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First-Year Courses in Asian StudiesThis page was created at 6:48 PM on Mon, Jan 21, 2002. Winter Academic Term, 2002 (January 7 - April 26)Open courses in Asian Studies Wolverine Access Subject listing for ASIAN Winter Academic Term '02 Time Schedule for Asian Studies. ASIAN 120 / JAPANESE 120. Understanding Japan: A Multidisciplinary Introduction.
Section 001.Instructor(s): David Rosenfeld (dmrosen@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Excl). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
ASIAN 122 / HISTORY 122. Modern East Asia.Section 001.Instructor(s): Sidney DeVere BrownPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
ASIAN 221 / GTBOOKS 221 / CHIN 221. Great Books of China.Section 001.Instructor(s): Shuen-fu Lin (lsf@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: A knowledge of Chinese is not required. (4). (HU).
Credits: (4). Course Homepage: https://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2002/winter/gtbooks/221/001.nsf
ASIAN 224 / SSEA 224. Traditions of Poetry in India.Section 001.Instructor(s): Peter E Hook (pehook@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU).
Credits: (3). Course Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pehook/ssea250.html Throughout readings and discussion this course introduces the student to six traditions of poetry in India:
We will read translations 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. In coming to terms with traditions far removed in space and time the student will come to know something of Indian aesthetic theories and the continually renegotiated role of the poet in forming and transforming the ways in which people interpret their own life experience. The course will include an hour exam and five out of seven short (3-4 pp) papers, at least one of which will be a close reading and explication of an individual poem, and at least one other will compare notions of what makes poetry poetry in India and the West. Translation and/or transcreation is an option for one of these assignments. Additionally each student will be responsible for setting out the biographical and historical context of a listed poet in a class presentation. The list includes Baba Farid, Basavanna, Bihari, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Ghalib, Iqbal, Kabir, Kalidasa, Mir, Mira Bai, Nammalavar, Tagore, and Tukaram. Other names may be added depending on the specific interests of students. I will attempt to create an environment that encourages the free and active participation of everyone in the class.
ASIAN 251 / CHIN 250. Undergraduate Seminar in Chinese Culture.Section 001 – Looking at Traditional China Through Its Most Famous Novel: The Story of the Stone.Instructor(s): David Lee Rolston (drolston@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: No knowledge of Chinese language is required. (3). (HU). May be repeated with department permission. First-Year Seminar
Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course will present an introduction to late imperial China through the acclaimed translation by David Hawkes and John Minford of its most acclaimed famous and complex novel, The Story of the Stone (5 volumes, Penguin, 1977-1986). The Story of the Stone is simultaneously a tragic love story and the chronicle of the decline of an enormous aristocratic household. With its reputation as a "veritable encyclopedia of traditional Chinese life" it provides an excellent window on a vanished society. This fictional portrait of eighteenth-century China will be supplemented by secondary readings and a variety of visual materials shown in class. Requirements will include two short papers, a midterm take-home, a final exam, and active class participation. Textbooks:
ASIAN 253 / SSEA 250. Undergraduate Seminar in South and Southeast Asian Culture.
Section 001 – South Asian Literary Humor.Instructor(s): Christi Merrill (merrillc@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: No knowledge of any Asian language required. (3). (HU). May be repeated with department permission.
Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. From Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories, to R.K. Narayan's Waiting for the Mahatma, to Kirin Narayan's Love, Stars, and All That, this course offers a survey of facetious – sometimes even funny – fiction from South Asia that has us consider the ways "us" and "them" are constructed in a literary text. If humor allows pointed judgments and complex criticisms to be made of the world, then how are readers of a literary text able to share this world? Students will be expected to prepare a one-page reading response for each class and to open discussion once during the term. There will be a take-home final examination in addition to the journal being turned in at the end of the term.
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