Every semester, Duke offers a variety of courses focused on East Asia in multiple academic disciplines. These courses can be used to meet minor, major, certificate, and/or degree requirements. Duke students are also eligible to enroll in classes at the University of North Carolina. Details on receiving credit can be found on the Registrar's website.
An EAS MA student who wishes to take an undergraduate-level course must meet with the DGS and gain approval. Students must fill out the Permission to Enroll in A Course Below the 500 Level Form and submit it to The Graduate School before 5:00 p.m. two business days before the last day of the drop/add period. As of Summer 2018, undergraduate courses will not be applicable towards the requirements for a graduate degree (courses previously approved under prior policy will still be accepted towards degree requirements).
If a desired course is not listed as an East Asia course, EAS MA students can petition the DGS to count the course toward the degree requirement if at least 1/3 of the graded work (such as exams, weekly writing assignments, and mid-term or final papers) is on East Asia. Students must fill out the Request to Take Unlisted East Asian Courses Form and submit it to the DGSA before 5:00 p.m. two business days before the last day of the drop/add period.
Course descriptions and schedules for current and prospective students are available at DukeHub.
Consult your adviser for additional information about any courses listed below.
Click here for current gateway and capstone courses for the Undergraduate Certificate.
East Asian Studies Courses, FALL 2020
EAST ASIAN STUDIES
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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| AMES 195S | Rethinking Asia and Me | Erdag Goknar | |
| AMES 233 | Global Chinese Cities | Carlos Rojas | ICS 302, VMS 237, AMI 269 |
| AMES 335 | Chinatowns: A Cultural History | Eileen Chow | HISTORY 228 |
| AMES 372 | Two Koreas | Aimee Kwon | HISTORY 473, CULANTH 473 |
| AMES 432S | Storyworlds | Eileen Chow | ICS 333S, AMI 338S |
| AMES 435S | Chinese Media and Pop Culture | Kang Liu | POLSCI 435S, ISS 435S |
| AMES 476S/576S | Archiving and Visualizing Asia | Aimee Kwon | ICS 411S, HISTORY 448S, AMI 476S |
| AMES 631 | National Cinemas | Guo-Juin Hong | AMI 632, VMS 632, LIT 632 |
| AMES 790S | Topics in Asian Humanities | Carlos Rojas | |
Art History |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| ARTHIST 232 | Japanese Art, 1600 to the Present | Nicole Gaglia | |
Chinese |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| CHINESE 101 | First-Year Chinese | Dept. Staff | |
| CHINESE 105 | First-Year Chinese in Review I | Chi-Ju Hsieh | |
| CHINESE 131 | First-Year Chinese for Bilingual Learners | Departmental Staff | |
| CHINESE 203 | Intermediate Chinese | Departmental Staff | |
| CHINESE 305D | Advanced Chinese | Departmental Staff | |
| CHINESE 331D | Modern Chinese Media | Tianshu He | |
| CHINESE 332 | Chinese Translation | Yan Liu | |
| CHINESE 333 | Advanced Chinese: Bilingual Learners | Shu-Ting Hsu | |
| CHINESE 407S | Issues in Chinese Lang/Soc I | Shu-Ting Hsu | |
| CHINESE 435S | Chinese in the Humanities I | Departmental Staff | |
| CHINESE 455 | Modern Chinese Culture | Kang Liu | |
Cultural Anthropology |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| **CULANTH 278 | Sex/Gender - Nature/Nurture: Intersections of Biology and Society | Ara Wilson, Christina Williams | GSF 278, PSY 226 |
| CULANTH 341 | Life and Death | Anne Allison | SOCIOL 351, ICS 353 |
| CULANTH 360 | Global Apple | Ralph Litzinger | AMES 360, LIT 361, ICS 369, SOCIOL 360 |
| CULANTH 423 | Sex and Money | Anne Allison | |
| **CULANTH 751S | Theorizing the Anthropocene | Ralph Litzinger | |
EAST ASIAN STUDIES |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| EAS 700 | East Asian Studies Core Course | Simon Partner | RELIGION 700, HIST 707 |
Education |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| EDUC 345S | Asians in American Higher Education | Li-Chen Chin | SOCIOL 346S |
Economics |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| **ECON 305 | History Int Fin & Mon Crises | Giovanni Zanalda | |
History |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| HISTORY 101 | Intro to Global History | Prasenjit Duara | |
| HISTORY 135 | Silk Roads and China | Sucheta Mazumdar | AMES 207, RELIGION 181, MEDREN 135 |
| HISTORY 226 | Ancient and Early Modern Japan | Dept. Staff | AMES 167 |
| HISTORY 239 | History of Chinese Medicine | Nicole Elizabeth Barnes | AMES 142, GLHLTH 142 |
| HISTORY 384 | China Since 1949 | Nicole Elizabeth Barnes | |
| HISTORY 454S | Globalizing Asia | Sucheta Mazumdar | AMES 437S, ICS 412S |
Japanese |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| JPN 101 | Elementary Japanese | Naoko Kurokawa | |
| JPN 203 | Intermediate Japanese | Azusa Saito | |
| JPN 305 | Advanced Japanese | Yunchuan Chen | |
Korean |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| KOREAN 101 | Elementary Korean | Barohny Eun | |
| KOREAN 203 | Intermediate Korean | Eunyoung Kim | |
| KOREAN 305 | Advanced Korean | Eunyoung Kim | |
| KOREAN 455S | Korean Politics and Society: Nat'l Identity & Music Mod Kor | Jung Min Lee | |
Linguistics |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| **LINGUIST 201 | Intro to Linguistics | Gareth Price | |
| **LINGUIST 217FS | Language, Thought, and Culture | Gareth Price, Luciana Fellin | |
| LINGUIST 315S | Japanese as a Second Language | Yunchuan Chen | AMES 310S |
LITERATURE |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| LIT 426S | France-Asia: Globalized Context | Anne-Gaelle Saliot | AMES 426S, FRENCH 426S, ICS 413S |
| LIT 490S | China as World Picture | Rey Chow | AMES 490S, VMS 490S |
Music |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| MUSIC 210 | Chinese Music Ensemble | Jennifer Chang, Hsiao-Mei Ku | AMES 145 |
| MUSIC 234 | Sound and Society in East Asia | Departmental Staff | AMES 120 |
Philosophy |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| PHIL 263 | Chinese Philosophy | David Wong | AMES 275 |
| **PHIL 502S | Comparative Ethics | David Wong | |
Political Science |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| **POLSCI 229 | Institutions and Self Governance | Emerson Niou | |
| **POLSCI 231D | Intro to Tools of Political Risk Analysis | Eddy Malesky | |
| **POLSCI 317 | Global Corruption | Melanie Manion | |
| **POLSCI 333S | Democracy and Social Choice | Emerson Niou | |
| POLSCI 338 | Political Economy of SE Asia | Eddy Malesky | |
Public Policy |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| **PUBPOL 290S | Population, Health and Policy | Maria-Giovanna Merli | |
| **PUBPOL 840S | Demographic Measures/Concepts | Maria-Giovanna Merli | GLHLTH 761S |
Religion |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| RELIGION 120 | Buddhism | Rebecca Mendelson | AMES 114 |
| RELIGION 247 | Tai-Chi and Chinese Thought | David Need | AMES 247, DANCE 255 |
| RELIGION 257 | Four Funerals and a Wedding | Sun | AMES 257 |
| RELIGION 328 | Buddhism and Sexuality | David Need | AMES 286, ICS 389 |
| **RELIGION 782 | The Next Christendom | Xi Lian | |
| **RELIGION 783 | XTY Other Religious Cultures | Xi Lian | WXTIAN 816 |
Slavic & Eurasian Studies |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| **SES 375S | Social Engineering and Social Movements in Eastern Europe and Asia | Mustafa O Tuna | PUBPOL 282S, POLSCI 359S |
| **SES 388S | Illiberal Nondemocracies: Focus on Eastern Europe and Asia | Mustafa O Tuna | PUBPOL 317S, POLSCI 301S |
Sociology |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| SOCIOL 341/541 | The US and Asian Pacific Region | Bai Gao | |
| **SOCIOL 344 | Tech and Org Environments | Bai Gao | |
| **SOCIOL 345 | Nat/Reg/Global Economy | Mary Hovsepian | |
** = All assignments must be done on East Asia to be applied to the MA in East Asian Studies or the undergraduate or graduate certificate in East Asian Studies
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