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EASIA 101: Understanding East Asia
Evan Nicoll-Johnson/Jeffrey Roberts
This course introduces the study of East Asian civilizations, focusing on examples from China, Korea, and Japan from ancient times to the present. In addition to learning about important cultural phenomena from throughout East Asia, students will learn how to design and conduct innovative research projects on the arts and cultures of East Asia. Topics addressed include Buddhism in premodern times, short stories and novels from the early 20th century, and manga and pop culture in the present. This class is also a prerequisite for many other EASIA courses!

EASIA 102: East Asian Languages and Cultures
Yoshi Ono
This course examines the diversity and complexity of languages and cultures of East Asia and in particular, the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages and cultures. In this course, we will explore the similarities and differences of the three East Asian languages from linguistic, cultural, and nonverbal perspectives. This course will guide us with conceptual frameworks and analytical tools to examine our own and others’ languages and language-related cultures systematically. We will survey East Asian languages by taking a close look at their sound systems, writing systems, word systems, grammatical structures, and communication styles that are shaped by socio-cultural factors.