Course Catalog 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
East Asian Studies
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Emer O’Dwyer, Associate Professor, Program Director
Marc Jeremy Blecher, Professor
Bonnie Cheng, Associate Professor
Hsiu-Chuang Deppman, Professor
Nathaniel Heneghan, Visiting Assistant Professor
Kip G. Hutchins, Visiting Instructor and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of Anthropology and Environmental/East Asian Studies
Sheila Miyoshi Jager, Professor
Sachiko Kondo, Lecturer
Kai Li, Senior Lecturer
Fang Liu, Senior Lecturer
Andrew Macomber, Assistant Professor
Priscilla Ofei-Manu, Visiting Instructor
Ann Sherif, Professor
You Shi, Visiting Instructor
Mariko Takano, Visiting Assistant Professor
Chialan Sharon Wang, Visiting Professor
Jesse Watson, Visiting Assistant Professor
Visit the department webpage for up-to-date information on department faculty, visiting lecturers and special events.
The East Asian Studies Program is an interdisciplinary program focusing on the region that includes China, Japan, and Korea. The main goals of the program are to provide training in East Asian languages and to introduce students to the societies, cultures, and histories of the region through courses in anthropology, art history, cinema, economics, history, literature, politics and religion. Since language study is an integral part of the East Asian Studies major, interested students are strongly advised to begin language study in their first or second year at Oberlin. This is especially true of students who hope to spend time studying abroad.
See information about Research, Internships, Study Away and Experiential Learning (RISE).
Placement Tests
Chinese
All incoming students who have acquired linguistic ability in Chinese elsewhere, or who wish to qualify for advanced courses, should take the placement test administered during Orientation, or in consultation with a Chinese faculty member, to determine the level at which Chinese study should be continued.
Japanese
All incoming students who have acquired linguistic ability in Japanese elsewhere, or who wish to qualify for advanced courses, should take the placement test administered during Orientation, or in consultation with a Japanese faculty member, to determine the level at which Japanese study should be continued.
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Majors and Minors
CoursesChineseEast Asian Studies- EAST 107 - Women and Literary Culture in Japan
- EAST 109 - Topics in Chinese Film: Introduction to Modern Chinese Cinema
- EAST 111 - Community Based Environmental Studies: Hong Kong-US
- EAST 114 - Japan on Stage & Screen: An Introduction to Kabuki, Noh, and Butoh
- EAST 116 - Traditional Japanese Literature in Translation
- EAST 118 - Modern Japanese Literature and Film
- EAST 119 - Visualizing Japan: Introduction to Japanese Cinema
- EAST 120 - Chinese Calligraphy
- EAST 121 - Chinese Civilization
- EAST 122 - Modern China
- EAST 131 - Japan Earliest Times to 1868
- EAST 132 - Modern Japan
- EAST 133 - Haunted Archipelago: Ghosts, Spirits, and the Occult in Japanese Religion
- EAST 137 - Introduction to Religion: Buddhism in East Asia
- EAST 143 - Approaches to Chinese and Japanese Art
- EAST 153 - Religious Rituals in East Asia
- EAST 154 - Religious Objects in East Asia
- EAST 163 - Korea: Past, Present and Future
- EAST 206 - Modern Chinese Literature and Film: The Art of Adaptation
- EAST 215 - Literary and Visual Cultures of Protest in Japan
- EAST 222 - Politics and Protest: Modern Chinese Art
- EAST 224 - Taiwan Native-Soil Literature
- EAST 229 - Bodies in Japanese Literature & Culture 1945 to 2020
- EAST 241 - Living with the Bomb: A Comparative Study of Gender, Race and Nationalism in Japan and The US
- EAST 248 - Postwar Japan through Music and Film
- EAST 249 - Pine, Bamboo, Plum: Nature in Japan
- EAST 251 - Breaking the Waves: The Japanese and French New Wave Cinemas and Their Legacy
- EAST 272 - East Asian Book and Literary Cultures
- EAST 276 - Modern Korean History
- EAST 280 - Brothers at War: The Unending Korean War
- EAST 295 - Chinese Earth and Environment
- EAST 307 - Occupied Japan, 1945-52
- EAST 309 - Chinese Popular Cinema and Public Intellectualism
- EAST 318 - Irreducible Distance: Japan-Korea Relations Through Literature and Visual Media
- EAST 322 - Avant Garde in Japanese Literature, Art and Film
- EAST 324 - Chinese Queer Cinema
- EAST 326 - Labor in Japanese Literature and Film from the 1920s to 2010s
- EAST 329 - Cultural Property? Art, Heritage, Ownership
- EAST 332 - Discrimination in Modern Japan
- EAST 335 - Buddhism, Healing, and the Body in East Asia
- EAST 362 - The Korean War
- EAST 364 - Seminar: The Japanese Seizure of Korea, 1876-1905
- EAST 367 - The Other Great Game, 1860-1905
- EAST 389 - Archaeologies of China
- EAST 390 - Big Government: A Legal and Cultural History of Bureaucracy in China
- EAST 401 - Honors Program
- EAST 500 - Capstone Project
- EAST 980 - The Tea Ceremony and Japanese Culture
- EAST 981 - Kyoto as Source: Japan’s Premodern and Early Modern Experience
- EAST 982 - Japanese Seminar
- EAST 983 - Changing Japanese Families
- EAST 984 - Sites and Sights:Hist of Kyoto
- EAST 985 - Genji’s Guide to Kyoto
- EAST 986 - KYO/Japanese Environmentalism
- EAST 987 - Nature in Chinese and Japanese Literature & Culture
- EAST 995F - Private Reading - Full
- EAST 995H - Private Reading - Half
Japanese Studies
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