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, Spring 2021
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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| AMES 162 | Anime: Forms and Mutations | William Carroll | VMS 216 |
| AMES 190S | Special Topics: Korean Pop Music | Jung-Min Mina Lee | MUS 190S-03 |
| AMES 276S | Introduction to Asian American and Diaspora Studies | Ryanson Ku | HIST 274S; LIT 275S; ICS 286S |
| AMES 336 | Chinese Science Fiction | Carlos Rojas | |
| AMES 426S | France-Asia: Cultural Transfers and Translations in a Globalized Context | Anne-Gaelle Saliot | FRENCH 426S; LIT 426S; ICS 413S |
| **AMES 432S | Storyworlds: The Art, Technology, and Pleasure of Narrative | Eileen Chow | VMS 384S; ICS 333S |
| AMES 456S | Chinese Culture and Ideology | Kang Liu | POLSCI 456S |
| AMES 511 | Documentary and East Asian Cultures | Guo-Juin Hong, William Carroll | DOCST 511; ICS 513 |
| AMES 518S | Approaches and Practices in Second Language Pedagogy | Hae-Young Kim | LINGUIST 518S; EDUC 518S |
| AMES 560S | Reading the Chinese Novel | Carlos Rojas | AMES 560S |
| AMES 605 | East Asian Cultural Studies | Leo Ching | CULANTH 605; LIT 571; ICS 605 |
| **AMES 631 | National Cinemas | Guo-Juin Hong | AMI 632; LIT 632; VMS 632 |
Art History |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| ARTHIST 432S | From the Art of the Pleasure Quarters to Tokyo Pop | Gennifer Weisenfeld | VMS 432S |
| ARTHIST 588S | Sculpture Europe to China | Stanley Abe | VMS 588S |
| ARTHIST 724S | Copies and Duplication | Stanley Abe | |
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 204 | Intermediate Chinese | Yan Liu, Ya-Chuan Chou | |
| CHINESE 205 | Intermed-Mid Chinese | Chi-Ju Hsieh, Jia Yan | |
| CHINESE 232 | Intermed-Chinese for Bilingual Learners | Chi-Ju Hsieh, Jia Yan | |
| CHINESE 306 | Advanced Chinese II | Chi-Ju Hsieh | |
| CHINESE 321S | Business/Interculture in China | Shu Ting Hsu | |
| CHINESE 333 | Advanced Chinese for Bilingual Learners | Shu Ting Hsu | |
| CHINESE 408S | Issues in Chinese Lang/Soc II | Shu Zhang | |
| CHINESE 450S | Understanding China & the US | Yan Liu | |
| CHINESE 456 | Topics in Chinese Culture and Society | Kang Liu | |
Cultural Anthropology |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| **CULANTH 210 | Global Culture | Engseng Ho | AMES 210; VMS 247 |
| CULANTH 240 | Love & Loneliness | Anne Allison | ETHICS 240; SOCIOL 240; ICS 250 |
| CULANTH 360 | Global Apple | Ralph Litzinger | AMES 360; LIT 361; SOCIOL 360 |
| CULANTH 419S | Global Environmentalism and the Politics of Nature | Christine Folch | |
| **CULANTH 744S | Mobility | Engseng Ho | |
| CULANTH 751S | Theorizing the Anthropocene | Ralph Litzinger | |
EAST ASIAN STUDIES |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| EAS 791 | Reading Top: Independent Study | Departmental 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 and the World Economy | Giovanni Zanalda | ICS 379 |
History |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| HISTORY 183S | GTWY SEM: Civil Rights/Asian American | Sucheta Mazumdar | AMES 187S; ICS 183S; PUBPOL 175S |
| **HISTORY 201 | Globalization And History | Giovanni Zanalda | PUBPOL 236 |
| **HISTORY 203 | History of Global Health | Margaret Humphreys | GLHLTH 203 |
| **HISTORY 216S | Between Moscow, Beijing, Delhi | Mustafa Tuna | |
| HISTORY 220 | China Antiquity to 1400 | Sucheta Mazumdar | AMES 136 |
| HISTORY 227 | Emergence of Modern Japan | Departmental Staff | AMES 169 |
| HISTORY 239 | History of Chinese Medicine | Nicole Barnes | AMES 142; GLHLTH 142 |
| **HISTORY 548S | Global History of Medicine | Nicole Barnes | GSF 584; GLHLTH 548 |
| **HISTORY 790S | Topics in Global Connections | Prasenjit Duara | |
Japanese |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| JPN 102 | Elementary Japanese | Naoko Kurokawa | |
| JPN 204 | Intermediate Japanese | Azusa Saito | |
| JPN 306 | Advanced Japanese | Azusa Saito | |
| JPN 407S | Issues in Japanese Lang/Soc I | Yunchuan Chen | AMES 390S |
Korean |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| KOREAN 102 | Elementary Korean | Barohny Eun | |
| KOREAN 204 | Intermediate Korean | Eunyoung Kim | |
| KOREAN 306S | Advanced Korean | Eunyoung Kim | |
| KOREAN 407S | Issues in Korean Lang/Soc I | Hae-Young Kim | |
Linguistics |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| **LINGUIST 202 | Languages of the World | Dominika Baran | |
| LINGUIST 315S | Japanese as a Second Language | Yunchuan Chen | AMES 310S |
| **LINGUIST 471S | Language and Politics | Gareth Price | SOCIOL 471S; SES 484S |
LITERATURE |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| **LIT 320S | Social Movements and Social Media | Negar Mottahedeh | AMES 318S; ICS 320S; VMS 323S |
| **LIT 625S | Comparative Media Studies | Negar Mottahedeh | AMES 627S; VMS 625S; ISS 615S |
Music |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| MUSIC 190S - 01 | Special Topic in Music: East Asian Film Music | Ka Man, Misty Choi | AMES 190S |
| MUSIC 190S - 04 | Special Topics in Music: Sound, Music and Death | Yun Emily Wang | CULANTH 290S |
| MUSIC 190S - 05 | Special Topic in Music: Korean Popular Music | Jung Min Lee | AMES 190S |
Philosophy |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| **PHIL 216 | Problems in Ethical Theory | David Wong | |
Political Science |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| **POLSCI 332 | Games and Politics | Emerson Niou | |
| **POLSCI 630 | Probability and Regression | Edmund Malesky | |
| **POLSCI 650 | Political Economy of International Relations | Joseph Grieco | |
Public Policy |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| **PUBPOL 790-03 | Special Topics in International Development Policy: Global Chains |
Gary Gereffi, Lukas Brun | |
Religion |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| **RELIGION 120 | Buddhism | Departmental Staff | AMES 114 |
| RELIGION 265 | Global Confucianism | Anna Sun | |
| RELIGION 267 | Spiritual But Not Religious | Anna Sun | |
| **RELIGION 281 | Beat Generation Spirituality | David N Need | |
| RELIGION 327S | Tibetan Buddhism | David N Need | AMES 386S |
| RELIGION 581S | Religion in Modern Asia | Richard Jaffe | AMES 581S |
Slavic & Eurasian Studies |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| **SES 373S | Between Moscow, Beijing and Delhi: Narratives of Europe and Asia |
Mustafa O Tuna | ICS 373S; HISTORY 216S |
SOCIOLOGY |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| **SOCIOL 211 | Social Inequality | Lisa Keister | RIGHTS 211 |
| **SOCIOL 344 | Technology and Organizational Environments | Bai Gao | |
THEATER STUDIES |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
| THEATERST 232 | Asian American Theater | Esther Lee | AMES 182; ENGLISH 387 |
| THEATERST 233 | Dance and Dance Theater of Asia | Purnima Shah | AMES 246; DANCE 356; 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 Fall 2020 Asian Studies course listings at UNC-Chapel Hill here.
