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 spring 2020
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
68373	Lecture-Discussion	A1	3:30PM -4:50PM	TR	310 David Kinley Hall	Nagashima, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Section Title: IR of East Asia Section Info: Topic: IR of East Asia. Same as PS 300. 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 to the region, other states and regions like the United States and Southeast Asia are also analyzed within the context of the region. This course situates contemporary political issues within a historical context and examines both theoretical and empirical approaches to understanding both the dynamic and stable nature of East Asian international relations. The central theme of this course is to examine whether the region is moving towards increasing cooperation or conflict. Restriction(s): Not intended for students with Freshman class standing.
69304	Lecture-Discussion	CC	2:00PM -3:20PM	MW	1032 Foreign Languages Building	Callahan, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 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.
70397	Lecture-Discussion	CI2	2:00PM -3:15PM	MW	G96 Foreign Languages Building	Ha, J Ritter, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Section Title: Lang/Soc of Two Koreas Section Info: 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 rights 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 course is a Big Ten Academic Alliance course and is taught via video conference from Univ. Minnesota Language and Society of the Two Koreas (taught by Prof. Hangtae Cho, UMN). The class will be 2:00-3:15pm on Mondays and Wednesdays (CT). SP 2020 at UMN starts on January 21 and ends on May 18. Spring break is from March 7-15.
61666	Lecture	CIC	10:30AM -11:50AM	TF	G96 Foreign Languages Building	Ha, J Ritter, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Section Title: Traditional KOR Poetry Section Info: Topic: The course examines one of the most prominent and enduring poetic forms of traditional Korea, sijo. Sijo, a three-line verse form written to be performed in a musical setting, emerged in the latter part of the Koryŏ dynasty (918-1392), flourished through the Chosŏn dynasty (1392-1910), and has transformed itself into contemporary forms. First, we will situate sijo within the larger context of traditional East Asian poetic tradition, and then explore its unique structural and thematic properties through the lens of the language, religion and culture of Korea. Lastly, we will analyze the historical backgrounds of modified sasŏl sijo of the 18th century and modern sijo of the 20th century, and uncover cultural and linguistic implications of sijo translation and the current popularity of sijo in North America. This course is a Big Ten Academic Alliance course and is taught via video conference from Rutgers Traditional Korean poetry: Sijo (Taught by Prof. Young-mee Yu, Rutgers). The class will be on Tuesdays and Fridays from 10:30 am to 11:50 pm (CT). University of Rutgers will start SP 2020 semester on January 21 and end on May 13. Spring break is from March 14 to March 22.
69083	Lecture-Discussion	JC	3:30PM -5:50PM	M	1026 Lincoln Hall	Chen, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Section Info: The topic: Tales of Four Chinese Cities: This seminar will focus on one of the most important topics of modern Chinese culture: the urban imagination, and will examine the literary and visual representations of four representative cities in modern China: Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei, and Hong Kong. Through close analyses of the novels, short stories, films, photographs, and paintings that illuminate Chinese urbanism, we will extensively discuss the cultural manifestations of Chinese metropolises. Analyzing how metropolis and urban life are represented and imagined is also central to an understanding of the differently articulated forms that Chinese modernity has taken throughout the twentieth century. All readings in English