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 (e.g.: exams, weekly writing assignments, major 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.
Up to two graduate-level language courses can be applied to the degree requirements for the Master of Arts in East Asian Studies.
Graduate students in the CAH or EAS programs who would like to study language (Chinese, Japanese, or Korean) through AMES and have graduate level credits count toward their degree must review the policy outlined on the AMES DUS website.
East Asian Studies Courses, FALL 2024
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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AMES 107 | Intro to East Asian Cultures | Guo-Juin Hong | ICS 144 |
AMES 165S | The World of Japanese Pop Culture | Leo Ching | N/A |
AMES 171 | World of Korean Cinema | Aimee Kwon | N/A |
AMES 195S* | Rethinking Asia and the Middle East | Carlos Rojas | CULANTH 195S |
AMES 335* | Chinatowns: A Cultural History | Eileen Chow | N/A |
AMES 408S | The Geopolitics of Islamophobia from Bosnia to Xinjiang | Erdag Goknar | HISTORY 416S, ICS 421S, PUBPOL 413S |
AMES 435S | Chinese Media and Popular Culture: Politics, Ideology, and Social Change | Kang Liu | ISS 435S, POLSCI 435S |
AMES 490S* | Transpacific and Global Asia/America: Connecting Divided Histories and Knowledges | Aimee Kwon | AADS 490S, ARTHIST 490S |
AMES 566S* | Imaging a Nation: Japanese Visual Culture 1868-1945 | Gennifer Weisenfeld | VMS 523S |
AMES 609S* | Transpacific and Global Asia/America: Connecting Divided Histories and Knowledges | Aimee Kwon | AADS 609S, ARTHIST 609S, CULANTH 609S, CINE 609S, GSF 609S |
AMES 790S | Special Topics in Critical Asian Humanities Methodologies | Carlos Rojas | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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AADS 90S* | Identities Beyond Borders | Anvita Budhraja | N/A |
AADS 198* | Introduction to Asian American History | Calvin Cheung-Miaw | N/A |
AADS 205* | Introduction to Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics | Paula McClain, Jennifer St Sume | AAAS 239, POLSCI 205 |
AADS 232S* | Asian American Theater | Esther Kim Lee | AMES 182S, ENGLISH 387S, THEATRST 232S |
AADS 240S* | Asian American & Diaspora Psychology: Mental Health, Microaggressions, and the Model Minority Myth | Hy Huynh | GLHLTH 240S, PSY 241S |
AADS 290S-04* | The Asian American Novel | Victor Jeong | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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ARTHIST 219S | The Tokyo Idea: Visualizing a Global City | Gennifer Weisenfeld | AMES 258S, VMS 219S |
ARTHIST 381S* | Global Art Since 1945 | Kristine Stiles | ICS 219S |
ARTHIST 557S* | Trauma in Art, Literature, Film, and Visual Culture | Kristine Stiles | VMS 557S |
ARTHIST 580S* | Proseminar 1: Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities | Paul Jaskot, Edward Triplett | ISS 580S, VMS 580S |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
---|---|---|---|
CHINESE 101 | First-Year Chinese I | Tianshu He, Shasha Yang | N/A |
CHINESE 102 | First-Year Chinese II | Jiali Guo | N/A |
CHINESE 105 | First-Year Chinese in Review I | Chi-Ju Hsieh | N/A |
CHINESE 131 | First-Year Chinese for Bilingual Learners | Ya-Chuan Cho, Shasha Yang | N/A |
CHINESE 203 | Intermediate Chinese I | Jiali Guo, Ya-Chuan Chou | N/A |
CHINESE 204 | Intermediate Chinese II | Shu Zhang | N/A |
CHINESE 232 | Intermediate Chinese for Bilingual Learners | Shu-Ting Hsu, Kun Shan Lee | N/A |
CHINESE 277T | Voices in Marketing: Advertising in Chinese | Shu-Ting Hsu | AMES 277T, MMS 273T |
CHINESE 305 | Pre-advanced Chinese | Shu Zhang | N/A |
CHINESE 306 | Advanced Chinese II | Chi-Ju Hsieh | N/A |
CHINESE 331 | Modern Chinese Society and Culture Through New Media | Tianshu He | N/A |
CHINESE 333 | Advanced Chinese for Bilingual Learners | Shu-Ting Hsu | N/A |
CHINESE 407S | Issues in Chinese Language and Society | Shu-Ting Hsu | N/A |
CHINESE 411S | Debate in Chinese: Survey of Great Chinese Thinkers | Kun Shan Lee | N/A |
CHINESE 455 | Modern Chinese Culture: Narratives of Home and Abroad | Kang Liu | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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CULANTH 241 | Migrant China | Ralph Litzinger | AMES 231 |
CULANTH 313S* | Race and Medicine | Emily Rogers | AADS 313S, GLHLTH 313S, GSF 313S, SOCIOL 314S |
CULANTH 360S* | Global Apple: Life and Death and the Digital Revolution | Ralph Litzinger | AMES 360, LIT 361, SOCIOL 360, ICS 369 |
CULATNH 409* | Social Space and Time | Engseng Ho | ARTSVIS 409S, History 408S, ICS 405S |
CULANTH 700S* | Surveillance, Technology, and Capitalism | Orin Starn | LIT 700S, SOCIOL 700S |
CULANTH 708S* | Anthropology of Contact: Contagion, Coloniality, Capital | Emily Rogers | GSF 708S, HISTORY 708S, LIT 708S |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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EAS 508 | China Science and Technology Policy and Innovation | Departmental Staff | AMES 523, POLSCI 523, PUBPOL 512, SCISOC 508 |
EAS 700 | East Asian Studies Core Course: Fields and Methods | Prasenjit Duara | AMES 700, HISTORY 707, RELIGION 700 |
EAS 791 | Independent Study | Staff | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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GSF 590S* | Queer Ethnography | Ara Wilson | N/A |
GSF 771S* | Graduate Seminar: Theories of Corporeality | Jingqiu Guan, Sarah Wilbur | DANCE 771S, MUSIC 771S |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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HISTORY 111FS* | History of Global Health | Nicole Elizabeth Barnes | N/A |
HISTORY 239 | History of Chinese Medicine | Nicole Elizabeth Barnes | AMES 142, GLHLTH 142 |
HISTORY 209S* | Islam in Asia | Mustafa Tuna | ICS 370S, RELIGION 378S, SES 370S |
HISTORY 331S* | Illiberal Nondemocracies: Focus on Eastern Europe and Asia | Mustafa Tuna | ICS 346S, POLSCI 301S, PUBPOL 317S, SES 370S |
HISTORY 384 | The People's Republic of China: 1949-present | Nicole Barnes | N/A |
HISTORY 790S* | Politics of Nature | Matthew Shutzer | CULANTH 790S, ENVIRON 790S |
HISTORY 890S* | Research Topics in Cultural History | Malachi Hacohen | AADS 890S, AMES 890S, CULANTH 890S, POLSCI 890S |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
---|---|---|---|
JPN 101 | Elementary Japanese | Naoko Kurokawa | N/A |
JPN 203 | Intermediate Japanese | Azusa Saito | N/A |
JPN 305 | Advanced Japanese | Yunchuan Chen | N/A |
JPN 407S | Issues in Japanese Language and Society | Yunchuan Chen | N/A |
JPN 791 | Independent Study | Departmental Staff | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
---|---|---|---|
KOREAN 101 | Elementary Korean | Seojin Yang | N/A |
KOREAN 102 | Elementary Korean | Eunyoung Kim | N/A |
KOREAN 203 | Intermediate Korean | Barohny Eun | N/A |
KOREAN 207 | High Intermediate Korean | Eunyoung Kim | N/A |
KOREAN 305 | Advanced Korean | Hae-Young Kim | N/A |
KOREAN 455S | Korean Politics and Society | Jung Min Lee | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
---|---|---|---|
LINGUIST 125FS* | Languages, Margins, Borders: Representations, Practices, and Policies | Gareth O Price | ICS 125FS, SOCIOL 125FS |
LINGUIST 377S* | Language & Identity: How We Construct Identities and Reproduce Social Hierarchies Through Language | Luciana Fellin | CULANTH 217S, ICS 376S, SOCIOL 377S |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
---|---|---|---|
LIT 320S* | Social Movements and Social Media | Negar Mottahedeh | AAAS 247S, AMES 318S, ICS 320S |
LIT 618S* | Theories of the Visual | Markos Hadjioannou | ARTSVIS 618S, VMS 618S |
LIT 690S* | Cultures After Orientalism | Rey Chow | AMES 690S, CULANTH 590S |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
---|---|---|---|
MUSIC 210 | Chinese Music Ensemble | Jennifer Chang | AMES 145 |
MUSIC 389S | Meeting the World Through Chamber Music | Hsiao-Mei Ku, Caroline Stinson | N/A |
MUSIC 790S* | Studies in Ethnomusicology | Yun Emily Wang | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
---|---|---|---|
PHIL 290S* | Seminars in Philosophy | Wenjin Liu, Wayne John Norman | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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POLSCI 176FS* | Human Rights and World Politics | Juliette Duara | ETHICS 129FS, ICS 128FS, PUBPOL 181FS |
POLSCI 317* | Global Corruption | Melanie Manion | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
---|---|---|---|
PUBPOL 209S* | Human Rights and Legal Redress | Juliette Duara | ETHICS 195S, RIGHTS 173S |
PUBPOL 840S* | Introductory Demographic Measures and Concepts | Giovanna Merli | GLHLTH 761S |
PUBPOL 890S-04* | Survey Design & Management | Giovanna Merli | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
---|---|---|---|
RELIGION 176 | Japanese Religions: Buddhas, Gods, and Monsters | Matthew Hayes | AMES 174 |
RELIGION 267* | Spiritual But Not Religious | Anna Sun | AMES 267 |
RELIGION 373* | Astrology and Religion | Shreya Maini | AMES 217 |
RELIGION 780S | American Foreign Missions and Chinese Christianity | Xi Lian | N/A |
RELIGION 919S | Transnational Confucianism | Anna Sun | AMES 919S |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
---|---|---|---|
SOCIOL 341 | The U.S. and the Asian Pacific Region | Bai Gao | N/A |
SOCIOL 344* | Technology and Organizational Environments | Bai Gao | N/A |
SOCIOL 345* | Nations, Regions, and the Global Economy | Mary Hovsepian | N/A |
SOCIOL 541 | The U.S. and the Asian Pacific Region | Bai Gao | N/A |
* All assignments must be done on East Asia to be applied to the MA in East Asian Studies or the Graduate Certificate in East Asian Studies
East Asian Studies Courses, SPRING 2024
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
---|---|---|---|
AMES 107 | Intro to East Asian Cultures | Eileen Chow | ICS 144 |
AMES 290S | Pop Music in East Asia | Cody Black | N/A |
AMES 336 | Chinese Science Fiction | Carlos Rojas | N/A |
AMES 337S | Chinese Sociolinguistics | Yan Liu | LINGUIST 337S |
AMES 353S | East Asian Languages as L2S | Yunchuan Chen | LINGUIST 353S |
AMES 372 | Two Koreas | Aimee Kwon | HISTORY 473, CULANTH 473 |
AMES 390S-03 | Queer/Feminist Asia | Daryl Maude | AADS 290S / AMES 590S |
AMES 476S | Archiving and Visualizing Asia | Aimee Kwon | ICS 411S, LIT 476S, VMS 476S, HISTORY 448S |
AMES 490S | Special Topics | Jung Min Lee | N/A |
AMES 503S | East Asian Languages as L2S | Yunchuan Chen | N/A |
AMES 560S | Reading the Chinese Novel: The Chinese Family Romance | Eileen Chow | N/A |
AMES 576S | Archiving and Visualizing Asia | Aimee Kwon | HISTORY 514S |
AMES 590 | Special Topics: The Digital Sinosphere | Ralph Litzinger, Carlos Rojas | CULANTH 590 |
AMES 605 | East Asian Cultural Studies | Leo Ching | CULANTH 605, ICS 605, LIT 571 |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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AADS 201* | Intro to Asian American and Diaspora Studies | Anna Storti | AMES 276, ENGLISH 275, HISTORY 274, ICS 286 |
AADS 510S* | New Directions in Asian American Studies | Anna Storti, Calvin Cheung-Miaw | AMES 550S, GSF 510S, HIST 510S |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
---|---|---|---|
ARTHIST 390S | Women in East Asian Art | SaeHim Park, Soohyun Yoon | AMES 390S, GSF 290S |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
---|---|---|---|
CHINESE 101 | First-Year Chinese I | Tianshu He | N/A |
CHINESE 102 | First-Year Chinese II | Departmental Staff | N/A |
CHINESE 131 | First-Year Chinese for Bilingual Learners | Ya-Chuan Cho | N/A |
CHINESE 203 | Intermediate Chinese I | Yan Liu, Ya-Chuan Chou | N/A |
CHINESE 204 | Intermediate Chinese II | Shu Zhang | N/A |
CHINESE 232 | Intermediate Chinese for Bilingual Learners | Departmental Staff | N/A |
CHINESE 273T | Voices in Pub Pol: Chinese | Yan Liu | PUBPOL 273T |
CHINESE 305 | Pre-advanced Chinese | Shu Ting Hsu | N/A |
CHINESE 307 | Tech and Society in Chinese | Shu Ting Hsu | N/A |
CHINESE 333 | Advanced Chinese for Bilingual Learners | Tianshu He | N/A |
CHINESE 370 | Debate in Chinese: Survey of Great Chinese Thinkers | Carolyn Lee | N/A |
CHINESE 382 | Business/Interculturality in Chinese Society | Shu Ting Hsu | N/A |
CHINESE 408S | Chinese Language and Culture through Film | Shu Zhang | N/A |
CHINESE 456 | Chinese Culture and Society | Linshan Jiang | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
---|---|---|---|
CULANTH 360* | Global Apple | Ralph Litzinger | AMES 360, LIT 361, SOCIOL 360, ICS 369 |
CULATNH 341* | Life and Death: Global Perspectives | Anne Allison | ICS 353, SOCIOL 351, HLTHPOL 341, GLHLTH 353 |
CULANTH 520S* | Eco Media: Studies in Planetary Futures | Ralph Litzinger | LIT 522, VMS 520 |
CULANTH 744S* | Mobility | Enseng Ho | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
---|---|---|---|
EAS 590S | The Asian Anthropocene | Jieun Cho | AMES 690S, ICS 590S, CULANTH 590S |
EAS 791 | Independent Study | Staff | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
---|---|---|---|
HISTORY 201* | Globalization And History | Giovanni Zanalda | PUBPOL 236 |
HISTORY 384 | The People's Republic of China: 1949-present | Nicole Barnes | N/A |
HISTORY 790S | Entanglements & Circulatory History | Prasenjit Duara | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
---|---|---|---|
JPN 102 | Elementary Japanese | Naoko Kurokawa | N/A |
JPN 204 | Intermediate Japanese | Azusa Saito | N/A |
JPN 306 | Advanced Japanese | Azusa Saito | N/A |
JPN 791 | Independent Study | Departmental Staff | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
---|---|---|---|
KOREAN 101 | Elementary Korean | Barohny Eun | N/A |
KOREAN 102 | Elementary Korean | Barohny Eun | N/A |
KOREAN 204 | Intermediate Korean | Eunyoung Kim | N/A |
KOREAN 207 | High Intermediate Korean | Eunyoung Kim | N/A |
KOREAN 273T | Voices in Music: Korean | Jung Min Lee | N/A |
KOREAN 306S | Advanced Korean | EunyoungKim | N/A |
KOREAN 408S | Issues in Korean Lang/Soc II | Hae-Young Kim | N/A |
KOREAN 455S | Korean Politics and Society | Jung Min Lee | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
---|---|---|---|
LINGUIST 471S* | Language and Politics | Gareth O Price | SOCIOL 471S, SES484S |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
---|---|---|---|
MUSIC 210 | Chinese Music Ensemble | Jennifer Chang | AMES 145 |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
---|---|---|---|
PHIL 463S | East/West Ethics & Politics | Wenjin Liu | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
---|---|---|---|
POLSCI 590-2 | Seminar in Chinese Politics | Melanie Manion | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
---|---|---|---|
PUBPOL 790-02 | Special Topics in IDP: Chinese & US Foreign Aid Pol | J Stromseth | N/A |
PUBPOL 790-04* | Special Topics in IDP: Intro to Pol Risk Analysis | Edmund Malesky | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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RELIGION 175 | Religions of Asia | Seth Ligo | AMES 115, ICS 108 |
RELIGION 257S | Four Funerals and a Wedding | Anna Sun | AMES 257S |
RELIGION 315S | Buddhist Meditation | Susannah Duerr | AMES 315S |
RELIGION 318S | Asian Religion and Knowledge of the Other | Anna Sun | AMES 312S |
RELIGION 783S | Christianity's Encounter with Other Religions and Cultures: The Case of East Asia | Xi Lian | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
---|---|---|---|
SES 373S | Between Moscow, Beijing, Delhi | Mustafa O Tuna | HISTORY 216S, ICS 373S |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
---|---|---|---|
SOCIOL 344* | Technology and Organizational Environments | Bai Gao | N/A |
SOCIOL 345* | Nations, Regions, and the Global Economy | Mary Hovsepian | N/A |
* All assignments must be done on East Asia to be applied to the MA in East Asian Studies or the Graduate Certificate in East Asian Studies
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