

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.
East Asian Studies Courses, SPRING 2024
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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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 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 |
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ARTHIST 390S | Women in East Asian Art | SaeHim Park, Soohyun Yoon | AMES 390S, GSF 290S |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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LINGUIST 471S* | Language and Politics | Gareth O Price | SOCIOL 471S, SES484S |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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MUSIC 210 | Chinese Music Ensemble | Jennifer Chang | AMES 145 |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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PHIL 463S | East/West Ethics & Politics | Wenjin Liu | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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POLSCI 590-2 | Seminar in Chinese Politics | Melanie Manion | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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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 |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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SES 373S | Between Moscow, Beijing, Delhi | Mustafa O Tuna | HISTORY 216S, ICS 373S |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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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
East Asian Studies Courses, Fall 2023
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 146 | Korean Pop Music (K-Pop) | Jung Min Lee | MUSIC 148 |
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 the Middle East | Carlos Rojas | N/A |
AMES 308S | Bilingualism | Hae-Young Kim | LINGUIST 308S |
AMES 335 | Chinatowns: A Cultural History | Eileen Chow | HISTORY 228, ICS 336, AADS 335 |
AMES 390S | Special Topics: Gender and Media in East Asia | Linshan Jiang | N/A |
AMES 435 | Chinese Media and Pop Culture | Kang Liu | ISS 435, POLSCI 435 |
AMES 609S | Transpacific Asia/America | Aimee Kwon | AADS 609, CULANTH 609, ICS 609, GSF 609, CINE 609 |
AMES 631 | National Cinemas | Guo-Juin Hong | CINE 632, LIT 632, VMS 632 |
AMES 690S | Special Topics: Gender and Media in East Asia | Linshan Jiang | N/A |
AMES 790S | Special Topics in Critical Asian Humanities Methodologies | Carlos Rojas | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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AADS 198 | Intro to Asian American History | Calvin Cheung-Miaw | History 198 |
AADS 242S | Race, Gender, and Sexuality | Anna Storti | SXL 264S |
AADS 382S | Intimacies: Sexuality, Nation and the State | Anna Storti | GSF 382S |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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ARTHIST 378 | Chinese Buddhist Art | Stan Abe | VMS 378 |
ARTHIST 778 | Chinese Buddhist Art | Stan Abe | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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CHINESE 101 | First-Year Chinese I | Departmental Staff | N/A |
CHINESE 102 | First-Year Chinese II | Departmental Staff | N/A |
CHINESE 131 | First-Year Chinese Bilingual Learners | TBD | N/A |
CHINESE 203 | Intermediate Chinese I | Yan Liu, Ya-Chuan Chou | N/A |
CHINESE 204 | Intermediate Chinese II | Chi-Ju Hsieh, Jia Yan | N/A |
CHINESE 232 | Intermediate Chinese for Bilingual Learners | Carolyn Lee | AMES 271T |
CHINESE 306 | Advanced Chinese II | Shu Ting Hsu | N/A |
CHINESE 321S | Business/Interculture in China | Shu Ting Hsu | N/A |
CHINESE 331D | Modern Chinese Media | TBD | N/A |
CHINESE 333 | Advanced Chinese for Bilingual Learners | Tianshu He | N/A |
CHINESE 408S | Issues in Chinese Language & Society | Yan Liu | N/A |
CHINESE 450S | Understanding China & the US | Yan Liu | N/A |
CHINESE 791 | Independent Study | Departmental Staff | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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CULANTH 130 | Anthropology and Film | Ralph Litzinger | ICS 104, CINE 265, VMS 130 |
CULANTH 190S | Special Topics: China Meets Africa | Boyang Ma | AMES 190S, ICS 190S, AAAS 190S |
CULANTH 278* | Sex/Gender - Nature/Nurture | Ara Wilson, Christina Williams | GSF 278, SXL 278 |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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EAS 700 | East Asian Studies Core Course: Fields and Methods | Eileen Chow | RELIGION 700, HISTORY 707 |
EAS 770 | Research Methods in Chinese Law and Policy | Alex Zhang | N/A |
EAS 791 | Independent Study | Staff | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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ECON 390* | Special Topics: Space Economics | Giovanna Zanalda | N/A |
ECON 825* | Industrial Organization | Allan Collard-Wexler, Daniel Xu | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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HISTORY 111 | History of Global Health | Nicole Barnes | N/A |
HISTORY 226 | Ancient and Early Modern Japan | Staff | AMES 167 |
HISTORY 512S | Travel Japan | Simon Partner | AMES 512S, EAS 512S |
HISTORY 548S | Global History of Medicine | Nicole Barnes | GSF 584S |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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JPN 102 | Elementary Japanese | NaokoKurokawa | 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 |
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KOREAN 102 | Elementary Korean | Barohny Eun | N/A |
KOREAN 204 | Intermediate Korean | Eunyoung Kim | N/A |
KOREAN 306S | Advanced Korean | Eunyoung Kim | N/A |
KOREAN 408S | Issues in Korean Lang/Soc II | Hae-Young Kim | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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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 |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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MUSIC 210 | Chinese Music Ensemble | Jennifer Chang | AMES 145 |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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PHIL 263 | Chinese Philosophy | Wenjin Liu; Shih-Han Huang | AMES 275 |
PHIL 502S* | Comparative Ethics | David Wong; Wenjin Liu | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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POLSCI 317 | Global Corruption | Melanie Manion | N/A |
POLSCI 321 | International Law and International Institutions | Joseph Grieco | ICS 324 |
POLSCI 721 | Authoritarian Institutions | Edmund Malesky | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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PUBPOL 290S | Special Topics: Population, Health and Policy | Giovanna Merli | GLHLTH 290S |
PUBPOL 840S* | Introductory Demographic Measures and Concepts | Giovanna Merli | GLHLTH 761S |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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RELIGION 267 | Spiritual but not Religious | Anna Sun | AMES 267 |
RELIGION 780 | American Missions and Chinese Christianity | Xi Lian | N/A |
Course # | Title | Instructor | Cross-listing |
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SES 388S | Illiberal Nondemocracies: Focus on Eastern Europe and Asia | Mustafa O Tuna | HISTORY 331S, ICS 346S, POLSCI 301S, PUBPOL 317S |
* 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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