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EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES & CULTURES (L81)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)SP2025

L81 EALC 530Topics in Chinese Media Culture: China and the Screen: From the Early 20th Century to the Present3.0 Units
SecDays       TimeBuilding / RoomInstructorFinal ExamSeatsEnrollWaits
01-T-R---2:30P-3:50PTBAGaoPaper/Project/Take Home15110
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A-T-----7:00P-9:00PSeigle / L006 GaoNo Final15110
Desc:Required film screening: Tue @ 7pm
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L81 EALC 5320Topics in Medical Humanities in East Asia: Illness, Healing and the Body in East Asia3.0 Units
Description:This seminar introduces students to the field of medical humanities with a focus on East Asia. After a brief methodological introduction to the field, the course will explore key aspects of the medical humanities in East Asia employing a chronological and thematic approach. From ancient China to the present, we will study and compare practices and discourses dealing with health and illness. Although the care of the body and the elimination of disease are today understood (and pursued) primarily within the domain of biomedicine, a look into the past, both remote and recent, reveals the constant intersection between the contemporary categories of "religion" and "medicine." The analysis of the practices and ideas of doctors, patients, and laypeople on what causes illness and how healing works will lead us to engage with some of the great traditions of East Asia, in particular what is today known as "traditional Chinese medicine" (or TCM), and Buddhism; and, in more recent times, with the medical technologies introduced from Europe and North-America. We will read selected primary sources and study important works of secondary literature to understand how these traditions have articulated notions of the body, health, and healing at different times and in different geographical contexts, and how they interacted with, influenced or criticized one another. This course is not meant as a comprehensive survey on health and medicine in East Asia, but rather as an introduction to selected themes and historical moments; therefore, it assumes some familiarity with the history and cultures of East Asia. There will be, however, mini-lectures and additional readings to provide additional context for those who might need it. All readings are in English, and no knowledge of any East Asian language is required, but graduate students will be encouraged to also work on primary or secondary sources in their areas of expertise. Undergraduates enroll in the 400-level section; 500-level section is for graduate students only. Fulfills either premodern or modern elective for EALC major. Prerequisites: junior level or above or permission of instructor.
Attributes:A&S IQHUM, LCDArchHUMArtHUMENH
Instruction Type:Classroom instruction Grade Options:CPA Fees:
Course Type:IdentSame As:L81 4320  L85 4320Frequency:None / History
SecDays       TimeBuilding / RoomInstructorFinal ExamSeatsEnrollWaits
01---R---3:00P-5:50PTBAPolettoPaper/Project/Take Home19100
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L81 EALC 5380Approaches to East Asian Cinema3.0 Units
Description:The world-renowned masterpieces of Kurosawa and Ozu, the kung fu epics of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, the recent unprecedented Oscar wins of Bong Joon Ho's Parasite, and countless other films from Japan, South Korea, and the Chinese diaspora have made East Asian cinema one of the region's most visible cultural products of the past seventy years. Popular film plays a large role in constructing the cultural identity of modern societies, but Hollywood casts a long shadow over national cinemas. Critical discussions of East Asian cinema from both within and without the region have frequently approached these works as either the alien Other of Hollywood, or else subordinate to its influence. In this course we will seek to move beyond East-vs-West and Hollywood-centric approaches to analyzing East Asian cinema. While considering the unique historical development of commercial film industries in the region, we will also take into account the inherently transnational and globalizing nature of cinema. How have filmmakers in Japan, Korea, and the Chinese-speaking world responded to the hegemonic influence of the Classical Hollywood style to create works that operate in a common global vernacular, yet also forge new and distinct modes of expression? In an attempt to answer this question, we will read classic works of criticism that adopt an arguably Orientalist approach to the study of East Asian film, as well as more recent scholarship that attempts to escape the binaries that defined previous discussions. Close analysis of classic and contemporary East Asian film will provide context for these debates as well as introduce some of the major works of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean cinema to students. Undergraduates enroll in the 400-level section; 500-level section is for graduate students only. Fulfills modern elective for EALC major. Prerequisites: unior level or above or permission of instructor.
Attributes:A&S IQHUM, LCDArchHUMArtHUMENH
Instruction Type:Classroom instruction Grade Options:CPA Fees:
Course Type:IdentSame As:L81 4380Frequency:None / History
SecDays       TimeBuilding / RoomInstructorFinal ExamSeatsEnrollWaits
01-T-----3:00P-3:50PTBACrandolPaper/Project/Take Home15110
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L81 EALC 5420Nature, Technology, and Medicine in Korea3.0 Units
Description:This course examines the cultural history of modern Korea with a focus on science, technology, and medicine. From about 1500 to the present, a number of hugely consequential things happened in Korea that have been called revolutionary-or what historians dub "early modern" and "modern." Confucian kings planned large-scale projects that changed nature, rustic scholars made inventories of flora and fauna, colonial Koreans became biologists, nurses, and "Edisons," and in North and South Korea, new professionals created distinctive-and in some cases, globally-competitive-regimes of knowing, making, and healing. Students will interrogate these developments as an opportunity to revisit the history of modernity, which has been told predominantly from the perspective of the West. What does it mean to be "modern" in Korea? How did that modernity intersect with Korean science, technology, and medicine? Students will find and articulate their own answers by writing the final research paper. Recommended to have taken Korean Civilization or equivalent course that provides basic working knowledge of Korean history. Course also counts as an EALC capstone course. Undergraduates enroll in the 400-level section; 500-level section is for graduate students only. Fulfills modern elective for EALC major. Prerequisite: junior level or above or permission of instructor.
Attributes:A&S IQHUM, LCDArchHUMArtHUMBUETHENH
Instruction Type:Classroom instruction Grade Options:C Fees:
Course Type:IdentSame As:L81 420  L22 4203  L51 420  L85 420  L97 4200Frequency:Every 1 or 2 Years / History
SecDays       TimeBuilding / RoomInstructorFinal ExamSeatsEnrollWaits
01-T-----3:00P-5:50PTBAKangPaper/Project/Take Home15152
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