2.  Upper-division requirements (36 units)

a)  At least 12 units from the following courses: AST 190, CPLT 141M, ENGL 121
b)  Twenty-four units (24) taken from at least two or more of the following four area groupings:
(1)  Asian American: ETST 110 (E-Z), ETST 137, ETST 138, ETST 150, ETST 136/SOC 136
(2)  China: AST 140/AHS 140, AST 141/AHS 141, AST 143/AHS 143, AST 130A-AST 130B/CHN 130A-CHN 130B, AST 135/CHN 135, AST 136/CHN 136, AST 148/CHN 148, AST 185/CHN 185, AST 107/CHN 107/RLST 107, AST 142/CHN 142/RLST 142, CHN 105, CHN 108, CHN 110 (E-Z), CHN 115 (E-Z), CHN 190, HIST 180, HIST 181, HIST 182, RLST 103
(3)  Japan/Korea: AST 144/AHS 144, AST 147/AHS 146, JPN 150, JPN 151/AST 151, JPN 142, JPN 190, MUS 169/AST 169, RLST 105, RLST 108
(4)  Other East, Northeast, South, Southeast, West, or Central Asia: ANTH 140-I, AST 128/ANTH 128/DNCE 128/MUS 128/THEA 176, AST 127/ANTH 176/DNCE 127/ETST 172/MUS 127, AST 168/MUS 168 (4 units maximum), RLST 101, RLST 106, RLST 108

c)  Senior Thesis: Completion of a senior thesis in the first or second quarter of the senior year (This includes a substantial paper based on original research; ideally, primary documents are consulted in the course of conducting the research, and the topic should deal with a comparative theme within Asian Studies.)

Minor

Asian Studies offers a minor which consists of 28 units chosen from the following list.

1.  Lower-division requirements (8 units)

AST 030/CHN 030, JPN 035,
HIST 045 (E-Z)/AST 045 (E-Z), RLST 005

2.  Upper-division requirements (20 units)

ANTH 140-I
AST 190 (No more than 4 units may be applied to the minor.)
AST 128/ANTH 128/DNCE 128/MUS 128/THEA 176
AST 140/AHS 140, AST 141/AHS 141, AST 143/AHS 143, AST 144/AHS 144
AST 147/AHS 146
AST 130A-AST 130B/CHN 130A-CHN 130B, AST 130C, AST 135/CHN 135, AST 136/CHN 136, AST 148/CHN 148, AST 185/CHN 185
AST 142/CHN 142/RLST 142
AST 127/ANTH 176/DNCE 127/ETST 172/MUS 127
JPN 150
CHN 101A-CHN 101B-CHN 101C, CHN 104, CHN 105, CHN 108, CHN 110 (E-Z), CHN 115 (E-Z), CHN 190
ETST 150
HIST 180, HIST 181, HIST 182
JPN 101A, JPN 101B, JPN 101C, JPN 151/AST 151, JPN 142, JPN 190
RLST 101, RLST 103, RLST 105, RLST 108

See Minors under the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences in the Undergraduate Studies section of this catalog for additional information on minors.

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, two hours; written work, one hour. Prerequisite(s): none. A survey of Chinese calligraphy and painting, focusing on their development in history and their practice in Chinese society. Demonstrations of writing and painting are included. Cross-listed with AHS 018.

AST 022. Introduction to Japanese Film. (4)

Lecture, three hours; screening, three hours. Prerequisite(s): none. An introduction to Japan's major directors and to watching and writing about Japanese film. Works studied range from the samurai epics of Kurosawa to recent anime. All films have subtitles. No previous knowledge of Japanese language or culture is required. Cross-listed with FVC 022, JPN 022, and WRLT 022.

AST 030. Introduction to Chinese Civilization. (4)

Lecture, two hours; discussion, one hour; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): none. An introduction to Chinese civilization through an interplay of philosophical, historical, religious, and literary readings from the ancient times through the modern age. Audiovisual media is used. All work is done in English. Cross-listed with CHN 030.

AST 034. Early Japanese Civilization. (4)

Lecture, three hours; term paper, three hours. Prerequisite(s): none. An introduction to Japanese civilization from earliest times to the dawn of the twentieth century. Devotes particular attention to aesthetic activity and to the relationship between history, culture, and the arts. Cross-listed with JPN 034.

AST 040. Masterworks of Chinese Literature. (4)

Lecture, three hours; outside research, three hours. Prerequisite(s): none. Reading and discussion of selected great works of Chinese literature (in English translation) with attention to cultural contexts. Various critical methods and approaches are used. Cross-listed with CHN 040.

AST 045 (E-Z). Topics in Asian History. (4)

Lecture, three hours; consultation, one hour. Prerequisite(s): none. An introduction to regional histories and cultures of Asia. E. Premodern China and Japan; F. Contemporary China; G. India in the Western Imagination. Cross-listed with HIST 045 (E-Z).

AST 048. Chinese Cinema. (4)

Lecture, two hours; discussion, one hour; screening, two hours; outside research, one hour. Prerequisite(s): none. Study of selected films from China and Taiwan with attention to cultural context. Questions addressed may include the following: What do we look for in a film? What are the film's interrelations with theatre, photography, and literature? How do we understand the film as an art form? Cross-listed with CHN 048.

AST 090. Special Studies. (1-5)

Individual study, three to fifteen hours. To be taken with the consent of the Chair of the Program as a means of meeting special curricular problems. Course is repeatable.

Lecture, three hours; individual study, three hours. Prerequisite(s): AST 030/CHN 030 or upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A survey of the ancient mystical and philosophical aspects of Taoism as well as the living religious tradition, their relationships to each other, and their expression in Chinese culture and civilization. Topics include the Tao Te Ching, the Chuang-tzu, the Taoist canon, meditation, immortality, alchemy, and ritual. Cross-listed with CHN 107 and RLST 107.

AST 124. Music of Asian America. (4)

Lecture, three hours; music listening, one hour; individual study, two hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Explores music as a window on the cultural politics of Asian America. Examines expressive culture as a constitutive site for ethnic identities and emergent political formations. Covers musics of Asian immigrants and of subsequent generations, including Asian American jazz and hip-hop. Cross-listed with MUS 124.

AST 127. Music Cultures of Southeast Asia. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A survey of music, dance, theatre, and ritual in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Designed for the student interested in the performing arts and cultures of mainland and insular Southeast Asia. No Western music background is required. Cross-listed with ANTH 176, DNCE 127, ETST 172, and MUS 127.

AST 128. Performing Arts of Asia. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A survey of music, dance, theatre, and ritual in four major geocultural regions of Asia: Central, East, South and Southeast. No Western music training is required. Course is repeatable to a maximum of 8 units. Cross-listed with ANTH 128, DNCE 128, MUS 128, and THEA 176.

AST 130A-AST 130B. Chinese Literature in Translation. (4-4)

Lecture, three hours; term paper, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Knowledge of Chinese not required. Lectures and collateral reading of representative works in English and translation. 130A: Poetry, historical records, essays, drama, and fiction from Earliest Times to the Yuan Dynasty (1368 A.D.); 130B: Drama and fiction from the fourteenth century to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1911 A.D.); Cross-listed with CHN 130A-CHN 130B.

AST 135. Great Novels of China. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Examines the social, philosophical, and aesthetic features in major Ming-Qing novels through critical reading and analysis of literature in translation. No knowledge of Chinese required. Cross-listed with CHN 135.

AST 136. Family and Gender in the Chinese Short Story. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Examines a broad array of short stories from the Tang to the Qing dynasties (approximately ninth to eighteenth century). Investigates love, marriage, family, gender dynamics, and the representation of women in Chinese literature. No knowledge of Chinese required. Cross-listed with CHN 136.

AST 140. Chinese Painting of the Song and Yuan Dynasties. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): AHS 015 or upper-division standing or consent of instructor. The history of early Chinese painting, from the beginning to the fourteenth century, with concentration on the Song and Yuan dynasties (A.D. 960-1367). The development of themes, subjects, styles, theories, and purposes discussed in their cultural and historical contexts. Cross-listed with AHS 140.

AST 141. Chinese Painting of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): AHS 015 or equivalent or upper-division standing or consent of instructor. The history of later Chinese painting (from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century). Investigates new pictorial genres, art theories, political environment, popular taste, and the changing social role of the artist. Cross-listed with AHS 141.

AST 142. Chuang-tzu. (4)

Lecture, one hour; discussion, two hours; outside research, one hour; extra reading, one hour; term paper, one hour. Prerequisite(s): RLST 005 or RLST 005H or AST 107/CHN 107/RLST 107 or consent of instructor. An examination of chaos, episemological and linguistic relativism, fate, skill, and the character of the sage in perhaps the most significant of Chinese Taoist texts, the Chuang-tzu. Discussion of the structure and style of this literary masterpiece. Students with knowledge of classical Chinese may arrange additional work through special studies. Cross-listed with CHN 142 and RLST 142.

AST 143. Text and Image in Chinese Painting. (4)

Lecture, three hours; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): AHS 015 or upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Examines the art of writing and painting in China, focusing on the close relationship between written language and pictorial image. Reading knowledge of the Chinese language is not necessary. Cross-listed with AHS 143.

AST 144. Japanese Painting: Twelfth to Nineteenth Century. (4)

Lecture, three hours; individual study, three hours. Prerequisite(s): AHS 015 or upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Major developments in the pictorial art of Japan from the twelfth to the nineteenth century. Emphasis on the social and cultural contexts of painting, pictorial genres, and pivotal artists and styles. Cross-listed with AHS 144.

AST 147. The Japanese House. (4)

Lecture, three hours; individual study, three hours. Prerequisite(s): AHS 015 or upper-division standing or consent of instructor. History of the traditional Japanese house from prehistoric times to the nineteenth century. Examples used to place the Japanese house within the general history of Japanese architecture and within its social and cultural context. Cross-listed with AHS 146.

AST 148. Chinese Poetry and Poetics in Translation. (4)

Lecture, two hours; discussion, one hour; extra reading, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Examination of traditional Chinese poetry through the study of selected major texts, emphasizing forms, themes, and Chinese poetics in its close relation to the development of Chinese literature. Classes are conducted in English. Cross-listed with CHN148.

AST 151. Early Japanese Literature. (4)

Lecture, two hours; discussion, one hour; term paper, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An in-depth introduction to early Japanese literature. Focuses on fiction, from early poem tales and court romances to warrior tales and stories of the floating world. Careful attention is given to the works' historical and cultural backgrounds and visual and artistic dimensions. All works are read in English translation. Cross-listed with JPN 151.

AST 152 (E-Z). Themes in Modern Japanese Literature. (4)

Lecture, two hours; discussion, one hour; term paper, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An introduction to modern Japanese literature in translation, as seen through the lens of a particular theme or issue. All materials read or viewed in English. E. The End of the World in Japanese Literature; F. The Mask in Japanese Fiction; G. Love and Death. Cross-listed with JPN 152 (E-Z).

AST 168. Javanese Gamelan Ensemble: Beginning. (2)

Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing and consent of instructor. Study and performance of the Central Javanese gamelan, consisting mainly of gongs and gong-chime instruments. Readings and discussions focus on Japanese culture. Normally graded Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) only, but students may petition the instructor for a letter grade on the basis of assigned extra work or examination. Course is repeatable. Cross-listed with MUS 168.

AST 169. Taiko Ensemble. (1)

Studio, two hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Study and performance of Japanese drumming. Normally graded Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) only, but students may petition the instructor for a letter grade on the basis of assigned extra work or examination. Course is repeatable. Cross-listed with MUS 169.

AST 170. Rondalla Ensemble. (1-2)

Studio, two to four hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Study and performance of the Filipino rondalla, an ensemble consisting of various sizes of lure-like and guitar-like instruments. Discussions focus on Filipino culture. Normally graded Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC), but students may petition the instructor for a letter grade on the basis of assigned extra work or examination. Course is repeatable. Cross-listed with MUS 170.

AST 184. Japanese Film and Visual Culture. (4)

Lecture, two hours; discussion, one hour; term paper, three hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Investigates popular visual culture in Japan primarily through film, from the early masters to contemporary directors. Additional material may be drawn from fields such as theatre, television, visual art, architecture, and illustrated fiction. All materials read or viewed in English. Course is repeatable to a maximum of 12 units. Cross-listed with CPLT 184, FVC 184, and JPN 184.

AST 185. New Chinese Cinema. (4)

Lecture, two hours; discussion, one hour; screening, two hours; extra reading, one hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A study of representative films from the People's Republic of China, with a focus on those made during the last decade. Conducted in English; films to be shown from video cassettes are mostly with English subtitles. Cross-listed with CHN 185.

AST 190. Special Studies. (1-5)

Individual study, three to fifteen hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. To be taken with the consent of the Chair of the Program as a means of meeting special curricular problems. Course is repeatable.

AST 195. Senior Thesis. (4)

Thesis, three to twelve hours. Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor and senior standing. Preparation of a substantial paper based on original research. The student works independently with a faculty member. Course is repeatable to a maximum of 12 units.