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 2025
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
71651	Lecture-Discussion	BH	3:30PM -5:50PM	W	G58 Literatures, Cultures, & Ling	He, B	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Section Title: East Asian Media Archives Section Info: East Asian Media Archives: Files, Tables, Screens, Databases What makes something archivable, and how do archives move, think, and make history? How do archival practices—as forms of labor, mindset, and method—operate across print, photography, film, audio, video, digital platforms, and emerging technologies? Focusing on East Asia as a testing ground, this course approaches archives not as static repositories but as active, deeply mediated systems that shape ways we remember and forget. We explore the reciprocal relationship between media practices and archival work, and how this dynamic reflects broader political, social, and technological transformations. The course asks why and how archives and archival thinking arise from and in turn reshape and respond to global Asian and transnational media environments and infrastructures—from tables and tags to catalogues and code. Part methodology studio and part media lab, this course blends seminar discussions, book/film clubs, screenings, tool demos, and hands-on workshops. Students will develop both critical and practical skills for working with archival materials across scholarly, creative, and professional contexts. Coursework culminates in an archive-based project tailored to each student’s interests and needs—either an individual project (such as a research proposal, micro-ethnography, video essay, platform analysis, or curatorial experiment) or a collaborative contribution to a virtual exhibition.
42888	Lecture-Discussion	GPP	3:00PM -5:50PM	M	125 English Building	Persiani, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Section Title: Global &Local in Pre-Modern EA Section Info: Global and Local in Premodern East Asia Premodern Asia was a world interconnected by diplomacy, trade, religious missions, and texts. Chinese texts enjoyed wide circulation and were enshrined as the authoritative canon in many local polities, while the use of written Sinitic allowed communication across borders. At the same time, exposure to a powerful outside culture fueled efforts to define and develop local cultures with distinct identities and traditions. This interdisciplinary course explores the rich dialectic between local and global in East Asia between 600 and 1900.
31761	Lecture-Discussion	MS	1:00PM -3:20PM	T	1128 Literatures, Cultures, & Ling	Sadler, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Language and Gender in Japan Section Info: “Language and Gender in Japanese Society” The course covers a wide range of topics that address language use and language variation in Japanese-speaking social settings. These topics include: language policy and the construction of standard Japanese; regional variations of Japanese; individual variation and the construction of social identity; gendered language in the media; ‘role language’ or fictionalized orality in Japanese popular culture and translations, and attitudes and ideologies associated with Japanese language use.
31760	Lecture-Discussion	YP	1:00PM -3:20PM	R	1118 Literatures, Cultures, & Ling	Pu, Y	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Section Title: Chinese Medicine and Healing Section Info: EALC 398/550. Topic: Chinese Medicine and Healing Traditions Course Description: This seminar explores the rich diversity of Chinese medical and healing traditions across historical periods and cultural contexts. Topics include fengshui, poisons and antidotes, the pursuit of immortality, gender and reproduction, food-based healing, yangsheng (nourishing life), taiji (tai chi), and epidemic response. Special attention will be given to the role of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in contemporary healthcare systems and its global circulation. Open to students from all academic backgrounds, this course adopts an interdisciplinary approach to examine how Chinese medicine integrates body, emotion, environment, and cosmology—and how these ideas continue to shape health beliefs and practices in the modern world.