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Aug 15, 2024
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Course Catalog 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
East Asian Studies Major
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The major consists of a minimum of 9 full courses.
Note: Many students are required to complete 10 - 12 full courses in order to satisfy the language proficiency requirement.
Students must earn minimum grades of C- or P for all courses that apply toward the major.
View the catalog page for the East Asian Studies department.
This interdisciplinary major program combines language study with coursework in various disciplines.
Students choose a program which focuses on one of the following
- East Asian regional studies,
- China or Japan (Chinese or Japanese Studies),
- a discipline (e.g. History, Religion), or
- Chinese or Japanese language, literature, and film. Students who choose this option must complete two semesters of 400-level language courses and must take a minimum of four non-language courses, including at least two literature-in-translation and/or film courses.
- Korean Studies: This concentration may be completed through coursework at Oberlin and study abroad at an approved institution.
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Transfer of Credit
The transfer of credit is not automatic. Students wishing to apply transfer credit to the major should be advised that a minimum of 6 full courses must be completed at Oberlin, including at least one year of language study and the capstone project. For the minor, no less than half of the course work, including one full course in non-language course work, must be completed at Oberlin.
Honors
Admission to the Honors Program will be by invitation of the EAS faculty at the end of the second semester of the junior year. Students interested in being considered for Honors are encouraged to indicate their interest and discuss the details of the program with any member of the East Asian Studies faculty early in their junior year. By May 1 of the junior year, the candidate will submit a tentative written proposal and bibliography. Students admitted to Honors will present a progress report at mid-year to the faculty. The final written project will be submitted in May of the senior year, when the oral examination will be scheduled. Both the thesis and the oral examination will figure in the awarding of Honors.
East Asian Studies Major Requirements
Language Requirement
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- students must complete a minimum of two semesters at Oberlin College and complete CHIN/JAPN 302 or the proficiency equivalent
- students who wish to study the Korean language complete the equivalent of three or four semesters at an approved institution
Students who enter the program with previous language training or exposure are still required to take a minimum of two full language courses to complete the major. Students with native or near-native proficiency in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean language must study another East Asian language to fulfill the requirements of the major.
East Asian Studies Major Elective Courses
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- students must complete a minimum of five full courses offered through EAS and other departments that offer East Asian courses (such as ARTH, HIST, POLT, RELG)
- students must complete courses in their area of concentration
- students must complete two non-language courses that do not focus exclusively on their country of interest (regional courses count toward this requirement)
- students may apply a maximum of two 400-level language courses toward this requirement
- ANTH 217 - Music and the Environment in Northeast Asia
- ARTH 152 - Approaches to Chinese and Japanese Art
- ARTH 223 - Politics and Protest: Modern Chinese Art
- ARTH 225 - Pleasure and Design in Confinement: Japanese Prints in and after Edo
- ARTH 226 - Monks, Miracles, and Magic: Buddhist Art in East Asia
- ARTH 227 - Topics in East Asian Art: Monuments in a Comparative Perspective
- ARTH 326 - Death and Dying in East Asian Art
- ARTH 327 - Image/Object: Material and Mediation in Chinese Art
- ARTH 329 - Cultural Property? Art, Heritage, Ownership
- CHIN 410 - Traditional Chinese Culture
- EAST 107 - Women and Literary Culture in Japan
- EAST 110 - Japan on Stage & Screen: An Introduction to Kabuki, Noh, and Butoh
- EAST 114 - Japan on Stage & Screen: An Introduction to Kabuki, Noh, and Butoh
- EAST 117 - Modern Chinese History, 1600-present
- 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 125 - Hong Kong Cinema
- EAST 128 - Love in Premodern 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 134 - Masterworks of Classical Chinese Literature
- 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 and East Asia: From Ancient Times to the Present
- EAST 203 - Modernism and World Literature
- EAST 206 - Modern Chinese Literature and Film: The Art of Adaptation
- EAST 208 - Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Culture and Society
- EAST 218 - Ways of Seeing in Classical Chinese Poetry
- EAST 225 - Pleasure and Design in Confinement: Japanese Prints in and after Edo
- EAST 229 - Bodies in Japanese Literature & Culture 1945 to 2020
- EAST 233 - The Long War in Modern China
- EAST 235 - China on the Global Stage
- EAST 241 - Living with the Bomb: A Comparative Study of Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Japan and the U.S.
- EAST 248 - Postwar Japan through Music and Film
- EAST 249 - Green Japan
- EAST 251 - Breaking the Waves: The Japanese and French New Wave Cinemas and Their Legacy
- EAST 261 - On the Edges of China
- EAST 272 - East Asian Book and Literary Cultures
- 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 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 327 - Mapping China and East Asia
- EAST 328 - The Great War and Asia, 1914-1925
- EAST 329 - Cultural Property? Art, Heritage, Ownership
- EAST 332 - Discrimination in Modern Japan
- EAST 335 - Buddhism, Healing, and the Body in East Asia
- EAST 367 - The Other Great Game, 1860-1905
- EAST 390 - Big Government: A Legal and Cultural History of Bureaucracy in China
- EAST 401 - Honors Program
- HIST 105 - Chinese Civilization
- HIST 106 - Modern China
- HIST 159 - Japan: Earliest Times to 1868
- HIST 160 - Modern Japan
- HIST 181 - Korea and East Asia: From Ancient Times to the Present
- HIST 218 - The American Revolution
- HIST 249 - Postwar Japan through Music and Film
- HIST 280 - Brothers at War: The Unending Korean War
- HIST 281 - Ethnicity and Nation
- HIST 307 - Occupied Japan, 1945-52
- HIST 367 - The Other Great Game, 1860-1905
- HIST 389 - Archaeologies of China
- HIST 482 - Discrimination in Modern Japan
- POLT 110 - Revolution, Socialism and Reform in China
- POLT 212 - Political Economy of Development in Asia
- POLT 313 - Seminar: Transition to Capitalist Society in China
- RELG 137 - Introduction to Religion: Buddhism in East Asia
- RELG 229 - Religious Rituals in East Asia
- RELG 240 - Religious Objects in East Asian Religions
- RELG 335 - Buddhism, Healing, and the Body in East Asia
Upper-Level Seminar Courses
Return to the summary of requirements. - ARTH 326 - Death and Dying in East Asian Art
- ARTH 327 - Image/Object: Material and Mediation in Chinese Art
- ARTH 329 - Cultural Property? Art, Heritage, Ownership
- EAST 309 - Chinese Popular Cinema and Public Intellectualism
- 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 328 - The Great War and Asia, 1914-1925
- EAST 329 - Cultural Property? Art, Heritage, Ownership
- EAST 332 - Discrimination in Modern Japan
- EAST 335 - Buddhism, Healing, and the Body in East Asia
- EAST 338 - Critical Questions in Japan’s Modern Literature
- EAST 367 - The Other Great Game, 1860-1905
- HIST 307 - Occupied Japan, 1945-52
- HIST 389 - Archaeologies of China
- HIST 482 - Discrimination in Modern Japan
- POLT 313 - Seminar: Transition to Capitalist Society in China
- SOCI 352 - Sociology of Global China
Capstone Requirement
Return to the summary of requirements. The Capstone Project is an opportunity to bring to bear on a focused intellectual project the various elements of one’s East Asian Studies training. Normally completed in the senior year, the Capstone Project may be done in one of three ways: - as a research project in addition to or more substantial than the regular assignments in a scheduled upper-level colloquium or seminar taught by an EAS faculty member
- as a project in a 400-level Chinese or Japanese language course
- as a Winter Term project overseen by an EAS faculty member
In all cases, students need to consult individually and early in the term with the EAS faculty member. There is a separate form of registration for the Capstone Project. Students who study abroad should complete the capstone in residence at Oberlin. Successful completion of Honors fulfills the Capstone Project requirement. |
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