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ASIA 140 - INTRODUCTION TO CHINESE RELIGIONS Credits: 3 Surveys the major Chinese religious traditions of Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism. Readings will include both philosophical texts, historical and anthropological studies, as well as popular literature. Cross-list: RELI 140. College: School of Humanities Department: Asian Studies
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ASIA 211 - INTRODUCTION TO ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS Credits: 3 A team-taught interdisciplinary course focusing on certain major philosophical, religious and artistic traditions of pre-modern Asia, with an emphasis on the historical processes by which ideas, people, products, technologies and skills circulated within and beyond state boundaries. Cross-list: HART 211, HIST 206. College: School of Humanities Department: Asian Studies
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ASIA 212 - PERSPECTIVES ON MODERN ASIA Credits: 3 A team-taught interdisciplinary course focusing on the political, social and economic forces that are shaping the lives of the nearly one half of the world's population that lives in Asia. Provides a selective, in-depth look at certain important areas of East, Southeast and South Asia that reflect larger themes and problems. Cross-list: ANTH 212. College: School of Humanities Department: Asian Studies
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ASIA 221 - THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD Credits: 3 This course will examine the life of the Prophet Muhammad, focusing on its significance for Muslims and for non-Muslims. Readings in The Qur'an, Ibn Hisham, and Haykal. Cross-list: RELI 221. College: School of Humanities Department: Asian Studies
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ASIA 230 - ASIAN RELIGIONS IN AMERICA Credits: 3 A survey course on Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Jainism in America, from the colonial period to the present, with a special focus on American metaphysical religion, the counterculture, the New Age, and the history of Western Colonialism, transcultural encounter, translation and immigration. Cross-list: RELI 230. College: School of Humanities Department: Asian Studies
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ASIA 231 - AMERICAN METAPHYSICAL RELIGION Credits: 3 Beginning with a historical survey of the American metaphysical tradition, this course turns to a close study of the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, as a unique window into some of the different ways the tradition has appropriated Asian religions, psychological models of the unconscious, and contemporary scientific paradigms. Cross-list: RELI 231. College: School of Humanities Department: Asian Studies
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ASIA 232 - RELIGIONS FROM INDIA Credits: 3 This course will survey the religions of India, namely Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Christianity, Islam, and Sikhism. Emphasis will be placed on the study of scriptures of these traditions and their continuing global relevance, particularly in American history and culture. Cross-list: RELI 232. College: School of Humanities Department: Asian Studies
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ASIA 240 - GENDER AND POLITICIZED RELIGION Credits: 3 This course examines the emergence of religion-based politics in various Asian countries-particularly Hindu and Muslim-focusing on the women participants in these movements as well as the movements' concern with gender roles in society. We will investigate, for instance, the extent to which women participants have been willing or able to reshape the central ideas of such movements. Credit may not be received for both ASIA 240 and ASIA 340. Cross-list: RELI 285, SWGS 240, Equivalency: ASIA 340. College: School of Humanities Department: Asian Studies
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ASIA 250 - MEDITATION, MYSTICISM, AND MAGIC Credits: 3 The course moves between Buddhist religious and Western psychological literature, analyzing these as models of human development, as guides to a meditative life or critiques of it, and above all as expressions of deeply rooted cultural proclivities. Reading Freud, Khakar, Milarepa, Norbu, Obeyesekere, Sutric and Tantric literature, Taylor and Wangyal. Cross-list: RELI 250. College: School of Humanities Department: Asian Studies
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ASIA 304 - URBANIZATION IN THE THIRD WORLD Credits: 3 This course will engage in transnational and comparative approaches to urban issues in the Third World. Topics will include migration, shelter struggles, urban informality, violence, social movements, gender, race and ethnic engagements with public and private spaces of the city and cinematic representations. Cross-list: ANTH 304. College: School of Humanities Department: Asian Studies
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ASIA 315 - TAIWAN'S FILMS SINCE 1980: ART, CULTURE, SOCIETY AND LANGUAGE Credits: 3 This course discusses influential Taiwanese films since 1980 as pieces of artwork and as reflections of Taiwan's cultural, social, economic, and political changes in the past three decades. Language assignments are designed to help students develop proficiency in reading authentic materials, writing essays, and giving reports. Current collaborations among Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong in film production also included. Cross-list: CHIN 315. Recommended Prerequisites: CHIN 302 or CHIN 312. College: School of Humanities Department: Asian Studies
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ASIA 322 - INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHISM Credits: 3 Exploration of the Buddhist traditions of India, Tibet, China, and Japan, emphasizing the relationship between styles of meditation, their philosophical perspectives, cultural context, and classic Buddhist texts. Cross-list: RELI 322. College: School of Humanities Department: Asian Studies
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ASIA 323 - THE KNOWING BODY: BUDDHISM, GENDER AND THE SOCIAL WORLD Credits: 3 Western thought tends to regard mind and body dualistically, a view with significant impact on religious cultural, gendered, and social processes. This course juxtaposes received Western assumptions with Buddhist perspectives (especially Tibetan Buddhist), mapping Western and Buddhist categories onto each other to better understand the implications of each. Cross-list: RELI 323, SWGS 323. College: School of Humanities Department: Asian Studies
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ASIA 330 - INTRODUCTION TO TRADITIONAL CHINESE POETRY Credits: 3 This course seeks to decode enchanting features of traditional Chinese poetry through examining the transformation of poetic genres, the interaction between poetic creation and political, social and cultural changes, and the close association of poetry with art. Thus, this course also serves to understand Chinese culture and history through poetic perspectives. All readings in English translation. Cross-list: CHIN 330, MDST 370. College: School of Humanities Department: Asian Studies
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ASIA 331 - SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE, POETRY, AND POPULAR CULTURE I Credits: 3 Course URL: http://http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~gshah/adv.html Focus will vary each year depending on both the needs and interests of the students in the class, as well as contemporary issues. Readings range from classical to modern 20th century literature and poetry. Various arts forms, including theater and film, will be thematically related to the readings. This course is taught in Hindi. Cross-list: HIND 335. College: School of Humanities Department: Asian Studies
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ASIA 332 - CHINESE LITERATURE AND ITS MOVIE ADAPTATIONS Credits: 3 This course seeks to decode enchanting features of traditional Chinese poetry through examining the transformation of poetic genres, the interaction between poetic creation and political, social and cultural changes, and the close association of poetry with art. Thus, this course also serves to understand Chinese culture and history through poetic perspectives. All readings in English translation. Cross-list: CHIN 332. College: School of Humanities Department: Asian Studies
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ASIA 333 - CHINESE IN CULTURAL DISCOURSE Credits: 3 A study of Chinese in mostly Classical Chinese texts. Prose and poetry are examined for linguistic structure and cultural symbolism. Diachronic linguistic perspective and cultural comparison are adopted. Taught in English, but prior experience of two years of Chinese required. A required course for students in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. Cross-list: CHIN 331. College: School of Humanities Department: Asian Studies
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ASIA 334 - TRADITIONAL CHINESE TALES AND SHORT STORIES Credits: 3 Learning Chinese literature and culture through reading vernacular stories, fantastic tales, biographies, and philosophical parables. Discussion topics: literature and Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism; literature and history; self and other; fantastic world and reality; women as domestic aliens and aliens portrayed as women, etc. Readings are in English translation. Cross-list: CHIN 334. College: School of Humanities Department: Asian Studies
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ASIA 335 - INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL CHINESE LITERATURE Credits: 3 Examination of the basic characteristics of classical Chinese novels, primarily through six important works from the 16th to 18th centuries: Water Margin, Monkey, Golden Lotus, Scholars, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and Dream of the Red Chamber. Cross-list: CHIN 335, MDST 375. College: School of Humanities Department: Asian Studies
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ASIA 336 - SEMINAR IN SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE, POETRY, AND POPULAR CULTURE II Credits: 3 HIND 336 consolidates and builds on the fifth semester Hindi course HIND 335. Continues to build student proficiency in understanding, speaking, writing, and thinking in Hindi. Prepares the student for further academic and non-academic use of Hindi. Emphasis is placed on spontaneous self-expression in the language. Cross-list: HIND 336. Recommended Prerequisite: HIND 335 or ASIA 331. College: School of Humanities Department: Asian Studies
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ASIA 340 - GENDER AND POLITICIZED RELIGION (ENRICHED VERSION) Credits: 3 This course examines the emergence of religion-based politics in various Asian countries-particularly Hindu and Muslim-focusing on the women participants in these movements as well as the movements' concern with gender roles in society. We will investigate, for instance, the extent to which women participants have been willing or able to reshape the central ideas of such movements. Credit may not be received for both ASIA 240 and ASIA 340. Cross-list: RELI 341, SWGS 340, Equivalency: ASIA 240. College: School of Humanities Department: Asian Studies
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ASIA 343 - DARWIN, MARX AND CONFUCIUS Credits: 3 How did Western liberal and socialist political ideas become adopted by the Chinese intellectuals at the turn of the 20th century? Course will read selections from Western and Chinese thinkers to understand how China became a Republican and later a Communist state. Cross-list: HIST 343. College: School of Humanities Department: Asian Studies
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ASIA 344 - KOREAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE Credits: 3 Exploration of selections from modern Korean literature and Korean films. Includes background survey of Korean history, philosophy and religion. All texts and films in English translation. No previous knowledge of Korean required. Cross-list: HUMA 344, KORE 344. Instructor permission required College: School of Humanities Department: Asian Studies
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ASIA 345 - LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE OF KOREAN AND RELATED LANGUAGES IN EAST ASIA Credits: 3 The course focuses on the origin of Korean and related languages. It explores the way the Korean language evolved and interacted with other East Asian Languages, including Chinese and Japanese. The sociolinguistic aspect of these languages will be studied, including the difference in male and female language used and the honorific systems. Cross-list: KORE 345, LING 345. College: School of Humanities Department: Asian Studies
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ASIA 346 - KOREAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY THROUGH MULTIMEDIA Credits: 3 This course will introduces important elements of Korean culture and society through readings and multimedia. Topics are in the areas of history, philosophy, and family life around the early 20th century to the present. Also, the class will explore the recent phenomenon of "Korean Wave" in East Asia. Korean background is unnecessary. Cross-list: KORE 346. College: School of Humanities Department: Asian Studies
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