Department of East Asian Language & Cultures

Department Chair:
Xiaoshan Yang

Director of Undergraduate Studies:
Yeonhee Yoon

Professors:
Michael Hockx; Xiaoshan Yang

Professor Emeritus:
Liangyan Ge

Associate Professors:
Michael C. Brownstein; Xian Wang; Yongping Zhu

Associate Professor Emeritus:
Lionel Jensen

Assistant Professor:
Hayun Cho; Amanda Kennell

Teaching Professors:
Noriko Hanabusa; Hana Kang; Chengxu Yin; Yeonhee Yoon

Associate Teaching Professor:
Naoki Fuse; Jincheng Liu; Congcong Ma; Weibing Ye

Assistant Teaching Professors:
Yoko Kawamura

Mission Statement

The peoples of East Asia comprise one quarter of the world’s population and account for a similar proportion of the world’s production and consumption. This, along with the contemporary fusion of Asia and the West politically and economically, makes knowledge of the diverse languages and cultures of East Asia vital to an understanding of our global community and indispensable for the preparation of careers in the Pacific Rim. The Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures provides the resources and instruction necessary for success in these areas. The department is dedicated to providing rigorous language training in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, as well as courses taught in English on Chinese, Japanese, and Korean philosophy, religion, literature, and culture. Complementary courses in other disciplines are listed in this Bulletin under departments such as history, philosophy, theology, political science, economics, and anthropology.

Completion of the fourth semester of Chinese, Japanese, or Korean (Second Year Chinese II, Second Year Japanese II, Second Year Korean II) will satisfy the language requirement for both the College of Arts and Letters and the College of Science. Although the College of Business does not have a language requirement, it strongly supports integration of language courses into its curriculum and encourages students to participate in the study abroad programs (See “Study Abroad” under Mendoza College of Business).

Placement and Language Requirement

Students who wish to enroll in a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean language course beyond the 10111 or 10112 level must take a placement examination administered by the Department. Students testing out of 10xxx-level language courses must complete at least one course at the 20xxx level or higher to satisfy the language requirement.

Asian Studies Supplementary Major and Minor

For details, see the Keough School Global Affairs section of the Undergraduate Bulletin.

East Asian Languages & Cultures Study-Abroad Programs

Students have opportunities to study abroad for a summer, a semester, or a year in the People’s Republic of China and Japan at the following locations:

Beijing, China

The summer program in collaboration with Princeton University at Beijing Normal University affords students an opportunity to improve their fluency in spoken and written Mandarin Chinese through intensive training. Participants must have completed at least two semesters of college-level Mandarin or the equivalent.

Shanghai, China

The program at East China Normal University is generally designed for a semester (but it may be extended) that affords students courses in Chinese language, literature, and culture.

Nagoya, Japan

The program at the Catholic Nanzan University offers mandatory courses in intensive Japanese, as well as related courses in literature, religion, business, economics, history, art, and politics. The program is designed for sophomores who have taken a minimum of first-year, intensive Japanese (at the University of Notre Dame) or its equivalent.

Tokyo, Japan

The program at the Catholic Sophia University enables language majors to focus on their language courses while, at the same time, affording a wide-ranging selection of English-language offerings in Asian Studies, international business, economics, history, political science, art history, literature, religion, philosophy, anthropology, and sociology. Sophomores and juniors may participate.

The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures offers their courses under these subject codes: Chinese (EALC), Japanese (EALJ), Korean (EALK), and East Asian Language & Literature (LLEA). Courses associated with their academic programs may be found below. The scheduled classes for a given semester may be found at classearch.nd.edu.

Chinese (EALC)

EALC 10001 Elementary Chinese I (3 Credit Hours)

This is the beginning course of the sequence of two three-credit courses, a sequence that covers the same materials as First Year Chinese I. This course is offered only in the spring semester. It is designed to help students who have not studied Chinese before become familiar with the Chinese phonetic system, the pinyin, and some of the most frequently used characters. Students will learn the basic rules of Chinese grammar and become acquainted with the basic language forms.

EALC 10002 Elementary Chinese II (3 Credit Hours)

This course is a continuation of Elementary Chinese I. It is the second half of the two 3-credit course sequence (Elementary Chinese I and II) that covers the same materials as the 5-credit First Year Chinese I. Upon completion of this course, students will be ready to enroll in First Year Chinese II (5 credits) in the following spring semester. Students will continue their acquisition of the four basic language skills in Chinese: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Additional frequently used Chinese characters, vocabulary, and fundamental grammatical structures will be introduced. The emphasis of the course will be on accurate and appropriate communication in Mandarin Chinese.

Prerequisites: EALC 10001

EALC 10111 First-Year Chinese I (3 Credit Hours)

Introduction to Mandarin Chinese using simplified characters with equal emphasis on the basic skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing. At the end of the first year, students may expect to comprehend and produce simple questions statements, high-frequency commands, and courtesy formulas; to pronounce learned vocabulary and short phrases with correct tones; to read simple texts and standardized messages, phrases, or expressions; and to master the pinyin Romanization and write simple expressions and short sentences in simplified characters. First Year Chinese I is a 5 credit course; students should enroll in one MWF (EALC 10111) section and one TR (EALC 11111) lab.

Corequisites: EALC 11111

EALC 10112 First-Year Chinese II (3 Credit Hours)

Introduction to Mandarin Chinese using simplified characters with equal emphasis on the basic skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing. At the end of the first year, students may expect to comprehend and produce simple questions statements, high-frequency commands, and courtesy formulas; to pronounce learned vocabulary and short phrases with correct tones; to read simple texts and standardized messages, phrases, or expressions; and to master the pinyin Romanization and write simple expressions and short sentences in simplified characters. First Year Chinese I is a 5 credit course; students enrolling in a MWF section (for example EALC 10112 01) enroll in the corresponding TR lab (EALC 11112 01).

Prerequisites: EALC 10111 or EALC 10002

Corequisites: EALC 11112

EALC 10151 First Year Readings in Chinese I (1-2 Credit Hours)

This course is intended primarily for students who meet the prerequisites for First Year Chinese. It offers students opportunities to enhance their Chinese reading skills utilizing Extensive Reading method. Students will choose their own reading materials varying from graded readers to authentic texts strategically collected for them. The materials should be at or slightly below the level at which students can read smoothly and quickly without consulting dictionaries or resorting to the practice of translation. They will be guided by the instructor to read large amounts of varied and interesting self-selected materials for both pleasure and information. Incorporating other activities such as group discussions, book reports, presentations, peer tutorials, and student-instructor consultations, the course will enable students not only to boost their Chinese reading proficiency but also to enhance their general language competence, resulting in more effective reading strategies, richer vocabulary, better writing skills, and increased knowledge of Chinese history, culture, and society.

Prerequisites: EALC 20212

EALC 10152 First Year Readings in Chinese II (1-2 Credit Hours)

This course is intended primarily for students who meet the prerequisites for the First Year Chinese. It offers students opportunities to enhance their Chinese reading skills utilizing Extensive Reading method. Students will choose their own reading materials varying from graded readers to authentic texts strategically collected for them. The materials should be at or slightly below the level at which students can read smoothly and quickly without consulting dictionaries or resorting to the practice of translation. They will be guided by the instructor to read large amounts of varied and interesting self-selected materials for both pleasure and information. Incorporating other activities such as group discussions, book reports, presentations, peer tutorials, and student-instructor consultations, the course will enable students not only to boost their Chinese reading pro?ciency but also to enhance their general language competence, resulting in more effective reading strategies, richer vocabulary, better writing skills, and increased knowledge of Chinese history, culture, and society.

EALC 11111 First Year Chinese I Drill (2 Credit Hours)

EALC 11111 is the lab corequisite for EALC 10111.

Corequisites: EALC 10111

EALC 11112 First Year Chinese II Drill (2 Credit Hours)

Introduction to Mandarin Chinese using simplified characters. Equal emphasis on the basic skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Students may expect to master a spoken vocabulary of about 1,000 words and a written vocabulary of 500 characters. EALC 11112 is the lab corequisite for EALC 10112.

Corequisites: EALC 10112

EALC 14002 Elementary Chinese II (2 Credit Hours)

This course has a total of 32 class-teaching hours and is an elementary Chinese language course for international graduate students throughout the school. This course is divided into two categories with different prerequisite expectations and enrollment procedure although sharing a same course code: (1¿One is a successive course of the Elementary Chinese A Course (Course code 64203012)¿which requires students to have learned Chinese for at least 48 hours and to have mastered about 200 Chinese vocabulary written in characters. Through the course learning, students will further expand their vocabulary and cultural awareness, master more complex grammar, and fluently communicate with others on topics such as weather, gift giving, and being guests. ¿2¿The other type is a real beginner course, only opened enrollment to those students who is studying in certain departments such as SPPM, EMBA and GMBA etc. The learner who enrolled this type of course needn't know Chinese language but are expected to build up basic and solid foundation of Mandarin Chinese linguistic knowledge and cultural awareness. Its learning objects and outcomes include to master the basic knowledge of Pinyin and pronunciation, the basic structure of Chinese characters and the proper stroke order of character writing, sentence structure, and be able to use the learned vocabulary and patterns to communicate on topics such as self-introduction, time, direction and schedule etc.

EALC 14011 Chinese Beginning I (6 Credit Hours)

The goal of the course is to establish a solid foundation in Modern Chinese language through the integration of all 5 skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and cultural skills. Characters, vocabulary, and grammatical patterns are learned through communicative contexts.

EALC 14012 Chinese Beginning II (6 Credit Hours)

This course is equivalent to the second semester of the first year of language learning to provide an introduction to modern standard Chinese through the four basic skills: aural comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. There is a concentration on correct pronunciation and the four tones as well as the basic grammatical patterns.

EALC 14022 Cantonese for Chinese Speakers (3 Credit Hours)

Taught as CCAN 1703 at a host institution. The course is designed to familiarize students with vocabulary and sentence structure of Cantonese intensively through contrasting the two languages: Cantonese and Putonghua. The courses are tailored-made for native Putonghua speakers. This course focuses on comprehensive language training including conversation and oral skills training in Cantonese. It covers the vocabulary and sentence structure of the textbook. Second Chinese language course.

EALC 14112 Chinese IV (2-5 Credit Hours)

In this course students will study the chapters of 16-20 in Integrated Chinese, Level 1, Part 2. Building on the social language and customs studied in Chinese 103, this course will expand students' vocabulary, grammar and speech patterns on some important aspects of Chinese culture as they are integrated into daily life, including nightlife/dating in China, renting an apartment, sports, and travel (including air travel).

EALC 14123 Cantonese as a Foreign Language (3 Credit Hours)

Taught at a host institution. This intensive course is intended for foreign learners who have no prior knowledge of Cantonese. The course introduces students to present-day Cantonese, with an emphasis on learning correct pronunciation through the phonetic romanization transcription system and basic structure. It aims to develop fundamental oral communication skills through a variety of situational conversations in a highly interactive classroom.

EALC 20211 Second-Year Chinese I (3 Credit Hours)

This course is for students who have completed one year of college-level Chinese. Grammar review and training in the four basic skills to achieve higher levels of competence in speaking and listening for greater fluency in communication, reading for critical understanding, and the ability to accurately and appropriately convey basic ideas through written characters. Second Year Chinese I is a 5 credit course; students should enroll in one MWF (EALC 20211) section and one TR (EALC 21211) lab.

Prerequisites: EALC 10112

Corequisites: EALC 21211

EALC 20212 Second-Year Chinese II (3 Credit Hours)

This course is for students who have completed one year of college-level Chinese. Grammar review and training in the four basic skills to achieve higher levels of competence in speaking and listening for greater fluency in communication, reading for critical understanding, and the ability to accurately and appropriately convey basic ideas through written characters. Second Year Chinese I is a 5 credit course; students enrolling in a MWF section (for example, EALC 20212 01) enroll in the corresponding TR lab (EALC 21212 01).

Prerequisites: EALC 20211

Corequisites: EALC 21212

EALC 20251 Second Year Readings in Chinese I (1-2 Credit Hours)

This course is intended primarily for students who meet the prerequisites for the Second Year Chinese. It offers students opportunities to enhance their Chinese reading skills utilizing Extensive Reading method. Students will choose their own reading materials varying from graded readers to authentic texts strategically collected for them. The materials should be at or slightly below the level at which students can read smoothly and quickly without consulting dictionaries or resorting to the practice of translation. They will be guided by the instructor to read large amounts of varied and interesting self-selected materials for both pleasure and information. Incorporating other activities such as group discussions, book reports, presentations, peer tutorials, and student-instructor consultations, the course will enable students not only to boost their Chinese reading proﬁciency but also to enhance their general language competence, resulting in more effective reading strategies, richer vocabulary, better writing skills, and increased knowledge of Chinese history, culture, and society.

Prerequisites: EALC 10112 or EALC 10122

EALC 20252 Second Year Readings in Chinese II (1-2 Credit Hours)

This course is intended primarily for students who meet the prerequisites for the Second Year Chinese. It offers students opportunities to enhance their Chinese reading skills utilizing Extensive Reading method. Students will choose their own reading materials varying from graded readers to authentic texts strategically collected for them. The materials should be at or slightly below the level at which students can read smoothly and quickly without consulting dictionaries or resorting to the practice of translation. They will be guided by the instructor to read large amounts of varied and interesting self-selected materials for both pleasure and information. Incorporating other activities such as group discussions, book reports, presentations, peer tutorials, and student-instructor consultations, the course will enable students not only to boost their Chinese reading pro?ciency but also to enhance their general language competence, resulting in more effective reading strategies, richer vocabulary, better writing skills, and increased knowledge of Chinese history, culture, and society.

Prerequisites: EALC 10111 and EALC 10112 and EALC 10121 or EALC 10122

EALC 21211 Second Year Chinese I Drill (2 Credit Hours)

EALC 21211 is the corequisite lab for EALC20211.

Corequisites: EALC 20211

EALC 21212 Second Year Chinese II Drill (2 Credit Hours)

Grammar review and training in the four basic skills to higher levels of sophistication: oral-aural skills for fluency in communication, reading for critical understanding, and the ability to write simple compositions.

Corequisites: EALC 20212

EALC 24011 Chinese Intermediate I (6 Credit Hours)

Taught as CHIN 2021 at host institution. This course is equivalent to the first semester of the second year language learning. Students at this level are trained to speak and write coherent and correct paragraphs rather than sentences, and to be able to communicate in Chinese regarding simple topics related to everyday life.

EALC 24012 Chinese Intermediate II (6 Credit Hours)

Taught as CHIN 2003. This course is equivalent to the second semester of the second year language learning. This course continues to develop students' Chinese abilities in listening, speaking, reading, writing and cultural skills. Students' linguistic knowledge will be reinforced and expanded through class activities with increased sohpistication. Students at this level are required to comprehend and produce paragraph-level Chinese. Rigorous practice of spoken and writtten Chinese in complex communicative activities will be conducted in class.

EALC 24211 Second Year Chinese I (3 Credit Hours)

This is an integrated course designed for students who are with advance Chinese level. This course covers twelve pieces of real authentic materials about different aspects of the society in modern China, such as Different Culture, Parents and Children, Face the Desert, etc. and emphasizes on improving the ability of the learners to use Chinese for communications, reading comprehension and writing assignments. Through plenty of special trainings, students will be strong in oral Chinese, know how to talk over social phenomenon with Chinese natives in real life with a good understanding of China.

EALC 24212 Second Year Chinese II (2 Credit Hours)

The course has been reviewed by our Chinese language program and is equivalent to half of the content covered in 2nd Year Chinese II at ND.

EALC 25101 Conversation Chinese (3 Credit Hours)

Conversation Chinese

EALC 30001 Introduction to Chinese Language and Culture (1 Credit Hour)

This course is intended for complete beginners who want to get a quick "bite" of Chinese language and culture. It will cover an introduction to the sound, writing, and grammatical systems of Chinese language, gives an insight into ancient versus modern Chinese culture and society, as well as introducing some basic conversational Mandarin Chinese over the course.

EALC 30002 Chinese Calligraphy - unravel the mystery of Chinese characters (1 Credit Hour)

This course is designed for students who wish to learn the history of Chinese characters, understand the principles of formation, and appreciate the art of calligraphy. This class will be taught in English. No Chinese language proficiency is required. This class meets for 50 minutes per week. The class structure is a combination of lectures on Chinese characters, training in analyzing characters, and practice of Chinese calligraphy. The topics of the lectures include the origins of Chinese characters, the principles of formation, the romanization of Chinese characters, simplified characters vs. traditional characters, and the adaptation of characters to other languages, etc.

EALC 30311 Third-Year Chinese I (3 Credit Hours)

This course is designed for students who have completed two years of college-level Chinese. In addition to further consolidating and enhancing the skills that students have acquired in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, this course will prepare students to produce paragraph-level language (both spoken and written), using a wide range of quasi-authentic materials (slightly revised for language learners), including material from news media. Third Year Chinese I is a 3 credit course.

Prerequisites: EALC 20212 or EALC 24001

EALC 30312 Third-Year Chinese II (3 Credit Hours)

Prerequisites: EALC 30311

EALC 30341 Third Year Conversation Chinese I (1 Credit Hour)

These serial courses are designed for those who wish to develop their Chinese oral proficiency into intermediate-high and advanced-low levels. The courses aim to further develop the learners' interpersonal and intercultural communication skills in Chinese. Meanwhile, they will help the learners develop a deeper understanding of Chinese culture and society through discussing a variety of topics. The topics include: air pollution, the Chinese Dream, soft power, anti-corruption, jingles, high-speed trains, knock-off goods, differences between city and countryside, left-behind children, migrant workers, Taiwan and Mainland China, and more. The students are expected to achieve the following goals upon completion of the course: Listening competency: Understand simple paragraph-length speech segments on topics related to cultural and/or social issues in China. Speaking competency: Engage in conversations and discussions of the issues mentioned above. Produce simple arguments and opinions in paragraph-length discourse. Develop more elaborate skills in description, comparison and narration.

Prerequisites: EALC 20212

EALC 30351 Third Year Readings in Chinese I (1 Credit Hour)

This course is intended primarily for students who meet the prerequisites for the Third Year Chinese. It offers students opportunities to enhance their Chinese reading skills utilizing Extensive Reading method. Students will choose their own reading materials varying from graded readers to authentic texts strategically collected for them. The materials should be at or slightly below the level at which students can read smoothly and quickly without consulting dictionaries or resorting to the practice of translation. They will be guided by the instructor to read large amounts of varied and interesting self-selected materials for both pleasure and information. Incorporating other activities such as group discussions, book reports, presentations, peer tutorials, and student-instructor consultations, the course will enable students not only to boost their Chinese reading pro?ciency but also to enhance their general language competence, resulting in more effective reading strategies, richer vocabulary, better writing skills, and increased knowledge of Chinese history, culture, and society.

Prerequisites: EALC 20212 or EALC 24001

EALC 30352 Third Year Readings in Chinese II (1-2 Credit Hours)

Prerequisites: EALC 20211 or EALC 20212

EALC 31311 Third Year Chinese I Drill (1 Credit Hour)

Development of greater proficiency in conversational, reading and writing skills, using a wide range of authentic materials, including material from news media.

Prerequisites: EALC 24001

Corequisites: EALC 30311

EALC 31312 Third Year Chinese II Lab (0 Credit Hours)

The course focuses on the development of greater proficient in conversational, reading, and writing skills, using a wide range of authentic materials, including material from news media.

Corequisites: EALC 30312

EALC 34311 3rd Year Chinese I (3-5 Credit Hours)

An upper intermediate listening and speaking course in Putonghua, focusing on students fluency in speaking and appropriateness in usage. In addition to daily situations and semi-formal situations, students will also be introduced to various aspects of Chinese culture and society.

EALC 34312 3rd Year Chinese II (5 Credit Hours)

Students will develop their communicative and written competence in Chinese language past intermediate level and broaden their knowledge of China's cultural history. Students will become accurate in their use of the spoken language and focus on acquiring confidence in reading and writing traditional characters. They will hone these skills be reading material originally written for native speakers of the language.

EALC 34702 Survey of Chinese Culture and Modern China (3 Credit Hours)

This course is designed to help students understand China geographical landscapes, the important dynasties and significant historical events, influential national figures, Chinese religions and modern thoughts, social rituals and family structure, female role change in modern society, masterworks of literature and architecture, and China's political structure and foreign policy, China's interaction with the Western world and other subjects. All analysis and discussion will be put into modern context and students are required to follow closely to what is happening in modern China on a daily basis and put forward their views in relation with what has been learned in the class.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKHI - Core History

EALC 40052 East Asian Cinema (3 Credit Hours)

This undergraduate film seminar course will study East Asian cinema and its social and historical context mostly between the 1980s and early 2000s. We will focus primarily on three large topics/movements within East Asia: Slow Cinema, Neo-Noir, and contemporary short form film. Navigating the general arc of Trans-East Asian film history, we will learn to recognize the localized global through readings and films by prominent filmmakers such as Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Wong Kar Wai, and Park Chan Wook, that define genres of East Asian film.

Corequisites: EALC 41052

EALC 40411 Fourth-Year Chinese I (3 Credit Hours)

This course will incorporate authentic materials from a variety of sources, including newspaper articles, essays, short scenes from contemporary TV series, short fiction, and video clips that will expose students to different spoken and written styles of Chinese. Students will further develop their abilities in three modes of communication - interpersonal, presentational, and interpretive - and in the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Chinese.

Prerequisites: EALC 30312 or EALC 34002

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

EALC 40412 Fourth-Year Chinese II (3 Credit Hours)

Prerequisites: EALC 40411

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

EALC 40413 Introduction to Chinese Linguistics (3 Credit Hours)

This course is an introduction to the Chinese sound and writing system, morphology, and syntax of the modern standard forms from a historical and linguistic perspective. The purpose of this course is to lead students who have the limited or no knowledge of Chinese to explore some interesting language phenomena by comparing Chinese and English, and to familiarize students with fundamental and systematical knowledge of the modern Chinese word formation and sentence structures.

EALC 40451 Fourth Year Readings in Chinese I (1 Credit Hour)

This course is intended primarily for students who meet the prerequisites for the Fourth Year Chinese. It offers students opportunities to enhance their Chinese reading skills utilizing Extensive Reading method. Students will choose their own reading materials varying from graded readers to authentic texts strategically collected for them. The materials should be at or slightly below the level at which students can read smoothly and quickly without consulting dictionaries or resorting to the practice of translation. They will be guided by the instructor to read large amounts of varied and interesting self-selected materials for both pleasure and information. Incorporating other activities such as group discussions, book reports, presentations, peer tutorials, and student-instructor consultations, the course will enable students not only to boost their Chinese reading pro?ciency but also to enhance their general language competence, resulting in more effective reading strategies, richer vocabulary, better writing skills, and increased knowledge of Chinese history, culture, and society.

Prerequisites: EALC 30312 or EALC 34002

EALC 40452 Fourth Year Readings in Chinese II (1-2 Credit Hours)

Prerequisites: EALC 30311 or EALC 30312

EALC 41052 East Asian Cinema Lab (0 Credit Hours)

Corequisites: EALC 40052

EALC 41411 Fourth Year Business Chinese I (1 Credit Hour)

A one-credit supplement to Fourth Year Chinese, required for international economics majors and optional (with permission of the instructor) for other Fourth Year students. This lab integrates the study of Chinese language and culture with the study of business and economics. Students will learn Chinese business customs as well as practical business terms, business writing, interview strategies, and business conventions and usage in a variety of contexts. Authentic materials, such as newspapers, magazine articles, television, and films, will be used to develop advanced reading and listening skills. By completing both semesters, students will deepen their understanding of Chinese society and business culture.

Prerequisites: EALC 34002

EALC 41412 Fourth Year Business Chinese Lab II (1 Credit Hour)

This course is designed for students who have successfully completed EALC 41411 or equivalent. It is required for international economics majors and optional for other students of Fourth Year Chinese or equivalent language proficiency. The course aims to enhance students' Chinese language skills in business context by integrating the study of Chinese language with an introduction to Chinese business environment and culture. Both traditional teaching methods and case study approach will be adopted. Students will be equipped with advanced vocabulary, practical business terms, common phrases and grammar patterns at the beginning of the class while studying the cases. After that, by discussing and analyzing the actual cases from real multinational companies in China, students will understand how to use the language to function properly in business environment, as well as gain comprehensive knowledge of the macro and micro economic situations and cultural background in China. In addition to the intensive reading of case texts, students will enhance their linguistic as well as cultural competence in business settings by reading and listening to authentic media materials in Chinese.

Prerequisites: EALC 41411

EALC 44012 Chinese - Advanced High II (6 Credit Hours)

The emphasis of this course is on enhancing students' skills of developing speeches or writing essays on sophisticated topics. Students at this level are expected to express themselves not only fluently and accurately, but also literally and artistically. Depending on enrollment, this course may be structured to the individual needs of students.Through the course, students will reach the advanced-high level in listening and speaking, advanced-mid level in reading, and advanced-low level in writing, based on the ACTFL standard. Students will become familiar with extended discourse on concrete topics and gain ability to deal with abstract or professional, specialized topics, and to defend opinions.

EALC 46000 Directed Readings (1-3 Credit Hours)

Directed study of special topics under the direction of a faculty member. Agreement by the faculty member and the Director of Undergraduate Studies required.

Japanese (EALJ)

EALJ 10001 Elementary Japanese I (3 Credit Hours)

This course is designed for students who have not studied Japanese language before. The goal of this class is to gain an acquisition of the four basic language skills in Japanese-reading, writing, speaking and listening. Students will learn to read and write Hiragana, Katakana and 15 Kanji. This course covers Lessons 0-3 in TOBIRA I : Beginning Japanese .

EALJ 10002 Elementary Japanese II (3 Credit Hours)

This course is a continuation of Elementary Japanese I. It is the second half of the two 3-credit course sequence (Elementary Japanese I and II) that covers the same materials as the 5-credit First Year Japanese I. Upon completion of this course, students will be ready to enroll in First Year Japanese II (5 credits) in the following spring semester. Students will continue their acquisition of the four basic language skills in Japanese: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. The emphasis of the course will be on mastery of the fundamental grammatical structure of Japanese through aural-oral exercises and practice. The course covers Chapters 4-6 of Tobira 1. Mastery of hiragana, katakana and kanji, taught in EALJ 10001, is assumed. Additional 53 kanji will be introduced.

Prerequisites: EALJ 10001

EALJ 10111 First Year Japanese I (2 Credit Hours)

This course is designed for students who have not studied Japanese language before. The goal of this class is to gain an acquisition of the four basic language skills in Japanese-reading, writing, speaking and listening. Students will learn to read and write Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. This course covers Chapter 1-5 in Tobira l: Beginning Japanese. First year Japanese I is a 5 credit course; students should enroll in one MWF (EALJ 10111) section and one TR (EALJ 11111) drill.

Corequisites: EALJ 11111

EALJ 10112 First-Year Japanese II (2 Credit Hours)

This course is designed for students who have completed the equivalent of First-Year Japanese I. The goal of the course is to further develop proficiency in the four basic language skills--reading, writing, speaking, and listening. The course covers Lessons 6-10 of TOBIRA I: Beginning Japanese. Mastery of hiragana, katakana, and the 49 kanji introduced in First-Year Japanese I is assumed; an additional 90 kanji will be introduced. First-Year Japanese II is a 5-credit course. Students should enroll in one MWF (EALJ 10112) section and one TR (EALJ 11112) drill section.

Prerequisites: EALJ 10111 or EALJ 10002

Corequisites: EALJ 11112

EALJ 10151 First Year Readings in Japanese I (1 Credit Hour)

In this course, students choose their own Japanese reading materials from the Hesburgh Library Collection and read them independently at their own pace using the Extensive Reading method. Tadoku (Extensive Reading) means to read books for students' own pleasure, at a difficulty level at which they can read smoothly and quickly without looking up words or translating. Students will read many books that are at or slightly below the level at which they read fluently, while the instructor carefully monitors their reading behavior and gives advice and suggestions. Students will gradually develop vocabulary and kanji knowledge, prediction skills, and skills to read more complex sentences with ease. The focus of the class will be individual reading activity and consultations with the instructor. Additional activities, such as group discussions, journal writing, presentations, and shadowing may be incorporated into the class.

Prerequisites: EALJ 10111 or EALJ 10001

Course may be repeated.

EALJ 10152 First Year Readings in Japanese II (1-2 Credit Hours)

Prerequisites: EALJ 10111 or EALJ 10001

Course may be repeated.

EALJ 11111 First Year Japanese I Drill (3 Credit Hours)

EALJ 11111 is the lab corequisite of EALJ 10111

Corequisites: EALJ 10111

EALJ 11112 First Year Japanese II Drill (3 Credit Hours)

Prerequisites: EALJ 10002 or EALJ 10111

Corequisites: EALJ 10112

EALJ 14001 Elementary Japanese I (3 Credit Hours)

This course will provide students with the necessary tools for communicating in Japanese. The course will lay a foundation for the student, whereby he or she may continue in self-study, or pursue formal college level coursework. Following the introduction of certain basic daily greetings, the course will begin by learning Japanese to identify and utilize the Japanese syllabary. Throughout the course we will systematically introduce grammatical concepts and integrate them into natural dialog. By the end of this course, students will have developed a sufficient knowledge base suitable for continued study.

EALJ 14101 Japanese 1 (4-8 Credit Hours)

This course is designed for students with no or little background in Japanese and aims at developing communication skills in Japanese, integrating four skills - speaking, listening, reading, and writing. The emphasis is put on thorough mastery of the basic functional grammar of Japanese through oral practice.

EALJ 14111 1st Year Japanese I (4 Credit Hours)

Students will learn to read hiragana, katakana, and recognize 150+ kanji terms. Grammar covered will be lessons 1-12 of Situational Functional Japanese (SFJ)

EALJ 14112 Fundamental Japanese II (4 Credit Hours)

This comprehensive Japanese language communication course for near beginners is designed for students who have mastered about 60 kanji and have had around 50-100 hours of instruction in Japanese language at the college level. Although students will practice all four skills, more focus is placed on speaking and interaction. Students will learn important basic Japanese grammar such as expressions of aspects/comparisons, short forms of verbs and adjectives, and various noun modification patterns. About 90 new kanji and important vocabulary for everyday usage are also introduced. Students are required to participate actively in class in order to fully develop their language proficiency. Each Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday mornings are one 100-minute class. TJ - Tokyo, Japan: This course is designed for students who have some knowledge of basic grammar and have already been familiar with hiragana, katakana and some kanji. It aims to develop language proficiency in Japanese, integrating four skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. The emphasis is put on thorough mastery of basic functional grammar of Japanese through oral practice. Communicative activities that use real life situations are frequently conducted through pair/group work. We will cover Lesson 9 to 20 of Situational Functional Japanese (SFJ).

EALJ 20211 Second-Year Japanese I (3 Credit Hours)

This course is designed for students who have completed one year of college-level Japanese or its equivalent. Students will build on their acquisition of the four basic language skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening from first year; they will increase their fluency in both speaking and listening, construct increasingly longer and more complex sentences, and recognize and produce approximately 235 kanji. This course covers Chapters 11-15 in Tobira II: Beginning Japanese. Second Year Japanese I is a 5 credit course; students should enroll in one MWF (EALJ 20211) section and one TR (EALJ 21211) drill.

Prerequisites: EALJ 10112

Corequisites: EALJ 21211

EALJ 20212 Second-Year Japanese II (3 Credit Hours)

This course is designed for students who have completed Second Year Japanese I or the equivalent. Students will build on the four basic language skills--reading, writing, speaking, and listening--acquired in the previous courses. They will further develop their fluency in speaking and listening, construct increasingly longer and more complex sentences, and recognize and produce approximately 330 kanji characters. This course covers Lessons 16-20 in Tobira II: Beginning Japanese. Second Year Japanese II is a 5 credit course. Students should enroll in one MWF (EALJ 20212) section and one TR (EALJ 21212) Drill section.

Prerequisites: EALJ 20211

Corequisites: EALJ 21212

EALJ 20251 Second Year Readings in Japanese I (1 Credit Hour)

Prerequisites: EALJ 10112

Course may be repeated.

EALJ 20252 Second Year Readings in Japanese II (1-2 Credit Hours)

Prerequisites: EALJ 10112

Course may be repeated.

EALJ 21211 Second Year Japanese I Drill (2 Credit Hours)

EALJ 21211 is the corequisite lab of EALJ 20211.

Corequisites: EALJ 20211

EALJ 21212 Second Year Japanese II Drill (2 Credit Hours)

Corequisites: EALJ 20212

EALJ 24055 Project Work 2 (1-2 Credit Hours)

Taught as NIJ430 - 'Project Work' at a host institution. This course is designed for students who have had fewer than 400 hours of Japanese instruction. Students should have already mastered 200 kanji in order to enter this level. This course is designed to enable students to conduct a project regarding stores in Kakuozan (one of the famous shopping areas in Nagoya) using various types of Japanese language. Students also learn how to give oral presentations on their project work using presentation software. At the end of the course students organize the results of their project into a short paper.

EALJ 24061 Essential Japanese 2M (1-2 Credit Hours)

Throughout the course we will learn how to write in an academic fashion in Japanese for essay composition and report fashioning.

EALJ 24062 Written Communication 1 (1-2 Credit Hours)

This course is designed for students learning Japanese for the first time to familiarize themselves with Japanese characters, and to acquire the skills to write and understand simple sentences.

EALJ 24063 Japanese for Volunteering (2 Credit Hours)

This course is designed for Japanese III, VI, V and VI students who want to visit an after-school day-care center to have cultural exchange with elementary school students and it is recommended for those who intend to participate in JET program. In this course, students will improve their presentation skills by learning from in-class and off-campus activities. In class, students will 1) prepare presentations and activities for the volunteer work, and 2) reflect on their experience and share with the class what they learned from volunteer work. 3) writing a folk tale from their home country in Easy and Caring Japanese for children in after-school day-care center. Students are required to have two off-campus volunteering activities and write short reports about them. All volunteering is unpaid activity with a not-for-profit organization. According to the COVID-19 guidelines set by Nanzan University, students who have symptoms such as coughing or a runny nose on the day of the off-campus activity, irrespective of what the cause may be, are not allowed to participate in the off-campus activity. All course work is conducted in Japanese. Class enrollment will be limited to 6 students.

EALJ 24101 Intensive Second Year Japanese (8 Credit Hours)

Taught as 13000 in Nagoya. Students should be able to recognize approximately 200 kanji characters before starting this course. Stu-dents acquire important grammatical patterns, such as honorific/humble expressions, giving and receiving verbs, conditionals, and causative/passive sentences, and gain a well-balanced command of the four skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

EALJ 24211 Second Year Japanese I (5 Credit Hours)

This course covers introductory Japanese grammar, including probability, expressing opinions, reported speech, noun counters, expression for giving and receiving, and passive and causative sentences. Honorific expressions and humble expressions are also introduced with some discourse structures used in daily life. Students should have mastered 150 kanji to enter this level. This course uses Genki II (Lessons 13 to 23).

EALJ 24212 Second Year Japanese II (3 Credit Hours)

Students will learn basic grammar and vocabulary to be able to do the four things in Japanese: listening, speaking, reading, and writing about important everyday topics

EALJ 24455 Elementary Translation (2 Credit Hours)

While the ability to translate Japanese into another language is not an integral part of proficiency in the Japanese language, it is an important additional skill that a student of Japanese will often need in order to pursue advanced courses in Japanese and its related fields in higher institutions. The skill is also essential for many of those who are planning a career in an area where a knowledge of Japanese is required. The course attempts to meet the demands of students at pre-intermediate level (IJ300) who are planning to continue their study of Japanese after finishing the Nanzan program and returning to their home institutions. The aim of this course is the development of translation skills, so the introduction of new vocabulary and grammar is kept to a minimum. Each unit of the course consists of the following elements: review of previous translation work, feedback on homework, and working on current translation. The sentences for translation are based on grammatical structures found in Supplementary Grammar Notes to An Introduction to Modern Japanese. Please note that auditing is not permitted for this course.

EALJ 24500 Japanese II (8 Credit Hours)

TJ - Tokyo, Japan: This course is designed for students who have already acquired basic communication skills in Japanese. It aims to further remaster basic functional grammar of Japanese and develop communicative abilities, integrating four skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Communicative activities that use real life situations are frequently conducted through pair/group work. We will cover Lesson 13 to 24 of Situational Functional Japanese (SFJ).

EALJ 24751 Japanese Culture and Tea Ceremony (2 Credit Hours)

Through the experience of tea ceremony, this course aims to deepen understanding of the experience that led to the development of Japanese society and to an appreciation of Japanese culture and spirit.

EALJ 30311 Third-Year Japanese I (3 Credit Hours)

A course designed for students who have completed two years of college-level Japanese. Students will expand their vocabulary and learn approximately 300 new kanji words. They will develop their understanding of Japanese culture, comparing the cultural differences between their own society and that of contemporary Japan. Students will build on their reading, writing, speaking, and listening abilities, conversing in paragraphs, not just sentences, practicing narration and description, and applying more critical and analytical reading and interpretive skills.

Prerequisites: EALJ 20212

EALJ 30312 Third-Year Japanese II (3 Credit Hours)

A course designed for students who have completed Third year Japanese I. They will develop their understanding of Japanese culture, comparing the cultural differences between their own society and that of contemporary Japan. Students will build on their reading, writing, speaking, and listening abilities, conversing in paragraphs, not just sentences. Third year Japanese II is a 3 credit course.

Prerequisites: EALJ 30311

EALJ 30351 Third Year Readings in Japanese I (1-2 Credit Hours)

Prerequisites: EALJ 20212

Course may be repeated.

EALJ 30352 Third Year Readings in Japanese II (1-2 Credit Hours)

Prerequisites: EALJ 20212

Course may be repeated.

EALJ 30361 3rd Year Listening and Discussion in Japanese (1-2 Credit Hours)

This class consists of two parts. One is a group discussion led each time by one of the students, who chooses a topic on real-world events and social issues by using various media resources. The other part is individual listening/viewing activities with authentic contexts. Students choose their own audiovisual materials, such as news, movies, animations, music, or recitation, in order to increase their input and improve their overall language proficiency. Through these student-centered activities, students will be able to learn to express more complex ideas and opinions, cultivate critical thinking, work together in teams, and deepen their awareness to become global citizens.

Course may be repeated.

EALJ 30362 3rd Year Listening and Discussion in Japanese II (1-2 Credit Hours)

Prerequisites: EALJ 20212

Course may be repeated.

EALJ 31311 Third Year Japanese I Drill (0 Credit Hours)

EALJ 31311 is the corequisite lab to EALJ 30311

Corequisites: EALJ 30311

EALJ 31312 Third Year Japanese II Drill (0 Credit Hours)

Development of oral-aural skills with an emphasis on typical conversational situations. Improvement of reading and writing skills.

Corequisites: EALJ 30312

EALJ 34101 Intensive Third Year Japanese (8 Credit Hours)

Students should be able to recognize approximately 400 kanji characters before starting this course. Students develop the four language skills further and express themselves in accurate and appropriate Japanese in a variety of social settings. Students write a research paper in Japanese and give an oral presentation.

EALJ 34255 3rd Year Japanese Reading and Writing (3 Credit Hours)

Taught as NIJ520 - 'Japanese Reading and Writing' at a host insitution. This course is designed for students who have had fewer than 500 hours of Japanese instruction. Students should have already mastered 400 kanji in order to enter this level. Upon completion of this level, students are expected to be able to make a speech in an organized manner or demonstrate their ideas through discussion or debate on familiar topics. Students are also expected to be able to read authentic materials, write short theses and drafts for oral presentations. They should be able to handle 700 kanji. This course is designed to improve reading and writing skills. Topics are usually chosen from social, cultural and academic topics that are suitable for college students. Although more focus is placed on reading and writing, discussion and debate are also encouraged. PA This course will provide further development of linguistic and cultural competency, including the ability to read general news articles from print and electronic media. While the unit covers the four linguistic skills, it has increased engagement with reading and analysing journalistic prose texts. It enhances students effective communication skills, including the ability to read critically and to translate general academic and media language from Japanese to English, with the objective of meeting routine practical and social demands in the professional world in general.

EALJ 34352 Intermediate Translation (2-3 Credit Hours)

Taught as 51020. This course is the continuation of Elementary Translation. Emphasis is placed on having students review the basic patterns and understand more complex structures that have high-frequency usage. Students practice translating from English into Japanese as well as from Japanese into English. Enrolment for this course is limited to twenty-five students, and since the course focuses on important structures from the IJ400 textbook, priority is given to IJ400 students during enrolment. Please note that auditing is permitted for this course.

EALJ 34460 Introduction to Business Japanese (2 Credit Hours)

This is the introductory business course for those planning to work for a Japanese company or to do business using Japanese. It is designed for IJ500 and high-achieving IJ400 students who have a strong desire to learn business Japanese. Through learning basic business conversation, this course aims to equip students with essential Japanese business manners and a knowledge of the customs, as well as vocabulary and expressions, that are useful in a business setting.

EALJ 40411 Fourth-Year Japanese I (3 Credit Hours)

Cross-listed with EALJ 50511: Advanced Japanese I. This is a three-credit course for students who have completed EALJ 30312 or its equivalent. This course takes students beyond the grammar-centered approach of textbooks to the study and discussion of original materials produced in Japanese for everyday Japanese consumption. Students will acquire strategies for autonomous learning through student-initiated approach and independent study project.

Prerequisites: EALJ 30312

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

EALJ 40412 4th Year Japanese II (3 Credit Hours)

Cross-listed with EALJ 50512: Advanced Japanese II. This is a three-credit course for students who have completed EALJ 40411 or its equivalent. This course takes students beyond the grammar-centered approach of textbooks to the study and discussion of original materials produced in Japanese for everyday Japanese consumption. Students will acquire strategies for autonomous learning through student-initiated approach and independent study project.

Prerequisites: EALJ 30312

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

EALJ 40451 Fourth Year Readings in Japanese I (1-2 Credit Hours)

Prerequisites: EALJ 30312

EALJ 40452 Fourth Year Readings in Japanese II (1-2 Credit Hours)

Prerequisites: EALJ 30312

Course may be repeated.

EALJ 40454 Advanced Conversation in Japanese (1 Credit Hour)

This one-credit course is apt for students who completed Third Year Japanese II or its equivalent. The main focus of the course is to retain and develop students' oral communication skills through activities such as group discussions and presentations in a friendly, welcoming environment.

EALJ 40455 Adv. Conversation in Jap. II (1 Credit Hour)

Course may be repeated.

EALJ 40461 4th Year Listening and Discussion in Japanese (1-2 Credit Hours)

Course may be repeated.

EALJ 40462 4th Year Listening in Japanese II (1-2 Credit Hours)

Prerequisites: EALJ 30312

Course may be repeated.

EALJ 44062 Fourth Year Japanese II (1-4 Credit Hours)

This course is designed to facilitate a mastery of intermediate grammar use corresponding to Level N2 of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test.

EALJ 44102 Newspaper Reading (1 Credit Hour)

Japanese language course that focuses on obtaining the skills necessary to read and understand Japanese news articles

EALJ 44103 Japanese Politics (2 Credit Hours)

Keio International Center advanced Japanese society and culture class focusing on Japanese politics

EALJ 44104 Presentation 6 (1 Credit Hour)

Japanese language course that focuses on honing presentation skills

EALJ 44105 Education and East Asian Societies (2 Credit Hours)

Keio International Center advanced course focusing on education in East Asia

EALJ 44106 Conversational Japanese (1 Credit Hour)

Japanese language course that focuses on improving pronunciation for spoken Japanese in conversation

EALJ 44107 Comprehensive Japanese (1 Credit Hour)

Level 5 comprehensive Japanese course at the Keio language program

Course may be repeated.

EALJ 44155 4th Year Japanese for Communication (2-5 Credit Hours)

Taught at a host institution. This course is designed for students who have had fewer than 600 hours of Japanese instruction. Students should have already mastered 700 kanji in order to enter this level. This course is designed to improve overall Japanese proficiency for communication. Although more focus is placed on speaking and listening, a multi-skill approach is usually taken.

EALJ 44162 Communication, Listening, and Speaking (1 Credit Hour)

This course is designed for students who have experience studying Japanese at the intermediate level and aims to facilitate a mastery of advanced-level oral communication and listening skills. Students will practice for Japanese communication skills for particular situations.

EALJ 44400 Academic Course V (1 Credit Hour)

This course is conducted in Japanese, and partially in English. The goal of this class is to find a common language at Nanzan University in which both native and non-native speakers of Japanese can communicate. First, Japanese students will speak in Japanese to CJS students and CJS students will speak in English to Japanese students to experience the difference between communication using a first language and communication using a second language. Next, the students will deepen their understanding of the background of plain Japanese for foreigners and the circumstances of its use. Finally, based on this understanding, we will discuss together how the common language should be used for communication between Japanese and international students at Nanzan University, as well as problems and areas for improvement.

EALJ 44411 Fourth Year Japanese I (8 Credit Hours)

This course is designed for students who have had fewer than 200 hours of Japanese instruction. Students should have already mastered hiragana and katakana in order to enter this level. It covers basic introductory Japanese grammar, explains how to make simple sentences and question sentences, illustrates how to use the most common adjectives, introduces the three Japanese verb types, shows how to make the present and past tense forms, and describes how to make requests. Upon completion of this level, students are expected to be able to deal with daily and specific matters in various situations that involve speaking and listening. By the end of the semester, students will be able to read and write short passages using the grammar and expressions covered in this course and handle 150 kanji in addition to hiragana and katakana. This course is designed to improve overall Japanese proficiency for communication, and reading and writing skills.

EALJ 44456 Japanese Seminar (2 Credit Hours)

This is a basic academic writing course for Intensive Japanese III and IV students. The main goal is to help students learn the expressions, mechanics and skills necessary to write short argumentative essays with well-organized paragraphs. Students practice writing 400 to 500 character essays with sample essay questions from the Examination for Japanese University Admission for International Students (EJU). At the end of the semester, students write an argumentative essay on a topic of their choice.

EALJ 45999 Language-Based Internship (3 Credit Hours)

Students will complete an internship in Japan, working in the target language. Students who participate in the program will: 1) Increase their marketability in a competitive job market by developing unique skills including intercultural communication, language skills, and other skills that cannot be directly taught in the classroom; 2) Build an international network of contacts in their chosen field; 3) Develop interpersonal skills in addition to the technical skills necessary to compete in a global market; and 4) Learn to communicate effectively in a professional setting with people from other languages and cultures.

EALJ 46000 Directed Readings (1-3 Credit Hours)

Directed study of special topics under the direction of a faculty member. Agreement by the faculty member and the Director of Undergraduate Studies required.

Korean (EALK)

EALK 10001 Elementary Korean I (3 Credit Hours)

This is the beginning course of the sequence of two three-credit courses, a sequence that covers the same materials as First Year Korean I. This elementary course is designed for students who have no prior knowledge in Korean and provides a solid foundation in modern Korean starting from Korean alphabet Hangul. Emphasis is placed on the fundamentals of listening, speaking, reading, and writing of basic Korean. In addition, students will be exposed to everyday life contexts likely to be encountered in contemporary Korean society.

EALK 10002 Elementary Korean II (3 Credit Hours)

This course is a continuation of Elementary Korean I. It is the second half of the two 3-credit course sequence (Elementary Korean I and II) that covers the same materials as the 5-credit First Year Korean I. Upon completion of this course, students will be ready to enroll in First Year Korean II (5 credits) in the following spring semester. Students will continue their acquisition of the four basic language skills in Korean: reading, writing, speaking and listening. At the end of semester students will be able to understand and articulate basic idiomatic expressions and grammatical patterns (e.g., sentence structure, levels, verb tenses) and develop their understanding of aspects of Korean culture.

Prerequisites: EALK 10001

EALK 10111 First Year Korean I (3 Credit Hours)

This introductory course is designed for students who have no (or very limited) prior knowledge in Korean and provides a solid foundation in modern Korean starting from Korean alphabet Hangul. Emphasis is placed on the fundamentals of listening, speaking, reading, and writing of basic Korean. In addition, students will be exposed to everyday life contexts likely to be encountered in contemporary Korean society. At the end of semester students will be able to understand and articulate basic idiomatic expressions and grammatical patterns (e.g., sentence structure, speech levels, verb tenses) in conversation and writing and develop their understanding of aspects of Korean culture. First Year Korean I is a 5 credit course; students should enroll in both EALK 10111 and EALK 11111.

Corequisites: EALK 11111

EALK 10112 First-Year Korean II (3 Credit Hours)

This introductory course is designed to provide beginners with a solid foundation in modern Korean on the basis of what we covered in First Year Korean I during the fall semester. Throughout the course we will focus on the balanced development of the four basic language skills of speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing. By the end of the semester, students will be able to understand (through reading and listening) and express (via speaking and writing) more complex expressions and structures (e.g., using clausal connectives) and will further develop their understanding of Korean culture. First Year Korean II is a 5 credit course; students should enroll in the MWF (EALK 10112) section and choose one T (EALK 1112) lab.

Prerequisites: EALK 10111

Corequisites: EALK 11112

EALK 10211 First Year Korean I - 3 Credit Option (3 Credit Hours)

This introductory course is designed for students who have no (or very limited) prior knowledge in Korean and provides a solid foundation in modern Korean starting from Korean alphabet Hangul. Emphasis is placed on the fundamentals of listening, speaking, reading, and writing of basic Korean. In addition, students will be exposed to everyday life contexts likely to be encountered in contemporary Korean society. At the end of semester students will be able to understand and articulate basic idiomatic expressions and grammatical patterns (e.g., sentence structure, speech levels, verb tenses) in conversation and writing and develop their understanding of aspects of Korean culture. This class is the 3 credit option for First Year Korean I with no drill component.

EALK 11002 Elementary Korean II - Independent Study (2 Credit Hours)

EALK 11111 First Year Korean I Drill (2 Credit Hours)

EALK 11111 is the corequisite lab to EALK 10111

Corequisites: EALK 10111

EALK 11112 First Year Korean II Drill (2 Credit Hours)

This course is the corequisite lab for EALK 10111 First Year Korean I. This is an intensive introduction to the fundamentals of modern Korea. The class meets five days per week. This course is designed for students who have not studied Korean language before. The goal of this class is to gain an acquisition of the four basic language skills in Korean: reading, writing, speaking and listening. Students will learn to read and write and to develop conversational skills.

Corequisites: EALK 10112

EALK 14001 Elementary Korean I (2-3 Credit Hours)

This course is designed to give students the basic knowledge on the vocabulary and the grammar of Korean Language. Students will learn Korean alphabet, words and basic grammars. Students will engage in a variety of activities in speaking, listening, writing, and reading to improve their communication skills in Korean. Students will be able to read and write Korean. SI - National University of Singapore (EALK 14001): Korean 1 is a beginners course. This is an integrated course which will help students gain basic proficiency in the four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing), grammar and vocabulary (including Hanguel, the Korean alphabet) for personal interaction and communication in authentic situations. Introduction to Korean course. There will be a combination of listening, reading, speaking, and writing.

EALK 14002 Elementary Korean II (3 Credit Hours)

Korean course designed for students to expand heir vocabulary and grammar for everyday conversation. Students will engage in a variety of activities in speaking, listening, writing, and reading to improve their communication skills in Korean. Students will be able to: Understand the fundamental rules of sentence structure and syntax in Korean. Have basic conversations in Korean on various topics including jobs, transportation, weather, food, sports, etc. Use past and future tense, honorific forms according to the appropriate social situation.

EALK 14041 Intensive Korean Level 1 (6 Credit Hours)

Taught at a host institution. Course Description & Goals: Can read Korean correctly according to basic phonetic rules; Acquire basic vocabulary words required for daily life; Acquire basic grammar patterns required for daily life; Can perform basic dialogue necessary for daily life such as greetings, self-introduction, ordering food at restaurants, etc.; Can understand the basics of Korean culture.

EALK 20211 Second Year Korean I (3 Credit Hours)

This second year Korean is for students who have successfully finished EALK 10112 or who have permission from the instructor after taking the Korean placement exam. Students will continue building their language skills with emphasis on enhancing speaking ability, writing skills, and usage of more complex constructions. The medium of instruction will be only in Korean and students are expected to use the target language as much as they can throughout the course. Second Year Korean I is a 5 credit course; students should enroll in both EALK 20211 and the EALK 21211.

Prerequisites: EALK 10112

Corequisites: EALK 21211

EALK 20212 Second-Year Korean II (3 Credit Hours)

This course is the second semester of an intermediate course on spoken and written Korean for learners who have completed Second Year Korean I or the equivalent. It is designed to continue building students' language skills with emphasis on enhancing the speaking ability, writing skills, and usage of more complex constructions. The medium of instruction will be in Korean and students are expected to use the target language as much as possible. Second Year Korean II is a 5 credit course; students should enroll in the MWF (EALK 20212) section and choose one R (EALK 21212) lab.

Prerequisites: EALK 20211

Corequisites: EALK 21212

EALK 21211 Second Year Korean I Drill (2 Credit Hours)

EALK 21211 is the corequisite lab to EALK 20211.

Corequisites: EALK 20211

EALK 21212 Second Year Korean Drill (2 Credit Hours)

Corequisite: EALK 20212 This course is the corequisite lab for Second Year Korean II EALK 20212.

Corequisites: EALK 20212

EALK 24211 Second Year Korean I (3,6 Credit Hours)

1. By learning the individual pronunciation and phonological rules of Korean, you can pronounce it accurately in a sentence. 2. Can use vocabulary related to introduction, food, shopping, invitation, appointment, and request. 3. Based on the short sentences learned in Level 1, you can use continuous sentences and sentences inside. 4. Able to use high-level and semi-verbal language according to the discourse situation. 5. With the content learned, communication in daily life is free, and various problems encountered in life can be solved to some extent. 6. Can understand simple everyday life culture.

EALK 24402 Intermediate Korean II (5 Credit Hours)

Learn individual pronunciation and phonetic rules of Korean and pronounce it correctly in sentences. Use introductions, food, goods fraud, invitations, transportation, public institutions, telephone, hospital, travel, housework. Use the sentence that is based on the short sentence learned in the first grade, the sentence in the inside. Use high-level words, semi-glossaries, and indirect speech in accordance with the situation. Can freely communicate in everyday life with the contents learned and solve various problems encountered in life. Can understand simple daily life culture.

EALK 30311 Third Year Korean I (3 Credit Hours)

This third year Korean is fifth in a series of Korean language courses offered at the University of Notre Dame and is designed for students who have successfully finished EALK 20212 or who have gotten permission from the instructor after taking a placement test. This course aims to develop functional proficiency in Korean at the intermediate-high level in listening, speaking, and reading and writing. Students will develop competence in fluency, grammatical accuracy and socio-linguistic/cultural appropriateness through a variety of activities and assignments. In addition, students will learn to communicate with more sophisticated grammatical structures and advanced vocabulary on various topics. This course will integrate Korean cultural themes with language learning to enhance students' learning of Korean language and to deepen their understanding of Korean culture. The specific themes that we are going to explore this semester are 1) appropriate pragmatics when apologizing, requesting, and denying, 2) the difference between indigenous language and Sino-Korean, 3) the Koreans' way of thinking which is reflected in language, and 4) social relation of Korean people, and so on. The course focuses on exploring 5Cs (Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities) through more in-depth studies of Korean language and culture. Third Year Korean I is a 4 credit course; students should enroll in both EALK 30311 and EALK 31311-01.

Prerequisites: EALK 20212

EALK 30312 Third Year Korean II (4 Credit Hours)

This course is the second semester of Advanced Intermediate Korean which is designed for students who have successfully finished EALK 30311 or who have gotten permission from the instructor after taking a placement test. This course is a content-based course and will integrate Korean cultural themes with language learning to enhance students' acquisition of Korean language and to deepen their understanding of Korean culture. Selected readings and multiple genres of media such as films with English subtitle, TV commercials, poems, and short essays will be introduced in this course. The purpose of this course is not to suggest a normative way of Korean living or generalize Korean culture, but to study diverse ways of living and to critically examine personal and social implications of the various modes of culture. The course focuses on exploring 5Cs (Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities) through more in-depth studies of Korean language and culture. Third Year Korean II is a 4 credit course; students should enroll in both EALK 30311 and EALK 31311-01.

Corequisites: EALK 31312

EALK 31311 Third Year Korean I Drill (0 Credit Hours)

Lab for EALK 30311.

Corequisites: EALK 30311

EALK 31312 Third Year Korean II Lab (0 Credit Hours)

Lab for EALK 30312.

Corequisites: EALK 30312

EALK 34041 Intensive Korean Language Level 4 (6 Credit Hours)

The course goes through topics such as everyday life, personalities, everyday events, culture, time change, knowledge and society, superstition, economy, and modern life. This course is offered by the Korean Language Institue at Yonsei University that teaches from the most beginning to the most advanced Korean. Level 4 specifically is for students who can already speak Korean naturally but still need to learn new grammar structures, vocabulary, and understand Korean even when it is spoken in an unfamiliar context. The books in this class are produced by the institution that has designated books from level 1-6. Throughout the course of the semester, we use 2 grammar books, 1 reading book, and 2 practice books.

EALK 34042 Intensive Korean Language Level 3 (6 Credit Hours)

Fluently read Korean dialogues and understand Korean pronunciation rules. Correctly use various tenses and suffixes including causative and passive verbs. Communicate with little difficulty in daily life. Freely present opinions in sentences and words in both daily and formal situations.

EALK 34110 Korean Food and Culture (3 Credit Hours)

This course aims to allow exchange/foreign students studying at Yonsei University to learn about Korean food and culture by exploring, experiencing, and enjoying them either firsthand or indirectly through related lectures, discussions, and research in addition to personal food experiences when it comes to Korean cuisine.

EALK 40400 Contemporary Korean Language and Culture I (3 Credit Hours)

This course is designed for students who are trying to elevate their Korean language proficiency level, from Intermediate to Advanced level, by challenging themselves to understand Korean authentic/ modified media materials such as Korean TV dramas, TV shows, TV news, or documentaries. It is also designed to introduce students to contemporary Korean popular culture and the Korean culture wave. An understanding of the oral and visual authenticity of Korean media materials not only gives students a rich and varied context in which they learn the target language, but also provides an exposure to the vocabulary and grammatical structures which are beyond the students' current proficiency level. Through the contextually very-rich texts of media materials and through frequent discussions and feedback sessions, this course will also offer students an opportunity to increase their awareness about Korean culture, a crucial element in advancing their proficiency to the Advanced level. Adapting interactive and elaborated task-based and content-based instructional designs, including four modes of language learning (speaking, listening, reading and writing), this course assists and motivates students to obtain the two main objectives; increasing Korean language proficiency and gaining valuable cultural awareness. The purpose of this course is not to suggest a normative way of Korean living or generalize Korean culture, but to study diverse ways of living and to critically examine personal and social implications of the various modes of culture.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

EALK 46000 Directed Readings (1-3 Credit Hours)

Directed study of special topics under the direction of a faculty member. Agreement by the faculty member and the Director of Undergraduate Studies required.

EALK 46498 Directed Readings (3 Credit Hours)

Requires "contractual agreement" with the professor prior to scheduling. For advanced students who wish to pursue an independent research project reading Korean language materials.

Course may be repeated.

East Asian Language & Literature (LLEA)

LLEA 10311 Historical Introduction to Japanese Language (1 Credit Hour)

This course is designed to equip students with the fundamental knowledge about the history of Japanese language in its social and cultural contexts, along with the essential linguistic characteristics of the language. Students will learn basic facts about how the language "evolved" into its modern form through the history of Japanese civilization. They will also learn fundamental features of Japanese sounds, grammar, and usage in social contexts. For those who are interested in learning the language, this course will be especially beneficial in preparing themselves as a beginning language learner. Upon completion of this course, those students may take Elementary Japanese I (offered in spring semesters) or First Year Japanese I (offered in fall semesters).

LLEA 13186 Literature University Seminar (3 Credit Hours)

An introduction to the study of East Asian literature. The course will focus on either Chinese or Japanese literature.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: USEM - University Seminar, WKAL - Core Art & Literature

Students in the Holy Cross College or St. Mary's College colleges may not enroll.

LLEA 14188 Culture and Traditions in Japan (2 Credit Hours)

This course aims at providing a comprehensive view of the Japanese culture through analysis of terms such as Ichigoichie (once-in-a-lifetime encounter), portraying the fundamental values of the Japanese culture. By looking into the way these terms were formed and the way they were used in early texts, as well as the way in which they are reflected in traditional culture and contemporary society the course will seek to provide an understanding to the essence of the Japanese culture.

LLEA 20001 Introduction to Linguistics (3 Credit Hours)

This course emphasizes language structure, including phonetics (the sounds of language), phonology (the sound systems of language), morphology and lexicon (structured meanings in words), morphemes (units of meaning), syntax, and semantics.

LLEA 20111 Introduction to Japanese Language and Culture (3 Credit Hours)

This course is designed to equip students with the fundamental knowledge about the history of Japanese language in its social and cultural contexts, along with the essential linguistic characteristics of the language. Although the main focus of the course is the language, this course is not part of the regular language courses. Students will learn basic facts about how the language "evolved" into its modern form through the history of Japanese civilization. They will also learn fundamental features of Japanese sounds, grammar, and usage in social contexts that are not explicitly covered in language classes from a linguistic perspective. Students who plan to take the beginning level of Japanese language course, this course will be especially beneficial in gaining a head start.

LLEA 20300 Global Korea (3 Credit Hours)

What does it mean to be Korean? How are definitions of Korea and “Koreanness” affected by recent waves of globalization and migration? This course investigates the social construction of race and nationhood within the context of South Korea. While many believe South Korea to be ethnically and racially homogeneous, the country has increasingly opened up its borders to foreign migration to offset the adverse impact of its rapidly aging society. More than one in ten marriages in South Korea involves a foreign-born person today, and growing numbers of racially mixed people consider themselves Korean. In addition, members of the Korean diaspora have started to “return” to their country of origin in recent years, only to find that they are marginalized because of their culturally different backgrounds. This course introduces students to sociological theories of race, ethnicity, and nationhood by analyzing how South Koreans define self and Other. We will learn how racial and ethnic identities continue to evolve as the contexts of migration change. We will also learn why it is difficult for individuals of particular backgrounds to find a sense of belonging in the societies in which they live and work.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKSS - Core Social Science

LLEA 20302 Introduction to Sociolinguistics (3 Credit Hours)

In this course, you will learn theoretical frameworks and contemporary works in linguistic variation and change, examining how this variation can reflect social structures and construct diverse social identities. You will also examine those places where language and culture come together to affect our interactions, concentrating on areas particularly important to language teaching, learning, and usage.

LLEA 20303 Digital Literacy in Language Learning (3 Credit Hours)

This course offers a comprehensive understanding of digital literacy in relation to teaching and researching language acquisition. Students will learn a variety of digital writing technologies and be trained to think critically about cultural and communicative consequences of the digital media. Students will also gain the critical perspective and literacy tools needed to actively apply in language teaching and researching.

LLEA 20318 Martial Arts & Popular Culture (3 Credit Hours)

This course enlists the martial arts to explore themes from history, philosophy, anthropology, aesthetic theory, media studies, and sports as embodied practice. By merging multiple dimensions of historical identity, artistic expression, and cultural practice, martial arts have a unique ability to access the human imagination. From Hong Kong cinemas, to MMA pay-per-view events, to online video games, martial arts are intertwined with global popular culture. This course synthesizes the global transmission of martial arts through an interdisciplinary approach to the anthropological history of symbolically violent media. By tracking the proliferation of the martial arts in popular media, from Yip Man film sequels, to muay thai youtube clips, to karate supply catalogues and dojo iconography, the cultural lives of these arts are revealed. We will examine these cultural expressions in a range of styles including gōngfu styles in China, jujitsu in Japan, kali/escrima in the Philippines, pencak silat in Indonesia, and savate in France. In this way, the course crafts informative linkages between the cultural variations of martial arts and their global influence in popular consciousness.

LLEA 20847 Christianity and the Challenge of Buddhism (3 Credit Hours)

In 1997 Cardinal Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) suggested that in the future Buddhism, rather than Marxism, might be the principal challenge to the Church. He has also, of course, fully endorsed the declaration of the Second Vatican Council that the Church "rejects nothing that is true and holy" in other religions, including Buddhism. Against the background of these two judgments - which may seem, but really are not, mutually contradictory - this course will consider: The fundamental differences between Christianity and Buddhism, both in matters of doctrine and in matters of spiritual and moral practice. The reasons why - despite, or perhaps because of, those differences - Buddhism today attracts increasing interest in cultures once shaped chiefly by Christianity The beliefs and values that both Buddhism and Christianity can legitimately be said to share and the ways in which they can reasonably be expected to collaborate with one another. Our overriding purpose will be to explore the ways in which Christians, especially Catholic Christians, can, should, or must view and relate to Buddhism. In the course of this exploration, the course will also provide a basic introduction to the fundamentals of Buddhism.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKDT-Core Devlopment. Theology

LLEA 23894 Japanese Film: Themes and Methods (3 Credit Hours)

This course focuses on major films representing milestones in Japanese film history, from the 1930s to the turn of the twenty-first century. We will examine masterpieces by great directors, including, Kurosawa Akira, Ozu Yasujirô, Mizoguchi Kenji, and Miyazaki Hayao, among others. We will explore genres from samurai and historical dramas to comedy, science fiction, and animated fantasy. In addition, we will consider the capacity of movies to provide and provoke cultural, social, and political commentary. On the way, we will take stock of significant contributions to film technique and film theory.

LLEA 24100 Japanese Martial Arts (2 Credit Hours)

This is both a practical and discussion-based class. In the practical sense, we will be exploring the world of Japanese martial arts (budo) through karate. We will also look at the mental aspects of Japanese martial arts through the introduction of its history, development, and current place in modern Japanese society. The purpose of this course is to provide you with an introduction to some of the basic techniques of karate (kicks, punches, blocks, etc.) in a practical sense as well as the opportunity to gain insight into the Japanese psyche through discussion of the philosophical side of Japanese martial arts. At the beginning of each class, I will provide a short overview of the lecture content. Then, as a group, we will learn and practice some of the basic techniques of karate. After practice, we will then look at and hold a class discussion regarding topics on the history, development, and philosophical aspects of Japanese martial arts. Your thoughtful, active participation through the course is expected.

LLEA 24101 Chinese Culture & Society (3 Credit Hours)

The purpose of this module is to introduce students to various aspects of Chinese history and culture. It also seeks to describe and analyse essential aspects of Chinese history and contemporary Chinese society with reference to core cultural values, e.g. Confucianism and Taoism. Through the participation in classroom seminars, students will develop their intercultural awareness of the differences between Chinese and Irish society, and gain a deeper understanding of some of the prevailing political and societal issues in China.

LLEA 24330 Otaku Culture in Japan and its Transnational Relation (2 Credit Hours)

"Anime", "Comic", and "Game" are some of the aggressive and innovative forms of popular culture spreading throughout the world. Japan is one of the major countries influencing this unique popular culture with its creativity. Enthusiasts of such popular culture are defined as "Otaku". It also delivers a new sense of atmosphere in terms of "Kawaii", and "Moe". These so called "Otaku" cultures are now focused throughout the globe and giving Japan an important role to enhance its innovative creativity. These contents and subcultures distributed from Japan have created trans-national cultural boom referred to as "Cool Japan" and now creating an inevitable cultural influence. Furthermore, political strategy suggests favorable international competitiveness to claim these cultural deliverable as the seeds of creativity influencing its national branding. Objective of this course is to understand how the roots of these Otaku cultural activities in Japan have expanded internationally as one of Simulacra with creators, and activists of the fields: How the technology has been created and knowing its real motivation to drive these sub-cultural activities. This course will first address the backgrounds and characteristics as well as its innovative expansion of "Otaku" culture recognized internationally, that were once born in the age of competing creativity that comes from Social Darwinism inherent during the phase of its economic growth and development of Japan. We will share the history of "Otaku Culture" and its technology in Japan from three perspectives. 1) Potential of expression process 2) Digital Content technologies that are being applied 3) Breakthrough of "Otaku Culture" influenced by Trans-nationalization and Internationalization. We will learn the creation process of media contents, games, and expressions for the next generation, especially learning and understanding technologies and methods to become a representative of "Otaku Culture creator and producers". We will discuss with participants, the next generation evolving reinvented, recreated animation, games, and expression contents produced internationally outside of Japan, especially from Asia. This course will also introduce you to get use to the views, methodologies, and ideologies based on "Otaku" with practical evidence, together with knowing the route in psychological process of satisfying desire and greed with its Otaku creativity.

LLEA 24821 Culture of Hong Kong (3 Credit Hours)

Taught at a host insitution. This course examines the values, norms, and culture of Hong Kong society against the backdrop of its dramatic economic development and social transformations. Globalization, traditions, human relations, and cultural identity are among the topics to be explored through close readings of anthropological texts, viewing of videos, and fieldtrips. Using the experiences of Hong Kong, this course offers an anthropological lens for the understanding of the enormous complexity and diversity of human life in today's world.

LLEA 24868 Current Issues in Japan (2 Credit Hours)

This course introduces current conditions and issues in Japanese society, examining the effects of social changes on everyday practices in the family, schools, and the workplace.

LLEA 30001 Introduction to Second Language Acquisition (3 Credit Hours)

An overview of the principles of language structure, the processes of first and second language acquisition, and the issues involved in assessing language proficiency with special attention paid to the application of linguistic knowledge to the multilingual and multicultural school setting.

LLEA 30002 Connecting Asia: Pasts, Presents, Futures (3 Credit Hours)

Where do regional and national identities collide? Has the rise of the internet and globalization made national borders increasingly obsolete? Or, has it ironically caused people to embrace ultra-nationalism and xenophobia? This class analyzes these questions within the context of East Asia. We will study the growing impact of cultural hybridization—and in particular, the soft power of K-Pop boy bands and Korean soap operas—on fan culture, online communities, and migratory patterns. We will then juxtapose these trends with more sobering evidence of the lingering effects of Cold War politics, the Japanese empire, and territorial disputes in Korea, China, and Japan in the past decade. By using materials from history, anthropology, and literature, students will explore the influence of colonialism, nationalism, and globalization on everyday life across the continent. All majors and backgrounds are welcome. No prior knowledge about Asian languages or topics is required.

LLEA 30005 Asia and the New World Order (3 Credit Hours)

The course provides students with a unique introduction to Asia in all its diversity, ranging from its languages, cultures, and histories to its political and economic systems and its relations with the United States. As the global balance of power continues to shift towards Asia, it is more important than ever for Notre Dame students to understand the continent's many complexities. This course provides just that: an opportunity to understand the multiple domestic and foreign forces that constitute the expanding global presence of these nations and regions (Burma, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam). Classroom sessions will be structured around a set of common assumptions about Asia as a whole or about specific Asian countries. Through reading, discussion, and lectures, students will be encouraged to reflect critically on those assumptions and consider a range of alternative interpretations. Assignments include primary work from visiting experts and will revolve around making comparative connections across the range of topics. Readings for the course will introduce perspectives gained from these experts' research and practice so that students will be able to formulate their own critical understanding of the region and its global environment.

LLEA 30011 Sociolinguistics (3 Credit Hours)

This course covers the inherently interdisciplinary underpinnings of sociolinguistics, the distinct subfield of linguistic study which seeks to understand the complexities of how human language is used in a myriad of contexts. More simply put: determining and measuring the relationship between language and society. Students examine spaces where language and constructs like class, gender, race, regional orientation, come together to affect our interactions on a micro (interpersonal) and macro (international) scale. With sociolinguistic lenses, we can evaluate how we use language to influence large-scale discourse like political rhetoric to anthropological understandings of diverse cultural identities and even internally investigating how our brains react to varieties of linguistic style, register, and dialect based on the social constructs informing the social group in question.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKSS - Core Social Science

LLEA 30101 Chinese Ways of Thought (3 Credit Hours)

This course is on the religion, philosophy, and intellectual history of China and introduces the student to the worldview and life experience of Chinese as they have been drawn from local traditions, as well as worship and sacrifice to heroes and the cult of the dead. Through a close reading of primary texts in translation, it also surveys China’s grand philosophical legacy of Daoism, Buddhism, “Confucianism,” and “Neo-Confucianism.”

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKHI - Core History, WKSP - Core 2nd Philosophy

LLEA 30108 The Chinese Religious World Today: Catholicism, Christianity, Islam, and Other Popular Faiths (3 Credit Hours)

This new lecture and discussion course offers students a detailed introduction to the diverse, dynamic and widespread presence of religion in contemporary Chinese life. China is—increasingly—a nation of energetic religious believers. Today there are more than 95 million Christians in China, 25 million Muslims, and as many as 500,000,000 practitioners of traditional local rites of sacrifice and worship to deities and spirits (most importantly ancestors). In the last decade plural religious traditions have grown with a speed greater than that of the economic and political reforms. It is within this specific context that students will learn about the impact of religious ideas, practices, and organizations on social, political and economic phenomena and explore the role of religion in the consolidation of individual, communal, and national identity. Adopting a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the class will ascertain the impact of `various Chinese religious traditions: Catholicism, Christianity, Islam, Daoism, Buddhism, and popular sects, on the internal socio-political structure of the Chinese state. As well the course will evaluate religions and their effects on shaping power relations on a regional, national, and local level. The class is discussion based, supplemented by lectures, student presentations, and documentary films. No knowledge of Chinese is required.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKHI - Core History

LLEA 30110 Ancient Japan (3 Credit Hours)

History is not a single "true story," but many competing narratives, each defined by values, interests, and political commitments. This course on ancient Japanese history provides an overview of three sets of competing narratives: first, the politically charged question of Japan's origins, when we explore archeological evidence and chronicles of the Sun Goddess; second, the question of whether culture (through continental imports of writing, religious forms, and statecraft) or nature (as disease and environmental degradation) defined the Yamato state from the sixth to the ninth century; and, third, whether Heian court power rested on economic, political, military, judicial, or aesthetic grounds and if its foundations were undermined internally or by the invasion of the Mongols. In examining these competing narratives, we aim to develop the disciplined imagination necessary to enter another culture and another time.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKHI - Core History

Enrollment is limited to students with a program in Chinese or Japanese.

Enrollment limited to students in the East Asian Language & Cultures department.

LLEA 30111 Green Japan (3 Credit Hours)

Around 1600, Japan closed itself off for 250 years, neither importing food nor exporting people. It was, in short, an almost hermetic ecological system, and yet, instead of outstripping their natural resources, Japanese people managed to attain a level of well-being above that of most other people. Some scholars have acclaimed this era an "eco-utopia" while others point to problems with this view. This course explores the interplay between political, social, economic, and ecological forces asking whether Tokugawa Japan modeled resilience.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKHI - Core History

LLEA 30112 Korean Society and Politics (3 Credit Hours)

This course provides students with a critical understanding of how South Korean society is organized, the major social issues that have dominated the contemporary era, and how systems of social inequality have changed since the postwar period. We will analyze in particular, three major periods of social change, including 1) the democratization movement of the 1970s and 1980s, 2) the Asian financial crisis and its impact on social inequality and poverty, and finally, 3) South Korea’s aging crisis and its implications for the future. No prior knowledge of Asian languages or topics is required.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKSS - Core Social Science

LLEA 30315 Crimes of Passion: Love and Death in the Japanese Classics (3 Credit Hours)

The English word “love” encompasses a variety of meanings: love of one’s family, love of one’s country, love for a friend, even God’s love, but the subject of much Western poetry and popular songs for centuries, to say nothing of countless stories, is erotic love—our desire to possess another, to become one with another. In Japan’s classical literature, erotic love is often seen as a kind of “demonic” or spiritual possession, an out-of-body passion so powerful that it transcends even death. In this course we will explore how this view of love compares to our own views, as depicted in Japanese fiction, poetry, and drama. If our view of love has been largely shaped by our Judeo-Christian tradition, the various images of love we find in Japanese literature were shaped by a quite different tradition: the indigenous religion of Shinto (‘the way of the gods’), and Buddhism and Confucianism imported from China. How different are these views from our own? If we believe that erotic love is a universal human attribute, how and why does culture, ours or any other, rein in such basic human impulses and to what end?

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLEA 30320 Revolution and Literature in Modern Japanese (3 Credit Hours)

Modern Japanese history has seen a series of revolutions - in politics and government, but also in science and technology, media, gender roles, and lifestyle. The Japanese people tested, debated, encouraged, and denied the near-constant revolutions they were living through via literature that metamorphosed to resemble everything from millennium-old Japanese romantic poetry to contemporary French travelogues. In this course, students will traverse constantly-evolving territory of modern Japanese literature to see how revolutions affect literature, and how literature affects revolutions.

LLEA 30330 Seeing Anime (3 Credit Hours)

This course offers an in-depth examination of one of the world's most popular media: Japanese animation. Students will study the art of animation and the development of the anime industry with an eye toward understanding how this supposedly unique form of art in fact responds to and affects global events and art forms. Students will learn to not only passively watch, but actively see what the colors and lines on screen are accomplishing.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLEA 30331 Emotion and Power in Modern Korean Literature (3 Credit Hours)

This course examines how emotion and power are explored in modern Korean literature from the early 20 th century to our contemporary moment of the 2020s. We will read novels, short stories, autobiography, poetry, and critical essays by colonial period intellectuals, activists of the democratization movement, contemporary novelists, and artists of the Korean diaspora. How do Korean writers, past and present, represent emotion and power in literature? What does emotion reveal about power, and what does power feel like? Topics discussed in the course will include popular culture, social movements, colonialism, gender and sexuality, race, class, and diaspora. From our vantage point as readers witnessing the global popularization of Korean culture, we will examine how modern Korean literature navigates Korean identity, creates new communities, and imagines a more just world. All course materials are in English and no previous knowledge of Korean is required.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLEA 30340 Exploring Korean Culture and History through Film (3 Credit Hours)

This course provides an introduction to Korean culture and history through contemporary Korean films. Exploring Korean culture and history through films is recognized as an effective method which helps students understand the past events and interpret embedded messages from the periods as well as explore cinematic representations of past events. This course will guide students to an extensive understanding of modern and contemporary Korean history and thematic issues, including colonization by Japan and Korean nationalism until 1945, the division of the Korean peninsula and Korean War in the 1950s, rapid industrialization in the 1960s to 1980s, democracy and human rights in the 1980s to 1990s, social issues in the 2000s such as Korean diaspora, multiculturalism, inter-Korean confrontation and reconciliation, feminism, familism, cultural hybridity, Korean capitalism and social class. No prior acquaintance with the Korean language and history is required.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLEA 30350 Global Korean Cinema (3 Credit Hours)

From Bora Kim’s House of Hummingbird to Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice, Korean cinema is a contemporary cultural force that circulates in and beyond Korea. This course examines how Korean cinema is globally inflected in its content, production, and reception. We will explore independent and blockbuster films by Korean filmmakers from the 1950s to the present day that encompass melodrama, auteur cinema, comedy, science fiction, documentary films, historical dramas, and more. We will engage scholarship from fields such as cultural studies, cinema and media studies, performance studies, and gender and sexuality studies. All course materials are in English and no knowledge of Korean is required. This course fulfills the literature and culture requirement for the Korean minor.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLEA 30403 Chinese Civilization & Culture (3 Credit Hours)

This course surveys Chinese culture and civilization from the beginnings to the present time. Readings include traditional historical, philosophical, political, religious and literary texts as well as modern scholarship. Students are encouraged to bring in their experience, living or reading, of Western culture in order to form comparative and reflective perspectives.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKHI - Core History

LLEA 30404 Chinese Popular Culture (3 Credit Hours)

This course introduces Chinese popular culture through the lens of contemporary Chinese cultural phenomena, including food culture, popular music, documentary films, martial arts movies, copycat culture, youth culture, and social media. It will be organized thematically. The lectures will introduce the major themes, including gender issues, social justice, government censorship, subcultures, family and state, localization and globalization, in a broad form and employ examples and case studies to provide students with a better understanding of actual Chinese society as it exists today. We will investigate the historical, sociopolitical, and aesthetical roots and impacts of the cultural phenomena. All readings are in English, no prior knowledge of Chinese language or culture is required.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLEA 30413 Introduction to Japanese Civilization and Culture (3 Credit Hours)

This course provides an overview of the historical development of Japanese civilization and culture from the prehistoric era up through the 19th Century. Students will acquire a basic knowledge of Japanese geography, historical periods, changing class structure and political organization. The main emphasis, however, is on the development of the fine arts, such as painting, architecture, gardens, and sculpture. The course also introduces students to the important and continuous influence of Chinese art, literature, Buddhism and Confucianism. Through readings of selected literary works (prose fiction, poetry, essays on aesthetics), students will learn how shared aesthetic values changed over time in relation to their social and political context.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLEA 30602 Modern Japan (3 Credit Hours)

This introduction to modern Japanese history focuses on political, social, economic, and military affairs in Japan from around 1600 to the early post-World War II period. It considers such paradoxes as samurai bureaucrats, entrepreneurial peasants, upper-class revolutionaries, and Asian fascists. The course has two purposes: (1) to provide a chronological and structural framework for understanding the debates over modern Japanese history, and (2) to develop the skill of reading texts analytically to discover the argument being made. The assumption operating both in the selection of readings and in the lectures is that Japanese history, as with all histories, is the site of controversy. Our efforts at this introductory level will be dedicated to understanding the contours of some of the most important of these controversies and judging, as far as possible, the evidence brought to bear in them.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKHI - Core History

LLEA 33000 Exploring International Economics (1 Credit Hour)

In this special course designed for inquisitive international economics / Chinese and Japanese majors, students will attend a number of lectures, panels, and seminars on campus during the semester, with a follow-up discussion for each led by either a visitor or a member of the economics or romance languages faculty. Before each session, students will be expected to complete a short reading assignment. At each follow-up session, the students will submit a 1-2 page summary and analysis of the talk, with a critical question for discussion. The goal is to encourage students to enrich their major experience by participating in the intellectual discussions that occur amongst ND and visiting scholars across the campus, distinguished alumni, and professionals in the field.

LLEA 33102 Chinese Literary Traditions (3 Credit Hours)

A survey course introducing students to the major themes and genres of Chinese literature through selected readings of representative texts.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLEA 33105 Approaching Asia (3 Credit Hours)

This course provides students with a unique introduction to Asia in all its diversity, ranging from its languages, cultures, and histories to its political and economic systems and its relations with the US. As the global balance of power is shifting towards Asia, it is more important than ever for Notre Dame students to have more than just basic knowledge about the continent. This course provides just that: an opportunity to take your understanding of Asia beyond the level of what you read in the newspapers, providing you with the knowledge and the tools to formulate your own critical understanding of the region and its global environment. Different types of writing about Asia – academic, journalistic, diplomatic, political, popular – will be examined alongside different ways in which Asia has been and continues to be represented in the western imagination. Asian perspectives will be accessed through English-language writings and English-language media published in Asia. Guest lecturers with specific expertise on individual Asian countries will join the class at regular intervals. Assessment methods will include both written work and classroom (group) presentations.

LLEA 33159 Modern Japanese Media (3 Credit Hours)

In the chaotic period that followed the bursting of postwar Japan’s economic bubble, Japanese popular culture has provided one of few bright spots in an ongoing economic malaise. This course traces the development of that popular culture through manga, literature, fashion, music, and animation.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLEA 33214 Korean Popular Culture (3 Credit Hours)

Korean popular culture permeates transnational mediascapes as evidenced by the virality of films such as Parasite and K-Pop Demon Hunters and the international success of writers such as Han Kang. We are witnessing the ongoing global popularization of Korean culture and its widespread circulation to the public in Korea and around the world. This course will examine Korean popular culture through film, literature, television, and streaming media with a focus on how popular culture shapes the human experience as well as our global geopolitical realities. We will think about Korean popular culture in creative ways that include a variety of forms and explore scholarship from an array of fields such as cultural studies, cinema and media studies, and performance studies that debate history, reception, identity, and soft power among other topics. All course materials will be in English and no knowledge of Korean is required. This course fulfills the literature and culture requirement for the Korean minor.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLEA 33309 Introduction to Japanese Popular Culture (3 Credit Hours)

What can popular culture do? What makes culture popular? What makes popular culture Japanese? This class represents an invitation to think critically about our entertainment, and to take popular culture seriously. In this class, we will take the materials of pop culture as our primary objects of analysis and ask what they say about the society that produced them, as well as what they say to that society. In other words, we¿ll be thinking of anime, manga, film, and other popular media not just as objects that reflect their culture of origin, but also as objects that offer meaningful critique of that culture. Furthermore, we will consider the ways that Japanese popular culture interacts with global flows of popular culture in the contemporary world. Students should expect this course to equip them with the intercultural competencies necessary to engage with the global flows of contemporary culture, introduce them to the socio-historical development of Japanese popular culture, and guide them through considerations of different methodological approaches to cultural studies.

LLEA 33310 Anime Themes and Theory (3 Credit Hours)

This course will explore the development and expansion of Japanese animation during a period between the late 1980s and the early 2010s. From cyberpunk dystopia to nostalgic rural fantasylands, we will examine the primary themes in the works of anime auteurs, including, Miyazaki Hayao, Takahata Isao, Otomo Katsuhiro, and Oshii Mamoru, among others. A core component of this course will be to engage in the theoretical approaches that have arisen around the study of anime in the United States--so students should be prepared to discuss race, technology, gender, ethics, and social history in the contexts of Japanese animation. No Japanese language is required.

LLEA 33317 The Samurai in Classical Japanese Literature (3 Credit Hours)

The sword-wielding samurai warrior is perhaps the most familiar icon of pre-modern Japan, one that continues to influence how Japanese think of themselves and how others think of Japan even in modern times. Who were the samurai? How did they see themselves? How did other members of Japanese society see them in the past? How did the role and the image of the samurai change over time? To answer these questions, we will explore the depiction of samurai in various kinds of texts: episodes from quasi-historical chronicles, 14th century Noh plays, 18th century Kabuki and puppet plays (many Kabuki plays (a theater of live actors), were first written for the puppet theater). While some of these texts emphasize themes loyalty, honor, and military prowess, others focus on the problems faced by samurai in their domestic lives. The last part of the course will be devoted to the most famous of all samurai stories, The Revenge of the 47 Samurai. Students will read eyewitness accounts of this vendetta, which occurred in 1703, and then explore how the well-known Kabuki/puppet play, Chushingura (A Treasury of Loyal Retainers, 1748) dramatizes the conflicting opinions surrounding it. All readings will be English translation and no previous knowledge of Japan is required.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLEA 33320 Modern Japanese Literature (3 Credit Hours)

This course will introduce students to modern Japanese literature, starting from the emergence of the shōsetsu and discourses surrounding it through the postwar era. We will look at changes in the conception of literary texts and readership, and their relationship to changes in Japanese society and the construction of the image of "Japan" during this period. Readings will cover canonical authors from the late Meiji Period through the 1960s such as Mori Ōgai, Natsume Sōseki, Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, Kawabata Yasunari, Hayashi Fumiko, Mishima Yukio, and Ōe Kenzaburō; they will also include key works of Gothic literature, proletarian literature, and colonial literature. We will focus on close textual analysis within this specific cultural and historical context, the politics of canonization, and the role of literature in constructing the ideas of modernity and nationhood in modern Japan.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLEA 33327 Qing China: History, Fiction, and Fantasy, 1600-1900 (3 Credit Hours)

This course examines the historical manifestations, literary representations, and contemporary re-imaginations in popular media of China's last imperial dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911). The Qing Dynasty was born as a Manchu empire that arose outside of China proper to become one of the largest land empires in human history, but was undone by foreign encroachment and internal unrest and eventually fell in 1911. The Qing's dramatic trajectory continues in the competing narratives circulated over a century after its fall. On the one hand, despite its domination by a non-Han people, it is regarded as the pinnacle of China's past, while on the other, it is frequently condemned for its decadency and arrogance precipitating a well-deserved downfall. We will explore the fundamental issues pertaining to the Qing as well as the lasting fascination with the dynasty regularly captured in contemporary film and television. Through reading, thinking, discussing, and debating, we will enter a different culture and a different time, and come to appreciate how the past continues to influence our world.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKHI - Core History

LLEA 33330 Japanese Monsters and Magic in Film and Literature (3 Credit Hours)

Vengeful spirits, foxes that turn into alluring women, green and red ogres, Godzilla, and Pokémon: these are some of the monsters that have spooked and beguiled Japanese people across time. This course explores how medieval legends and local histories of monsters and gods play an important role in identifying and resolving social anxieties throughout Japan's cultural history, from the 8th to the 21st century. The materials we will examine include literature, manga, film, and anime, in addition to scholarly essays and historical texts.

LLEA 33529 Finding Truth in Fictional Japan (3 Credit Hours)

The modern period of Japanese history has seen an extreme degree of flux in everything from language to technology, and government to social roles. The many and varied changes Japanese people underwent effectively reconstituted reality itself on a regular basis. This course examines how Japanese people negotiated the confusing changes facing them and continually re-defined what it meant to be a modern Japanese person through their writing.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLEA 33713 Catholicism in China (3 Credit Hours)

This course will provide an introduction to the Catholic Church in China, with a focus on the inculturation of Catholic theology in the context of Chinese culture. The course starts with the Sanjiao ("three teachings of China"): Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism. We will also discuss the legacy of Matteo Ricci, his fellow Jesuits, and their interaction with Chinese Catholics.

LLEA 33841 Sushi and the Culture of Japanese Food (3 Credit Hours)

Is sushi a 'high' or 'low' class food? What makes a cuisine a 'national' dish? How does food tell us a story about the changes in a society? These questions and more will be answered in our course, where we will examine the history and cultural representation of food in Japan. The sources of our inquiry will range from classical cookbooks to short stories, comedic films to scholarly articles. As part of the coursework, students will learn how to cook a Japanese dish and how to order from a menu in a Japanese restaurant.

LLEA 33848 Modern Chinese Literature (3-4 Credit Hours)

This course encourages students to read and discuss English translations of key modern Chinese literary texts, selected from among those that have delighted western audiences (such as the Nobel Prize winners Gao Xingjian and Mo Yan) as well as those that have been considered of huge significance by Chinese communities at different times. Most of the readings will be short stories and (parts of) novels, but due attention will be paid also to poetry and the prose essay, both incredibly important genres in the Chinese context. Students will be provided with a key vocabulary to discuss the texts, including both western and Chinese critical terminology, and with a range of interpretative methods. They will also be expected to carry out background reading, including academic studies of the literary works under scrutiny, and general works introducing the relevant historical contexts. At the end of the semester, students will have gained a good knowledge of the modern Chinese literary canon and will have gained critical ability in analyzing modern Chinese literary works from a range of perspectives.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WKLC-Core Adv Lang & Culture

LLEA 33849 Global Tokyo: A City of Space and Place in Film Literature (3 Credit Hours)

Site of the delayed 2020 Olympics, Tokyo has recently been under scrutiny as a problematic international space. Tokyo's role as a complicated space of both exclusion and inclusion has a deeper history, however, extending back to a relatively recent founding in the late 16th century. This course looks at how the imaginative figuration of Tokyo has been a battleground for contesting different ethnic, social, and gendered identities in historical documents, literature, and popular culture.

LLEA 33851 Manga and the Picture Book of Edo Japan, 1770 - 1830 (3 Credit Hours)

Japan is renowned for its modern comic book genre "manga," but humorous and action-packed visual-verbal stories populate its literary history. This course examines a specific period where the urban culture of Edo (modern Tokyo) is colorfully expressed in playful literature and woodblock-prints. We will examine questions of status and class, sexuality, materialism, and the role of technology in shaping the book. As a hands-on project, we will learn Edo period woodblock carving techniques and, as a class, publish our own comic book!

LLEA 33894 Japanese Film: Themes and Methods (3 Credit Hours)

LLEA 34001 Intro to Japanese Civilization and Culture (3 Credit Hours)

This course traces the development and cultural impact of the diverse religious traditions of Japan, focusing on Buddhism, Shint¿, Confucianism, folk traditions, and New Religious Movements. The format of the course will combine lecture and discussion. Students will attend each session with a copy of their notes on each of the readings assigned for that day. Time in class will also occasionally be devoted to preparation for the final presentation and final paper. Since a great deal of religious action in Japan is organized around specific sites, early in the term students will select a particular sacred site on which they will produce a final presentation and a ten-to-twelvepage research paper. Time will be set aside in class for students to discuss preliminary ideas with each other and with the instructor. The paper will be due at the end of the term. Student presentations will provide materials for the final quiz, which will be given on the last day of class.

LLEA 34105 Approaching Asia (2 Credit Hours)

The course has 2 objectives: 1) To introduce different aspects of contemporary China to help students understand the cultural traditions and daily life of ordinary Chinese people and politics, legal system and governance of the state; 2) To understand the variety, diversity and complexity of contemporary Chinese society and the challenges that China faces in its modernization process.

LLEA 34106 Postcolonial Studies: The Case of Hong Kong (3 Credit Hours)

Considered as an anomaly in postcoloniality by Rey Chow, Hong Kong makes the perfect case for the study of major theories and concerns in Postcolonial Studies for their critical capacity and limitations. This course engages canonical theorists and texts in Postcolonial Studies in dialogue with local voices of critique across fields and disciplines to reexamine postcolonial experiences of Hong Kong and their legacy expressed in the connections among culture, history, politics, and economics. By unpacking the anomality of the case of Hong Kong and organizing critical local scholarship on cultural production and development often situated on the margin or caught in between domineering forces, this course also seeks to, as proposed by Stephen Chu, reconfigure postcolonial discourse as a critical mode of imagination in a world altered now by global capitalism.

LLEA 34108 Religions in China (3 Credit Hours)

This university-level course is designed to introduce students to the dazzling creativity and spiritual aspirations of religion and culture in China. This course engages with different perspectives in understanding the significant role of Chinese religion in both traditional and modern China by prioritizing intellectual dialogue and mutual understanding between China and the West.

LLEA 34110 Ancient Japan (3 Credit Hours)

The land-owning feudal ruling class is both blamed for the stagnation of Japanese society and revered as one of its core cultural traditions. This course covers late-archaic, medieval and early modern Japan, examining major societal developments while evaluating the applicability of the Marxist concept of feudalism to the Japanese historical context.

LLEA 34112 Ecology of Human Development in Korea (3 Credit Hours)

This course is to provide in-depth understandings about human development within diverse layers of environment including family, school, work and community. In particular, this course intends to provide comparative perspective by offering information about Korean socio-cultural, and family contexts and their relationship with human development. For this purpose, this course will first give knowledge about developmental and family theories explaining human development within contexts. Second, the course will explore human development through prenatal period to adulthood. Lastly, diverse environmental contexts around developing human being will be discussed. The course includes class lecture and class discussion. Students should be prepared for the class and actively participate in the discussion sections. Students will also take two main exams. Each student will be positioned in a project group. Group members should perform a final paper about human development issues. Students will be also asked to submit a rational paper explaining about the paper topic. In addition, presentation about the project should be giving at the last week of the semester.

LLEA 34159 Japanese Cinema B (3 Credit Hours)

This course will provide a series of deep dives into a selection of evocative films from within the Japanese cinema tradition. The films on our list are ones that simultaneously exemplify and push the boundaries of both Japanese film style and standard definitions of Japan and Japanese culture. Through full in class viewings and notetaking, discussions, contextual reading, and research, we will evaluate these films as artistic creations while also exploring how they exemplify certain approaches and tensions within the Japanese cinematic tradition, as well as how they engage with longstanding problems within Japanese society. Our dual focus on work and context will give us a fuller picture of what it means to say that a particular film is an example of Japanese cinema.

LLEA 34308 Media China (3 Credit Hours)

This course will introduce students to the digital transformation of China. The phrase “digital transformation” refers to an array of changes in infrastructures, devices, practices and cultures brought by technologies including but not limited to mobile phones, laptops, tablets, and other computers; websites, online games, virtual worlds, social network sites, apps, and blogs; and governments, corporations, nonprofits, activists, users, makers, hackers, players, and friends. This course is designed to give you ideas, methods, and experience in understanding how these digital technologies in China change people’s lives, career, the future of humanity in the broadest sense. You will explore different facets of digital China: e-commerce innovation, online civil society, virtual arts, platform labour, and geopolitics. A choice of readings will provide opportunities to discuss various methods used to “feel” digital, from ethnographic observation and interviews to digital humanities.

LLEA 34309 Introduction to Japanese Popular Culture (3 Credit Hours)

This course explores Japanese pop culture through the lenses of social sciences, cultural studies, media studies, and business management studies. This course aims to understand the origin, contemporary trends, and future perspective of Japanese pop culture. There will be a series of lectures, discussions, and a research project. We will also examine the complexity of its development and learn to identify the cultural differences and similarities between the entertainment culture of Japan and US-American cultures. Students will also learn about media and business management theories relevant to studying Japanese pop culture and frameworks to deepen their understanding, acquire new perspectives and effectively communicate and interact with others regarding this topic.

LLEA 34320 Contemporary Japanese Literature (3 Credit Hours)

The purpose of this course is to acquaint students with writers, trends, movements, styles, and themes in contemporary Japanese literature. While in this course you will be exposed to the works of currently living, working writers who have, for varying reasons, responded to the needs of the current generation of readers in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Our historical milieu will be Japan during the ¿bubble¿ economy, and beyond. Our writers will be concerned with issues of identity, communication, love, the environment, terrorism, and an increasingly powerful, yet strangely unresponsive State power apparatus. In short, we will read stories about the actual, contemporary Japan in which we all live.

LLEA 34330 Modern Japanese Literature A (3 Credit Hours)

In this class, we will study representations of the supernatural in the literature and visual culture of early modern Japan, and consider the various ways in which monsters and ghosts became a site for interrogating and critiquing social and political norms.

LLEA 34340 Korean Culture from Koryo to K-pop 3 (3 Credit Hours)

This unit is designed to enhance students' understanding of Korean culture and society through film, literature, popular and traditional music as well as visual arts.

LLEA 34404 Chinese Popular Music (3 Credit Hours)

This course explores the complex relationships underlying Chinese music, Chinese language and Chinese literature. It focuses on Chinese music from the perspective of Chinese-language popular music produced in the People's Republic of China (PRC), Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. These four economies have developed different strands of popular music in Mandarin and various Chinese dialects, due to different linguistic and ideological environments. Students will learn how Chinese-language popular music draws upon the aesthetics of Chinese literature and traditional Chinese music, and how Chinese popular music has hybridised influences from foreign musical genres, thus expressing different versions of "Chineseness".

LLEA 34413 Linguistics A (3 Credit Hours)

This course introduces students to basic concepts in linguistics through a focus on the Japanese language and its relation to languages around the world. Using Languages: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen R. Anderson, students will explore linguistic structure, diversity, classification, and change. Topics include how languages are counted, how they are related, how they evolve, and how Japanese fits into this global picture. Students will be encouraged to reflect on their own languages and compare them with Japanese. Each class will follow a consistent three-part structure: (1) a warm-up and sharing activity based on the assigned reading, (2) explanation of key ideas using examples from Japanese and other languages, and (3) a group or pair activity for comparison, discussion, or simple analysis. Students are encouraged to actively participate in class discussions, regardless of their background in linguistics. Japanese may be used during group work or writing when necessary. This course values open exploration and cultural comparison over technical precision. Nagoya, Japan (NJ) course 31060: This course is aimed at students interested in learning how cultural factors play important roles in plots of Japanese anime and manga , which are often lost or become opaque in their translated versions. While gaining introductory knowledge of history, religions and other cultural aspects of Japan, students will examine cultural influences with an emphasis on ethics and religions in anime and manga from the classics to the latest and learn how Japanese people appreciate these works.

LLEA 34602 Modern Japan (2,4 Credit Hours)

This course is a survey of the modern Chinese literature from 1918 to 2000. It will focus on the fiction, poetry and essays during 3 periods (1918 ~ 1949; 1949 ~ 1976; since 1976) in the 20th century. Through a close study of famous Chinese writers and poets such as Lu Xun, Yu Dafu, Xu Zhimo, Wen Yiduo, Mao Dun, Lao She, Shen Congwen, Ba Jin, Chang Eileen, Ai Qing, Chen Yingzhen, Wang Meng, Yu Hua, Gao Xingjian and Mo Yan, as well as some of the avant-garde writers such as Can Xue, students will have the opportunity to explore their own ideas of what the development of the Chinese literature in the 20th century is like, and be informed of one of the important sides of the modern Chinese culture, as well as the styles of literary creation of those great Chinese writers such as Lu Xun, Xu Zhimo, Lao She, Shen Congwen, and so on. Because the modern Chinese literature has been greatly influenced by many historical events during the 20th century as well as by Western thoughts, aesthetics, literature and culture, so the historical and Western influences on modern Chinese literature and the combination of the old Chinese literary tradition and the newly introduced Western literary tradition in modern Chinese literature are to be explored, too. TJ Sophia - Tokyo, Japan: This introduction to modern Japanese history focuses on political, social, economic, and military affairs in Japan.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLEA 34821 China on Screen (3 Credit Hours)

Taught at a host instution as CCSS 3440 - 'China on Screen'. "This course asks that students begin to understand Chinese cinema(s) as transnational, as a triangular composite of Mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong cinemas with extensive links to Asia and the rest of the world. We will examine 10 films directed by some of the twentieth and twenty-first century's most skilled directors. The syllabus is structured in rough chronological order and covers China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. This is by no means an exhaustive survey of Chinese cinema, but is instead meant as an introduction to Chinese film history and criticism.

LLEA 34841 Traditional Korean Society (3 Credit Hours)

Taught at a host institution. "This Course aims to provide a basic introduction to modernization of Korea from the Chosun Period to comtemporary Korea. By understanding Korean history, students will be able to understand the behaviors of contemporary Koreans and culture, which influences on Koreans` minds. This course is to inform students of social changes and to help students to understand what individual Koreans experienced from social changes.

LLEA 34842 Korean Popular Culture and Korean Wave (3 Credit Hours)

1. Introduction to Korean cultural identity and its global relationships. 2. Korean diaspora music in China, Japan, US, Europe, South America and CIS. 3. The popularity of Korean pop culture and its export to international markets as a national product. Further discourse of the positive and negative effects of the Hallyu phenomena. 4. Discussing the important theoretical concepts and issues from an ethnomusicological perspective of Korean traditional and popular music.

LLEA 34844 Contemporary Korean Cinema and Society (3 Credit Hours)

This is a class to introduce Korean contemporary films and relevant societal discourses during a semester. Students are expected to learn about, after the semester, first, the role of film/moving images in contemporary society, second, the rhetoric of visual media in broader context, and lastly, Korean contemporary films in more concrete realm. By writing critiques on each subjects as well as sharing in class time, students will experience to try to challenge the feelings and thoughts of their own, to broaden the knowledge and deepen the insight on film media.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLEA 34845 Korean Traditional Music and Culture (3 Credit Hours)

1)To introduce Korean musical instruments and their historical relevance in Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Central Asian Music. 2)To appreciate various Korean traditional music genres such as classical (court and ritual music) and folk music (folk songs, pansori, sanjo). 3)To discuss the philosophical backgrounds of Korean religious music: Shamanism, Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Christian 4)To distinguish Korean musical features in pansori and sanjo. 5)To learn how to analyze music within a cultural context. 6)To discuss Hallyu and Korean popular music.

LLEA 34851 Japanese Linguistics I (2-3 Credit Hours)

Taught at a host institution. In this course, some fundamental aspects of modern linguistic theory and its application to the study of Japanese syntax are examined. Frequent comparison of Japanese and other languages (mostly English) is made in order to highlight similarities and differences among languages.

LLEA 34852 Survey of Traditional Japanese Literature I (3 Credit Hours)

The goal of this course is to provide an overview and understanding of some basic concepts and themes of Japanese writing, both prose and poetry, written during the period between 710 to 1185, which corresponds to the Nara and Heian periods, and includes the classical period of Japanese culture and art. We will specifically concentrate on Japanese aesthetics and religions to find some constant aspects within the various texts. In other words, one objective of this course is to find characteristics that are (possibly) unique and constant in Japanese literature and culture in our readings and class discussions. This course deals with a number of extremely well known works including The Man'yô Anthology, The Pillow Book, The Tale of Genji, among others. Additionally, key themes for discussion in this course include depiction of class, gender and economic difference, as well as the feasibility of applying western concepts of literary theory to Japanese poetry and fiction. We will also see how Japanese ancient literature, written long ago (and presumably far from our native lands) can appear uncannily familiar for the participants of the class.

LLEA 40032 Politics and Performance in Modern China (3 Credit Hours)

Politics has always been theatrical, but perhaps nowhere has this been taken to such an extreme as in modern China. From the celebrity-like "cult of personality" surrounding Chairman Mao Zedong to student protests to performances like the 2008 Beijing Olympics, China has been home to some of the most spectacular political displays of the last century. This course explores how and why political performance became such a prominent phenomenon in China, especially under the People's Republic (PRC), through two lines of inquiry. First, it examines how theatre and performance themselves have been used as political tools, both in support of and in protest against ruling regimes. Second, it looks at the ways in which political events such as mass rallies, show trials, and protests have taken on highly performative and theatrical qualities in the Chinese context. It considers cases that relate directly to state and Party politics, as well as to the politics of gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity. Through this course, students gain a deeper understanding of modern China, as well as the critical and theoretical tools necessary to analyze political theatre and theatrical politics in China and beyond. All readings in English or English translation. No prior study of China or Chinese language required.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature, WRIT - Writing Intensive

LLEA 40052 East Asian Cinema (3 Credit Hours)

LLEA 40130 Shakespeare and Asia (3 Credit Hours)

Asian theatre- and film-makers have produced some of the most innovative and exciting versions of Shakespeare's work. His strong presence in Asia also speaks to the histories and legacies of colonization and cultural imperialism. This course explores several well-known Shakespearean plays through the lens of Asian adaptation, rooted in both close reading of the plays themselves and the historical-cultural contexts of their adaptations. How, when, and why have specific Shakespearean plays captured the imaginations of Asian theatre artists and filmmakers? How have they transformed Shakespearean texts through translation, the use of local performance forms, new geographic and historical settings, and other techniques? How do these reimaginings rethink what "Shakespeare" might mean? By exploring such questions, students will gain a deeper understanding of Shakespeare, Asian theatre, and the complexities of their conjoining.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLEA 40413 Intro to Chinese Linguistics (3 Credit Hours)

LLEA 40613 Media and Culture in Modern China (3 Credit Hours)

Soon after modern printing technology was introduced by western missionaries in the 19 th century, China developed an exciting new culture characterized by tremendous creativity and productivity, enthusiastic experimentation with media technologies, high-speed interaction between creators and users, and countless unique ways of mixing textual and visual material. Ranging from the pictorial magazines of the early twentieth century to the Internet sites of the early twenty-first century, China’s modern culture has expressed and engaged with massive historical, social, and political changes, captured in writing and in images. This course takes students on a whirlwind tour of modern Chinese cultural expression in newspapers, magazines, posters, films, TV shows, websites, and social media, using original visual materials in addition to readings in English translation. The aim is to provide students with a comprehensive overview of the main developments in modern Chinese culture, while training their ability to analyse different types of cultural products. At the end of the course, students will have produced their own blog site, using visual and textual material to express their own critical opinions on the materials we studied.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLEA 40614 Spectacular Asia (3 Credit Hours)

From martial arts blockbusters to extravagant expos to space-age cityscapes, countries in East and Southeast Asia have achieved worldwide renown both for their affinity for mega-events and as spectacular backdrops for filmed narratives, multinational gatherings, and global tourism. But what forces are at work in the creation and dissemination of such spectacle? To what ends and for whom are these spectacles designed? How do different spectators interact with and interpret them? And what resistance, if any, has there been to the seeming excess and superficiality of extravaganza and its attendant mass-mediated images? This course examines recent works of performance, visual art, and film from China, Taiwan, Japan, the Koreas, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines in relation to the politics of spectatorship and theories of spectacle. Covering a period roughly from the mid-20th century rise of the "society of the spectacle" to the present, we will ask how different forms of spectacle—still and moving, mediated and live—come to represent Asian nations and shape viewers' experiences of Asian cultures. Doing so will enable us to better understand the dynamics of seeing and being seen on a global scale, as well as to explore how alternative modes of performance, visual culture, and viewership engendered by Asian contexts challenge established power hierarchies and modes of audience engagement.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLEA 40618 Modern China on Screen (3 Credit Hours)

This course introduces contemporary cinemas of mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan by focusing on a selection of internationally acclaimed Chinese films. In addition to examining cultural background, narrative themes and cinematic technique of the films, we will be exploring how these selected films response to fundamental issues such as history, gender, identity, memory, social justice, nationalism, and globalization. The goals of the course are to introduce students to major films and directors in contemporary China, to learn Chinese culture, value and history through films, and to refine students' abilities to analyze and write about film critically. All readings are in English, no prior knowledge of Chinese language or culture is required. All films selected for the course have English subtitles.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKAL - Core Art & Literature

LLEA 40663 Race in Asia (3 Credit Hours)

What is race? How do concepts of race change according to social, political, and historical context? Do Asian understandings of race differ from those in the West? How are concepts like "blackness" and "white privilege" interpreted in Asia? In this class, we will grapple with this set of questions by looking at how competing definitions of race and nationhood emerged in conjunction with the rise of the Japanese empire (1910-1945), and American military occupation in Asia during the Cold War. Students will investigate how this historical context has continued to affect the ways more contemporary flows of migrants from Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa are racialized in Asia, by analyzing sociological, anthropological, and historical texts of everyday life. No prior knowledge about Asian languages or topics is required.

LLEA 41052 East Asian Cinema Lab (0 Credit Hours)

Corequisites: LLEA 40052

LLEA 44112 Korean Society and Politics (3 Credit Hours)

The purpose of this class if to provide students with a basic knowledge of politics and society of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea(North Korea). This course is a mixture of area studies and international relations.

LLEA 44412 Chinese Scientific/Technical Translation (3 Credit Hours)

The purpose of this module is to further develop students' semi-professional translation skills. Students will have the advanced translation skills for various purposes and will be able to make effective use of technical terminology resources and comparable text resources.

LLEA 44618 Chinese Cinema (5 Credit Hours)

The course includes a representative selection of films from the early 20th century through to the present day. It explores the manifold functions of film in a highly politicized society: as entertainment, as information and as political propaganda. It illustrates the development of artistic and cinematographic techniques and locates Chinese film within existing artistic traditions, and within world cinema.

LLEA 46000 Directed Readings (2 Credit Hours)

Directed study of special topics under the direction of a faculty member. Agreement by the faculty member and the Director of Undergraduate Studies required.

LLEA 46498 Directed Readings (1-3 Credit Hours)

Requires "contractual agreement" with the professor prior to scheduling. For advanced students who wish to pursue an independent research project reading advanced materials.

Course may be repeated.

LLEA 58311 Honors Thesis, Chinese (3 Credit Hours)

Majors in Chinese are strongly encouraged to pursue the honors track. Those who are interested must meet the following criteria: (1) fulfillment of all the requirements for a first major of 30 credit hours in Chinese; and (2) a cumulative GPA of at least 3.6 or permission from the department chair. In addition to the 30 hours required for a major, the honors track requires the completion of a senior honors thesis of at least 30 pages that demonstrates the student's originality and ability to do research in the target field. For this endeavor the student will receive 3 hours of graded credit. This means that to graduate with departmental honors, the student must earn 33 hours of credit in the major. Based on past experience, it is our expectation that honors projects will emerge from previous coursework where close interaction between faculty and students has planted the seeds for a larger project; from the student's leadership role in the cultural and intellectual life of the department; or as a follow up to experiences begun during his/her study abroad program. A thesis director is chosen to guide the student and provide assistance.

LLEA 58312 Honors Thesis Chinese (3 Credit Hours)

Majors in Chinese are strongly encouraged to pursue the honors track. Those who are interested must meet the following criteria: 1) Fulfillment of all the requirements for a first major of 30 credit hours in Chinese; 2) A cumulative GPA of at least 3.6 or permission from the Department Chair. Program requirements: In addition to the 30 hours required for a major, the honors track requires the completion of a senior honors thesis of at least 30 pages that demonstrates the student's originality and ability to do research in the target field. For this endeavor the student will receive 3 hours of graded credit. This means that to graduate with departmental honors, the student must earn 33 hours of credit in the major. Based on past experience, it is our expectation that honors projects will emerge from previous course work where close interaction between faculty and students has planted the seeds for a larger project; from the student's leadership role in the cultural and intellectual life of the department; or as a follow up to experiences begun during his/her study abroad program. A thesis director is chosen to guide the student and provide assistance.

LLEA 60108 The Chinese Religious World Today: Catholicism, Christianity, Islam, and Other Popular Faiths (3 Credit Hours)

Graduate student option. This new lecture and discussion course offers students a detailed introduction to the diverse, dynamic and widespread presence of religion in contemporary Chinese life. China is—increasingly—a nation of energetic religious believers. Today there are more than 95 million Christians in China, 25 million Muslims, and as many as 500,000,000 practitioners of traditional local rites of sacrifice and worship to deities and spirits (most importantly ancestors). In the last decade plural religious traditions have grown with a speed greater than that of the economic and political reforms. It is within this specific context that students will learn about the impact of religious ideas, practices, and organizations on social, political and economic phenomena and explore the role of religion in the consolidation of individual, communal, and national identity. Adopting a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the class will ascertain the impact of `various Chinese religious traditions: Catholicism, Christianity, Islam, Daoism, Buddhism, and popular sects, on the internal socio-political structure of the Chinese state. As well the course will evaluate religions and their effects on shaping power relations on a regional, national, and local level. The class is discussion based, supplemented by lectures, student presentations, and documentary films. No knowledge of Chinese is required.

Satisfies the following University Core Requirements: WKHI - Core History