Courses & Programs

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Instructor: John Finch
Credits: 3 Core:
This course examines the intersection of gender, class, and nation in contemporary Korean society through the lens of current Korean films. The turbulent recent history of South Korea has produced a society that is engaged with a variety of local and global social forces in complex and contradictory ways. The sweeping social changes in South Korean society have engaged it in a struggle to redefine and re-examine itself, and its relation to such basic ideas as gender, class, tradition and nation. Contemporary Korean films provide an especially interesting entrée into these issues and how Koreans have been thinking about them. In conjunction with material drawn from the fields of anthropology, literary studies, women's studies, and film studies, this course will introduce students to the aesthetic tradition of Korean cinema as well as providing a theoretically grounded understanding of the key issues facing South Korean society today. Students will be exposed to a variety of films (with English subtitles) that deal with various issues pertaining to gender, class, and nationalism. Students will be given an opportunity to contextualize their learning through an understanding of South Korean society and to relate these issues to similar ones in their own social setting.

Crosslist(s): HIST 419L, JAPN418G
Instructor: Marlene J Mayo, H. Eleanor Kerkham
Credits: 3 Core:
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as HIST 419L.

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Instructor: Jason Kuo
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: Jason Kuo
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Instructor: Staff
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Instructor: Jason Kuo
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This course is open to undergraduate students with permission from the professor (e-mail: jk103@umail.umd.edu). Modern Chinese painting has been reviled and denigrated by many Chinese reformers since the beginning of the twentieth century; it has also been neglected by “mainstream” scholars in the West until a few years ago. Yet, modern Chinese painting actually embodies the heroic story of constant renewal and reinvigoration of Chinese civilization amidst rebellions, reforms, and revolutions, even if the process may appear confusing and bewildering. It also demonstrates the persistence of tradition and the limits of continuities and changes in modern Chinese culture. This course will focus on the following issues in modern Chinese painting: tradition versus \"modernization\"; Chinese responses to Western art; Japanese influences on modern Chinese painting; historical, social, and political aspects of painting in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong since 1949; and other topics of interest to members of the course. This course will attempt to answer the following questions: How extensively can cultural tradition be reinterpreted before it is subverted? At what point is creative re-invention an act of betrayal of tradition? How has selective borrowing from Chinese tradition and foreign culture enabled modern Chinese artists to sustain themselves in the modern world?

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Prerequisite: CHIN101 or equivalent and permission of department. Non-majors admitted only after a placement interview. Continued study of grammatical patterns and vocabulary buildup with particular emphasis on conversation. May be taken in conjunction with CHIN 103.

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Prerequisite: CHIN101 or equivalent and permission of department. Non-majors admitted only after a placement interview. Continued study of grammatical patterns and buildup of vocabulary with particular emphasis on reading and writing. May be taken in conjunction with CHIN102.

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Credits: 3 Core: HO
Prerequisite: CHIN202 or equivalent and permission of department. Non-majors admitted only after a placement interview. Continuation of CHIN202.

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Credits: 3 Core: HO
Prerequisite: CHIN202 or equivalent and permission of department. Non-majors admitted only after a placement interview. Continuation of CHIN202.

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Credits: 3 Core: HO
Prerequisite: permission of department. Not open to students who have completed CHIN201, CHIN202, CHIN203, or CHIN204. Accelerated instruction in Mandarin Chinese at the intermediate level for students with prior Chinese language background, either through home use or formal instruction.

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Credits: 3 Core: HO
Prerequisite: permission of department. Not open to students who have completed CHIN428, CHIN421 or CHIN422. Training in the use of Chinese dictionaries, introduction to the relationship between traditional and simplified Chinese characters, overview of the main regional variations of Mandarin, review of elementary grammar.

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Credits: 3 Core: HL/D
Issues in the intercultural and interlingual interpretation of foreign literature through the study of Western translations of and scholarship on selected Chinese poets. No knowledge of Chinese required.

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Prerequisite: CHIN301 or equivalent. Non-majors admitted only after a placement interview. Continuation of CHIN301

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Prerequisite: CHIN305 or permission of department. Continuation of CHIN305 using authentic Chinese language material in TV plays to learn about society and life in China.

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Representative short stories, novels, and plays from the third through the nineteenth centuries. No knowledge of Chinese is required.

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Credits: 3 Core: D
Classical Chinese thought and literature in English translation. Discussions will explore what these writings reflect about traditional Chinese ideas on morality and personal values -- how should a person live, and why? What do the main philosophical schools have to say about the question? 0101(14826) STAFF (Seats=35, Open=35, Waitlist=0)

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Instructor: Tsung Chin
Credits: 3 Core:
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Beginning brushwork and lectures on the culture. Characters for practice selected to correspond to lecture topics. History of the writing system; major scripts, modes, and styles.

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Credits: 3 Core:
Prerequisite: CHIN401 or equivalent. Non-majors admitted only after a placement interview. Continuation of CHIN401.

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core:
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: CHIN 411 or permission of department. Non-majors admitted only after a placement interview. Not open to students who have completed CHIN 304. Continuation of CHIN 411.

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Instructor: Tsung Chin
Credits: 3 Core:
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Production and recognition of Mandarin speech sounds and tones, their phonological patterns, comparison with English, and representation by the various Romanization systems.

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Credits: 3 Core:
Prerequisite: CHIN302 or JAPN405. Formerly CHIN 428B. The history and structure of the sounds of Chinese language, with emphasis on the Medieval formal phonological system and its relationship to Mandarin and other modern languages. Students are expected to have advanced knowledge of written Chinese graphs (may include Japanese kanji or Korean hanja).

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Instructor: William I. Brown
Credits: 3 Core:
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: CHIN 402 or equivalent and permission of department. Workshop on Chinese/English translation and interpretation, with emphasis on seminar (consecutive) interpretation and introduction to conference (simultaneous) interpretation.

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Prerequisite: permission of department. Examination, through selected texts, of the writer's role as shaper and reflector of the Republican and Communist revolutions. Taught in Chinese.

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: Staff
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Instructor: Margaret M. Pearson
Credits: 3 Core:
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.

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Instructor: Scott Kastner
Credits: 3 Core:
Seminar in International Relations and World Politics: International Politics and Economic Development in East Asia; Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.

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Instructor: Margaret M. Pearson
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: Margaret M. Pearson
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: Andrea Goldman, Andrea Goldman
Credits: 3 Core:

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Credits: 3 Core: SH/ CH
A survey of the historical development of modern Asia since 1700. Primarily concerned with the efforts of East Asians to preserve their traditional cultures in the face of Western expansion in the 18th and 19th centuries, and their attempts to survive as nations in the 20th century. Also offered as JWST235.

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: Staff
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Instructor: James Zheng Gao
Credits: 3 Core:
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.

Crosslist(s): ARHU 308A, JAPN 418G
Instructor: Marlene J Mayo, H. Eleanor Kerkham
Credits: 3 Core:
A critical review, using historical writing, literature, and film of Japan's defeat in World War II, 1945, postwar trauma as an occupied country, and ultimate reconstruction as an economic superpower and major influence in global popular culture. With a recurrent focus on gender and sexuality, we ask: what changed, what continued, and how and why in 1945 Japanese politics, economy, international relations, educational and value system, visual and performing arts, and family and society. Themes and topics include: war and gender; psychology of defeat and war responsibility; ground zero experience of fire bombs and atomic bombs; demilitarization and democratization under foreign occupation; resumption of sovereignty and the Cold War; urbanization, industrial pollution, and the environment; corporate life and the changing labor force; education, high technology and science; pacifism, security and rearmament debates; the graying of society; animated film in the domestic international mass marketplace.

Crosslist(s): ARHU 308A, JAPN 418G
Instructor: Marlene J Mayo, H. Eleanor Kerkham
Credits: 3 Core:
A critical review, using historical writing, literature, and film of Japan's defeat in World War II, 1945, postwar trauma as an occupied country, and ultimate reconstruction as an economic superpower and major influence in global popular culture. With a recurrent focus on gender and sexuality, we ask: what changed, what continued, and how and why in 1945 Japanese politics, economy, international relations, educational and value system, visual and performing arts, and family and society. Themes and topics include: war and gender; psychology of defeat and war responsibility; ground zero experience of fire bombs and atomic bombs; demilitarization and democratization under foreign occupation; resumption of sovereignty and the Cold War; urbanization, industrial pollution, and the environment; corporate life and the changing labor force; education, high technology and science; pacifism, security and rearmament debates; the graying of society; animated film in the domestic international mass marketplace.

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Credits: 3 Core:
Also offered as ARHU308A and JAPN418B.

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Instructor: Shuguang Zhang
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: James Zheng Gao
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: Andrea Goldman
Credits: 3 Core:
This course offers an introduction to Chinese history from the Bronze Age to the founding of the Qing dynasty in 1644. It is designed primarily for undergraduates who have little or no background in Chinese history. The lectures will focus on subjects of importance to a broad understanding of Chinese civilization down through the seventeenth century. These include the Chinese language; Chinese thought and religion. the creation and evolution of the unified Chinese empire; lyric poetry; urban culture; the growth of autocracy and despotism in the later imperial era; traditions of intellectual dissent; the elaboration of the neo-Confucian family and gender system; the sixteenth-century commercial revolution; the blossoming of print and material culture; and the interaction between elite and popular cultures.

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Instructor: Andrea Goldman
Credits: 3 Core:
This course offers an introduction to Chinese history from the Bronze Age to the founding of the Qing dynasty in 1644. It is designed primarily for undergraduates who have little or no background in Chinese history. The lectures will focus on subjects of importance to a broad understanding of Chinese civilization down through the seventeenth century. These include the Chinese language; Chinese thought and religion. the creation and evolution of the unified Chinese empire; lyric poetry; urban culture; the growth of autocracy and despotism in the later imperial era; traditions of intellectual dissent; the elaboration of the neo-Confucian family and gender system; the sixteenth-century commercial revolution; the blossoming of print and material culture; and the interaction between elite and popular cultures.

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Instructor: Marlene J Mayo
Credits: 3 Core:
A survey of major events, ideas, persons, issues, and institutions in Japan's modernization and challenge to Western global dominence, 1850s to the near present, with an emphasis on the 20th century. Lectures, discussions, readings, films, and web sites will be used to examine a wide variety of themes: the collapse of the regime of Tokugawa shoguns in 1868; legacy of the Meiji Restoration/Renovation; Japan's emergence as a nation state and industrial society; family-state ideology; modern warfare and empire; new urban working and middle classes; elite and popular cultures; diasporas to the colonies, Hawaii, and the Americas; militarism, total war, and war crimes; defeat and the fire and atomic bomb experience; war crimes and war responsibility; the Allied Occupation and reconstruction; post-Occupation security and pacificism; transformation into a high technnology post-modern global society; and questions of gender, race, ethnicity, and human rights. We will end with a brief look at social, cultural, economic, and security issues during the post-Cold war era of the 1990s and Japan's response to post-911, global terrorism. There will be special emphasis on the Asia/Pacific War, 1937-1945 and war responsibility, followed by the Allied Occupation, Japan's role in the Cold War, memories of war in post 1945 U.S.-Japan relations, and current debates over revision of Japan's 1947 constitution.

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Instructor: Marlene J Mayo
Credits: 3 Core:
A survey of major events, ideas, persons, issues, and institutions in Japan's modernization and challenge to Western global dominence, 1850s to the near present, with an emphasis on the 20th century. Lectures, discussions, readings, films, and web sites will be used to examine a wide variety of themes: the collapse of the regime of Tokugawa shoguns in 1868; legacy of the Meiji Restoration/Renovation; Japan's emergence as a nation state and industrial society; family-state ideology; modern warfare and empire; new urban working and middle classes; elite and popular cultures; diasporas to the colonies, Hawaii, and the Americas; militarism, total war, and war crimes; defeat and the fire and atomic bomb experience; war crimes and war responsibility; the Allied Occupation and reconstruction; post-Occupation security and pacificism; transformation into a high technnology post-modern global society; and questions of gender, race, ethnicity, and human rights. We will end with a brief look at social, cultural, economic, and security issues during the post-Cold war era of the 1990s and Japan's response to post-911, global terrorism. There will be special emphasis on the Asia/Pacific War, 1937-1945 and war responsibility, followed by the Allied Occupation, Japan's role in the Cold War, memories of war in post 1945 U.S.-Japan relations, and current debates over revision of Japan's 1947 constitution.

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Instructor: Marlene J Mayo
Credits: 3 Core:
A survey of major events, ideas, persons, issues, and institutions in Japan's modernization and challenge to Western global dominence, 1850s to the near present, with an emphasis on the 20th century. Lectures, discussions, readings, films, and web sites will be used to examine a wide variety of themes: the collapse of the regime of Tokugawa shoguns in 1868; legacy of the Meiji Restoration/Renovation; Japan's emergence as a nation state and industrial society; family-state ideology; modern warfare and empire; new urban working and middle classes; elite and popular cultures; diasporas to the colonies, Hawaii, and the Americas; militarism, total war, and war crimes; defeat and the fire and atomic bomb experience; war crimes and war responsibility; the Allied Occupation and reconstruction; post-Occupation security and pacificism; transformation into a high technnology post-modern global society; and questions of gender, race, ethnicity, and human rights. We will end with a brief look at social, cultural, economic, and security issues during the post-Cold war era of the 1990s and Japan's response to post-911, global terrorism. There will be special emphasis on the Asia/Pacific War, 1937-1945 and war responsibility, followed by the Allied Occupation, Japan's role in the Cold War, memories of war in post 1945 U.S.-Japan relations, and current debates over revision of Japan's 1947 constitution.

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Japan's renewed contact with the Western world and emergence as a modern state, industrial society, and world power, 1800-1931; and Japan's road to war, occupation, and recovery, 1931 to the present.

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Credits: 3 Core:
Prerequisite: permission of department.

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Instructor: Andrea Goldman
Credits: 3 Core:
This is a readings seminar in new approaches to early modern Chinese history. Focusing on cultural and social history, specific topics will include recent work in popular culture, urban culture, gender studies, and reevaluations of the Qing imperium and the nineteenth-century Qing clash with Western powers. Methodologically, our readings will span the basic genres of historical writing -- including everything from monographs to conference volumes, review essays, dissertations, and journal articles. Students with an interest in comparative history or early modern history (but with little exposure to the China field) are welcome to participate in the seminar.

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Instructor: Robert T Yuan
Credits: 3 Core: LS/D
Grade Method: REG. CORE Life Science (LS) Course. CORE Diversity (D) Course.

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core: HO/D/USP D

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Credits: 3 Core: HO/D

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Credits: 3 Core: HA/D

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Credits: 3 Core: HO/ D

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Prerequisite: grade of C (2.0) or better in JAPN101 or permission of instructor. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JAPN102 or (JAPN106 and JAPN107). Continued introduction to the basic spoken patterns of contemporary Japanese.

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core:

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Credits: 6 Core:
Prerequisite: a grade of C (2.0) or better in JAPN201 or permission of instructor. Contemporary spoken and written Japanese.

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Credits: 3 Core: HL

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Credits: 6 Core:
Prerequisite: a grade of C (2.0) or better in JAPN301 or permission of instructor. Continued readings in varied modern texts and advanced conversation and oral comprehension.

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Not open to fluent or native writers of Kanji. Prerequisite: Grade of C (2.0) or better in JAPN301 and permission of department. Study of Kanji in context; intensive writing practice.

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Credits: 3 Core:
Prerequisite: a grade of C (2.0) or better in JAPN401 or permission of instructor. Continuation of more advanced readings.

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Instructor: Lindsay Yotsukura
Credits: 3 Core:
Grade Method: REG/P-F. Prerequisite: JAPN 403 or equivalent. Formerly JAPN 304. Continuation of JAPN 403.

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Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: JAPN 402 or equivalent or permission of department. Designed to further improve reading and translation skills; the course will include readings from newspaper articles, literary works, and academic publications in the social sciences and humanities. Listening exercises are included.

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Prerequisite: JAPN401 or equivalent. Theory and practice of translation. Variety of genres. Japanese to English.

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Prerequisite: A grade of C or better in JAPN302.

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Instructor: H. Eleanor Kerkham
Credits: 3 Core:

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Also offered as ARHU308A and HIST419M.

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: S. Robert Ramsey
Credits: 3 Core:
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. An investigation of Japanese sound patterns and syntax through a comparison with English.

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Credits: 3 Core:
An investigation of Japanese sound patterns and syntax through a comparison with English.

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Instructor: Lindsay Yotsukura
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: Lindsay Yotsukura
Credits: 3 Core:
Grade Method: REG. Prerequisite: JAPN201 or permission of department. Basic concepts in the field of pragmatics (the study of language in context) such as deixis and indexicality, speech acts, ellipsis, and politeness. Readings in English on English and Japanese examples. A unifying theme throughout the course will be the many ways in which the concepts of uchi (inside) and soto (outside) are reflected in the Japanese language and culture.

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Instructor: Gretchen I. Jones
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: S. Robert Ramsey
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: H. Eleanor Kerkham
Credits: 3 Core:
Grade Method: REG. Prerequisite: JAPN 302 or permission of instructor. Introduction to classical Japanese grammar through reading, translation and discussion of a variety of genres and writing styles used from the 9th century to early modern times.

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Instructor: H. Eleanor Kerkham
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: S. Robert Ramsey
Credits: 3 Core:

Crosslist(s): JAPN438S
Instructor: Lindsay Yotsukura
Credits: 3 Core:

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Prerequisite: KORA101 or equivalent. For non-Heritage students only. Instructor permission required for new students. Continued training in elementary spoken and written Korean.

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Prerequisite: KORA201 or permission of instructor. The second stage of an intermediate-level course designed for non-Heritage students. It continues the second year of instruction in the University's two track Korean Program.

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Credits: 3 Core: HO
Prerequisite: KORA211. Not open to students who have completed four or more years of schooling in Korea. Continuation of KORA211; grammar, style, usage, and vocabulary of written Korean.

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Prerequisite: KORA311 or permission of instructor. Not open to students who have completed eight or more years of schooling in Korea. Concludes the second year of the Heritage-language instruction in the University's two-track Korean Program.

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: Robert C. Provine
Credits: 3 Core:
This course examines three genres of music in each of China (Peking Opera, sizhu, qin), Japan (gagaku, noh, shakuhachi), and Korea (court music, farmers\' music, p\'ansori). Students are expected to have a thorough musical background and familiarity with essential concepts of ethnomusicology, but knowledge of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages is not required.

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: Staff
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Instructor: Kyoko M. Okamoto, Kyoko M. Okamoto
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Instructor: John D Finch
Credits: 3 Core:
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core: HA/D/USP C
This is an introduction to the major artistic traditions in Asia. Selected works of art in various media (architecture, painting, sculpture, and decorative arts) will be discussed. We will attempt to discover how the visual arts give expression to different cultural, aesthetic, and religious ideals in these ancient and still vital civilizations.

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core: D
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Diversity (D) Course. Formerly ARTH 395. A chronological survey of Japanese painting, sculpture, architecture, and the applied arts.

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core: D
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Diversity (D) Course. Formerly ARTH 495. Japanese painting from the sixth through the nineteenth century, including Buddhist icon painting, narrative scrolls, and Zen-related ink painting.

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Introduce Chinese art.

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 6 Core: USP D
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. USP Distributive Studies Area A: Cultural and Historical Course. Non-majors admitted only after a placement interview. Introduction to speaking, reading, and writing Chinese with an emphasis on mastering the essentials of pronunciation, basic characters and structural patterns.

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core:
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: permission of department. Not open to students who have completed CHIN 101, CHIN 102, or CHIN 103. Accelerated instruction in Mandarin Chinese at the elementary level for students with prior Chinese language background, either through home use or formal instruction.

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core: USP D
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. USP Distributive Studies Area A: Cultural and Historical Course. Non-majors admitted only after a placement interview. Introduction to speaking, reading, and writing Chinese with an emphasis on mastering the essentials of pronunciation, basic characters and structural patterns.

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core: HO/USP
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Humanities (HO) Course. USP Distributive Studies Area A: Cultural and Historical Course. Prerequisite: CHIN 103 or equivalent and permission of department. Non-majors admitted only after a placement interview. Reading and writing skills with emphasis on grammar and Chinese characters.

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core:
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: CHIN 202 or equivalent. Non-majors admitted only after a placement interview. Readings in expository and fictional writing with conversation and composition.

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core:
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: CHIN 203, CHIN 204 or permission of department. Using authentic Chinese language material in short TV plays to learn about society and life in China.

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core: D/USP C
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Diversity (D) Course. USP Distributive Studies Area C: Literature and the Arts Course. Major works of fiction and drama from 1920 to the present read in the context of social and literary change. Emphasis on western and traditional Chinese influences on the writers and their works. No knowledge of Chinese required.

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core:
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: CHIN 302 or equivalent. Non-majors admitted only after a placement interview. Readings in history, politics, economics, sociology, and literature. Emphasis on wide-ranging, rapid reading, reinforced by conversations and compositions.

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Instructor: William I. Brown
Credits: 3 Core:
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: CHIN 402 or permission of department. Non-majors admitted only after a placement interview. Not open to students who have completed CHIN 303. Conversation, reading, and writing applicable to Chinese business transactions, social meetings, and meetings with government organizations, plus background material in English on professional business practices and social customs associated with business.

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Instructor: David P. Branner
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: David P. Branner
Credits: 3 Core:
Grade Method: REG/AUD.

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Instructor: William I. Brown
Credits: 3 Core:
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: CHIN 302 or equivalent and permission of department. Theory and practice of Chinese/English translation and interpretation with emphasis on translation.

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 1 Core:
Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.

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Instructor: S. Robert Ramsey
Credits: 3 Core:
A survey of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and the languages of other East Asian nationalities. Provides a basic understanding of the structures of these languages. Topics covered include the characterizing features; the relationships of the languages to each other; the geographical, social, and historical settings. No knowledge of Asian languages is required. The course is taught in English

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: Miranda A. Schreurs
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: Margaret M. Pearson
Credits: 3 Core:
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Recommended: GVPT 200. Junior standing. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: GVPT 409D or GVPT 454. Formerly GVPT 409D. This course is for Honors students only.

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Instructor: Lois Vietri
Credits: 3 Core:
This course is a comparative overview of the role of gender in politics using American and Asian case studies to explore the influence of gender on political behavior and the impacts of culture and globalization.on women’s political lives. Using a levels of analysis approach, we will examine gender from global, national, and individual perspectives. Special attention will be given to the role of culture in shaping women’s political behavior using a comparative case study approach by examining women’s political Behavior in American and Asian political systems. Each of you will take responsibility in enhancing our learning community’s appreciation of comparative and transnational perspectives through the original research you produce this semester. You will be guided in the research process by our team and the expertise of GVPT librarian Gerri Foudy (gf48@umail.umd.edu). Be assured that throughout the research process, you will have continuous feedback from the course team and opportunities for revision along the way.

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Instructor: Andrea Goldman
Credits: 3 Core: SH/D/USP A
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Social or Political History (SH) Course. CORE Diversity (D) Course. USP Distributive Studies Area A: Cultural and Historical Course. An interdisciplinary survey of the development of East Asian cultures. An historical approach drawing on all facets of East Asian traditional life, to gain an appreciation of the different and complex cultures of the area.

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Credits: 3 Core:
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core:
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.

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Instructor: Marlene J Mayo
Credits: 3 Core:
(PermReq) Senior Seminar: Capstone (CS) Course.

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Instructor: James Zheng Gao
Credits: 3 Core: CS
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG. CORE Capstone (CS) Course.

Crosslist(s): HIST619F
Instructor: Andrea Goldman
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: Andrea Goldman
Credits: 3 Core:
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.

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Instructor: James Zheng Gao
Credits: 3 Core:
Special Topics in History: Chinese Cultural History and Its Literary SourcesGrade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: James Zheng Gao
Credits: 3 Core:
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Modern China from 1644 to the People\'s Republic of China. Emphasis on the coming of the West to China and the various stages of the Chinese reaction.

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Instructor: James Zheng Gao
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: Marlene J Mayo
Credits: 3 Core:
Traditional Japanese civilization from the age of Shinto mythology and introduction of continental learning down to the rule of military families, the transition to a money economy, and the creation of a townsmen's culture. A survey of political, economic, religious, and cultural history.

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Instructor: Marlene J Mayo
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: Robert T Yuan
Credits: 3 Core: LS/D

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: Miyuki Yoshikami
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 6 Core: USP A
Grade Method: REG/P-F. USP Distributive Studies Area A: Cultural and Historical Course. Introduction to basic patterns of contemporary spoken Japanese and to the two phonetic syllabaries (Katakana and Hiragana).

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Instructor: Kazuo Yaginuma
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: Etsuko Yamakita, Kazuo Yaginuma, Etsuko Yamakita
Credits: 6 Core: USP D
Grade Method: REG/P-F. USP Distributive Studies Area A: Cultural and Historical Course. Prerequisite: JAPN 102 or equivalent. Contemporary spoken and written Japanese.

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Instructor: Eiko Miura, Kazuo Yaginuma
Credits: 6 Core:
Prerequisite: JAPN 202 or equivalent. Formerly JAPN 305. Advanced conversation, oral comprehension, and selected readings.

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Instructor: Eiko Miura
Credits: 3 Core:
Prerequisite: JAPN 302 or equivalent. Development of translation techniques, vocabulary, grammar, and reading speed. Readings in history, social sciences, modern literature, and modern newspaper and periodical literature.

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Instructor: Kazuo Yaginuma
Credits: 3 Core:
Prerequisite: JAPN 302 or equivalent. Formerly JAPN 303. Conversation, reading, and writing applicable to Japanese business transactions, social meetings, and meetings with government organizations, with background material in English on professional business practices and social customs associated with business.

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Instructor: Gretchen I. Jones
Credits: 3 Core:
Prerequisite: JAPN 302 and permission of department. This course provides the opportunity for students with advanced language skills to become familiar with formal, written, diplomatic Japanese, to develop practical translation skills, and to learn to use the computer as a telecommunications and translation workstation. The course is coordinated with international diplomacy courses in the Department of Government and Politics. Students enrolled in GVPT 250 and GVPT 450, and similar courses at other universities all over the world (Argentina, Brazil, Canada, England, France, Israel, Japan, Korea, and elsewhere), act as national teams which participate in computer simulated international diplomacy. Each national team sends simulated diplomatic messages by telecommunication and responds to the activities of other nations and international organizations. Messages from the Japanese government team at Waseda University in Tokyo are transmitted in Japanese and students in JAPN 406 serve as translators of the Japanese messages.

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Instructor: H. Eleanor Kerkham
Credits: 3 Core:
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: JAPN 306 or equivalent. Classical Japanese grammar and the varied styles of classical Japanese. Readings in classical texts drawn from the Heian, Kamakura, Muromachi, and Edo periods.

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Instructor: Gretchen I. Jones
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: J. Robinson
Credits: 3 Core:
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Introduction to modern Japanese fiction and film in English translation. Covers works of fiction and film produced in Japan from 1850-1990.

Crosslist(s): JAPN628
Instructor: Lindsay Yotsukura
Credits: 3 Core:
Prerequisite: JAPN 302 or permission of the instructor. Recommended: JAPN 422. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. Presentation and discussion of classic and current readings in English and Japanese on theories and actual practice of discourse and conversation analysis. Students will learn transcription techniques and have an opportunity to apply them in a final term paper.

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 1 Core:
Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.

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Instructor: Gretchen I. Jones
Credits: 3 Core:

Crosslist(s): JAPN415
Instructor: Gretchen I. Jones
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: Lindsay Yotsukura
Credits: 3 Core:
Grade Method: REG/AUD.

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Instructor: H. Eleanor Kerkham
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: Younghi K. Ramsey
Credits: 3 Core:
Prerequisite: permission of department. Introduction to the Korean language. Primary emphasis on oral skills, but Hangul, the Korean alphabet, will also be introduced. For students with no Korean background.

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Instructor: Younghi K. Ramsey
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: Younghi K. Ramsey
Credits: 3 Core:
Designed to improve the language skills of students already conversant in Korean; instruction entirely in Korean; introduction in hangul; reading and writing of simple journal entries.

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Instructor: Younghi K. Ramsey
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: Younghi K. Ramsey
Credits: 1 Core:
Grade Method: REG. Permission of the instructor is required for enrollment in this course.

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core:

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Instructor: Staff
Credits: 3 Core: HA/D
This course investigates a selection of musical cultures from around the world, including China and Japan, by examining the materials of the music (sound, instruments, structures) and its cultural context (religion, identity, gender, politics, economics, globalization). The course satisfies CORE requirements for the Distributive Studies History and Theory of Arts (HA) and Human Cultural Diversity (D).

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Instructor: Micheal Cifone
Credits: 3 Core:
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. focus on the major philosophico-religious traditions of the Indian subcontinent, China and (to some extent) Japan, including Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism.

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Instructor: J. Robinson
Credits: 3 Core: HL/D
Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Literature (HL) Course. CORE Diversity (D) Course. Introduction to the masterworks of medieval Japanese literatures (c. 1200-1850) and to their intellectual and cultural backgrounds, focusing on prose fiction and drama.