Five Geographical / Cultural Area Clusters
Students majoring in Asian Studies are encouraged to take at least one unit of study that has an inter-area approach, and at least one unit on another area besides their selected area of focus.
UG students may also choose from these five geographical or cultural areas to focus their selection of classes:
1. China
Asian Studies Staff: Yiyan Wang, David Bray, Jeffrey Riegel, Mayfair Yang, Derrick Herforth, Wei Wang, Chun-fen Shao
Affiliated Staff: David Goodman, Stephanie Donald, Helen Dunstan, Thomas Berghuis, John Wong, Fred Tiewes, Vivienne Bath, Michael Paton, Duanfang Lu, Meaghan Morris
Asian Studies UG units:
2612 Chinese Religions in Modernity
2620 Remaking Chinese Society
3617 Citizens and Politics in China Today
3619 China and Globalisation
1101 Introduction to Chinese Civilisation
2612 China’s Last Dynasties
2619 Remaking Chinese Society
2675 Gender in East Asian History and Culture
2612 Chinese Religions in Modernity
2671 The Confucian Cultures of East Asia
3619 Popular China
3620 Mass Media in East Asia
2676 Gender and Sexuality in Modern Asia
Cross-listed UG units:
HSTY 2606 China and Its World in the Nineteenth Century
HSTY 2640 Twentieth-Century China
GOVT 2402 Government and Politics in Modern China
ARCA 2616 Early East and SE Asian Cultures
CHNS 3640 Chinese History through Chinese Eyes
HSTY 2639 Hong Kong in Modern China
HSTY 2621 Greater China
HSTY 2606 China and its World: 1839-2008
CHNS 3641 Chinese Philosophy
RLST 2630 Daoism: Potency and Immortality
RLST 2611 Mahayana Buddhism
RLST 2629 Confucian Spirituality
ARHT 2645 China: Art and Empire
ARHT 2646 Art and Visual Culture of East Asia
CHNS 3639 Chinese Cinema (need language background)
CHNS 3633 Lu Xun and China's Modern Literature (need language background)
CHNS 3634 Gender in Modern Chinese Literature (need language background)
GOVT 2411 Capitalism and Democracy in East Asia
SCPL 2603 Development and Welfare in East Asia
2. Japan
Asian Studies Staff: Elise Tipton, Matthew Stavros, Olivier Ansart, Lionel Babicz, Nerida Jarkey, Yasuko Claremont, Rebecca Suter, Mats Karlsson, Chun-fen Shao, Hiroko Cockerill, Seiko Yasumoto
Affiliated Staff: Peter Armstrong, John Clark, Thomas Berghuis, Luke Nottage, Meaghan Morris
Asian Studies UG units:
2634 Modern Japanese Social History
2636 Samurai and Merchants
2636 The Enigma of Japanese Power
2672 Japan in East Asia from 1840 until Today
2621 Origins of Japanese Tradition
2672 Japan in East Asia from 1840 until Today
2675 Gender in East Asian History and Culture
2625 Buddhism in Modern Asia
2671 Mass Media in East Asia
2677 Beyond the Geisha/Samurai Binary
2678 Gender and Sexuality in Modern Asia
Cross-listed UG units:
GOVT 2411 Capitalism and Democracy in East Asia
SCPL 2603 Development and Welfare in East Asia
ARCA 2616 Early East and SE Asian Cultures
HSTY 2681 Colonialism in Modern Asia
RLST 2611 Mahayana Buddhism
ARHT 2646 Art and Visual Culture of East Asia
ARHT 2642 Art in the Age of the Samurai (History of Monoyama and Edo Art)
ARHT 2043 Art and Architecture of Modern Japan
JPNS 2672 Japanese Media Culture and New Japan (need language background)
JPNS 3676 Monsters and Ghosts: Japanese Fantasy and SF (need language background)
3. Korea
Asian Studies Staff: Ki-sung Kwak, Duk-soo Park, Pankaj Mohan
Affiliated Staff: Jane Park
Asian Studies UG units:
2642 Traditional Korea
2642 Modern Korea
2671 The Confucian Cultures of East Asia (proposed new unit)
2641 Mass Media in Korea
2672 Mass Media in East Asia
2675 Gender in East Asian History and Culture
Cross-listed UG units:
GOVT 2411 Capitalism and Democracy in East Asia
SCPL 2603 Development and Welfare in East Asia
ARCA 2616 Early East and SE Asian Cultures
HSTY 2681 Colonialism in Modern Asia
RLST 2611 Mahayana Buddhism
ARHT 2646 Art and Visual Culture of East Asia
4. Southeast Asia
Asian Studies Staff: Adrian Vickers, Michele Ford, Elisabeth Jackson, Paul Fuller, Ahmad Shboul
Affiliated Staff: Linda Connor, Lily Rahim, Philip Hirsch, Holly High, Roland Fletcher, Damien Evans, Robert Hudson, Jeff Neilson, Rod Tiffen
Asian Studies UG units:
2660 Islam, Trade and Society – Arabia to SE Asia
2661 History of Modern Indonesia
2663 Social Activism in SE Asia
2664 Southeast Asia Transformed
2625 Buddhism in Modern Asia
Cross-listed UG units:
GOVT 2774 Islam: Democracy, Development, Gender (has Government pre-requisites)
HSTY 2681 Colonialism in Modern Asia
GOVT 2119 Southeast Asia: Dilemmas of Development
GOVT 2208 Environmental Politics in the Asia-Pacific
ARCA 2616 Early East and SE Asian Cultures
ANTH 2601 Ethnography of Mainland SE Asia
RLST 2609 Theravada Buddhism
RLST 2637 Engaged Buddhism
ARHT 2641 Art and Archaeology of Southeast Asia
5. South Asia
Asian Studies Staff: Mark Allon, Andrew McGarrity, Paul Fuller
Affiliated Staff: Tom Allender, Dilip Dutta, Sheleyah Courtney
Asian Studies UG units:
2660 Islam, Trade and Society – Arabia to SE Asia
2625 Buddhism in Modern Asia
2624 India: Tradition and Modernity
2627 Classical Indian Philosophy
2621 Buddhist Philosophy
2624 Understanding Buddhist Literature
2626 Religious Traditions of South Asia (proposed new unit)
Cross-listed UG units:
GOVT 2774 Islam: Democracy, Development, Gender (has Government pre-requisites)
HSTY 2681 Colonialism in Modern Asia
RLST 2609 Theravada Buddhism
RLST 2637 Engaged Buddhism
ANTH 2665 South Asian Popular Culture
ANTH 2623 Gender: Anthropological Studies