UB College of Arts and Sciences

Asian Studies Undergraduate Courses for Summer 2008

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Credit

COURSE TITLE

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Instructor

ASIAN STUDIES
AS 102      3 INTRO TO GENDER & WOMEN STUDIES 208613
MTWRF 11:20-12:35 4 CLEMENS
PRAKASH

 Asian Studies Undergraduate Courses for Fall 2008

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Credit

COURSE TITLE

REG.

TIME/PLACE

Instructor

     AMERICAN  STUDIES      
AMS    145
    3
ASIAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE ON FILM
395404

   F, 12:30-3:10 

   214 O'BRIAN

          
BANDI

ART HISTORY

AHI 206

3

INTRO TO CHINESE ART

061230

T, 18:00-20:50

19 CLEMENS

HUANG

ANTHROPOLOGY

APY 265

3

PEOPLE OF SOUTHEAST ASIA

243876

M W F, 10-10:50

351 FILLMORE

BANKS

APY 421

3

UNDERSTANDING CHINA

143875

T R, 12:30-13:50

354 FILLMORE

ZHANG

ASIAN STUDIES

AS 101

1

INTRODUCTION TO ASIAN STUDIES

170425

T, 15:00-15:50

106 BALDY

STAPLETON

AS 220

HIS 220

3

CULTURE & ARTS IN EAST ASIA

209330

424795

T R, 9:30 – 10:50

152 PARK

BURKMAN

AS 240

WS 240

3
WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY ASIA

490626

160058

M W F, 12:00-12:50, 120 BALDY
ALAGAN

AS 393

3

TIBETAN BUDDHIST THOUGHT

391308

T R, 14:00-15:20

213 NORTON

PRESTON

 

AS 396

DMS 396

3

NEW ASIAN CINEMA

346450

129582

T R, 15:30-16:50

102 CLEMENS

TSAI

      AS 431/531     3    
CLASSICAL     TIBETAN  II

369413

264995

T W, 16:30-17:50 1004 CLEMENS      PRESTON

CHINESE

CHI 341

3

LITERARY CHINESE 1

371531

M W F, 12:00-12:50

102 CLEMENS

TIAN

CORA P. MALONEY

COLLEGE

CPM 250

RSP 248

3

USA & THE MUSLIM WORLD

306305

272973

M W, 17:00 – 18:20

105 BALDY

HAQ

CPM 295

AS 393

3

ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY

166076

060159

T R, 15:30-16:40

123 CLEMENS

HAQ

ECONOMICS

ECO 435

3

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS

323408

M W F, 10:00 – 10:50

108 BALDY

CHANG

ENGLISH

ENG 383

AS 396

3

CONTEMPORARY US REPRESENTATIONS OF ASIA

280144

TBA

T R, 14:00-15:20

210 NORTON

LYON

 
ENG 441
3
CONTEMPORARY CINEMA
341488

T R, 13:00-14:50

232 CFA

ROUSSEL

HISTORY

HIS 182

3

ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS 2

329868

T R, 17:00-18:20

2 DFN

STAPLETON

HIS 342

3

HISTORY OF MODERN SOUTH ASIA

426742

M W F, 3:00-3:50

88 ALUMNI

SREENIVASAN

HIS 390

3

CHINESE HIST PATTERN

313417

T R, 9:30-10:50

440 PARK

DES FORGES

HIS 487

3

SELF & SOCIETY IN CHINA

224679

R, 1:00-3:40

139 BELL

DES FORGES

KOREAN

KOR 411

3

INTRO KOREAN LINGUISTICS

454155

T R, 14:00-15:20

123 BALDY

LEE

  
PHILOSOPHY

PHI 398

3

SPECIAL TOPICS

107633

MWF, 11:00-11:50

101 BALDY

CHO

POLITICAL SCIENCE

PSC 103

3

POLITICS ABROAD

119579

M W F, 10:00-10:50

107 TALBERT

JOHNSON

PSYCHOLOGY

PSY 437

3

CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY

385888

SAT, 09:00 – 17:00

ARR

BUNKER

SOCIOLOGY

SCO 211

3

SOCIOLOGY OF DIVERSITY

461643

T R, 9:30-10:40

107 TALBERT

FARRELL

SOC 481

3

SPECIAL TOPICS

429029

W, 15:00 – 17:40

4 CLEMENS

LEE

    
THEATRE
 

TH   

460

    3  
ASIAN PERFORMING ARTS
273225

T R, 11:00-12:20

284 ALUMNI

          
HORNE

More information: Asian Studies Program, 714 Clemens Hall, 645-3474,

asian-studies@buffalo.edu

 

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

Summer 2008

AS 102, Intro to Gender and Women Studies, Reg #208613

Instructor:  Dr. Prakash

MTWRF, 11:20-12:35, 4 Clemens Hall       

                 Introduces students to basic concepts in women's studies. Covers the history of the women's movement and its relation to the rise of women's studies as a discipline. Examines and discusses a multiplicity of 'recurring themes' affecting differing women's lives; including the social construction of gender, the impact of race, sexuality, reproduction, work, education, media, material condition (class), and women's agency. Discusses current controversies among feminists, and the broader political arena. Discovers how studying women's history challenges traditional notions of women and traditional notions of history

           

Fall 2008

AS 101, Intro to Asian Studies, Reg #1704425

Instructor:  Kristin Stapleton

Tuesday, 3:00-3:50, 106 Baldy

               Introduces the field of Asian studies and its relationship to selected disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Intended for students who have elected or who are considering the major in Asian Studies.

AS 220, Culture & Arts of East Asia, Reg #209330 (HIS 220, Reg #424795)

Instructor: Thomas Burkman

Tuesday & Thursday, 9:30-10:50, 152 Park Hall

              Introduces traditional and contemporary aesthetics, thought, literature, and theatre of East Asia. The arts of China, Japan, and Korea had fascinated observers in the West for centuries, and reveal much about the rich cultures and vibrant societies of East Asia

AS 240 Women in Contemporary Asia, Reg #490626 (WS 240, Reg #160058)

Instructor: Ram Alagan
MWF, 12:00-12:50, 120 Baldy

Prerequisites: none
Type: SEM

              Surveys contemporary issues for women in East Asia and South East Asia namely, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia Malaysia. One of
the main objectives is to analyze the impact of development on various aspects of social life of women in Asia. Examines women's roles and
opportunities in the process of development, including women of poor and working class households as well as women from middle class and professional
backgrounds.

          

AS 393, Islam and Democracy, Reg #060159 (CPM 295, Reg #166076)

Instructor:  F. Haq

Tuesday & Thursday, 3:30-4:50, 123 Clemens Hall

              Various topics selected by instructor.

                 

AS 393, Tibetan Buddhist Thought, Reg #391308

Instructor: 

Tuesday & Thursday, 2:00-3:20, 213 Norton Hall

     Compassion and Emptiness: Introduction to Tibetan Buddhist Meditation

     Prerequisites: Prior knowledge of Buddhism is helpful, but not required

              Tibetan Buddhist meditation is made up of two archetypal elements: compassion and emptiness. This course looks at how compassion and emptiness

define and inform basic Tibetan Buddhism perspectives on the nature of phenomena, relationships between people, and techniques for gradually

transforming ordinary mind into enlightenment. In the first part of the course we will look at the meditation practices that form the basic Buddhist

path: realistic appraisal of the conditions of ordinary life, the importance of compassion, and the wisdom of emptiness. The second part presents further

refinements in how to meditate on compassion and emptiness found only in the tantric tradition.

The readings will be Jeffrey Hopkins, The Tantric Distinction (Snow Lion Publication), with supplemental handouts.

AS 395, Contemporary U.S. Representations of Asia, Reg # (ENG 383, Reg #280144)

Instructor: Arabella Lyon

Tuesday & Thursday, 2:00-3:20, 210 Norton Hall

              Few of us get to globetrot, and most of us see the world only through its popular representations.  We, as readers and valiant citizens, are left with the task of making sense of a mediated, even distorted vision of how other people live.  This course will examine stories,  news, and film, asking how we make sense of other places, what clues help us, how our values affect our understandings, and what kinds of knowledge we gain.  Though we will focus on representations of Asia, what we find should be applicable elsewhere in the world.

              The course will be divided into 3 parts, literature, news, and film.  We’ll look at some fiction: perhaps a few stories by Ha Jin, Ruth Ozeki’s novel My Year of Meats, Henry David Hwang’s play M. Butterfly.  Then for the bulk of the course we’ll read journalism and analysis, at first focusing on writers (maybe Nicholas Kristof, Benjamin Barber, and Samuel Huntington), but later following themes such as the Dalai Lama, spread of manga, and topics of your choosing!!  In the last few weeks, we will view clips from a few documentaries, perhaps Behind the Labels: Garment Workers on US Saipan and 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama.

              This is a writing intensive course, but much of the writing will be short, low stakes assignments of 2-3 pages.  A final project of 8-10 pages will involve research, revision, and careful writing.  May hope is that the final project can function as a writing sample for job and graduate school applications.

AS 396, New Asian Cinema, Reg #346450

Instructor: Beth Tsai

Tuesday & Thursday, 3:30-4:50, 102 Clemens Hall

                  This is an intermediate course and requires students to have a basic understanding of film interpretation.  If not, the students are required to read A Short Guide to Writing About Film (Timothy Corrigan, ISBN 0321096657).  Students will be introduced to contemporary Asian cinema from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Thailand and Taiwan. We will look at the literature on each filmmaker's background of creative influence including bios, interviews, and critical reviews.  This course will address the general issues such as family, gendered role, responses to modernization as well as the filmic artistic traditions (and the  changing of them) that gives these films their cultural aesthetic  particularities.

UGC 211, American Pluralism, Reg # 099438  

Instructor: Yasuko Kase

Tuesday & Thursday 11: 00 am-12: 20 pm

4 Clemens

                  The course “American Pluralism” examines how the crisscrossing of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class shapes American society and history from perspectives of Asian Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities.  Using literary texts, articles, and visual media, we will survey various aspects of our life in the U.S such as family, communities, education, media, and the law.  In our study, we will pay attention to racial and ethnic frontiers where the boundaries of race and ethnicity make contact, separate, and, merge.  The racial and ethnic contact zone is also a gendered and sexualized space where desire, violence, and coalition are generated.  How have racial and ethnic frontiers been regulated, extended, and redefined in U.S. society?  How have the boundaries been constructed, transgressed, and reaffirmed?  How have racial and ethnic minorities negotiated the boundaries?  The topics of focus will include: Interracial and interethnic conflict and coalition, immigration laws, U.S. racial formation and people of mixed racial and ethnic heritage, cultural nationalism and sexuality, heterosexism and family, stereotypes and body images, affirmative action, the racialized body and aesthetic values, and transnational adoption of children.