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. Students seeking to conduct an Independent Study with an APSI faculty member should complete the Application for Research Independent Study in East Asian Studies in order to register for EAS 791; instructor and DGS approval are required.
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.
Click here for current gateway and capstone courses for the Undergraduate Certificate.
East Asian Studies Courses, Spring 2023
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
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| AMES 107 | Intro to East Asian Cultures | Eileen Chow | ICS 144 | ||||
| AMES 146S | Korean Pop Music | Jung Min Lee | MUSIC 148S | ||||
| AMES 190S | Japanese Literature/Culture | Linda Galvane | |||||
| AMES 309 | Chinese Im/Migration | Carlos Rojas | RIGHTS 309 | ||||
| AMES 372 | Two Koreas | Aimee Kwon | HISTORY 473, CULANTH 473 | ||||
| AMES 390S-03 | Special Topics: Narratives of Waste in Japan | Linda Galvane | |||||
| AMES 390S-02 | Special Topics: East Asia Rememberance | Linshan Jiang | |||||
| AMES 476S | Archiving and Visualizing Asia | Aimee Kwon | ICS 411S, LIT 476S, VMS 476S, HISTORY 448S | ||||
| AMES 511 | Documentary/East Asian Culture | Guo-juin Hong, William Carroll | DOCST 511, ICS 513 | ||||
| AMES 576S | Archiving and Visualizing Asia | Aimee Kwon | HISTORY 514S | ||||
| AMES 709 | Chinese Im/Migration | Carlos Rojas | VMS 709 | ||||
| AMES 790S | Remembrance in Modern East Asia | Linshan Jiang | |||||
| AMES 890S | Narratives of Waste in Japan | Linda Galvane | |||||
Asian american and diaspora Studies |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| **AADS 336S | Asian American Literature | Susan B Thananopavarn | AMES 332, ENGLISH 352, LIT 353 | ||||
| **AADS 382S | Intimacies | Anna Storti | GSF 382S | ||||
Art History |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| ARTHIST432S | Pleasure Quarters to Tokyo Pop | Gennifer Weisenfeld | VMS 432S | ||||
Chinese |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| CHINESE 101 | First-Year Chinese I | Departmental Staff | |||||
| CHINESE 102 | First-Year Chinese II | Departmental Staff | |||||
| CHINESE 131 | First-Year Chinese Bilingual Learners | ||||||
| CHINESE 203 | Intermediate Chinese I | Yan Liu, Ya-Chuan Chou | |||||
| CHINESE 204 | Intermediate Chinese II | Chi-Ju Hsieh, Jia Yan | |||||
| CHINESE 232 | Intermediate Chinese for Bilingual Learners | Carolyn Lee | AMES 271T | ||||
| CHINESE 306 | Advanced Chinese II | Shu Ting Hsu | |||||
| CHINESE 321S | Business/Interculture in China | Shu Ting Hsu | |||||
| CHINESE 331D | Modern Chinese Media | ||||||
| CHINESE 333 | Advanced Chinese for Bilingual Learners | Tianshu He | |||||
| CHINESE 408S | Issues in Chinese Language & Society | Yan Liu | |||||
| CHINESE 450S | Understanding China & the US | Yan Liu | |||||
| CHINESE 791 | Independent Study | Departmental Staff | |||||
Cultural Anthropology |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| CULANTH 360 | Global Apple | Ralph Litzinger | AMES 360, LIT 361, SOCIOL 360, ICS 369 | ||||
| CULANTH 410S** | Mobility | Enseng Ho | ICS 425S, PUBPOL 412S | ||||
| CULANTH 731S | Critical Ethnographies | Anne Allison | |||||
EAST ASIAN STUDIES |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| EAS 791 | Independent Study | Staff | |||||
Education |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
Economics |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| ECON 379 | Emerging Markets: Finance, Trade, Institutions andthe World Economy | Giovanni Zanalda | ICS 379 | ||||
History |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| HISTORY 135 | Silk Roads and China | Sucheta Mazumdar | AMES 207, RELIGION 181, MEDREN 135 | ||||
| HISTORY 162S | Gateway Seminar: Asia Global History | Sucheta Mazumdar | |||||
| **HISTORY 201 | Globalization And History | Giovanni Zanalda | PUBPOL 236 | ||||
| HISTORY 514S | Culture/Environment in Modern China | Prasenjit Duara | AMES 531 | ||||
Japanese |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| JPN 102 | Elementary Japanese | NaokoKurokawa | |||||
| JPN 204 | Intermediate Japanese | Azusa Saito | |||||
| JPN 306 | Advanced Japanese | Azusa Saito | |||||
| JPN 791 | Independent Study | Departmental Staff | |||||
Korean |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| KOREAN 102 | Elementary Korean | Barohny Eun | |||||
| KOREAN 204 | Intermediate Korean | EunyoungKim | |||||
| KOREAN 306S | Advanced Korean | EunyoungKim | |||||
| KOREAN 408S | Issues in Korean Lang/Soc II | Hae-Young Kim | |||||
LAW |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
Linguistics |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| LINGUIST 315 | Japanese as a Second Language | Yunchuan Chen | AMES 310S | ||||
| LINGUIST 337S | Chinese Sociolinguistics | Yan Liu | AMES 337S | ||||
| **LINGUIST 202 | Languages of the World | Dominika Baran | |||||
| **LINGUIST 471S | Language and Politics | Gareth Price | SOCIOL 471S; SES 484S | ||||
LITERATURE |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| **LIT 380 | Marxism and Society | Michael Hardt | CULANTH 203, EDUC 239, POLSCI 371, SOCIOL 339 | ||||
| LIT 390S | Special Topics: Eurasian Film | Rey Chow | ARTSVIS 390S, VMS 390S, AMES 390S | ||||
| LIT 617S | Special Topics: China as World Picture | Rey Chow | AMES 616S, VMS 616S | ||||
Music |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| **MUSIC 190S | Special Topics: Dear Viola | Yun Wang | CULANTH 190S | ||||
| MUSIC 210 | Chinese Music Ensemble | Jennifer Chang, Hsiao-Mei Ku | AMES 145 | ||||
Philosophy |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| PHIL 263 | Chinese Philosophy | Daniel Stephens | AMES 275 | ||||
Political Science |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| POLSCI 590-2 | Seminar in Chinese Politics | Melanie Manion | |||||
Public Policy |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
Religion |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| RELIGION 120 | Buddhism | Richard Jaffe | AMES 114 | ||||
| RELIGION 581S | Religion in Modern Asia | Richard Jaffe | AMES 581S, EAS 581S | ||||
| RELIGION 783S | XTY Encounter with Other Religions and Cultures: The Case of East Asia | Xi Lian | WXTIAN 813 | ||||
Slavic & Eurasian Studies |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
SOCIOLOGY |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| **SOCIOL 344 | Technology and Organizational Environments | Bai Gao | |||||
| **SOCIOL 345 | National, Regional, & Global Economy | Mary Hovsepian | |||||
| SOCIOL 541 | US and Asian Pacific | Bai Gao | |||||
THEATER STUDIES |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| THEATRST233 | Dance/Dance Theater of Asia | Purnimah Shah | AMES 246, DANCE 356, ICS 243, RELIGION 241 | ||||
* = 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
View Spring 2023 Asian Studies course listings at UNC-Chapel Hill here.
