and Korea from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. P. Duara, Autumn; Staff, Winter; T. Natita, Spring.

261. Art of Asia: China (Prehistory to Second Century) (=ArtH 161, EALC 261). An introduction to ancient Chinese art and architecture from pre-history to the third century A.D., examined in its religious and cultural context. Ritual bronzes, monumental tombs, and funerary shrines are studied in the light of religious texts, such as temple hymns, ritual canons, poems, and songs. Students reconstruct the physical and cultural context of individual works of art, and study original art objects in Chicago museums. H. Wu. Winter.

262. Art of Asia: China (Third Century to the Present) (=ArtH 162, EALC 262). For non-art history concentrators, this course fulfills the Common Core requirement in the musical, visual, and dramatic arts. Students must attend the first class to confirm enrollment. An introduction to Chinese art from the third century to the recent avant garde movement. Major subjects include the appearance of individual artist and scroll painting; the introduction and sinification of Buddhist art; the formation of different art genres, schools, and theories; and the influence of Western art in pre-modern and modern ages. E. Wang. Autumn.

264. Cinema and Literature of the Pacific War (=CMS 246, EALC 264). PQ: Knowledge of Asian languages not required. Focusing on the Sino-Japanese conflict, this course offers an introduction to the historical and theoretical expressions of war through cinematic and literary production. Conceived as primary instruments of war by both China and Japan, film and literature were used to create and promote shared attitudes toward the conflict in both the war and postwar periods. Attention is paid to issues of aggression and resistance, representations of the "other," the role of film and literature in the production of ideologies, and the importance of audience/reader reception in the success of failure of such attempted ideological formations. S. Stephenson. Autumn.

279. Civilization and Popular Culture in China (=EALC 279, Hist 239). PQ: Chin 108-109-110 or consent of instructor. We think of cultured elites of imperial China and peasants as inhabiting separate worlds. Yet the peasants who sustained the superstructure came into contact with the elites in a myriad of ways. We try to create a dialogue between the two worlds and to problematize the issue of the "unity of Chinese culture." We study elite and popular understandings of such phenomena as the state, commerce, religion, kinship, nation, and the "people" in late traditional and revolutionary China. P. Duara. Winter.

290-291. History of Modern China: 1600 to the Present I, II (=EALC 290-291, Hist 243-244/343-344). PQ: Hist 151 or consent of instructor. This two-quarter lecture course presents the main intellectual, political, economic, and social trends in modern China from 1600 to the present. We study the ideological and organizational structures, and the social movements, that define a process variously described in Western literature as modernization, reform and revolution, or political development. We emphasize institutional and intellectual developments during this period, especially in the twentieth century. Some attention is paid to historiographic analysis and criticism. All readings in English. G. Alitto. Autumn, Winter.

297-298-299. Senior Tutorial I, II, III. PQ: Consent of instructor and EALC director of undergraduate studies. Staff. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

520-521. Narratives of Nation and Empire in East Asia I, II (=EALC 520, Hist 762). PQ: May be taken in sequence or individually; may qualify as a proseminar in East Asian History if taken in sequence. We seek to de-center the concept and ideology of nation-state by exploring the different ways in which the nation is constructed and contested. In the first quarter, we read both theoretical and monographic works on topics such as gender and nation, historical narratives, and the construction of the "people." The monographic literature includes primarily, though not exclusively, topics from East Asia. In the second quarter, we focus on research topics for students writing the seminar paper. P. Duara. Autumn, Winter.

Japanese

111-112-113. Elementary Modern Japanese I, II, III. This course sequence fulfills the Common Core foreign language requirement. Must be taken for a letter grade. No auditors permitted. This is the first year of a three-year program designed to provide students with a thorough grounding in modern Japanese. Grammar, idiomatic expressions, and vocabulary are learned through oral work, reading, and writing in and outside of class. Daily practice in speaking, listening, reading, and writing is crucial. Students should plan to continue their language study through at least the second-year level to make their skills practical. The class meets for five fifty-minute periods a week. H. Lory, Y. Uchida, Autumn; H. Lory, H. Noto, Winter, Spring.

211-212-213. Intermediate Modern Japanese I, II, III. PQ: Japan 113 or equivalent, and consent of instructor. Must be taken for a letter grade. No auditors permitted. The emphasis on spoken language in the first half of the course gradually shifts toward reading and writing in the latter half. Most work in Japanese. The class meets for five fifty-minute periods a week. H. Lory, Y. Uchida, Autumn, Winter; H. Lory, H. Noto, Spring.

245. Japanese Cinema (=ArtH 281/381, CMS 243, EALC 245). PQ: Any 100-level ArtH or COVA course, or consent of instructor. This course surveys Japanese cinema through the 1960s. Through our focus on three directors (Ozu Yasujiro, Mizoguchi Kenji, and Kurosawa Akira) we deal with the recent scholarship on Japanese films, particularly debates among Noel Burch, Donald Richie, and David Bordwell about the specificity of Japanese cinema in relation to Japanese culture and in opposition to Hollywood cinema. We study each director in relation to pictorial and narrative values, use of traditional Japanese culture and contemporary social issues, and attitudes towards Western filmmaking. T. Gunning. Spring.

311-312-313. Advanced Modern Japanese I, II, III. PQ: Japan 213 or equivalent, or consent of instructor. The third year marks the end of the basic modern language study. The purpose of the course is to help students become able to understand authentic written and spoken materials with reasonable ease. The texts are all authentic materials with some study aids. All work in Japanese. The class meets for three ninety-minute periods a week. Staff. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

348-349. Pre-Modern Japanese I, II. PQ: Japan 313 or equivalent, or consent of instructor. This course is designed to help students whose research includes materials before World War II. The materials used in class cover biography, newspaper articles, governmental documents, journals, and essays that are mostly written in Kanbun Kundoku Style from the fourteenth to twentieth century. W. Sibley, Autumn; H. Noto, Winter, Spring.

352. "Nature" in Japanese Culture and Daily Life. PQ: Prior EALC course and knowledge of Japanese helpful. After a brief overview of contending pre-modern cosmologies inherent in various indigenous world-views (lumped together retroactively as Shinto) and different forms of Buddhism and Taoism selectively adopted from Korea and China, we concentrate on several distinct historical modes of presenting things in nature as they interact with the human world. Assignments include selections from the early history-myths; poetry sequences from The Man'yoshu to Basho to Hagiwara Sakutaro; photo collections and a few films; excerpts in translation from the naturalist/philosopher Minakata Kumagusu and "climate" (Fudo) by Watsuji; and a few comparative readings (for example, Wordsworth, Thoreau, and so forth). W. Sibley. Autumn.

353. Histories in Japan (=EALC 353, Hist 247/347). J. Ketelaar. Winter.

354. Zen and History (=EALC 354, Hist 246/346). J. Ketelaar. Autumn.

375. Issues for Feminism in Japan. PQ: Knowledge of Japanese not required. This course explores a range of historical, political, and cultural texts to map Japanese feminism for study in the United States today. Special attention is paid to feminist issues in the context of non-Western modernity. N. Field. Spring.

411-412-413. Readings in Japanese Culture, Politics, and Society I, II, III. PQ: Japan 313 or equivalent or consent of instructor. These courses are designed to form a bridge between the foundational study of the modern Japanese language, spoken and written, to the use of academic, journalistic, and literary writings for the purposes or scholarly inquiry, even, on occasion, simply for reading pleasure. The emphasis is squarely on close reading of a cross-section of texts (whole texts, whenever feasible, rather than excerpt) chosen both for their intrinsic interest and stylistic variety. The final exercise is normally an independent translation of writings selected by individual students with an eye to what would be useful to their particular interests. W. Sibley, Autumn; H. Noto, Winter; N. Field, Spring.

416. Contemporary Japanese Issues (=BusCP 721-722, Japan 416). PQ: Three years of Japanese or consent of instructor. This course is a joint offering between EALC and the Graduate School of Business, as part of an international business program. It is designed for students who can speak and read Japanese as nonnative speakers of the language. Staff. Winter, Spring.

421. Western Theory and Japanese Texts: Narrative. PQ: Reading knowledge of modern Japanese. Narratology has been singularly influential among structuralism and post-structuralist theories that flooded the study of Japanese literature beginning in the 1970s. At first, the influence was felt mostly in pre-modern literary studies, spreading from there to modern literary studies. Why was this so? And how has narratology changed in the hands of Japanese students? This course is intended as a survey of theories of narrative, a speculative examination of narrative form itself, and, above all, an attempt to contextualize theories in the contexts of their production. N. Field. Spring.

429-430. Colloquium: Readings in Japanese I, II (=Hist 565-566, Japan 429-430). J. Ketelaar, Autumn; T. Najita, Spring.

451. Science and Letters, Gender and National Identity in Prewar Japan. The French entomologist Jean Henri Fabre (1823-1915) has been forgotten virtually everywhere except in Japan, where he is a household name. The course proceeds on the assumption that the prewar discourse of Fabre involved questions about modernity as science and technology, as well as modernity in literature, national identity, and masculinity. Insects also are at the intersection of a traditional poetic knowledge and of an unfathomable modernism. In this course, we read around the "Fabre phenomenon" in the works of his translators, their contemporaries (such as Nakano Shigeharu), the writings of and about Edo "naturalists," and in Japanese and Euro-American theories of taxonomy, and pre-Japanese intellectual and cultural history, with special attention on science and letters, gender, and national identity. Texts in English and the original. N. Field. Autumn.

523. Seminar: Modern Japanese History I, II (=Hist 765, Japan 523). PQ: Consent of instructor. T. Najita. Autumn, Winter.

Korean

111-112-113. Introduction to the Korean Language I, II, III. This course sequence fulfills the Common Core foreign language requirement. The first year is devoted to acquiring the basic skills for speaking and listening comprehension and the beginnings of literacy through reading and writing. In addition to the Korean script, some of the most commonly used Chinese characters are introduced. J. Cho, Staff. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

211-212-213. Intermediate Korean I, II, III. PQ: Korean 113 or equivalent and consent of instructor. The goals of this course include the comprehension and production of more complex spoken constructions and an ability to read somewhat complex materials. Videotapes are used in a supplementary fashion and enough new Chinese characters are introduced for the achievement of basic literacy. J.-H. Shim. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

240. Childhood as Modernity in Modern Korean Literature (=Hum 238, Korean 240). This course provides an introduction to twentieth-century Korean literature, as well as a knowledge of modern history, by exploring the theme of modernity in conjunction with a notion of childhood. By reading "autobiographical fiction" that is narrated by children, we discuss the idea of childhood interiority. We relate the education of youth with historical development and focus on such gender issues as the role of the "new woman" and changing sexual ethics in urban centers. H. Koh. Winter.

311-312-313. Advanced Korean I, II, III. PQ: Korean 213 or equivalent and consent of instructor. Along with continued work on spoken Korean, the emphasis shifts to readings in a wide selection of written styles, including journalistic pieces, college-level textbooks, and literary prose. An effort is made to accommodate the specialized interests of individual students. Some audio and videotapes are also used. Students are expected to increase their knowledge of Chinese characters to a total of roughly nine hundred. J. Cho. Autumn, Winter, Spring.

408-409-410. Fourth-Year Rapid Reading of Modern Texts I, II, III. PQ: Korean 313, or equivalent, or consent of instructor. These courses are designed for students who have completed the three-year program of Korean language training and are prepared to begin the study of texts from various areas of specialized research, as well as literary selections. J.-H. Shim. Autumn, Winter, Spring.