Fall 2004: UMass Amherst Courses


Asian Studies 162: Folktales & Legends of Vietnam

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Tue.Thur. 2:30-5:15 pm; 5:30-7:30 pm
  • Instructor: Nguyen, Nhiem

Asian Studies 397A: Southeast Asia

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Tue.Thur. 9:30-10:45 am
  • Instructor: TBA

Asian Studies 397B: Brg As&Asn Am Gen

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Tue. 4:00-6:00 pm
  • Instructor: TBA

Chinese 138: Religion Chinese Culture

  • Location: Tobin 304
  • Time: Mon., Wed., Fri. 1:25-2:15 pm
  • Instructor: Cohen, Alvin

Chinese 140: Chinese Script I

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Tue. Thur. 2:30-3:45 pm
  • Instructor: Shen, Zhongwei

Chinese 153: Chinese Literature-Poety

  • Location: ChenowLbAd 227
  • Time: Mon., Wed., Fri. 11:15 am-12:05 pm
  • Instructor: Gjertson, Donald

Chinese 155: Chinese Myths & Legends

  • Location: Thompson 102
  • Time: Mon., Wed., Fri. 10:10-11:00 am
  • Instructor: Gjertson, Donald

Chinese 526H: Reading Modern Chinese Literature I

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Tue. Thur. 9:30-10:45 am
  • Instructor: Luo, Shaodan

CompLit 141: Good & Evil: East-West

  • 7 Sessions; check Spire for detailed information

CompLit 151: Fiction East & West

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Mon., Wed., Fri. 10:10-11:00 am
  • Instructor: Lan Dong

English 117: Ethnic American Literature

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Mon., Wed., Fri. 11:15 am-12:05 pm
  • Instructor: TBA

English 204: ''Introduction to Asian American Studies''

History 114: History of China I

  • Location: Hasbrouck 134
  • Time: Mon., Wed., Fri. 9:05-9:55 am
  • Instructor: Platt, Sephen R.

History 115: History of China II

  • Location: Skinner 18
  • Time: Mon. Wed. 2:30-3:20 pm
  • Instructor: TBA

History 116: History of East Asia-Japan

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Mon. Wed. 1:25-2:15 pm
  • Instructor: Minear, Richard H

History 130: Middle East istory I

  • Location: HasLabAdd 126
  • Time: Tue. Thur. 9:30-10:45 am
  • Instructor: Broadbridge, Anne F

Japanese 135: Japanese Art & Culture

  • Location: Thompson 102
  • Time: Tue. Thur. 4:00-5:15 pm
  • Instructor: Bargen, Doris

Japanese 144: Japanese Literature-Modern

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Tue. Thur. 11:15 am-12:30 pm
  • Instructor: Seaman, Amanda C

Japanese 190R: Intro. to Japanese Religion

  • Location: HasLabAdd 126
  • Time: Mon., Wed., Fri. 12:20-1:10 pm
  • Instructor: Sono, Reiko

Japanese 235: Performing Arts of Japan

  • Location: Goessmann 20
  • Time: Mon. Wed. 3:35-5:30 pm
  • Instructor: Holman, Martin

Japanese 297B: Japanese Popular Culture

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Tue. Thur. 2:30-3:45 pm
  • Instructor: Seaman, Amanda C

Womens St 295B Asian American Women: Gender, Race and Immigration

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Tue. Thu. 11:15 am-12:30 pm
  • Instructor: Kang, Miliann
  • Course Description: This course examines Asian American women's identities, educational achievement, economic incorporation, political participation, and social positions within their ethnic communities and the U.S. mainstream. Analyzing the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, class, nation and sexuality, we will examine Asian American women's immigration experiences, families, work and sexual politics. The course has a strong comparative focus between Asian American women in the U.S. and women around the world, emphasizing transnational linkages and the processes of globalization. Topics will include: immigration and settlement; labor history and contemporary employment patterns; dating and marriage; family and career choices; inter-generational relations; e representation of Asian female bodies; violence against women; militarized prostitution and sex tourism; and movements for social change. The course material corporate social science research, literature, essays, film, poetry and art.


Winter 2004: UMass Amherst Courses

Comparative Literature 141: Good Evil, East West (Cont. Ed.)


Fall 2004: Amherst College Courses

ANTH-21-01: Indian Civilization

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Mon., Wed., Fri. 10:00-10:50 am
  • Instructor: Babb, Lawrence

ASLC-15-01: Buddhism in Theory and Practice

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Mon., Wed. 12:30-1:50 pm
  • Instructor: Heim

ASLC-23-01: Art of Japan

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Tue., Thur. 2:00-3:20 pm
  • Instructor: Morse

ASLC-24-01: Chinese Civilization

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Tue., Thur. 2:00-3:20 pm
  • Instructor: Dennerline

ASLC-25-01: Japanese History to 1600

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Tue., Thur. 2:00-3:20 pm
  • Instructor: Brandt

ASLC-26-01: Middle East History: 600-1800

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Tue., Thur. 11:30 am-12:50 pm
  • Instructor: Ringer

ASLC-27-01: Reading The Tale of Genji as a Novel

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Mon., Wed. 12:30-1:50 pm
  • Instructor: Caddeau

ASLC-28-01: The Dao of Sex: Sexuality in China, Past and Present

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Mon., Wed. 2:00-3:20 pm
  • Instructor: Zamperini

ASLC-39-01: Islamic Ethics

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Tue., Thur. 10:10-11:20 am
  • Instructor: Elias

ASLC-49-01: China in the World, 1895-1919

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Tue., Thur. 11:30 am-12:50 pm
  • Instructor: Dennerline

ENGL-10-01: American Literature in the Making: The Twentieth Century, 1942-2000

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Tue., Thur. 10:00-11:20 am
  • Instructor: O'Connell

HIST-62-01: Women in the Middle East

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Tue., Thur. 2:00-3:20 pm
  • Instructor: Ringer


Fall 2004: Hampshire College Courses

SS 0310: Issues Asian American History

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Wed. 6:00-9:00 pm
  • Instructor: Kim, Lili


Fall 2004: Mount Holyoke College Courses

AMST 102: Intro. to the Study of American Culture

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: TBA
  • Instructor: R Chu

ANTH 360: Seminar in Asian Art

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: TBA
  • Instructor: A Sinha

ASIAN 102: East Asian Civilization: Modern China

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: TBA
  • Instructor: TBA

ASIAN 107: Arts of Asia

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: TBA
  • Instructor: TBA

ASIAN 202: Intro. to Islam

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: TBA
  • Instructor: K Pemberton

ASIAN 207: Women and Gender in Islam

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: TBA
  • Instructor: K Pemberton

ASIAN 210: Literature and Literary Culture in Classical India

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: TBA
  • Instructor: I Peterson

ASIAN 228: East Asian Politics

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: TBA
  • Instructor: C Calvin

ASIAN 261: Hinduism

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: TBA
  • Instructor: S Green

ASIAN 263: Buddhism

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: TBA
  • Instructor: TBA

ASIAN 271: Arts of Islam: Book, Mosque, and Palace

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: TBA
  • Instructor: M Davis

ASIAN 296: Women in History

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: TBA
  • Instructor: J Lipman

ASIAN 320: Women's Issue in Arab Women Novelists' Works

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: TBA
  • Instructor: M Jiyad

ASIAN 325: Asian Religions

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: TBA
  • Instructor: I Peterson

ASIAN 360: Seminar in Asian Art

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: TBA
  • Instructor: TBA

ENGL 274: Intro to Asian American Literature: A History of Asian America in Novels and Prose

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: TBA
  • Instructor: J Santa Ana

HIST 175: Asian/Pacifc/American History, 1850 to the Present

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: TBA
  • Instructor: R Chu

POLIT 347: Race and Urban Political Economy

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: TBA
  • Instructor: P Smith

RELIG 325: Asian Religion

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: TBA
  • Instructor: I Peterson

RES 221: Texts and Contexts: Introduction to Russian Literature

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: TBA
  • Instructor: P Scotto

RES 225: Literature and Film on Trial: Russian Culture in the Twentieth Century

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: TBA
  • Instructor: E Cruise

RES 330: Nationalism

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: TBA
  • Instructor: S Jones


Fall 2004: Smith College Courses

AMS 100: Ideas in American Studies

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: TBA
  • Instructor: TBA

EAL 231: The Culture of the Lyric in Traditional China

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Tue. 1:00-4:00 pm
  • Instructor: TBA

EAL 236: Modernity: East and West

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Tue., Thur. 1:00-2:50 pm
  • Instructor: Knight, Deirdre

EAL 241: Court Ladies, Wandering Monks, and Urban Rakes: Literature and Culture in Premodern Japan

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Tue., Thur. 10:30-11:50 am
  • Instructor: TBA

EAL 261: Major Themes in Literature: East-West Perspectives: Gendered Fate

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Mon., Wed., Fri. 11:00 am-12:10 pm
  • Instructor: Knight, Deirdre

EAL 219: Modern Korea

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: TBA
  • Instructor: TBA

GOV 348: Seminar in International Politics: Conflict and Cooperation in Asia

  • Location: TBA
  • Time: Tue. 3:00-4:50 pm
  • Instructor: Yasutomo, Dennis


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