Asian Studies Minor

Asian Studies Minor Without Language:

Minimum grade of C- required in all courses.

Fifteen credits from the following (including courses from at least two departments/programs and at least one course at the 300-level or above):

• ANTH 210 - Peoples and Cultures of Southeast Asia (3cr.)
• ANTH 211 - Peoples and Cultures of East Asia (3cr.)
• ANTH 310 - Wives, Mistresses, and Matriarchs: Asian Women’s Lives (3cr.)
• ANTH 312 - Asian Women in the Globalized Workplace (3cr.)
• ARTH 233 - Art and Architecture in China (3cr.)
• ARTH 237 - Art of Tibet (3cr.)
• ARTH 445 - Seminar in East Asian Art and Architecture (3cr.)
• ARTH 456 - Seminar in Contemporary Architecture (3cr.)
• CHIN 1xx
• CHIN 2xx
• CHIN 3xx
• CHIN 4xx
• CRJU 467 - SEMINAR (1 to 6cr.) (Crime and Criminal Justice in E. Asia)
• EAST 136 - Topics in East Asia in Film (1 to 3cr.)
• ENGL 381 - Women in Literature (3cr.)
• ENGL 386 - Asian America: Culture and History (3cr.)
• GEOG 228 - Geography of China (3cr.)
• HIST 137 - East Asian Civilization: China (3cr.)
• HIST 138 - East Asian Civilization: Japan (3cr.)
• HIST 145 - Gandhi’s India (3cr.)
• HIST 268 - Seminar (3cr.) (when Asia related)*
• HIST 270 - History of Modern Asia (3cr.)
• HIST 365 - Topics in Asian and Pacific History (3cr.)

• *

• HIST 367 - EXPERIMENTAL (1 to 12cr.) (when Asia related)
• HIST 368 - Modern China: 1600s to Present (3cr.)
• HIST 369 - China Since 1949 (3cr.)
• HIST 370 - History of Modern Japan (3cr.)
• HIST 371 - Postwar Japan (3cr.)
• HIST 372 - Japan’s Global Pop Culture (3cr.)
• HIST 393 - History of Modern Vietnam (3cr.)
• HIST 479 - Seminar in Asian History (3cr.) *
• JAPN 1xx
• JAPN 2xx
• JAPN 3xx
• JAPN 4xx
• LLCU 321 - Topics: Chinese Literature in Translation (3cr.)
• LLCU 328 - Topics: Japanese Literature in Translation (3 to 6cr.)
• LLCU 330 - Varying Authors, Themes, and Movements (3cr.)
• LLCU 331 - Introduction to Chinese Films (3cr.)
• LLCU 338 - Light and Shadow–Japanese Films (3cr.)
• LLCU 351 - Videogames and Japanese Culture (3cr.)
• LLCU 360 - Humanities Colloquium (3cr.)
• LLCU 380 - Topics: Japanese Culture in Translation (3cr.)
• LLCU 383 - Chinese Culture in Translation (3cr.)
• MUSC 206 - Music of China, Korea and Japan (3cr.)
• PHIL 309 - Indian Religion and Philosophy (3cr.)
• PHIL 310 - Chinese Religion and Philosophy (3cr.)
• PHIL 335 - Buddhist Philosophy (3cr.)
• PHIL 337 - Daoist Thought (3cr.)
• POSC 312 - Politics of East Asian Development (3cr.)
• POSC 409 - Topics in World Politics (3cr.) (when Asia related)

Credits to Total a Minimum of 15

Asian Studies Minor With Language:

The minor with language consists of the above listed 15 credits of requirements plus completion of either CHIN 107  or JAPN 107  or their equivalents in transfer credit or proficiency examination.

Credits to Total a Minimum of 18