EALC 550

Fall 2010

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Credit: 4 hours.

Seminar on selected topics. Topic varies with instructor.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

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45337
Lecture-Discussion
A
2:30PM -3:50PM
TR
336 Davenport Hall
Abelmann, N
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/23/10-12/08/10
Section Info:
EALC 398/550ANTH 499, Ethnography of contemporary East Asia, will introduce recent ethnographic writing on Japan, the Koreas, and China/s. The ethnographies span many topics but issues of gender, youth, family, and migration will be central. Book-length works will include Li Zhang's In Search of Paradise (on China?s middle class); Nicole Newendorp?s Uneasy Reunions (on the PRC wives of Hong Kong men); Lisa Hoffman?s Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China (on young professionals); Amy Borovoy?s The Too Good Wife (on the wives of alcoholics in Japan); Lieba Faiser?s Encounters: Filipina Women and the Remaking of Rural Japan; Gabriella Lukacs? Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan; Sealing Cheng?s On the Move for Love: Migrant Entertainers and the U.S. Military in South Korea; and Kelly Chong?s Deliverance and Submission: Evangelical Women and the Negotiation of Patriarchy in South Korea.
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Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
31765
Lecture-Discussion
CS
5:00PM -7:30PM
M
G96 Foreign Languages Building
Shih, C
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/23/10-12/08/10
Section Info:
Topic:Prosody of East Asian Languages This course explores the way prosody is used in speech communication with special attention to East Asian Languages. Prosody is the music of speech. It is the part of the speech signal where speakers control pitch, timing, loudness and voice quality to convey meanings beyond the sequence of words. The course materials will draw heavily from the rich resources of East Asian languages, which include a fascinating array of prosody typology including tone languages (Chinese and most Chinese dialects) and accentual languages (Japanese and Korean). The course will build on existing literature and make use of speech samples to illustrate the characteristics of tone and accent, how they interact with other communicative functions such as the expression of question/statement, emphasis or emotions, and how such data may tell us about the historical development of tone and accent. In addition to exploring the theoretical significance of prosody research, the course will also cover applications of prosody research in speech technologies and language pedagogy. Pre-requisite: none Time and Place: TBA
31769
Lecture-Discussion
S
2:00PM -4:20PM
W
1140 Foreign Languages Building
Shao, D
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/23/10-12/08/10
Section Info:
East Asian Borderlands: Histories, Identities and Cultures This graduate seminar introduces students to historical, anthropological and sociological literature on East Asian borderlands related to the geo-body of contemporary China. Major topiocs to be covered include: 1) Theoretical Development on Frontier and Borderlands; 2) Ethnicity in Borderlands; 3) Borderlands as Zones of Contracts; 4) Individual and Community in Historical and Contemporary Borderlands; 5) Gender and Borderlands; 6) Fieldwork in Borderlands. Guest professors from other departments and fields are invited to join several discussions on topics of their specialties. Students need to finish an annotated bibliography on a selected topic related to their own research interest by the end of the semester. This is a reading and discussion seminar. Students are expected to read and discuss cross-disciplinary writings beyond the borders of the existing nation-states and conventional periodization marks in East Asian history.
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