Asian Studies Undergraduate Courses for Summer 2008

DEPARTMENT	#	Credit	COURSE TITLE	REG.	TIME/PLACE	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

DEPARTMENT # 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.