A course in first semester Chinese language.

A course in first semester Chinese language.

A course in third semester Chinese language.

A course designed to increase student skills in listening, speaking, writing, reading, and culture. More complex grammatical forms introduced; focus on control of basic forms. Development of students' lexicon through reading, watching films, conversations, tapes, etc. Prerequisite CHI 202 or equivalent. All students who have had three or more years of high school Chinese or are heritage learners of Chinese and are enrolling in college-level Chinese for the first time must take the Chinese placement exam before enrolling in this course.

This course introduces students to premodern Chinese history, society, and culture up to 1840. Some of the major questions to be addressed include: Is "China" the oldest continuous civilization? Was it culturally and ethnically homogenous? Was Chinese traditional culture and society "patriarchal"? To what extent was the state successful in penetrating into the daily lives of individuals? Course assignments will include primary and secondary literature (entirely in English) as well as visual and material culture sources.

This course takes an interdisciplinary approach and analyzes the issues of didacticism in story-telling, the problems of interpretation and the balance between entertaining and enlightening and the art and techniques of narration in traditional Chinese short stories. By reading Taoist, Buddhist, detective and fox and ghost stories as windows onto the social practices and values of traditional China, the course investigates broad social concerns such as identity, gender, sexuality and morality in pre- modern China.

Students who have the proper qualifications may undertake a special problem in reading and research. May be repeated once for a total of six credits.

This is an advanced Chinese language course focused on topics related to China, such as Chinese cultural tradition, Chinese writings, Chinese society, and literary Chinese. The course develops students' understanding of different genres of Chinese writing as well as developing advanced writing, listening and speaking skills. The course may be repeated up to two times under different subtitles.

This course provides a critical examination of modern Chinese popular culture and its global cultural significance in the contemporary world. From film to literature, from music to theatre, this course will probe modern Chinese popular culture as it has manifested itself, and trace its sociopolitical, esthetic, and affective impact on the contemporary world.

Independent research in Russian and Eastern Studies on an advanced level for undergraduate and graduate students. Students will be required to establish a written contract with the relevant faculty member describing the tasks to be completed in the course. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits, or a total of six credits of RAE 395 and 495G.