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, 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 | 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 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.
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.
