First-Year Courses in Asian Studies (Division 323)
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Open courses in Asian Studies
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Note: The Department Waitlist policy for all courses is 2 – Go to the department office to get on a waitlist, and then attend the first class meeting. Policies and procedures for handling the waitlist will be explained there.
Asian St. 111/Hist. 151. Indian Civilization.
Section 001.
Instructor(s): Sumathi Ramaswamy (sumathi@umich.edu)
Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).
Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.
See History 151.001.
Asian St. 112/Hist. 152. Southeast Asian Civilization.
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).
Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.
See History 152.001.
Asian St. 121/Hist. 121. East Asia: Early Transformations.
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).
Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.
See History 121.001.
Asian St. 154(249)/Korean 150/Hist. 144. Introduction to Korean Civilization.
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term).
Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.
See Korean 150.001.
Asian St. 220/Buddhist Studies 220/Rel. 202. Introduction to the Study of Asian Religions.
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU).
Credits: (4).
Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.
This course is an introduction to the study of Asian religions. We will consider representative material drawn from some of the major Asian traditions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto, etc.), from ancient times down to the present day. The course, however, is not intended to be a comprehensive or systematic survey; rather than aiming at breadth, the course is designed around major conceptual themes, such as ritual, death, image veneration, mysticism, meditation, ancestor worship, religious violence, and so on. The overarching emphasis throughout the course will be on the hermeneutic difficulties attendant upon the study of religion in general, and Asian religious traditions in particular.
Asian St. 224/S&SEA 224. Traditions of Poetry in India.
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU).
Credits: (3).
Course Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pehook/ssea250.html
Throughout readings and discussions this course introduces the student to six traditions of poetry in India:
- Vedic-Upanishadic mystic poetry;
- Tamil Sangam love poetry;
- classical Sanskrit and Prakrit court poetry;
- medieval devotional poetry;
- Urdu metaphysical poetry; and
- modern secular poetry.
We will read translation of selections from each of these six traditions, appraise them as sources of aesthetic enjoyment from our own points of view and where possible evaluate them in the context of their own place and time, and the student will come to know something of Indian aesthetic theories and the continually re-negotiated role of the poet in forming and transforming the ways in which people interpret their own life experience. Each student will introduce one of the poets whose work we will read. The course will require several short papers, at least two of which will be close readings and explanations of individual poems, and at least one other will compare notions of what makes poetry in India and the West. Translation and/or transcreation is an option for some of these assignments.
Asian St. 245/Japanese 245/Film-Video 245. Anime.
Section 001.
Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Excl).
Credits: (4).
Course Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~amnornes/anime.html
In this course, we examine the history of Japanese animation and its relationship to the social, political, and economic transformations of the nation. Anime's roots are in 1930s children's films promoting the colonization of Asia, followed by propaganda films from World War II. In the postwar high-growth economy, animated films experience phenomenal transformation as they spread to television and eventually come to dominate both Japanese moving picture media. This spectacular growth is accompanied by an explosion in stylistic forms and delivery media (celluloid, television, video cassette, CD-ROM, and now the Internet and DVD). This course will approach the Japanese animated film by focusing on its articulations of cinematic categories (such as camera angles, acting, lighting, narrative space, special effects, adaptation, pornography and visual pleasure) and various historically and culturally specific categories of reception (fan culture, capitalism, crisis, modernity, the family, nationalism, transnationalism).
Asian St. 252/Japanese 250. Undergraduate Seminar in Japanese Culture.
Section 001 – Reiterations: Filming Fiction in Japan.
Prerequisites & Distribution: No knowledge of Japanese language is required. Only first-year students, including those with sophomore standing, may pre-register for First-Year Seminars. All others need permission of instructor. (3). (HU). May be repeated with department permission.
First-Year Seminar,
Credits: (3).
Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.
Well before Merchant Ivory came on the scene, Japanese film directors made a living turning well-loved novels into movies. Name a classic Japanese film, and you are likely to be dealing with an adaptation. This course examines the dynamics of reiteration in a culture known for its repeated adaptations of cultural materials. What are we saying when we designate one version as “original” and another as “adaptation”? What does “originality” mean in a culture that seems to be constantly rehashing old material? How does the change in medium affect the nature of what is told? In what ways do versions of a story reflect the ideologies of the times in which they are produced? These are the questions we will be asking in reference to the prior texts appropriated by such well-known directors as Kurosawa and Mizoguchi, and the films that resulted.
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