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Section 001: MW 3:35pm-4:50pm
Section 002: TTh 12:30pm-1:45pm
3 Credits
Naseem Surhio

Provides an interdisciplinary overview of the cultures of the Arabic-speaking peoples of Southwest Asia and North Africa from the rise of Islam in the 7th century to the present. Readings include historical, religious, literary and cultural texts from both the medieval and modern eras. Taught in English.

TTh 3:30pm-4:45pm
3 Credits
Naseem Surhio

Explores the cultural politics of representations of the Arab and Islamic worlds both with an emphasis on literary representations of the Islamic world in travel narratives and novels from both the West and the Arab world. Examines historical, anthropological, and visual texts to consider how Islam has been narrated in colonial European imaginings about the Islamic world as well as contemporary representations. Taught in English.

MWF 12:20pm-1:10pm
4 credits (3 credits Lecture + 1 credit Recitation)
Katherine AlexanderÌý

An interdisciplinary introduction from ancient to modern times. Arts, literature, politics, social relations, religion, and material culture are studied in terms of significant themes and ideas pertaining to the civilization of China. Taught in English.

TTh 12:30pm-1:45pm Ìý
3 credits
Antje Richter

Explores the relationship between the worlds of women and the supernatural in Chinese literature, from ancient to modern times. Focuses on selected significant works of classical and vernacular fiction, religious texts, and poetry. Taught in English. Recommended prerequisite: or . Recommended restrictions: for students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).

MWF 2:30pm-3:20pm Ìý
3 credits
Nidhi Arya

Explores the rich history of the imagination of the samurai in Japan, across multiple genres of fiction, poetry, drama, visual art, and cinema, from earliest times to the present. Attention is given to the varied meanings the image of the samurai has held at different historical moments, and to contrasts between the representations of the realities of samurai life.

MW 3:35pm-4:50pm
3 credits
Keller Kimbrough

Examines the fusion of literary and visual arts in twelfth- to nineteenth-century Japan, focusing on illustrated handscrolls and narrative paintings. Students will explore tales of monsters, samurai, fantastic journeys to other worlds, anthropomorphic animals, and the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century precursors of contemporary Japanese comics. This course seeks to analyze visual-literary texts in their historical contexts as both literature and art. Taught in English.

TTh 11am-12:15pm
3 credits
Daryl Maude

Examines the genres of fantasy and sci-fi across Japanese media, including literature, film, anime, and manga. We will consider what the Japanese speculative imagination about different worlds can teach us, and consider subgenres of cyberpunk, space opera, mythological fantasy, cli-fi, and feminist speculation. Taught in English.

MW 3:35pm-4:50pm
3 credits
Yumiko Matsunaga

Designed to teach Japanese with emphasis on using Japanese for professional purposes. The course aims to foster the skills and the knowledge of effective cross-cultural and interpersonal communication in Japanese and to develop intercultural competence in business contexts. Recommended prerequisite: .

TTh 9:30am-10:45am
3 credits
Keller KimbroughÌý

Surveys some of the major works of medieval Japanese literature from the Kamakura and Muromachi periods (1185-1600), with a special emphasis on the great 14th-century Genpei War epic, The Tale of the Heike.