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.
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.
East Asian Studies Courses, Fall 2019
| AMES 141S | Audiovisual Cultures | Guo-Juin Hong |
| AMES 165S | The World of Japanese Pop Cult | Departmental Staff |
| AMES 195 | Intro to AMES | Leo Ching |
| AMES 290S | SP Topics in AMES: Asian AM Gender & Sexuality | Departmental Staff |
| AMES 335 | Chinatowns: A Cultural History | Eileen Chow |
| AMES 390S | SP Topics: Japanese as a Second Language | Departmental Staff |
| AMES 435S | Chinese Media and Pop Culture | Kang Liu |
| AMES 439 | Queer China | Carlos Rojas |
| AMES 476S | Archiving and Visualizing Asia | Nayoung Aimee Kwon |
| AMES 511 | Documentary/East Asian Culture | Guo-Juin Hong |
| AMES 551S | Translation: Theory/Praxis | Eileen Chow |
| AMES 738 | Theories of Minority Discourse | Carlos Rojas |
| AMES 790S | Topics in Asian Humanities | Departmental Staff |
| CHINESE 101 | First-year Chinese I | Departmental Staff |
| CHINESE 105D | First Year Chinese in Review I | Kun Shan Carolyn Lee |
| CHINESE 131 | First year Chinese: Heritage 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: Heritage Learners | Departmental Staff |
| CHINES 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 |
| **CULANTH 360/AMES 360 | Global Apple | Ralph A Litzinger |
| **CULANTH 502S | Eco-Media: Studies in Planetary Futures | Ralph A Litzinger |
| EAS 700 | East Asian Studies Core Course | Richard Jaffe |
| **ECON 305 | History Int Fin & Mon Crises | Giovanni Zanalda |
| **ECON 881 | Topics in Applied Microecon: R&D, Productivity & Tech Chng | Daniel Xu |
| **GLHLTH 761S | Demographic Measures/Concepts | Maria-Giovanna Merli |
| ♦HISTORY 101 | Intro to Global History | Jehangir Y Malegam, Prasenjit Duara |
| HISTORY 135/AMES 207 | Silk Roads and China | Sucheta Mazumdar |
| ♦HISTORY 209S | Islam in Asia | Mustafa O Tuna |
| HISTROY 239/AMES 142 | History of Chinese Medicine | Nicole Elizabeth Barnes |
| HISTORY 454S/AMES 437S | Globalization Asia | Sucheta Mazumdar |
| JPN 101 | Elementary Japanese | Naoko Kurokawa |
| JPN 203 | Intermediate Japanese | Azusa Saito |
| JPN 305 | Advanced Japanese | Departmental Staff |
| KOREAN 101 | Elementary Korean | Eunyoung Kim |
| KOREAN 203 | Intermediate Korean | Barohny Eun |
| KOREAN 305 | Advanced Korean | Hae-Young Kim |
| KOREAN 455S | Korean Politics and Society: Nat'l Identity & Music Mod Kor | Jung Min Lee |
| **LINGUIST 201 | Intro to Linguistics | Gareth Price |
| **LINGUIST 217FS | Language, Thought, and Culture | Gareth Price, Luciana Fellin |
| MUSIC 210-6/AMES 145 | Chinese Music Ensemble | Jennifer Chang, Hsiao-Mei Ku |
| **PHIL 703S | Proseminar in Ethics | David Wong |
| **POLSCI 630 | Probability and Basic Regression | Edmund J Malesky |
| POLSCI 725S | Research on Chinese Politics | Melanie Manion |
| ♦RELIGION 175/AMES 115 | Religions of Asia | Seth Roller Ligo |
| RELIGION 247/AMES 247 | T'ai Chi and Chinese Thought | David N Need |
| RELIGION 321S/AMES 331S | Buddhist Ethics | David N Need |
| **RELIGION 782 | The Next Christendom | Xi Lian |
| **RELIGION 783 | Xty Other Rel. Cultures | Xi Lian |
| **SOCIOL 223S | Data Analytics for Business | Lisa A. Keister |
| SOCIOL 341/541 | US and Asian Pacific | Bai Gao |
| SOCIOL 344 | Tech and Org Environments | Bai Gao |
| **SOCIOL 345 | Nat/Reg/Global Economy | Mary Hovsepian |
| **SOCIOL 346S | Asians in American Higher Education | Li-Chen Chin |
| TIBETAN 101 | Elementary Tibetan I | Departmental Staff |
| TIBETAN 203 | Intermediate Tibetan I | Departmental Staff |
| TIBETAN 301 | Advanced Modern Tibetan I | Departmental Staff |
| TIBETAN 701 | Elementary Tibetan I | Departmental Staff |
| TIBETAN 703 | Intermediate Tibetan I | Departmental Staff |
**All assignments must be done on East Asia to be applied to the MA in East Asian Studies.
⇒ These courses count as capstone courses for the undergraduate certificate in East Asian Studies.
♦ These courses count as gateway courses for the undergraduate certificate in East Asian Studies.
East Asian Studies Courses, SPRING 2019
| Course # | Title | Instructor |
| AMES 190S | SP Topics in AMES (SEM): Korean Popular Music | Jung Min Lee |
| ♦ AMES 211 | Melodrama East and West | Ning Zhang |
| AMES 233 | Global Chinese Cities | Ning Zhang |
| AMES 270T-5 | Voices in Global Health: Mandarin Tutorial | Yan Liu |
| AMES 308S | Bilingualism | Hae-Young Kim |
| ** AMES 455S | World of Gaming | Aimee Kwon |
| AMES 456S | Chinese Culture and Ideology | Kang Liu |
| AMES 490S/690S-02 | Special Topics (SEM): Local/Global Mao | Young Ji Lee |
| AMES 605 | East Asian Cultural Studies | Leo Ching |
| AMES 690S-01 | Special Topics (SEM) Images of Women in China | Ning Zhang |
| ARTHIST 378/778S | Chinese Buddhist Art | Stanley Abe |
| ARTHIST 432S | Pleasure Quarters to Tokyo Pop | Magdalena P Kolodziej |
| ** ARTHIST 724S | Copied and Duplication | Stanley Abe |
| CHINESE 102 | First-Year Chinese II | Departmental Staff |
| CHINESE 204 | Intermediate Chinese | Yan Liu/Chi-Ju Hsieh |
| CHINESE 205 | Intermed-Mid Chinese | Chi-Ju Hsieh |
| CHINESE 232 | Interm CHN, Heritage Learners | Ya-Chuan Chou/Yujia Ye |
| CHINESE 306 | Advanced Chinese II | Qiang Zhang |
| CHINESE 321S | Business/Interculture in China | Shu Ting Hsu |
| CHINESE 333 | Adv CHN, Heritage Learners | Qiang Zhang |
| CHINESE 371S | Classic Chinese Mod Context I | Tianshu He |
| CHINESE 408S | Issues in Chinese Lang/Soc II | Yujia Ye |
| CHINESE 450S | Understanding China & The US | Yan Liu |
| CHINESE 456 | Chinese Culture and Society | Kang Liu |
| CULANTH 241/ AMES 231 | Migrant China | Ralph Litzinger |
| CULANTH 360/ AMES 360 | Global Apple | Ralph Litzinger |
| ** ⇒ ECON 379 | Emerging Markets | Giovanni Zanalda |
| ** ECON 908 | Economic History (Workshop) | Giovanni Zanalda |
| ♦ HISTORY 201 | Globalization and History | Giovanni Zanalda |
| ** HISTORY 203 | History of Global Health | Nicole Elizabeth Barnes |
| HISTORY 220/ AMES 136 | China Antiquity To 1400 | Sucheta Mazumdar |
| HISTORY 227/ AMES 169 | Emergence of Modern Japan | Simon C Partner |
| ** HISTORY 548S | Global History of Medicine | Nicole Elizabeth Barnes |
| ** HISTORY 550S | Life Stories: How to Write Them, What They Mean | Simon C Partner |
| JPN 102 | Elementary Japanese | Hitomi Endo/Naoko Kurokawa |
| JPN 204 | Intermediate Japanese | Azusa Saito |
| JPN 306 | Advanced Japanese | Naoko Kurokawa |
| JPN 407S | Issues in Japanese Lang/Soc I | Azusa Saito |
| JPN 471S/771S | Topics in Classical Japanese | John Tucker |
| KOREAN 102 | Elementary Korean | Eunyoung Kim/Barohny Eun |
| KOREAN 204 | Intermediate Korean | Barohny Eun |
| KOREAN 306S | Advanced Korean | Eunyoung Kim |
| KOREAN 407S | Issues in Korean Lang/Soc I | Eunyoung Kim |
| ** LINGUIST 471S / SOCIOL 471S | Language and Politics | Gareth O Price |
| ** LINGUIST 490S | SP Topics in Linguistics, Language and the Media | Gareth O Price |
| ** PHIL 216 | Problems in Ethical Theory | David Wong |
| PHIL 263 | Chinese Philosophy | David Wong |
| ** POLSCI 317 | Global Corruption | Melanie Manion |
| ** POLSCI 338 | Political Economy of SE Asia | Edmund J Malesky |
| ** POLSCI 764S | PE of Corruption & Governance | Melanie Manion |
| RELIGION 176 | Japanese Religions | Rebecca Mendelson |
| ** RELIGION 281 | Beat Generation Spirituality | David N Need |
| RELIGION 327S/ AMES 386S | Tibetan Buddhism | David N Need |
| RELIGION 581S | Religion in Modern Asia | Richard Jaffe |
| RELIGION 780 | Xitian Movement: China | Xi Lian |
| ** SCISOC 290S | Topics in Genome Sciences | Juliette Duara |
| ** SOCIOL 344 | Tech and Org Environments | Bai Gao |
| TIBETAN 102 | Elementary Tibetan II | Departmental Staff |
| TIBETAN 204 | Intermediate Tibetan II | Departmental Staff |
| TIBETAN 302 | Advanced Modern Tibetan II | Departmental Staff |
| TIBETAN 702 | Elementary Tibetan II | Departmental Staff |
| TIBETAN 704 | Intermediate Tibetan II | Departmental Staff |
**All assignments must be done on East Asia to be applied to the MA in East Asian Studies.
⇒ These courses count as capstone courses for the undergraduate certificate in East Asian Studies.
♦ These courses count as gateway courses for the undergraduate certificate in East Asian Studies.
