EALC 550

Fall 2017

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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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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
69360
Lecture-Discussion
CC
11:00AM -1:50PM
F
1112 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.
67432
Lecture-Discussion
GPP
2:00PM -3:20PM
TR
148 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.
45337
Lecture-Discussion
JM
2:00PM -4:50PM
W
1046 Foreign Languages Building
Martin, J
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/28/17-12/13/17
Section Title:
Anthro of Modern China
Section Info:
Topic: The Anthropology of Modern China. What does modernity mean for China? What does China mean for modernity? This graduate seminar engages these questions through research by anthropologists and historians into such topics as the emergence of Chinese nationalism, the transformation from Maoism to ³Market Socialism,² the quality of individual and family life under the one-child policy, and more.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
68275
Lecture-Discussion
KWC
1:00PM -2:50PM
M
215 Davenport Hall
Chow, K
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/28/17-12/13/17
Section Info:
Topic: Communications, Formation of Publics and Law in Ming-Qing China. This course introduces students to recent scholarly works on the approaches, methodologies, and major issues in the study of the history of public formation in the Ming (1368) and Qing (1644-1911) periods. We will focus on the intersecting histories of communications, information regime, and law in the construction of publics. Works are selected from various disciplines and fields of study, covering a wide range of issues critical to our understanding of the role of print media, information regime, auto-organizations, and law in the formation of publics in Ming-Qing China. Participation in discussion is required and students are responsible for presentations. There will be written assignments and a final paper.
69084
Lecture-Discussion
RT
2:00PM -4:20PM
F
G32 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.
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