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. There must be a written record (see the DGSA for the form) confirming that the DGS has approved the student's enrollment in the course. 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).
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 2018
| Course # | Title | Instructor |
| AMES 132S | Chinese Lit/Cult in Translation | Departmental Staff |
| AMES 165S | The World of Japanese Pop Cult | Leo Ching |
| AMES 172S | Korean Lit/Cult in Translation | Nayoung Aimee Kwon |
| AMES 190S | Modern Chinese Cinema | Departmental Staff |
| AMES 335 | Chinatowns: A Cultural History | Eileen Chow |
| AMES 412S | Vampire Chronicles | Carlos Rojas |
| AMES 432S | Storyworlds | Eileen Chow |
| AMES 435S | Chinese Media and Pop Culture | Kang Liu |
| **AMES 440S | Games and Culture | Leo Ching, Shai Ginsburg |
| AMES 565S | World of JPN Pop | Leo Ching |
| AMES 790S | Topics in Asian Humanities | Carlos Rojas |
| ARTHIST 232 | Japanese Art, 1600-Present | Magdalena P Kolodziej |
| CHINESE 101 | First-year Chinese I | Departmental Staff |
| CHINESE 105 | First Year Chinese in Review I | Kun Shan (Carolyn) Lee |
| CHINESE 131 | Literacy in Chinese | Departmental Staff |
| CHINESE 203 | Intermediate Chinese | Departmental Staff |
| CHINESE 305 | Advanced Chinese | Departmental Staff |
| CHINESE 331 | Modern Chinese Media | Tianshu He |
| CHINESE 332 | Chinese Translation | Yan Liu |
| CHINESE 333 | Advanced Literacy in Chinese | Qiang Zhang |
| CHINES 407S | Issues in Chinese Lang/Soc I | Yujia Ye |
| CHINESE 435S | Chinese in the Humanities I | Departmental Staff |
| CHINESE 455 | Modern Chinese Culture | Kang Liu |
| **CULANTH 302 | Fieldwork Methods | Ralph A Litzinger |
| **CULANTH 360S/AMES 360S | Global Apple | Ralph A Litzinger |
| **CULANTH 341 | Life and Death | Anne Allison |
| **CULANTH 423 | Sex and Money | Anne Allison |
| **ECON 305 | History Int Fin & Mon Crises | Giovanni Zanalda |
| **ECON 881 | Topics in Applied Microecon | Daniel Xu |
| ETHICS 195S/PUBPOL 209S | Human Rights and Legal Redress: Seeking Justice through Human Rights | Juliette Duara |
| **GLHLTH 761S | Introductory Demographic Measures and Concepts | Maria-Giovanna Merli |
| GSF 290S | Adoption Ethics | Juliette Duara, Kathy K Rudy |
| ♦HISTORY 101 | Problems in Hist Globalization | Prasenjit Duara, John J. Martin |
| HISTORY 226/AMES 167 | Ancient and Early Modern Japan | Simon Partner |
| HISTORY 323/AMES 239 | China and the Silk Roads World: 500-1500 | Sucheta Mazumdar |
| HISTORY 454S/AMES 437S | Globalization: Asia and Asian America | Sucheta Mazumdar |
| HISTORY 504S/AMES 504S | East Asia's Twentieth Century | Simon Partner |
| JPN 101 | Elementary Japanese | Naoko Kurokawa |
| JPN 203 | Intermediate Japanese | Departmental Staff |
| JPN 305 | Advanced Japanese | Azusa Saito |
| JPN 471S/JPN 771S/AMES 771S | Topics of Classical Japanese | John Tucker |
| KOREAN 101 | Elementary Korean | Barohny Eun |
| KOREAN 203 | Intermediate Korean | Eunyoung Kim |
| KOREAN 305 | Advanced Korean | Eunyoung Kim |
| KOREAN 391 | Independent Study | Departmental Staff |
| KOREAN 408S | Issues in Korean Lang/Soc II | Hae-Young Kim |
| KOREAN 455S | Korean Politics and Society | Jung Min Lee |
| LINGUIST 201 | Intro to Linguistics | Gareth Price |
| LINGUIST 217FS | Language, Thought, and Culture | Gareth Price |
| **LIT 390S | Special Topics in Film | Markos Hadjioannou, Rey Chow |
| **PHIL 502S | Comparative Ethics | David Wong |
| POLSCI 324S | Chinese Politics | Melanie Manion |
| **POLSCI 630 | Probability and Basic Regression | Edmund J Malesky |
| **POLSCI 721 | Authoritarian Institutions | Edmund J Malesky |
| ♦RELIGION 120/AMES 114 | Buddhism | Richard Jaffe |
| ♦RELIGION 175/AMES 115 | Religions of Asia | David N Need |
| RELIGION 245/MUSIC 234/AMES 120 | Music in East Asa | Jonathan Kramer |
| RELIGION 247/AMES 247 | T'ai Chi and Chinese Thought | David N Need |
| **RELIGION 323 | Buddhist Meditation | Richard Jaffe |
| **RELIGION 782 | The Next Christendom | Xi Lian |
| **RELIGION 783 | Christianity's Encounter with Other Religions and Cultures: The Case of East Asia | Xi Lian |
| SOCIOL 290S | Data Analytics & Visualization | 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 |
| TIBETAN 101 | Elementary Tibetan | Departmental Staff |
| TIBETAN 203 | Intermediate Tibetan | 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 2018
| Course # | Title | Instructor |
| AMES 141S | Audiovisual Cultures | Guo-Juin Hong |
| AMES 178S / RELIGION 180S | Migration and Human Rights | Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Hwansoo Kim |
| AMES 183 | The China Dream | Carlos Rojas |
| AMES 270T-5 | Voices in Global Health: Mandarin Tutorial | Yan Liu |
| AMES 435S / POLSCI 435 | Chinese Media and Pop Culture | Xuenan Cao |
| AMES 436 | Graphic Asia | Eileen Chow |
| **AMES 440S / POLSCI 440S | Games and Culture | Leo Ching, Shai Ginsburg |
| AMES 476S | Archiving and Visualizing Asia | Nayoung Aimee Kwon |
| AMES 511 | Documentary/East Asian Culture | Guo-Juin Hong |
| **AMES 518S | Second Language Pedagogy | Hae-Young Kim |
| AMES 605 | East Asian Culture Study | Leo Ching |
| AMES 750 | CAH ProSeminar | Carlos Rojas |
| **ARTHIST 724S | Copied and Duplication | Stanley Abe |
| CHINESE 102 | First-Year Chinese II | Tianshu He/Staff |
| CHINESE 204 | Intermediate Chinese | Yan Liu/Qiang Zhang |
| CHINESE 205 | Accelerated Intermed Chinese | Chi-Ju Hsieh |
| CHINESE 232 | Literacy in Chinese II | Ya-Chuan Chou/Yujia Ye |
| CHINESE 306 | Advanced Chinese II | Qiang Zhang |
| CHINESE 321S | Business/Interculture in Chinese | Multiple |
| CHINESE 333 | Advanced Literacy in Chinese | Yan Liu |
| CHINESE 371S | Classic Chinese Mod Context I | Tianshu He |
| CHINESE 391 | Independent Study | Departmental Staff |
| CHINESE 408S | Issues in Chinese Lang/Soc II | Yujia Ye |
| CHINESE 456 | Chinese Culture and Society | Eileen Chow |
| **CULANTH 201 / LINGUIST 201 | Intro to Linguistics | Gareth O Price |
| **ECON 305 | History Int Fin & Mon Crises | Giovanni Zanalda |
| **ECON 613 | Applied Econometrics: Micro | Yi (Daniel) Xu |
| **ECON 908 | Economic History (Workshop) | Giovanni Zanalda |
| ♦ HISTORY 201 | Globalization and History | Giovanni Zanalda |
| HISTORY 216S / SES 373S | Between Moscow, Beijing, Delhi | Mustafa O Tuna |
| HISTORY 227 / AMES 169 | Emergence of Modern Japan | Departmental Staff |
| HISTORY 239 / AMES 142 | History of Chinese Medicine | Nicole Elizabeth Barnes |
| HISTORY 454S / AMES 437S | CAP SEM: Globalization Asia | Sucheta Mazumdar |
| HISTORY 514S / AMES 531S | Culture/Env in Modern China | Prasenjit Duara |
| JPN 102 | Elementary Japanese | Hitomi Endo/Naoko Kurokawa |
| JPN 204 | Intermediate Japanese | Azusa Saito |
| JPN 306 | Advanced Japanese | Naoko Kurokawa |
| JPN 391 | Independent Study | Departmental Staff |
| JPN 407S | Issues in Japanese Lang/Soc I | Hitomi Endo |
| KOREAN 102 | Elementary Korean | Eunyoung Kim |
| KOREAN 204 | Intermediate Korean | Barohny Eun |
| KOREAN 306S | Advanced Korean | Eunyoung Kim |
| KOREAN 391 | Independent Study | Departmental Staff |
| KOREAN 455S | Korean Politics and Society | Jinyoung Seo |
| LINGUIST 471S / SOCIOL 471S |
Language and Politics | Gareth O Price |
| LINGUIST 490S | SP Topics in Linguistics, Lanugage and the Media | Gareth O Price |
| **PHIL 216 | Problems in Ethical Theory | David Wong |
| **PHIL 502S | Comparative Ethics | David Wong |
| **POLSCI 229 | Institutions & Self Governance | Emerson Niou |
| **POLSCI 390S-2 / PUBPOL 290S / SCISOC 290S-2 | Spec Top in Pol Instituions: Sexuality and the Law | Juliette Duara |
| **POLSCI 555S | Politics of Market Competition | Bora Park |
| **POLSCI 631L | Deduct/Analytical Approaches | Emerson Niou |
| RELIGION 273 / AMES 2XX | Astrology & Religion | David N Need |
| ♦ RELIGION 324 | Zen Buddhism | Richard Jaffe |
| **RELIGION 328 / AMES 286 | Buddhism and Sexuality | Hwansoo Kim |
| RELIGION 780 | Chrisitian Movement: China | Xi Lian |
| **SCISOC 290S-1 | 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 |
**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.
