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, Fall 2022
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
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| AMES 129 | Masters of Chinese Cinema | Guo-Juin Hong | CINE 250, LIT 214, VMS 235 | ||||
| AMES 165S | The World of Japanese Pop Culture | Staff | CULANTH 365S | ||||
| AMES 171 | The World of Korean Cinema | Staff | CINE 256, CULANTH 255, LIT 212, VMS 234 | ||||
| AMES 195S | Rethinking Asia and Me | Carlos Rojas | |||||
| AMES 456S | Representations of Gender & Sexuality in Modern China | Linshan Jiang | POLSCI 456S | ||||
| AMES 478S | Korean Sociolinguistics | Hae-Young Kim | LINGUIST 306S | ||||
| AMES 631 | National Cinemas | Guo-Juin Hong | CINE 632, LIT 632, VMS 632 | ||||
| AMES 790S | Special Topics in Critical Asian Humanities Methodologies | Carlos Rojas | |||||
Asian american and diaspora Studies |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| **AADS 201 | Intro to Asian American and Diaspora Studies | Staff | AMES 276, HISTORY 274, ICS 286 | ||||
| **AADS 232S | Asian American Theater | Esther Lee | AMES 182S, ENGLISH 387S | ||||
| **AADS 364S | Race, Gender and Sexuality | Anna Storti | AAAS 242S, GSF 364S, SXL 264S | ||||
Art History |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| ARTHIST 378 | Chinese Buddhist Art | Stan Abe | VMS 378 | ||||
| ARTHIST 715S | Fascism East and West | Paul Jaskot, Gennifer Weisenfeld | |||||
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 105D | First-Year Chinese in Review | Chi-Ju Hsieh | |||||
| 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 205 | Intermediate-Mid Chinese | Chi-Ju Hsieh, Jia Yan | |||||
| CHINESE 232 | Intermediate Chinese for Bilingual Learners | Carolyn Lee | AMES 271T | ||||
| CHINESE 305 | Advanced Chinese I | Shu Ting Hsu | |||||
| CHINESE 321S | Business/Interculture in China | Chi-Ju Hsieh, Shu Ting Hsu | |||||
| CHINESE 331 | Modern Chinese Media | Tianshu He | |||||
| CHINESE 332 | Chinese Translation | Yan Liu | |||||
| CHINESE 333 | Advanced Chinese for Bilingual Learners | Tianshu He | |||||
| CHINESE 407S | Issues in Chinese Language & Society | Yan Liu | |||||
| CHINESE 435S | Chinese in the Humanities | Ziyue Jiao | |||||
| CHINESE 791 | Independent Study | Departmental Staff | |||||
Cultural Anthropology |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| CULANTH 241 | Migrant China | Ralph Litzinger | AMES 231 | ||||
| CULANTH 341 | Life and Death: Global Perspectives | Anne Allison | GLHLTH 353, ICS 353, SOCIOL 351 | ||||
| **CULANTH 278 | Sex/Gender - Nature/Nurture | Ara Wilson, Christina Williams | GSF 278, SXL 278 | ||||
| CULANTH 404S | Ethics of Hope | Anne Allison | ETHICS 404S, GSF 404S, ICS 427S, | ||||
| CULANTH 520S | Eco-Media: Studies in Planetary Futures | Ralph Litzinger | LIT 522S, VMS 520S | ||||
| **CULANTH 700S | Surveillance and Technology | Orin Starn | LIT 700S, SOCIOL 700S | ||||
EAST ASIAN STUDIES |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| EAS 700 | East Asian Studies Core Course: Fields and Methods | Eileen Chow | AMES 700, RELIGION 700, HISTORY 707 | ||||
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 223 | Modern China 1800-Present | Staff | AMES 234 | ||||
| HISTORY 226 | Ancient and Early Modern Japan | Staff | AMES 167 | ||||
| HISTORY 305 | History of International Financial and Monetary Crises | Giovanni Zanalda | ECON 305, ICS 305 | ||||
Japanese |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| JPN 101 | Elementary Japanese | Naoko Kurokawa | |||||
| JPN 203 | Intermediate Japanese | Azusa Saito | |||||
| JPN 305 | Advanced Japanese | Azusa Saito | |||||
| JPN 791 | Independent Study | Departmental Staff | |||||
Korean |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| KOREAN 101 | Elementary Korean | Barohny Eun | |||||
| KOREAN 203 | Intermediate Korean | Eunyoung Kim | |||||
| KOREAN 305 | Advanced Korean | Eunyoung Kim | |||||
| KOREAN 455S | Korean Politics and Society | Jung Min Lee | |||||
LAW |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| LAW 552 | Law and Governance in China | Shitong Qiao | |||||
Linguistics |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| **LINGUIST 125FS | Languages, Margins, Borders: Representations, Practices, and Policies | Gareth O Price | SOCIOL 125FS, ICS 125FS | ||||
| **LINGUIST 201-02 | Intro to Linguistics | Gareth O Price | CULANTH 201 | ||||
LITERATURE |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| LIT 426S | France-Asia: Globalized Context | Anne-Gaelle Saliot | AMES 426S, ICS 413S, FRENCH 426S | ||||
| **LIT 690-8 | Paradigms of Modern Thought: Versions of Marx | Frederick Jameson | |||||
Music |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| MUSIC 210 | Chinese Music Ensemble | Jennifer Chang | AMES 145 | ||||
| MUSIC 290S | Listening to China | Yun Emily Wang | AADS 290S, AMES 290S, CULANTH 290S | ||||
| MUSIC 790S | Sonotopias: Sound and Space | Yun Emily Wang | GSF 890S, CULANTH 890S | ||||
Philosophy |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
Political Science |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| **POLSCI 348 | Global Environmental Politics | Erika Weinthal | ENVIRON 348, PUBPOL 349 | ||||
| **POLSCI 763S | Foundational Scholarship in International Relations | Joseph Grieco | |||||
Public Policy |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| **PUBPOL 840S | Introductory Demographic Measures and Concepts | Giovanna Merli | GLHLTH 761S | ||||
Religion |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| RELIGION 318S | Knowledge of the Other | Anna Sun | AMES 312S | ||||
| RELIGION 323S | Buddhist Meditation | Richard Jaffe | AMES 315S | ||||
| RELIGION 780 | American Missions/Chinese Xianity | Xi Lian | |||||
| RELIGION 919S | Transnational Confucianism | Anna Sun | AMES 919S | ||||
Slavic & Eurasian Studies |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| SES 490S | Muslim Eurasia Transformations | Mustafa O Tuna | |||||
SOCIOLOGY |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| **SOCIOL 344 | Technology and Organizational Environments | Bai Gao | |||||
THEATER STUDIES |
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| Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing | ||||
| THEATRST 232S | Asian American Theater | Esther Kim Lee | AADS 232S, AMES 182S, ENGLISH 387S | ||||
* = 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 2022 Asian Studies course listings at UNC-Chapel Hill here.
