EALC 398

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Credit: 3 hours.

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May be repeated in the same or separate terms to a maximum of 12 hours if topics vary. Prerequisite: Junior standing.

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EALC 398 class schedule data for fall 2017
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
69359	Lecture-Discussion	CC	11:00AM -1:50PM	F	Foreign Languages Building	Callahan, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/28/17-12/13/17 Section Title: Visual Culture JAPN Buddhism Section Info: Topic: The Visual Culture of Japanese Buddhism. This course explores the rich visual culture of Japanese Buddhism through an examination of sculpted images and illustrated hand-scrolls, portraits and picture books, mandalas and manga, as well as anime and feature films. In addition to viewing primary artworks and film, we will be analyzing the role that images and icons play in Japanese Buddhism through readings of secondary scholarship on the practices of production and animation, as well as the ritualized ways of looking and interacting with images.
66267	Lecture	CIC	2:00PM -3:15PM	MW	Foreign Languages Building	Ha, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/28/17-12/13/17 Section Title: Lang & Soc of Two Koreas Section Info: Topic: Language and Society of the Two Koreas. This course is designed to offer an introduction and contrastive analysis of the language and society of the two Koreas; the Republic of Korea (better known as South Korea) and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (better known as North Korea) with a heavier emphasis on North Korea. This course will introduce the growing divide of the past 70 years between North and South Korea in the areas of language, society, and culture. The complexity of the East Asian region is partly due to the issues involving the two Koreas; however, knowledge regarding North Korea remains very limited compared to its neighbors. Mass media portrays the controversial political and human right issues of North Korea but generally lacks in coverage of linguistic issues and everyday life there. The course content will be based on various scholarly articles and book chapters, current web-based resources, news reports, North Korean propaganda, and documentaries. While this course will include linguistic elements of interest to intermediate and advanced students of the Korean language, all course content will be accessible to students regardless of Korean language proficiency. This course has no pre-requisites and does not expect students to have a background in political science, Korean history, or sociology, nor a background on North Korea. It does however expect that students have some interest in these areas. This section is offered through the CIC e-school in Korean Studies and taught by Prof. Hangtae Cho, University of Minnesota. The class will be video-conference taught for participating universities. Class will meet from Sept. 6 - Dec. 11, with no class meeting during Thanksgiving break. CLASS WILL MEET IN 3072E FLB.
69197	Lecture	DN	11:00AM -12:20PM	TR	David Kinley Hall	Nagashima, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/28/17-12/13/17 Section Title: Int'l Relations of East Asia Section Info: This course introduces students to the salient issues and dynamics that structure the international relations of East Asia. For the purposes of this course, East Asia entails China, Taiwan, Japan, and the two Koreas. Due to their overwhelming contributions, other states and regions like the United States and Southeast Asia are also analyzed within the context of East Asia. This course situates contemporary political issues within a historical context and examines both theoretical and empirical approaches to East Asian international relations. The central theme of this course is to examine whether the region is moving towards increasing cooperation or conflict. Meets with PS 300.
42888	Lecture-Discussion	GPP	2:00PM -3:20PM	TR	Henry Administration Bldg	Persiani, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/28/17-12/13/17 Section Title: Multimedia Hist JAPN Cult/Hist Section Info: Recycling the classics: A Multimedia History of Adaptation in Japanese Cultural History Adaptation is common in many cultures but in few other cases has the past been so consistently and compulsively re-used as in Japanese cultural history. This course explores how and why the classics have been adapted in writing, art, film, animation, and material practices from medieval times to the present day. We will look at a broad range of primary works in different media and learn to use concepts such as adaptation, parody, canonization, nation building, etc. in cultural analysis. This course meets with EALC 550 GPP.
68069	Lecture-Discussion	RT	2:00PM -4:20PM	F	Foreign Languages Building	Tierney, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/28/17-12/13/17 Section Title: Sickness/Death in JAPN Culture Section Info: Topic: Bodies, Sickness, Madness, and Death in Japanese culture. In this course, we will examine how Japanese have grappled with sickness, madness, and death throughout history by reading literary, historical, and social science readings. We will consider the changing conceptions of illness and madness throughout history, ranging from spirit possession in the Heian period to germ theory and psychology in the modern period. We will look at how individuals have faced suffering and death throughout the ages particularly by reading literary texts such as fiction, diaries, and poetry. We will also look at the place of doctors and medicine in Japanese society. The course offers students an introduction to an important theme of Japanese literature and visual culture and to the field of medical humanities.