East Asian Studies


Faculty List

Professors Emeriti 
S. Arntzen, MA, PhD 
E.-J. Baek, MA, PhD 
J. Ching, MA, PhD (obiit)
R.W. Chu, BLS, MA 
V.C. Falkenheim, MA, PhD 
R. Guisso, BA, DPhil 
F.P. Hoff, MA, PhD (obiit)
A.V. Liman, MA 
J. Liu, MA, MA, PhD 
R.J. Lynn, MA, PhD 
K. Nakajima, MA, MPhil 
L.C.D.C. Priestley, MA, PhD 
S. Sandahl, MA, PhD 
W.A. Schlepp, BSc, BA, PhD 
V.T. Shen, MA, PhD (obiit)
R. Tsukimura, MA, PhD 
A.H.C. Ward, MA 
D.B. Waterhouse, MA, LRAM, FRSC, FRAS (obiit)

Professors 
E. Cazdyn, MA, PhD 
A. Sakaki, MA, PhD 
L. Yoneyama, MA, PhD 

Associate Professors 
L.R. Feng, MA, PhD 
K. Kawashima, MA, PhD 
T. Keirstead, MA, PhD 
Y. Meng, MA, MA, PhD 
J. Poole, MA, PhD 
G. Sanders, PhD 
A. Schmid, MA, PhD 
Y. Wu, MA, MA, PhD 
Y. Zhong, MA, PhD 

Assistant Professors 
M. Cho, MA, PhD
N. Vedal, MA, PhD

Associate Professors, Teaching Stream
J. Arimori, MA 
K. Ko, MA, PhD 
I. Komuro-Lee, MA, PhD 
H. Rupprecht, MA, PhD 

Assistant Professors, Teaching Stream
Y. Choi, MA, PhD
Y. Yoshizumi, MA, PhD

Introduction

The Department of East Asian Studies offers students the opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of the history, cultures, and languages of premodern, modern, and contemporary East Asia. The department’s course offerings engage the diversity of East Asian cultures, from contemporary film and politics to ancient philosophy, and they critically examine the structures that define the area and render it an object of study. We offer a full range of courses on East Asian literature, history, thought, religion, and society, as well as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language courses from beginning to advanced levels. In a time of globalization, a degree in East Asian Studies can be an excellent springboard from which to launch a career in fields where bilingualism, critical analytical skills, and in-depth knowledge of the socio-historical and cultural contexts of East Asian texts and ideas are essential. Our Major and Specialist programs build the foundation for careers in teaching and research, international business and law, foreign service, and cultural institutions.

Students seeking advice on course selection or academic progress should contact the Undergraduate Coordinator, but all members of the Department will be happy to provide advice and information about their course offerings. In conjunction with Woodsworth College, the Department offers courses during June and July at the University of Hong Kong, and through the Centre for International Experience, participates in exchange programs with universities in China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore.

General Enquiries: Robarts Library, 14th Floor, (416) 978-0023, eas.undergrad@utoronto.cawww.eas.utoronto.ca

East Asian Studies Programs

East Asian Studies Specialist (Arts Program) - ASSPE1058

Enrolment Requirements:

This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program.

Completion Requirements:

Completion of the program requires 10.0 credits, meeting the following requirements:

1. EAS103H1 and EAS105H1, normally taken in the first year;
2. EAS209H1, highly recommended to be taken in the second year;
3. At least third-year proficiency in Chinese, Korean or Japanese, either by completing an appropriate language course (e.g., EAS300Y1/​ EAS310Y1/​ EAS320Y1 or a 400-level language course) or by demonstrating the required proficiency in the initial placement. Students whose placement assessment exempts them from the requirement must substitute Society-Culture courses or courses in one of the other languages offered;
4. A minimum of 5.0 Society-Culture credits, with at least 4.0 credits at the 300-level or above, of which at least 1.0 credit must be at the 400-level;
5. Additional EAS courses to a total of 10.0 credits; and
6. 2.5 credits may be courses on East Asia offered by other departments.

Note: First-year students should take EAS103H1 and EAS105H1, a first-year language course (unless placed in an upper-year language course by the department), and may take up to 1.0 Society-Culture credit at the 200-level.

Core Courses
EAS103H1, EAS105H1, EAS209H1

Society-Culture Courses
EAS193H1, EAS194H1, EAS195H1, EAS196H1, EAS197H1, EAS198H1, EAS199H1, EAS218H1, EAS219H1, EAS231H1, EAS235H1, EAS241H1, EAS242H1, EAS243H1, EAS245H1, EAS246H1, EAS247H1, EAS248H1, EAS251H1, EAS256H1, EAS257H1, EAS263H1, EAS270H1, EAS271H1, EAS272H1, EAS273H1, EAS274H1, EAS278H1, EAS279H1, EAS284H1, EAS284Y1, EAS285H1, EAS289H1, EAS289Y1, EAS295Y0, EAS296H1, EAS297H1, EAS299Y1, EAS307H1, EAS308H1, EAS309H1, EAS311H1, EAS312H1, EAS314H1, EAS315H1, EAS324H1, EAS327H1, EAS328H1, EAS329H1, EAS330H1, EAS333H1, EAS334H1, EAS334Y1, EAS335H1, EAS338H1, EAS340H1, EAS343H1, EAS345Y1, EAS347H1, EAS348H1, EAS349H1, EAS350H1, EAS354H1, EAS355H1, EAS357H1, EAS358Y1, EAS361H1, EAS362Y1, EAS363H1, EAS364H1, EAS365H1, EAS366H1, EAS370H1, EAS372H1, EAS372Y1, EAS373H1, EAS374H1, EAS375H1, EAS378H1, EAS380H1, EAS381H1, EAS384H1, EAS386H1, EAS387H1, EAS388H1, EAS389H1, EAS391H1, EAS392H1, EAS393H1, EAS394H1, EAS395Y0, EAS396H1, EAS397H1, EAS398H0, EAS398Y0, EAS406Y1, EAS407H1, EAS408H1, EAS409H1, EAS412H1, EAS417H1, EAS418H1, EAS419H1, EAS420H1, EAS421H1, EAS427H1, EAS431H1, EAS432H1, EAS433H1, EAS434H1, EAS435H1, EAS436Y1, EAS439H1, EAS444H1, EAS446H1, EAS447H1, EAS448H1, EAS449H1, EAS450H1, EAS452H1, EAS454H1, EAS455H1, EAS456H1, EAS457H1, EAS458H1, EAS459Y1, EAS466H1, EAS467H1, EAS468H1, EAS470H1, EAS471H1, EAS471Y1, EAS473H1, EAS474H1, EAS475Y1, EAS476H1, EAS477H1, EAS479H1, EAS486H1, EAS488H1, EAS489H1, EAS496H1

Language Courses
EAS100Y1, EAS101Y1, EAS110Y1, EAS120Y1, EAS121H1, EAS200Y1, EAS201H1, EAS210Y1, EAS211Y1, EAS212H1, EAS220Y1, EAS221H1, EAS300Y1, EAS301H1, EAS310Y1, EAS320Y1, EAS401H1, EAS402H1, EAS404H1, EAS410Y1, EAS416Y1, EAS460H1, EAS461H1

Society-Culture Courses on East Asia Offered by Other Departments
ANT341H1, ANT472H1, ANT477H1, CAS201H1, CAS202H1, CAS310H1, CAS320H1, CAS350H1, CAS360H1, CAS370H1, CAS390H1, CAS400H1, CAS413H1, CAS414H1, CAS420H1, CAS430H1, CAS490H1, CDN230H1, CDN390H1, CIN376Y1, FAH260H1, FAH262H1, FAH360H1, FAH363H1, FAH462H1, FAH463H1, FAH464H1, FAH465H1, GGR343H1, HIS280Y1, HIS316H1, HIS326H1, HIS328H1, HIS380H1, HIS382H1, HIS385H1, HIS385Y0, HIS485H1, HPS395Y1, JHA384H1, JHA394H1, JPA331H1, MUS215H1, NUS352H0, PHL237H1, PHL334H1, PHL337H1, POL302H1, POL431H1, RLG206H1, RLG356H1, RLG372H1, RLG373H1, RLG374H1, RLG379H1, RLG465H1, SLA280H1

East Asian Studies Major (Arts Program) - ASMAJ1058

Enrolment Requirements:

This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program.

Completion Requirements:

Completion of the program requires 7.0 credits, meeting the following requirements:

1. EAS103H1 and EAS105H1, normally taken in the first year;
2. EAS209H1, highly recommended to be taken in the second year;
3. At least second-year proficiency in Chinese, Korean or Japanese, either by completing an appropriate language course (e.g., EAS201H1/​ EAS200Y1/​ EAS210Y1/​ EAS211Y1/​ EAS212H1/​ EAS220Y1/​ EAS221H1 or a higher level language course) or by demonstrating the required proficiency in the initial placement. Students whose placement assessment exempts them from the requirement must substitute Society-Culture courses or courses in one of the other languages offered;
4. A minimum of 3.0 Society-Culture credits, with at least 2.0 credits at the 300-level or above, of which at least a 0.5 credit must be at the 400-level;
5. Additional EAS courses to a total of 7.0 credits; and
6. 1.5 credits may be courses on East Asia offered by other departments.

Note: First-year students should take EAS103H1 and EAS105H1, a first-year language course (unless placed in an upper-year language course by the department), and may take up to 1.0 Society-Culture credit at the 200-level.

Core Courses
EAS103H1, EAS105H1, EAS209H1

Society-Culture Courses
EAS193H1, EAS194H1, EAS195H1, EAS196H1, EAS197H1, EAS198H1, EAS199H1, EAS218H1, EAS219H1, EAS231H1, EAS235H1, EAS241H1, EAS242H1, EAS243H1, EAS245H1, EAS246H1, EAS247H1, EAS248H1, EAS251H1, EAS256H1, EAS257H1, EAS263H1, EAS270H1, EAS271H1, EAS272H1, EAS273H1, EAS274H1, EAS278H1, EAS279H1, EAS284H1, EAS284Y1, EAS285H1, EAS289H1, EAS289Y1, EAS295Y0, EAS296H1, EAS297H1, EAS299Y1, EAS307H1, EAS308H1, EAS309H1, EAS311H1, EAS312H1, EAS314H1, EAS315H1, EAS324H1, EAS327H1, EAS328H1, EAS329H1, EAS330H1, EAS333H1, EAS334H1, EAS334Y1, EAS335H1, EAS338H1, EAS340H1, EAS343H1, EAS345Y1, EAS347H1, EAS348H1, EAS349H1, EAS350H1, EAS354H1, EAS355H1, EAS357H1, EAS358Y1, EAS361H1, EAS362Y1, EAS363H1, EAS364H1, EAS365H1, EAS366H1, EAS370H1, EAS372H1, EAS372Y1, EAS373H1, EAS374H1, EAS375H1, EAS378H1, EAS380H1, EAS381H1, EAS384H1, EAS386H1, EAS387H1, EAS388H1, EAS389H1, EAS391H1, EAS392H1, EAS393H1, EAS394H1, EAS395Y0, EAS396H1, EAS397H1, EAS398H0, EAS398Y0, EAS406Y1, EAS407H1, EAS408H1, EAS409H1, EAS412H1, EAS417H1, EAS418H1, EAS419H1, EAS420H1, EAS421H1, EAS427H1, EAS431H1, EAS432H1, EAS433H1, EAS434H1, EAS435H1, EAS436Y1, EAS439H1, EAS444H1, EAS446H1, EAS447H1, EAS448H1, EAS449H1, EAS450H1, EAS452H1, EAS454H1, EAS455H1, EAS456H1, EAS457H1, EAS458H1, EAS459Y1, EAS466H1, EAS467H1, EAS468H1, EAS470H1, EAS471H1, EAS471Y1, EAS473H1, EAS474H1, EAS475Y1, EAS476H1, EAS477H1, EAS479H1, EAS486H1, EAS488H1, EAS489H1, EAS496H1

Language Courses
EAS100Y1, EAS101Y1, EAS110Y1, EAS120Y1, EAS121H1, EAS200Y1, EAS201H1, EAS210Y1, EAS211Y1, EAS212H1, EAS220Y1, EAS221H1, EAS300Y1, EAS301H1, EAS310Y1, EAS320Y1, EAS401H1, EAS402H1, EAS404H1, EAS410Y1, EAS416Y1, EAS460H1, EAS461H1

Society-Culture Courses on East Asia Offered by Other Departments
ANT341H1, ANT472H1, ANT477H1, CAS201H1, CAS202H1, CAS310H1, CAS320H1, CAS350H1, CAS360H1, CAS370H1, CAS390H1, CAS400H1, CAS413H1, CAS414H1, CAS420H1, CAS430H1, CAS490H1, CDN230H1, CDN390H1, CIN376Y1, FAH260H1, FAH262H1, FAH360H1, FAH363H1, FAH462H1, FAH463H1, FAH464H1, FAH465H1, GGR343H1, HIS280Y1, HIS316H1, HIS326H1, HIS328H1, HIS380H1, HIS382H1, HIS385H1, HIS385Y0, HIS485H1, HPS395Y1, JHA384H1, JHA394H1, JPA331H1, MUS215H1, NUS352H0, PHL237H1, PHL334H1, PHL337H1, POL302H1, POL431H1, RLG206H1, RLG356H1, RLG372H1, RLG373H1, RLG374H1, RLG379H1, RLG465H1, SLA280H1

East Asian Studies Minor (Arts Program) - ASMIN1058

Enrolment Requirements:

This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program.

Completion Requirements:

Completion of the program requires 4.0 credits, meeting the following requirements:

1. EAS103H1 and EAS105H1;
2. 3.0 Society-Culture credits, one of which must be 300/400-level;
3. 1.0 credit may be courses on East Asia offered by other departments.

Language courses cannot be used to fulfil the requirements of the Minor program.

Core Courses
EAS103H1, EAS105H1, EAS209H1

Society-Culture Courses
EAS193H1, EAS194H1, EAS195H1, EAS196H1, EAS197H1, EAS198H1, EAS199H1, EAS218H1, EAS219H1, EAS231H1, EAS235H1, EAS241H1, EAS242H1, EAS243H1, EAS245H1, EAS246H1, EAS247H1, EAS248H1, EAS251H1, EAS256H1, EAS257H1, EAS263H1, EAS270H1, EAS271H1, EAS272H1, EAS273H1, EAS274H1, EAS278H1, EAS279H1, EAS284H1, EAS284Y1, EAS285H1, EAS289H1, EAS289Y1, EAS295Y0, EAS296H1, EAS297H1, EAS299Y1, EAS307H1, EAS308H1, EAS309H1, EAS311H1, EAS312H1, EAS314H1, EAS315H1, EAS324H1, EAS327H1, EAS328H1, EAS329H1, EAS330H1, EAS333H1, EAS334H1, EAS334Y1, EAS335H1, EAS338H1, EAS340H1, EAS343H1, EAS345Y1, EAS347H1, EAS348H1, EAS349H1, EAS350H1, EAS354H1, EAS355H1, EAS357H1, EAS358Y1, EAS361H1, EAS362Y1, EAS363H1, EAS364H1, EAS365H1, EAS366H1, EAS370H1, EAS372H1, EAS372Y1, EAS373H1, EAS374H1, EAS375H1, EAS378H1, EAS380H1, EAS381H1, EAS384H1, EAS386H1, EAS387H1, EAS388H1, EAS389H1, EAS391H1, EAS392H1, EAS393H1, EAS394H1, EAS395Y0, EAS396H1, EAS397H1, EAS398H0, EAS398Y0, EAS406Y1, EAS407H1, EAS408H1, EAS409H1, EAS412H1, EAS417H1, EAS418H1, EAS419H1, EAS420H1, EAS421H1, EAS427H1, EAS431H1, EAS432H1, EAS433H1, EAS434H1, EAS435H1, EAS436Y1, EAS439H1, EAS444H1, EAS446H1, EAS447H1, EAS448H1, EAS449H1, EAS450H1, EAS452H1, EAS454H1, EAS455H1, EAS456H1, EAS457H1, EAS458H1, EAS459Y1, EAS466H1, EAS467H1, EAS468H1, EAS470H1, EAS471H1, EAS471Y1, EAS473H1, EAS474H1, EAS475Y1, EAS476H1, EAS477H1, EAS479H1, EAS486H1, EAS488H1, EAS489H1, EAS496H1

Society-Culture Courses on East Asia Offered by Other Departments
ANT341H1, ANT472H1, ANT477H1, CAS201H1, CAS202H1, CAS310H1, CAS320H1, CAS350H1, CAS360H1, CAS370H1, CAS390H1, CAS400H1, CAS413H1, CAS414H1, CAS420H1, CAS430H1, CAS490H1, CDN230H1, CDN390H1, CIN376Y1, FAH260H1, FAH262H1, FAH360H1, FAH363H1, FAH463H1, FAH464H1, FAH465H1, GGR343H1, HIS280Y1, HIS316H1, HIS326H1, HIS328H1, HIS380H1, HIS382H1, HIS385H1, HIS385Y0, HIS485H1, HPS395Y1, JHA384H1, JHA394H1, JPA331H1, MUS215H1, NUS352H0, PHL237H1, PHL334H1, PHL337H1, POL302H1, POL431H1, RLG206H1, RLG356H1, RLG372H1, RLG373H1, RLG374H1, RLG379H1, RLG465H1, SLA280H1


 

Faculty of Arts & Science Language Citation

The Department of East Asian Studies participates in the Faculty of Arts and Science’s Language Citation initiative for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. The study of any of these languages is a challenging and time-consuming endeavour, which offers rich rewards for students interested in the cultures, societies, and economies of East Asia. 

The Language Citation recognizes a significant level of achievement in language study with a high level of academic success. The Language Citation is available to students who achieve a B- or above in 2.0 credits beyond the first-year course in a language. The following courses count towards a Language Citation:

Students should note that, as explained in the About Programs of Study section of this Calendar, the Language Citation is not equivalent to an academic program and that enrolment in a program is not necessary in order to earn the recognition bestowed by the Citation. Students interested in the Citation should email eas.undergrad@utoronto.ca.

East Asian Studies Courses

EAS First-Year Foundations

EAS193H1 - What is “The Yellow Peril”?

EAS193H1 - What is “The Yellow Peril”?
Hours: 24L

This course explores the old and new reincarnations of “the Yellow Peril” complex. The 2020 naming of COVID-19 as “the Chinese virus” by the U.S. president Donald Trump has provoked much anger, criticism, and concerns for anti-Asian violence and the reagitation of “The Yellow Peril” panic. Yet the imaginaries of “the Yellow Peril” and their power effects have been engrained in our political modernity, the Enlightenment ideas, and its institutions in a much more complex, far-reaching, and intersecting ways in East Asia and beyond. The course will explore various types of cultural productions, including history, literature, film, news media, etc., to introduce the racial, colonial, capitalist, sexual, militarized, and other dimensions of the “Yellow Peril.” Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS194H1 - East Asia through Music

EAS194H1 - East Asia through Music
Hours: 24L

This course will discuss ‘East Asia’ through music as composed, performed, recorded, processed, remembered, imagined, and represented. Questions to be asked include: what kinds of sound are recognized as music in East Asia? What are the goals and effects of music? When, where, and how is music performed in East Asia? How is music described in East Asian literature and visual art? How does music translate East Asian literature and visual art? How are certain musical elements—tonality, rhythm, genre, instruments—recognized as ‘East Asian’? How is East Asia imagined musically? How are East Asian composers and performers received globally? Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS195H1 - Shan Shui Landscape: A Cultural Historical Study

EAS195H1 - Shan Shui Landscape: A Cultural Historical Study
Hours: 24L

This course looks into the history of cultural production of Chinese Shan Shui (lit., mountain and water) landscape representations from an environmental humanities perspective. As an artistic motif, Shan Shui travels between past and present and across various mediums as well as literary and artistic genres. What exactly are we invited to see and contemplate on in the Shan Shui? Are Shan Shui works about “nature,” spirit, Qi, or the human world? The course seeks to inquire into these and other questions through examining the concepts, arts, and transformations of selected Shan Shui works in imperial and contemporary China. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS196H1 - Consumption, Taste and Culture in East Asia

EAS196H1 - Consumption, Taste and Culture in East Asia
Hours: 24S

This course explores the roles that consumption and taste play in personal and public lives in East Asia. Course focus may include the cultural histories of food, fashion, tourism, sports, or forms of audio and visual media. (No prior knowledge of East Asian languages or cultures is necessary.) Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS197H1 - Media Worlds and East Asia

EAS197H1 - Media Worlds and East Asia
Hours: 24S

The term "world-making” is often used nowadays to refer to transmedia storytelling, or the creation of story-worlds across serial narratives in a range of entertainment media, such as novels, games, film series/franchises, television shows, comics, and webtoons. This course looks at the ways that media producers and fans, alike, engage with media worlds. More importantly, the course situates these media worlds within a broader conception of "world-making," namely, the geopolitical and economic configuration of modern East Asia. (No prior knowledge of East Asian languages or cultures is necessary.) Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS198H1 - Martial Arts in East Asian Narratives

EAS198H1 - Martial Arts in East Asian Narratives
Hours: 24S

What can we learn about East Asian history and culture through its rich tradition of narratives featuring the martial arts? This course introduces short stories and novels dealing with combat and warfare from nearly two thousand years of East Asian literature, exploring issues such as self and society, gender, power, the body, and identity. All texts will be provided in translation, and no prior knowledge of any East Asian language or culture is necessary. The texts explored will vary year to year, depending on the instructor. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS199H1 - Thinking through Art in Chinese Culture

EAS199H1 - Thinking through Art in Chinese Culture
Hours: 24S

This seminar explores different visions and methods of art (textual and visual) as a way of thinking about living, knowing, and willing in Chinese culture. Examination of various theoretical texts on arts and literature, as well as works of art themselves, will provide students with knowledge and research skills on arts in Chinese culture, and an expanded sense of Chinese intellectual history. Questions explored in the course will include: How should we understand the concept of Chinese art beyond representation? How did Chinese literati pursue a sense of beauty through their poetry and painting? How is beauty apprehended in natural and constructed landscapes? What are the political and social functions of art education in Chinese culture? How do Chinese artists fit into a global cultural context? (No prior knowledge of East Asian languages or cultures is necessary.) Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

Core Courses

EAS103H1 - Premodern East Asia

EAS103H1 - Premodern East Asia
Hours: 24L/12T

Examines how various histories of East Asia can be written by focusing on specific themes in the histories of China, Japan, and Korea to roughly 1600. Required of EAS specialists, majors, and minors.

Exclusion: EAS102Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS105H1 - Modern East Asia

EAS105H1 - Modern East Asia
Hours: 24L/12T

Examines how various histories of East Asia can be written by focusing on specific themes in the histories of China, Japan, and Korea from roughly 1600 to the Cold War. Required of EAS specialists, majors, and minors.

Prerequisite: EAS103H1
Exclusion: EAS102Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS209H1 - Approaches to East Asia

EAS209H1 - Approaches to East Asia
Previous Course Number: EAS209Y1
Hours: 24L/12T

Required of EAS specialists and majors, this course introduces various approaches, theories, and methodologies for the study of East Asian societies and cultures. As the course serves as a foundation for upper-level EAS courses, it should be taken as early as possible, preferably in the second year.

Prerequisite: EAS103H1, EAS105H1
Exclusion: EAS209Y1

Society-Culture Courses

EAS218H1 - Classical Chinese Prose

EAS218H1 - Classical Chinese Prose
Hours: 24L

This course introduces the form and types of prose in classical Chinese literature by critical reading of some basic Chinese texts and their English translations on various themes, such as history, philosophy, religion and art.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS219H1 - Cultural History of Food in East Asia

EAS219H1 - Cultural History of Food in East Asia
Hours: 24L

This course introduces historical, literary, and anthropological issues related to the consumption of food in East Asia. Through a wide variety of reading materials, it focuses on the relationship between various foodways and trade, ritual, religion, medicine, and cultural identity.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS231H1 - Tales of the Supernatural in Chinese Literature

EAS231H1 - Tales of the Supernatural in Chinese Literature
Hours: 24L

This course explores the long tradition of writing about the fantastic, strange, and supernatural in Chinese literature, from the earliest records to medieval tales, late imperial opera, and contemporary science fiction. In addition to close reading and interpretation, we will situate these texts in their social and cultural contexts, examining critical moments of transformation in Chinese history and the enduring questions they raise in terms of philosophy, religion, gender, ethnicity, and politics.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS235H1 - Perceptions of China in Japanese Literature

EAS235H1 - Perceptions of China in Japanese Literature
Hours: 24L

Lectures on Japanese literary negotiations with China, the Chinese and Chineseness, ranging from celebration of shared cultural practices and aestheticization of China to nativist resistance to Chinese cultural hegemony. Required readings are available in English translation, including Tale of Genji, Tale of Middle-Councillor Hamamatsu (medieval romance), Haku Rakuten (No Play), Battles of Coxinga (Kabuki play), Three-Cornered World (by Soseki), and Wild Goose (by Ogai).

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS236H1 - Queer Feminist Literature: Writing in Global Capitalism

EAS236H1 - Queer Feminist Literature: Writing in Global Capitalism
Hours: 24L

This course is an introduction to gender and sexuality studies and East Asian queer feminist writings produced in the context of global capitalism.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS241H1 - Introduction to Chinese Philosophy

EAS241H1 - Introduction to Chinese Philosophy
Hours: 36L

A historical introduction to Chinese philosophy, covering selected figures and texts from the Warring States period through the Qīng dynasty. Schools of thought covered include Confucianism, Mohism, Daoism, Legalism, “Profound Learning,” Neo-Confucianism, and “Evidential Learning.” Texts and thinkers include the Confucian Analects, Mòzǐ, Mèngzǐ, Xúnzǐ, Dàodéjīng, Zhuāngzǐ, Hán Fēi, Guō Xiàng, Zhū Xī, Wáng Yángmíng, and Dài Zhèn.

Exclusion: PHL237H1
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

EAS242H1 - Japanese Cinemas I: Film Form and the Problems of Modernity

EAS242H1 - Japanese Cinemas I: Film Form and the Problems of Modernity
Hours: 36L/12T

This course investigates how film aesthetics relate to the most profound socio-historical problems of Japanese modernity. It also considers the ways various filmmakers employ cinematic form to engage the social problems of their moment. Part I focuses on the 1890s - 1950s.

Exclusion: EAS237Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS243H1 - Japanese Cinemas II: Film Form and the Problems of Modernity

EAS243H1 - Japanese Cinemas II: Film Form and the Problems of Modernity
Hours: 36L/12T

This course investigates how film aesthetics relate to the most profound socio-historical problems of Japanese modernity. It also considers how various film makers employ cinematic form to engage the social problems of their moment. Part II focuses on the 1960s - present.

Exclusion: EAS237Y1
Recommended Preparation: EAS242H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS245H1 - Premodern Japanese History

EAS245H1 - Premodern Japanese History
Hours: 24L

A survey of the history of premodern Japan from earliest recorded histories to the establishment of the Tokugawa regime in the seventeenth century. Uses a wide range of translated primary Japanese texts to illuminate the emergence of cultural forms and their conjunction with social, economic, religious, and political trends.

Recommended Preparation: EAS103H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS246H1 - Early Modern Japanese History

EAS246H1 - Early Modern Japanese History
Hours: 24L

A survey of the history of Japan from about 1600 until the disintegration of the Tokugawa regime in the mid-19th century. Uses a wide range of translated primary Japanese texts to illuminate the emergence of cultural forms and their conjunction with social, economic, religious, and political trends.

Recommended Preparation: EAS103H1/ EAS105H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS247H1 - History of Capitalism in Modern Japan

EAS247H1 - History of Capitalism in Modern Japan
Hours: 24L

This course provides a historical narrative of the development of the capitalist mode of production in Japan, from the mid-19th century to the present day. Readings include texts from various disciplines: economics, philosophy, social and labour history, and literature.

Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS248H1 - Marxism and East Asia

EAS248H1 - Marxism and East Asia
Hours: 24L

This course focuses on how Marxism became one of the most important and influential systems of revolutionary thought in East Asian countries such as Japan, Korea, and China in the twentieth century, with enormous repercussions for our present historical conjuncture. The course particularly focuses on the theoretical creativity and impasses that went into translating the basic tenets of Marxism to address particular, national questions in East Asia.

Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS249H1 - Sinophone Cinemas: Revolution of the Sensible World

EAS249H1 - Sinophone Cinemas: Revolution of the Sensible World
Hours: 24L/24P

This course is an introduction to the cinematic avant-garde movements that follow the end of the first Cold War across the Sinophone world, specifically China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Taking up the legacies of the Cold War, we examine specific film histories in each region and situate the New Wave movements of the past four decades in a vast terrain that is shaped by the narratives of war, nationalism, colonialism, economic integration, urbanization, among others.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS251H1 - Aesthetics and Politics in 20th Century Korea

EAS251H1 - Aesthetics and Politics in 20th Century Korea
Hours: 24L

This lecture course examines key questions and texts in the history of literature from the Korean peninsula during the twentieth century, exploring how aesthetic form refracted the experiences of colonialism, division, and the formation of opposing nation-states.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS256H1 - Chinese Literature (Pre-Qin to Tang)

EAS256H1 - Chinese Literature (Pre-Qin to Tang)
Hours: 24L

A survey of major works in premodern Chinese literature, including poetry, essays, and short narratives from the pre-Qin through Tang eras (11th century BCE - 10th century CE).

Exclusion: EAS336Y1, EAS336H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS257H1 - Chinese Literature (Song to Qing)

EAS257H1 - Chinese Literature (Song to Qing)
Hours: 24L

A survey of major works in premodern Chinese literature, including poetry, essays, short narratives and drama from the Song through Qing dynasties (10th - 19th centuries CE).

Exclusion: EAS337Y1, EAS337H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS263H1 - Classical Japanese Literature

EAS263H1 - Classical Japanese Literature
Hours: 24L

This course examines canonical literary works written in classical and sinitic Japanese (bungo and kanbun), including poetry, narrative, and theatre, produced from the Nara Period to the Edo Period (roughly 8th to 19th Centuries), with an emphasis on rhetoric, media, performance, reception history, canon formation and gender relations. Themes include: orality and literacy; masculine and feminine discourses; image and text; poetry and narrative; (auto)biography and fiction; intertextuality and authorship; the supernatural and realistic; establishment and resistance; and the centre and periphery. All readings will be in English.

Recommended Preparation: EAS103H1, EAS245H1, EAS246H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS270H1 - Narratives of 19th-Century Korea

EAS270H1 - Narratives of 19th-Century Korea
Hours: 24L

This course examines the tumultuous events of 19th-century Korea – from peasant uprisings to gunboat diplomacy and from the decline of slavery to the economy’s integration into global capitalism – together with the ways these events have been subjected to the changing and contentious interpretations of historians.

Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS271H1 - 20th Century Korean Colonial History

EAS271H1 - 20th Century Korean Colonial History
Hours: 24L

An exploration of Korean colonial history in a comparative and global context, including coverage of controversies over political economy, gender, race, architecture, and later public memory debates.

Exclusion: EAS271Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS272H1 - The Two Koreas in World History

EAS272H1 - The Two Koreas in World History
Hours: 24L

This course begins with the division of the peninsula into two mutually-hostile Koreas in the context of decolonization and the Cold War, and traces the struggles of peoples on both sides of the divide down to the late 20th century.

Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS273H1 - Modern Chinese Cities

EAS273H1 - Modern Chinese Cities
Hours: 24L

This course offers a critical review of the history and historiography of modern Chinese cities. Focusing on the development of specific Chinese cities, the course emphasizes understanding the socio-cultural production of space as well as analytical reading of landscape, urban imagery, and urban writings.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS274H1 - Popular Culture in East Asia

EAS274H1 - Popular Culture in East Asia
Hours: 24L

Through various forms of popular culture in the 20th century, this course explores the cultural contexts and social trajectories of China, Japan and Korea. Forms of popular culture studied include art, visual culture, consumer habits, foodways, advertising, music, and fashion.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS278H1 - Approaches to Korean Cinema

EAS278H1 - Approaches to Korean Cinema
Hours: 48L

This course explores the postwar development of film in Korea with a focus on the analysis of film form, genre and historical context.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS279H1 - East Asian Ecocinema

EAS279H1 - East Asian Ecocinema
Hours: 36L

The course examines the ethical, political, historic and aesthetic dimensions of Asian Ecocinema (environmental films that engage with the Asia-based global environmental crisis) and discusses the films’ ways of connecting place and planet.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS284H1 - Modern Chinese Literature

EAS284H1 - Modern Chinese Literature
Hours: 24L

This course offers a critical examination of 20th-century Chinese literature, with a focus on the important developments of literary writing over time, from the inception of New Literature in the 1910s, the development of realism and modernism in the 1930s, to the emergency of post-revolution and postmodernist writings in the 1990s. Emphasis is placed on generating a dialogue on interpretations of key works.

Exclusion: EAS284Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS285H1 - Revolutions in Modern China

EAS285H1 - Revolutions in Modern China
Hours: 24L

This course offers an interdisciplinary treatment of the Chinese people’s protracted struggle to transform the world's oldest empire and to create a revolutionary society, with a special focus on the myriad revolutions, uprisings, and protests that had radically remade the country’s social fabric in the tumultuous twentieth century. First-person accounts, classic and revisionist scholarly works, and literary and visual materials will be used to examine China’s multifaceted transformations both chronologically and thematically, in their socioeconomic, cultural, political, and global contexts.

Recommended Preparation: EAS105H1, HIS280Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS289H1 - Environment and East Asia

EAS289H1 - Environment and East Asia
Previous Course Number: EAS289Y1
Hours: 24L

This course introduces environmental issues that are important to East Asia. Or better put, it examines the role East Asia plays in the global environmental crisis. We engage both the factual and humanities' dimensions of Climate Change, biodiversity loss, and other urgent environmental crises.

Exclusion: EAS289Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS295Y0 - Topics in East Asian Studies (Summer Abroad)

EAS295Y0 - Topics in East Asian Studies (Summer Abroad)

This course allows students to pursue the specialized study of specific topics tailored to the research and study opportunities available in Hong Kong and the expertise and interests of the instructor. Available only in the Woodsworth College Hong Kong Summer Program.

EAS296H1 - Topics in East Asian Studies

EAS296H1 - Topics in East Asian Studies
Hours: 24L

A study of Chinese, Japanese or Korean culture, history and/or literature. Content depends on the instructor. When offered, the course will have a subtitle that describes its content.

EAS297H1 - Texts, Images and Objects in East Asia

EAS297H1 - Texts, Images and Objects in East Asia
Hours: 24P

This course seeks to understand East Asian civilizations through texts, images, and objects exhibited at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). Students study various texts, paintings, bronzes, architecture, sculptures, porcelains, and other objects, and explore their historical, aesthetic, and critical meanings.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS307H1 - Traditional Chinese Political Philosophy

EAS307H1 - Traditional Chinese Political Philosophy
Hours: 24L

This course explores and evaluates the views of prominent Chinese thinkers and texts from the classical, medieval, and late imperial periods on central issues in political philosophy, including the justification of political authority, the relation between people and the state, the roles and means of government, and the extent of the state’s power over its subjects. We cover a broad selection of materials from different periods in Chinese history, devoting special attention to the specific form that certain philosophically relevant issues take in Chinese political discourse, such as the role of formal standards versus that of character, the interplay between institutions and ethical discretion, the role of education versus legal coercion, and the advantages of central versus local administration. Readings will include selections from the Documents, Guǎnzǐ, Mòzǐ, Analects, Mèngzǐ, Xúnzǐ, Dàodéjīng, Zhuāngzǐ, Hánfēizǐ, Discourses on Salt and Iron, Jī Kāng, Guō Xiàng, Bào Jìng Yán, Luó Yǐn, Oūyáng Xiū, Chéng Yí, Wáng Ānshí, Chéng Hào, Hú Hóng, Chén Liàng, Fāng Xiàorú, Gù Yánwǔ, Huáng Zōngxī, and Táng Zhēn.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1/ EAS241H1/ PHL237H1
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

EAS308H1 - East Asia Seen in Maps, Ancient and Modern

EAS308H1 - East Asia Seen in Maps, Ancient and Modern
Hours: 24L

Through the lens of important maps ancient and new, this course looks at the histories, cultural logic, and methods of visual representation in societies of East Asia. The maps include archaeological artifacts, ancient manuscripts, and printed renditions, spanning from early history to the nineteenth century.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

EAS309H1 - Modern Chinese Prose

EAS309H1 - Modern Chinese Prose
Hours: 24S

A survey of representative works of prose written by 20th-century Chinese writers. This course focuses on reading texts, as well as analyzing their textual structures, aesthetic values, and historical contexts.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS311H1 - A History of Japanese Monsters

EAS311H1 - A History of Japanese Monsters
Hours: 24L

This course examines the historical development of Japanese monsters, from roughly the 7th - 8th centuries to modern times. We focus on how the changing understanding of monsters in society has embodied certain fissures in Japanese culture, especially with regard to gender and class.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Recommended Preparation: EAS209H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS312H1 - Art and Archaeology of Early China

EAS312H1 - Art and Archaeology of Early China
Hours: 36L

This course explores ancient societies from prehistory to the Bronze Age of China from archaeological perspectives with a focus on Chinese collections at the ROM. The course offers students an understanding of the origins and formation of Chinese civilizations.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1 and EAS209H1/ ANT100Y1/ ANT200Y1
Exclusion: EAS411H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS314H1 - Culture & World After Hiroshima & Nagasaki

EAS314H1 - Culture & World After Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Hours: 24L

Exploration of literature, film, and other cultural production related to the atomic bombing and other nuclear catastrophes from transnational, inter-Asia, and transpacific perspectives. Primarily focuses on, but not necessarily limited to, the cultural texts, intellectual concepts, and social thoughts generated out of the history of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic destruction.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS315H1 - The "Yellow Peril": Past & Present

EAS315H1 - The "Yellow Peril": Past & Present
Hours: 24L

Beginning with the Chinese Exclusion Acts, the Asian presence in North America has often been considered a serious social menace. This course explores the Asian/North American response to the past and present "Yellow Peril" constituted as a gendered, sexualized, classed, and racialized epistemological and affective structure of knowledge.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS324H1 - The Asia-Pacific in the Nuclear Age

EAS324H1 - The Asia-Pacific in the Nuclear Age
Hours: 24L

From the events such as the world’s first use of the atoms for war, the Cold War nuclear arms race, the “Atoms for Peace” campaign, the worst nuclear accident in history, to the unfolding threat of nuclear proliferation, the twentieth century Asia-Pacific region has been profoundly shaped by the nuclear age. The course introduces the diverse cultural knowledge and social thoughts that have developed distinctly in the Asia- Pacific in response to the nuclear-related affairs. They include, for instance, the ideas and practices concerning the environment, the human, peace, visibility, security, coloniality, sustainability, etc.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS327H1 - Japanese Fiction and the Nation

EAS327H1 - Japanese Fiction and the Nation
Hours: 24L/4T

Explores modern Japanese literature, with special attention given to literature's relation to the nation. Students explore how literature transforms throughout Japanese modernity and how its meaning and effects function to simultaneously solidify and fracture national identity.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1 and at least one (0.5 credit) course in literature
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS328H1 - Science, Technology and Society in Modern China

EAS328H1 - Science, Technology and Society in Modern China
Hours: 24L

Learn to understand modern China from an understudied yet important perspective: the development of science and technology since the establishment of People’s Republic in 1949. Science and technology have played crucial parts in China’s political, economical, social, and cultural transformations. Drawing from anthropological, social, and historical studies of science, we examine, among other topics, science and nation-building, biopolitics, technocracy, and scientists’ self-fashioning at the junction of Communist reign and global capitalism. Students also learn key concepts of science studies.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1/ CAS201H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS329H1 - Cross-Cultural History of Scents and Aromatics

EAS329H1 - Cross-Cultural History of Scents and Aromatics
Hours: 24L

This course surveys the importance of smell as a form of knowledge and source of history, and explores the use of aromatics in medicine, food, ritual, and personal fragrance, along with their role as a global commodity in East Asia and beyond. Students will read a variety of medieval and early modern texts about aromatics as well as more recent studies on olfaction.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS330H1 - Narrative Strategies in Modern Japanese Fiction

EAS330H1 - Narrative Strategies in Modern Japanese Fiction
Hours: 24L

Discussion of narratives by modern Japanese authors with attention to issues in narratology and contemporary narrative studies such as: voice and perspective; gender and power relationships of the narrator-narratee-narrated; the act of narrating, writing, listening and reading; and metafictional paradox.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1 and one of the following: EAS218H1/ EAS231H1/ EAS235H1/ EAS251H1/ EAS256H1/ EAS257H1/ EAS263H1/ EAS279H1/ EAS284H1/ EAS284Y1/ EAS308H1/ EAS309H1/ EAS327H1/ EAS333H1/ EAS334H1.
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS333H1 - Modernism and Colonial Korea

EAS333H1 - Modernism and Colonial Korea
Hours: 24L

This course considers the problem of colonial modernism through a close reading of literary and cultural texts from early 20th-century Korea. It asks what it means to enter modernity under colonial rule, and questions the relationship between imperialism, writing, and subjectivity. Topics include the role of literature in elaborating new concepts of subjectivity, literature and the fine arts as assimilatory practices, the emergence of urban space and reconfiguration of notions of the rural, and changing notions of time and space in the cultural products of nativism. Readings of literary works will be accompanied by showings of paintings and photographs from the period, as well as discussions of theoretical essays on modernism.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS334H1 - Chinese Novels

EAS334H1 - Chinese Novels
Hours: 24L

This course explores the development of Chinese fiction from earliest times with emphasis on the twentieth century.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Exclusion: EAS334Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS335H1 - Introduction to Manchu Language and History

EAS335H1 - Introduction to Manchu Language and History
Hours: 24L

This course explores the history of Manchu rule in China’s last imperial dynasty, the Qing (1644–1912), through an introduction to the Manchu language. In addition to learning to read Manchu materials, from imperial court documents to conversation guides and short stories, students will be exposed to a wide range of historical approaches to the study of Manchu social, literary, and political culture, as well as ethnicity in late imperial China.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS338H1 - Classical Daoism

EAS338H1 - Classical Daoism
Hours: 48L/24P

This course examines major issues of classical Daoist thought, such as Dao and cosmos, body and self, human nature, language and knowledge, and political visions. Based on both textual and ideological analysis of Daoist works such as the Laozi, the Zhuangzi, and Huanglao Daoist texts, to be updated with recently unearthed texts in silk and bamboo slips.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1 and PHL237H1/ EAS241H1
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

EAS340H1 - Chinese Society and Culture

EAS340H1 - Chinese Society and Culture
Hours: 24L

This course explores issues of identity, self, and community in a broad exploration of cultural transformation in China.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Exclusion: EAS340Y1
Recommended Preparation: EAS103H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS343H1 - A History of Sushi

EAS343H1 - A History of Sushi
Hours: 24L

Japan’s most famous foodstuff—and a global commodity—sushi is simultaneously “Japanese” and international. This course uses sushi and other familiar Japanese dishes as a starting point to investigate how food takes on, maintains, or sheds national characteristics in an age of globalization and fusion cuisine. The historical development of sushi offers a perspective on how ideas about Japan and Japaneseness have evolved and about how Japan has interacted with global currents in food and culture.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Recommended Preparation: EAS219H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS345Y1 - The Rise of Greater China: Issues & Topics

EAS345Y1 - The Rise of Greater China: Issues & Topics
Previous Course Number: EAS345H1
Hours: 48L

This course looks at China from a regional perspective, with a focus on Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Peoples Republic of China's economic integration. The role of Chinese communities globally and in Southeast Asia also receives attention.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Exclusion: EAS345H1
Recommended Preparation: One course on modern China or East Asia or equivalent
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS347H1 - Everyday Life in Modern Japan

EAS347H1 - Everyday Life in Modern Japan
Hours: 24L

This course analyzes the history of modern Japan from the perspective of a “critique everyday life” (la vie quotidienne; nichijō seikatsu). Analyzing the uneven transformation of Japan’s feudal society into a capitalist commodity economy, the course discusses how everyday life in Japan was produced and reproduced in ways that are specific to capitalist society, but that also open onto questions of a revolution of everyday life, an everyday life after capitalism. Focusing on different moments in Japan’s modern history (including its past colonial empire), the course looks at, reads, and listens to diverse representations of everyday life in Japan, especially in the worlds of work and labour, consumption and social reproduction. How are these worlds represented politically, as well as aesthetically? Specific topics include: literature and music, architecture and housing, war and forced labour, population control and sexual reproduction, and radio, leisure-time, and state propaganda.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Recommended Preparation: EAS247H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS348H1 - Gift, Plunder, and Exchange: Japan and World History

EAS348H1 - Gift, Plunder, and Exchange: Japan and World History
Hours: 24L

This course critically re-evaluates the history and historiography of Japanese capitalism, imperialism/colonialism, and world-empire through the lens of three, distinct “modes of exchange”: gift, plunder, and commodity exchange. Inspired by Kojin Karatani’s The Structure of World History: From Modes of Production to Modes of Exchange (2014), this course explores the emancipatory politics inherent in the critical analysis of modes of exchange, and takes up historical cases from Japan, Hokkaido, Okinawa, Taiwan, Korea, China, and the “Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere.”

Prerequisite: EAS105H1/ EAS247H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS349H1 - Soundscapes and Modern China

EAS349H1 - Soundscapes and Modern China
Hours: 24L

An introduction to sound studies through the case of modern China. The class surveys basic theories of sound studies. It investigates the technological, cultural, and social production of soundscapes in modern China. Topics include the invention of national language(s), the introduction of gramophone, radio, and sound cinema, and the relationship between sound, aesthetics, and power.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS350H1 - Ideology and Japan

EAS350H1 - Ideology and Japan
Hours: 24L

This course analyzes the problem of ideology in relation to the development of capitalism and imperialism in modern Japan. Among the topics analyzed in the course will be: the development of a national ideology in the transition to capitalism, the rise of “ultra-nationalism,” the ideological battles between Communism and fascism, the ideological struggles surrounding the U.S. military occupation of Japan, and the question of national ideology in the postwar period.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1/ EAS247H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS354H1 - Body, Movement, Japan

EAS354H1 - Body, Movement, Japan
Hours: 24L

This course will explore theories and practices of the body and movement in Japan by way of a series of associated territories: From the 17th century walking poetry of Basho to various political resistance movements of the 1960s, from the revolutionary dance experiments of Min Tanaka to Buddhist inspired philosophies of Body-Mind and physics inspired theories of movement by Japanese scientists to the movement of information, people, and capital at the contemporary moment.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS355H1 - The Art and Politics of Video in Japan

EAS355H1 - The Art and Politics of Video in Japan
Hours: 24L

This course will study the history of Japanese video art, beginning in the 1960s (when the Sony Corporation released the first portable video cameras) leading to the contemporary moment in which recording devices (phones, surveillance cameras, computers) and new distribution models (the Internet, public projections) abound. Video art is neither cinema nor television, and its early history is marked by some of the most radical artistic and political experiments in the history of modern Japan. This course will focus on the aesthetics and politics of experimental video with an eye on its global flows and Japan’s central role in its development.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS357H1 - Mao's China and Beyond

EAS357H1 - Mao's China and Beyond
Hours: 24L

This course introduces major issues and events in contemporary Chinese history from the success of the Communist revolution in 1949 to China's postsocialist transitions in the 1980s and early 1990s. Topics include the development and victory of the Chinese Communist revolution, the rule and legacy of Mao Zedong (particularly the Hundred Flowers movement, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution), and economic reform and political repression in the era of Deng Xiaoping.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS358Y1 - Classical Chinese I

EAS358Y1 - Classical Chinese I
Hours: 48S

An introduction to the Classical Chinese language with emphasis on grammatical analysis and translation into English. Open only to EAS majors and specialists.

Prerequisite: EAS103H1, EAS100Y1/ EAS101Y1/ EAS200Y1
Recommended Preparation: Two or more years of Modern Standard Chinese
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS361H1 - Zen Buddhism

EAS361H1 - Zen Buddhism
Hours: 24L

This course introduces the Zen Buddhist traditions of China, Korea, and Japan. Emphasis is placed on the radical views of history, language, ritual, self, and enlightenment espoused by these traditions. The course also examines issues related to Zen monasticism, the development of koans, and the definition of orthodoxy in both premodern and modern Zen. Students will be asked to explore these and other topics by paying close attention to the historical, doctrinal, and institutional contexts from which they arose.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

EAS362Y1 - Classical Japanese

EAS362Y1 - Classical Japanese
Hours: 48S

Introduction to classical Japanese, followed by readings of various short works by classical authors.

Prerequisite: EAS220Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS363H1 - Classical Japanese Part I

EAS363H1 - Classical Japanese Part I
Hours: 24S

Introduction to classical Japanese, followed by readings of various short works by classical authors. Covers first half of EAS362Y1.

Prerequisite: EAS220Y1
Exclusion: EAS362Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS364H1 - China's Cultural Revolution: History and Memory

EAS364H1 - China's Cultural Revolution: History and Memory
Hours: 24L

No understanding of contemporary China is possible without understanding the ramifications of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). This course considers this tumultuous episode as a field of historical research and conceptual inquiry. This course critically examines a wide variety of sources, including scholarly accounts, official documents, personal memoirs, oral histories, and literary works.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS365H1 - Classical Japanese Part II

EAS365H1 - Classical Japanese Part II
Hours: 24S

Introduction to classical Japanese, followed by readings of various short works by classical authors. Covers the second half of EAS362Y1. Students must seek permission of the instructor to be placed in the course.

Prerequisite: EAS363H1, EAS220Y1
Exclusion: EAS362Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS370H1 - Media, Cultural Citizenship, and the Korean Diaspora

EAS370H1 - Media, Cultural Citizenship, and the Korean Diaspora
Hours: 24L

This course explores how cultural and ethnic identity in diaspora is constructed in media texts, and how the politics of national identity target various publics. We will examine the work of particular filmmakers, diasporic Korean celebrities in Korea, and digital platforms for producing public visibility, such as YouTube.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS372H1 - The Postwar, Cold War and Divided Koreas

EAS372H1 - The Postwar, Cold War and Divided Koreas
Hours: 24L

This research-oriented course examines the divided history of the Korean peninsula since 1945 in the context of the global war. Examines key debates in the history of contemporary Korea, beginning with the Korean war and ending with the contemporary culture of division.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Exclusion: EAS372Y1
Recommended Preparation: EAS271H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS373H1 - Revolutionaries, Rebels, and Dissent in Korea's Long 20th Century

EAS373H1 - Revolutionaries, Rebels, and Dissent in Korea's Long 20th Century
Hours: 24L

Korea’s long 20th century experienced many tumultuous moments of dissent, rebellion, and revolution. When, why, and how do specific people dissent? This course devotes each weekly meeting to the study of a single moment of dissent, ranging from the peasant uprisings of the 1890s to labor activities in the colonial period and from anti-regime student movements in the 1970s to recent social movements and candlelight demonstrations.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Recommended Preparation: EAS271H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS374H1 - Modern Japan and the Colonial Question

EAS374H1 - Modern Japan and the Colonial Question
Hours: 24L

This course interrogates the history of modern Japan from the perspective of Japan's colonial exploits in East Asia. The course also addresses the political economy and culture of the military occupation of Japan by the Supreme Command of the Allied Powers. Texts from economics, philosophy, and literature will be used.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS375H1 - Postwar Japan: Crisis, Apocalypse

EAS375H1 - Postwar Japan: Crisis, Apocalypse
Hours: 24L

This course explores the history of the postwar period in Japan and its former colonies in order to delineate a way to think of the idea of apocalypse in relation to crisis in advanced capitalism. Through an examination of the history of capitalist crisis in postwar Japan, the course investigates themes of apocalypse in atomic-bomb literature, television, Godzilla, radical students movements, ecological-industrial disasters, worker art movements, debates on modernity and fascism, avant-garde theatre, popular music, religious movements, nationalism, populism, and the so-called “ageing population” problem. The course revolves around texts by philosophers, economists, novelists, essayists, artists, and critics, as well as film and audio recordings.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Exclusion: EAS347H1, EAS374H1
Recommended Preparation: EAS247H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS378H1 - Urban Life in Early Modern Japan

EAS378H1 - Urban Life in Early Modern Japan
Hours: 24L

An exploration of most important cities of Tokugawa Japan, which were among the largest of the early modern world, and home to vibrant urban culture and economic activity. The texts include buildings, maps, paintings, prints, film and novels.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS380H1 - Writing Women in Premodern China

EAS380H1 - Writing Women in Premodern China
Hours: 24L

A survey of premodern Chinese texts (before 1700) in translation, written by women, about women, and in the voices of women, across a variety of genres drawn from literature, history, philosophy, and religion. The texts provide opportunities to explore how gender was constructed in Chinese societies, how women were defined and constrained by texts, and how women used writing to express themselves, often in resistance to dominant modes of representation.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Recommended Preparation: EAS209H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS381H1 - Moral Agency in Chinese Thought

EAS381H1 - Moral Agency in Chinese Thought
Hours: 24L

The course explores selected Chinese philosophical texts addressing moral motivation, cultivation, reasoning, and action to examine their treatment of how human beings can become morally virtuous and live an ethically ideal or fulfilling life. Topics discussed will include people’s typical moral dispositions; morally relevant features of people’s nature (xìng); the role of the heart (xīn) in guiding action; the role of desire, emotion, and normative judgment in motivation and action; methods of moral education and training; the nature and function of virtue; and the structure of action. In different years, the course may focus on classical texts such as the Mòzǐ, Mèngzǐ, Xúnzǐ, and Zhuāngzǐ or on later Confucian figures from the Sòng, Míng, and Qīng dynasties, such as Chéng Yí, Chéng Hào, Zhū Xī, Lù Xiàngshān, Wáng Yángmíng, and Dài Zhèn.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1/ EAS241H1/ PHL237H1
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

EAS384H1 - Medieval Japan

EAS384H1 - Medieval Japan
Hours: 24L

In popular culture medieval Japan often figures as an era of unremitting warfare, in which only samurai mattered. This course offers more balanced view of what many historians regard as the most volatile, yet also most creative, era in Japanese history. The course examines the era from 1100-1500 with an eye to understanding the place of warriors, but also to explaining the incredible cultural advances of the period, which gave rise to many of the arts for which Japanese culture is renowned.

Prerequisite: EAS103H1/ EAS105H1
Recommended Preparation: EAS245H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS386H1 - Culture of Nature in China

EAS386H1 - Culture of Nature in China
Hours: 24L

The course examines the cultural practice of nature in China’s past and present, focusing on literary, artistic, spiritual, ethical, political, and scientific aspects of human-nature relation. Through scholarly works and primary sources, the course inquires into the cultural politics of human-nature entanglements.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Exclusion: EAS386Y1
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

EAS387H1 - Images and Ideas in Chinese Art

EAS387H1 - Images and Ideas in Chinese Art
Hours: 24L

Making use of the Royal Ontario Museum’s excellent Chinese art collection, this object-based and oriented seminar encourages exploration of the ideas and practices behind works of Chinese art. We examine art and artifacts in relation to their social environment and historical contexts, paying close attention to such issues as political practices, power and authority, identity, gender, and materiality. Other relevant topics include patronage, audience, religious quests, and literati culture. Depending on special Chinese exhibitions of the year at the ROM, the course may incorporate case-studies of relevant exhibition content.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS388H1 - Asian/North American Feminist Issues

EAS388H1 - Asian/North American Feminist Issues
Hours: 24L

A transpacific examination of gender and sexuality issues that have directly and indirectly affected Asians and Asian North Americans. Considers, for example, the gender and sexual representations of Asia in North America, the psycho-history of the “Yellow Peril” and its ramifications beyond Asian North Americans, and the history of immigration, nationalism, colonialism, war, and the militarized empire.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS389H1 - Dangerous Bodies: Crossings in Gender and Sexuality Studies

EAS389H1 - Dangerous Bodies: Crossings in Gender and Sexuality Studies
Hours: 24L

This course examines non-conforming bodies and technologies of self-making that defy gender and racial norms in 20th and 21st century China and Asian America. Through different cross-dressing and other crossing practices in literature, fashion, and history, we explore shifting social meanings of the body, masculinity, femininity, and trans-becoming.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS391H1 - Transnational East Asian Cinema

EAS391H1 - Transnational East Asian Cinema
Hours: 48L

This course investigates cinema's border-crossing modes of production, reception, and circulation, to uncover the ways in which the study of cinema enriches current theories and approaches to the transnational. Films and sites to be explored may include Asian co-productions (documentaries, feature films, shorts), transnational genre adaptations (e.g., The Ring/Ringu), and film festivals.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS392H1 - East Asian Television

EAS392H1 - East Asian Television
Hours: 24L

This course approaches television and televisuality in regional, transnational, and global perspectives. Beginning with the cold war histories of transmission infrastructures in the Asia Pacific, continuing with an exploration of key television shows and genres that support and resist the nation-building ethos of the medium, the course will introduce students to the history and ideology of televisuality in East Asia.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS393H1 - Chinese Buddhism

EAS393H1 - Chinese Buddhism
Hours: 24L

Topics vary according to the instructor’s interests.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

EAS394H1 - Film Culture in Contemporary China

EAS394H1 - Film Culture in Contemporary China
Hours: 36L

This course discusses documentary film and DV culture in contemporary China as forms of cultural, communal, and political practices. We focus on films and videos that seek to address important global issues such as peace, environment, and climate change in cross-media approach and in personal tone. We ask: What new tendencies are there in the films and videos? Where can we trace them back to? What fresh possibilities do they bring forth to our aesthetic and public life?

Prerequisite: EAS105H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS395Y0 - Topics in East Asian Studies (Summer Abroad)

EAS395Y0 - Topics in East Asian Studies (Summer Abroad)

This course allows students to pursue the specialized study of topics tailored to the research and study opportunities available in Hong Kong and the expertise and interests of the instructor. Available only in the Woodsworth College Hong Kong Summer Program.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1

EAS396H1 - Special Topics in East Asian Studies

EAS396H1 - Special Topics in East Asian Studies
Hours: 24L

A study of Chinese, Japanese or Korean culture, history and/or literature. Content depends on the instructor. When offered, the course will have a subtitle that describes its content.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1

EAS398H0 - Research Excursions

EAS398H0 - Research Excursions

An instructor-supervised group project in an off-campus setting. Details at https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/academics/research-opportunities/research-excursions-program. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1

EAS398Y0 - Research Excursions

EAS398Y0 - Research Excursions

An instructor-supervised group project in an off-campus setting. Details at https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/academics/research-opportunities/research-excursions-program. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: EAS105H1

EAS406Y1 - Thinking about Things: Material Culture in East Asia

EAS406Y1 - Thinking about Things: Material Culture in East Asia
Hours: 48S

This seminar explores theories of the object, the histories of objects in East Asia, and critical thinking about the process of research. Through theoretical readings, class, and individual research projects, the seminar asks how to formulate research questions, use the internet and other resources, and present discoveries in a class conference.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS407H1 - Textual Analysis of Classical Chinese Philosophy

EAS407H1 - Textual Analysis of Classical Chinese Philosophy
Hours: 24S

Readings from ancient and medieval Chinese philosophy. Beginning with linguistic (especially semantic) analysis of key words, structure and meaning of sentences, paragraphs, and texts as a whole, which forms the basis for philosophical examination.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1 and PHL237H1/ EAS241H1
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

EAS408H1 - Modern Taiwanese Literature

EAS408H1 - Modern Taiwanese Literature
Hours: 24S

A general survey of modern Taiwanese literature from 1949 to the present. It examines issues central to understanding the Taiwanese literary culture, such as historical/cultural context, oral/written language, self-identification, gender, and human rights.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1 and 2.0 credits in literature
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS409H1 - Cities in Premodern China

EAS409H1 - Cities in Premodern China
Hours: 24S

Focusing on selected Chinese cities from the earliest history to 1800 CE, this course introduces students to different aspects of urban life and its representations in literature and history.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1
Exclusion: EAS367H1
Recommended Preparation: Some familiarity with Chinese history in the middle period
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS412H1 - Technology and Material Cultures of Ancient China

EAS412H1 - Technology and Material Cultures of Ancient China
Hours: 24P

This course introduces the technology and material culture of prehistoric and Bronze-Age China. Offers students an understanding of the development of ancient technologies (e.g. bronze, jade, and lacquer) and associated ways of life from archaeological perspectives.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1 and EAS312H1/ EAS411H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS417H1 - Korean Literary Translation Workshop

EAS417H1 - Korean Literary Translation Workshop
Hours: 24L

A workshop format is used to explore problems encountered when translating Korean literary texts (fiction and poetry) into English. Practice with a variety of texts is accompanied by readings in translation theory to refine our understanding of translation and enrich our experience working with historical forms of Korean and English.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1 and EAS310Y1 or its equivalent
Recommended Preparation: EAS410Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS418H1 - Chinese Art Theories

EAS418H1 - Chinese Art Theories
Hours: 24S

This course focuses on theories of Chinese arts by critically analyzing various theoretical texts and treatises on music, painting, calligraphy, and literature as recorded in the Classics.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1
Recommended Preparation: Knowledge of Chinese language
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS419H1 - Chinese Cultural Studies Seminar: May Fourth

EAS419H1 - Chinese Cultural Studies Seminar: May Fourth
Hours: 24L

This seminar focuses on the May Fourth Movement in early twentieth century China. Taking May Fourth as a case study and a vantage point, this class enables a critical understanding of various aspects of the cultural and intellectual life in the early Republican period.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS420H1 - Travels, Travelers, and Travel Accounts in Asia

EAS420H1 - Travels, Travelers, and Travel Accounts in Asia
Hours: 24S

This seminar focuses on the circulation of people, words, and ideas throughout Asia before 1900, as we try to understand the worlds travelers both sought and encountered. Texts include travel diaries and geographical narratives.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS421H1 - History of the Chinese Book

EAS421H1 - History of the Chinese Book
Hours: 24L

This seminar traces the changing forms of the Chinese book from the early ‘page’ to modern print editions. We begin by considering the Chinese writing system and the bones, shells, bamboo and silk on which it was first inscribed. Next, we examine the specific technologies associated with medieval manuscript and early print cultures, many of which were associated with Buddhist textual production. Along the way we consider the social dimensions of Chinese book culture by considering the scribes, binders, engravers, printers, publishers, distributors and readers who produced, circulated and consumed Chinese books. The course draws on the methods and theories developed in diverse fields of study, including book history, philology, literacy studies and archive studies, to examine different chapters in the history of the Chinese book.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS427H1 - The Kyoto School: Now, Then, and To Come

EAS427H1 - The Kyoto School: Now, Then, and To Come
Hours: 24S

This course begins with a careful study of a group of modern Japanese thinkers (Nishida, Tanabe, Nishitani) known as the Kyoto School (Kyoto Gaku-ha) who developed their original philosophies by creatively combining the spiritual and intellectual traditions of Mahayana Buddhism with the Western philosophical tradition, most notably with the work of Hegel and Heidegger. We focus on the concept of “Absolute Nothingness” and how it is similar and different to Western ontologies of Being as well as what it implies for political, psychological, spiritual, and artistic life. We also study significant criticisms of the Kyoto School (Tosaka, Miki, et al.) and re-evaluate how such a project persists today as well as how it might make a claim on possible futures.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

EAS431H1 - Advanced Seminar in Japanese Cinema

EAS431H1 - Advanced Seminar in Japanese Cinema
Hours: 24S

The focus ranges from the examination of cross-cultural theoretical problems (such as Orientalism) to a director-based focus, from the examination of genre (such as documentary or the category of genre itself) to the way film intersects with other cultural forms and technologies (such as video and new media).

Prerequisite: EAS209H1 and EAS242H1/ EAS243H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS432H1 - Korean Cultural Studies Seminar

EAS432H1 - Korean Cultural Studies Seminar
Hours: 24S

This seminar provides an opportunity for in-depth reading and research into a specific topic in the cultural and intellectual history of Korea. Topics will vary each semester but may include colonial period print culture, the New Woman, the history of photography, and modernism.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS433H1 - Chinese Cultural Studies Seminar: Land

EAS433H1 - Chinese Cultural Studies Seminar: Land
Hours: 24S

Land as part of the Earth is repeatedly reconfigured in China throughout the 20th century, first by the Reformists and pioneers of the New Culture, then by geoscientists and writers, as well as by economic planners and social thinkers of recent decades. This seminar provides a critical review of this multi-dimensional cultural and conceptual practice of land, as well as its possible role in the era of climate change.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1
Recommended Preparation: EAS289H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS439H1 - The Global Bildungsroman: Narratives of Development, Time, and Colonialism

EAS439H1 - The Global Bildungsroman: Narratives of Development, Time, and Colonialism
Hours: 24S

This course studies Bildungsroman, the story of an individual's coming of age, in the context of twentieth-century political, cultural, and social developments of imperialism, anti-colonialism, human rights discourse, and globalization. Our focus will be novels from the (post)colonial world and theoretical essays on the Bildungsroman form. The course aims to provide a model for rethinking literary history and genres within a global context. Authors may include Yi Kwangsu, Wu Zhouliu, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Kang Younghill, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Camara Laye, amongst others.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS444H1 - The City, Body and Text in Modern Japanese Literature

EAS444H1 - The City, Body and Text in Modern Japanese Literature
Hours: 24S

This course examines how the city and body exert formative forces on the text, and how the practice of writing and reading texts informs the ways we, as corporeal beings, experience the city as manifested in the 20th-century Japanese literature.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1, EAS218H1/ EAS231H1/ EAS235H1/ EAS251H1/ EAS256H1/ EAS257H1/ EAS263H1/ EAS279H1/ EAS284Y1/ EAS308H1/ EAS309H1/ EAS327H1/ EAS330H1/ EAS333H1/ EAS334H1/ EAS334Y1/ EAS408H1/ EAS409H1/ EAS417H1/ EAS419H1/ EAS467H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS446H1 - The Communist Hypothesis and Asia

EAS446H1 - The Communist Hypothesis and Asia
Hours: 24L

In recent years, the basic hypotheses of Communism have begun to be thought anew, precisely because of the demise of the Soviet Union and the rise of capitalism in communist regimes (i.e., China). Taking up recent writings by Alain Badiou, Jodi Dean, Gavin Walker, Fred Jameson and a host of other contemporary thinkers, this course asks again: what is the communist hypothesis in today’s Asia and how can it help us to imagine a different Asia?

Prerequisite: EAS209H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS447H1 - Sound Studies and Modern Japan

EAS447H1 - Sound Studies and Modern Japan
Hours: 24S

This seminar explores the growing field of sound studies with particular attention given to auditory histories and cultures in modern Japan and the prewar Japanese empire in East Asia. We study the interrelationships between industrialization, mass culture, colonialism, and techniques and processes of reproducing sound in order to specify the status of acoustic and sonic mediation in everyday life in a capitalist commodity economy.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS448H1 - East Asian Studies Archive: Language, Number, Money

EAS448H1 - East Asian Studies Archive: Language, Number, Money
Hours: 24S

This course investigates salient problems of the historical archive in relation to the experience of modernity in East Asian societies. What is the meaning of the modern archive in East Asia? How is the knowledge of the modern archive produced in relation to the production of quantitative knowledge (e.g., in demographic or economic statistics)? How should we approach the relationship between number and language? How is this knowledge transformed into state knowledge as well as into what we call common sense?

Prerequisite: EAS209H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS449H1 - Future, Architecture, Japan

EAS449H1 - Future, Architecture, Japan
Hours: 24L

Examination of how the future is imagined and materialized in architectural theory and practice throughout Japanese history. From classical temples to modernist experiments of the Metabolist movement to contemporary works by Isozaki Arata and Atelier Bow Wow, we study built and unbuilt structures as theories of the future.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1/ ARC221H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS450H1 - History of the USA in the Pacific, the 19th century

EAS450H1 - History of the USA in the Pacific, the 19th century
Hours: 24S

This course examines the growth of the American empire in Asia Pacific during the late 19th century. It examines historical writings concerning Japan, Korea, Hawaii, the Philippines, and China.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1 or permission from the course instructor
Recommended Preparation: EAS209H1/ HIS271Y1/ HIS280Y1/ HIS285H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS452H1 - The Korean War, Global Cold Wars, and Decolonization

EAS452H1 - The Korean War, Global Cold Wars, and Decolonization
Hours: 24S

This course examines the political economic, racial, and cultural dimensions of the Korean war in a global context. It examines how the Korean War consolidated Cold War structures and discourse on both sides of the conflict by examining such issues as the United Nations, multiculturalism, decolonization, atomic weapons, and military industrialization. In this writing intensive course, students will be expected to write a major research paper.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1 or permission from the course instructor
Recommended Preparation: EAS209H1/ HIS271Y1/ HIS280Y1/ HIS285H1/ HIS344H1/ HIS377H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS454H1 - Modern Chinese Historiography

EAS454H1 - Modern Chinese Historiography
Hours: 24S

A selective survey of major historiographical problems and debates in the fields of late 19th and 20th century Chinese history. Course readings will include both theoretical and historical materials.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1
Recommended Preparation: EAS209H1, HIS280Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS455H1 - Classical Confucianism

EAS455H1 - Classical Confucianism
Hours: 24S

This course explores the historical and systematic aspects of classical Confucianism, which is fundamental for understanding Chinese philosophy and culture. The historical part discusses the development of the Confucian doctrine from Confucius to his generations of disciples. The systematic part engages issues such as emotion, art, poetry, morality and virtues, political philosophy, and knowledge and reality.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1 and EAS241H1/ PHL237H1
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

EAS456H1 - Japan as seen by ?: Reference, Apparatus, Operation

EAS456H1 - Japan as seen by ?: Reference, Apparatus, Operation
Hours: 24S

The course discusses how images of Japan, charged with varied degrees of desire for empirical knowledge, have contributed to contemporary novels and plays by David Mitchell, Ruth L. Ozeki, David Mamet, Joy Kogawa, Kazuo Ishiguro, Marguerite Duras, and David Hwang.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1, or permission of the instructor.
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS457H1 - Modern Japanese Historiography

EAS457H1 - Modern Japanese Historiography
Hours: 24S

An analysis of contemporary monographs on modern Japanese history. This course offers a critical survey of existing methodologies of and approaches to writing about modern Japan.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1 and EAS247H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS458H1 - Classical Chinese II

EAS458H1 - Classical Chinese II
Previous Course Number: EAS306Y1
Hours: 24S

As a continuation of EAS358Y1 (formerly EAS206Y1), this course helps students to gain in-depth control of grammatical structures of classical Chinese and to read texts with greater ease. Requirements include a major research/translation project. Open only to EAS majors and specialists.

Prerequisite: EAS358Y1 (minimum 79%)
Exclusion: EAS306Y1, EAS335Y1
Recommended Preparation: Three or more years of Modern Standard Chinese
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS459Y1 - Rethinking the Cold War in East Asia

EAS459Y1 - Rethinking the Cold War in East Asia
Hours: 48S

This research course examines the ways our historical understanding of the Cold War in East Asia has shifted over the last twenty years. Focusing primarily on the divided Korean peninsula where it can be said the Cold War still rages, the course examines the mutual constitution of two competing regional political economies rooted in a shared commitment to developmentalism.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1 and EAS271H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS466H1 - Rethinking North Korean History

EAS466H1 - Rethinking North Korean History
Hours: 36S

This essay-driven course explores the complexity of examining North Korean history by using comparative methods developed through the study of other socialist societies and theories of everyday life.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1, EAS271H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS467H1 - Photographic Narratives of Japan

EAS467H1 - Photographic Narratives of Japan
Hours: 24S

Uses seminal theoretical literature, photo roman (by, e.g., Abe, Nakagami) and narratives about photography (by, e.g., Tanizaki, Mishima, Kanai) to examine the rhetorical complicity and coercion of the two modes of representation which emerged in the modern and nationalistic age, and persist, in the wake of the newer media, as dominant registers of everyday life and departures from there.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1 & at least one course in humanities (literature, art history, philosophy) or reading proficiency in Japanese
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS468H1 - Democratic Struggles in Korea

EAS468H1 - Democratic Struggles in Korea
Hours: 24S

This seminar examines resistance, struggles, strikes and movements seen as constituting a troubled history of democracy across Korea’s long 20th century.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1, EAS271H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS471H1 - Issues in the Political Economy of South Korea

EAS471H1 - Issues in the Political Economy of South Korea
Hours: 24S

A course designed to guide students toward a research paper on a selected topic of interest on the postwar political economy of South Korea.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1 and EAS271H1
Exclusion: EAS471Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS473H1 - Modern Korean Historiography

EAS473H1 - Modern Korean Historiography
Hours: 24S

An examination of recent literature in the modern Korean history field, focusing especially on the late 19th and 20th centuries.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1 and EAS271H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS474H1 - U.S. and Canada's Wars in Asia

EAS474H1 - U.S. and Canada's Wars in Asia
Hours: 24S

This course examines the cultural and social legacies of the 19th- and 20th-century hot and cold wars fought by the U.S. and Canada in different parts of Asia. It explores film, literature, and other cultural products that came out of the transpacific violence and its aftermath.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS475Y1 - Issues in East Asian Historiography

EAS475Y1 - Issues in East Asian Historiography
Hours: 48L

This course analyses select topics in the historiography of East Asian. Students are expected to write a major research paper.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS476H1 - Social Protest in Modern East Asia

EAS476H1 - Social Protest in Modern East Asia
Hours: 24L

This course explores cases of social protests in 19th and 20th century China, Japan, and Korea. Students will read and write about specific case studies of anti-government student protests, labor actions, anti-colonial movements, women’s rights activism, and peasant rebellions.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS477H1 - Samurai Culture

EAS477H1 - Samurai Culture
Hours: 24S

An intensive seminar exploring one of Japan’s most recognizable figures, the samurai. This course investigates the historical reality of warrior life along with the legends, with focus on the ways in the warrior’s world found expression in religion, art, and literature.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1, EAS245H1/ EAS246H1/ EAS247H1
Exclusion: EAS478Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS479H1 - Ecocriticism

EAS479H1 - Ecocriticism
Hours: 24L

The course aims to establish students' ability to engage with core ecological agendas with methodology of cultural history and literary and visual analysis.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1
Recommended Preparation: At least one 300-level EAS course
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

EAS486H1 - Readings in Mahāyāna Sūtra Literature

EAS486H1 - Readings in Mahāyāna Sūtra Literature
Hours: 24S

This seminar explores the key literary, doctrinal and ritual innovations of the Mahāyāna Buddhist tradition as it unfolded in the first few centuries of the Common Era. The semester will begin with a consideration of the origins of the Mahāyāna in early India, and end in medieval Mahāyāna communities of East Asia and Tibet. Along the way we will conduct close readings of several important Mahāyāna works (sūtras, commentaries, ritual manuals) in order to explore key elements in the development of the Great Vehicle as it was transmitted and transformed across Buddhist Asia.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

EAS488H1 - Fandom, Transmedia, and the Korean Wave

EAS488H1 - Fandom, Transmedia, and the Korean Wave
Hours: 24S

This course investigates the transmedia forms and reception contexts of what is now known as hallyu or "the Korean wave." Topics include fan subjectivity and the “global popular,” across a broad array of texts, including music, feature films, television dramas, fan blogs, and internet video. This seminar considers how popular media shape collective identity, and explores the connections between activism, mass media, commodity culture, and their corresponding affective registers, bridging fan studies, media studies, and contemporary Korean cultural studies.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS489H1 - Advanced Seminar in Asian Media Studies

EAS489H1 - Advanced Seminar in Asian Media Studies
Hours: 24S

Topics include: histories of media infrastructures, material culture, geopolitics of colonialism, imperialism, and regionalism, institutional histories of media production, analyses of popular and industrial media practices, questions of interface, platforms, circulation, and reception, and the constitutive role of media in shaping notions of modernity, publicity, and politics.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS496H1 - Advanced Topics in East Asian Studies

EAS496H1 - Advanced Topics in East Asian Studies
Hours: 24S

An in-depth study of Chinese, Japanese or Korean culture, history and/or literature. Content depends on the instructor. When offered, the course will have a subtitle that describes its content.

Prerequisite: EAS209H1

EAS Independent Studies

EAS299Y1 - Research Opportunity Program

EAS299Y1 - Research Opportunity Program

Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. Details at https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/academics/research-opportunities/research-opportunities-program. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

EAS399Y1 - Research Opportunity Program

EAS399Y1 - Research Opportunity Program

Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. Details at https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/academics/research-opportunities/research-opportunities-program. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

EAS434H1 - Independent Studies

EAS434H1 - Independent Studies

A scholarly project chosen by the student, approved by the Department, and supervised by one of its instructors. Consult the website (eas.utoronto.ca) for more information. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: 5.0 EAS credits, including EAS209H1

EAS435H1 - Independent Studies

EAS435H1 - Independent Studies

A scholarly project chosen by the student, approved by the Department, and supervised by one of its instructors. Consult the website (eas.utoronto.ca) for more information. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: 5.0 EAS credits, including EAS209H1

EAS436Y1 - Independent Studies

EAS436Y1 - Independent Studies

A scholarly project chosen by the student, approved by the Department, and supervised by one of its instructors. Consult the website (eas.utoronto.ca) for more information. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: 5.0 EAS credits, including EAS209H1

Chinese

EAS100Y1 - Modern Standard Chinese I

EAS100Y1 - Modern Standard Chinese I
Hours: 48L/72T

Intended for students with no background in Mandarin or any Chinese dialect, this course provides an introduction to modern standard Chinese as a foreign/second language. The course consists of mandatory lectures and tutorials. Students study a minimum of 450 Chinese characters. Students must go through screening process conducted by the Department. See www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/chinese for details.

Prerequisite: Students must go through screening process conducted by the Department. See https://www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/chinese for details.
Exclusion: EAS101Y1, LGGA60H3, LGGA61H3, LGGB60H3, LGGB61H3, CHI101H5
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS101Y1 - Modern Chinese I for Students with Prior Background

EAS101Y1 - Modern Chinese I for Students with Prior Background
Hours: 48L/48T

This course is designed for students who understand elementary Mandarin or any Chinese dialect. The course consists of mandatory lectures and tutorials. Students will learn 600 characters. Students must go through placement process conducted by the Department. See www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/chinese for details.

Prerequisite: Students must go through placement process conducted by the Department. See https://www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/chinese for details.
Exclusion: EAS100Y1, EAS200Y1, LGGA60H3, LGGA61H3, LGGA64H3, LGGA65H3, LGGB60H3, LGGB61H3, CHI101H5, CHI103H5, CHI104H5, CHI203H5, CHI204H5
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS200Y1 - Modern Standard Chinese II

EAS200Y1 - Modern Standard Chinese II
Hours: 96L

This course is a continuation of EAS100Y1. Students learn major grammatical structures which are not introduced in the first year and expand their vocabulary. Students who do not meet the prerequisite must go through a placement process conducted by the Department. See www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/chinese for details.

Prerequisite: EAS100Y1 (minimum grade 67%)/equivalent as determined by placement process.
Exclusion: EAS101Y1, EAS201H1, LGGB60H3, LGGB61H3, LGGB62H3, LGGB63H3, CHI203H5, CHI204H5
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS201H1 - Modern Chinese II for Students with Prior Background

EAS201H1 - Modern Chinese II for Students with Prior Background
Previous Course Number: EAS201Y1
Hours: 48L

This course is a continuation of EAS101Y1. It focuses on development of students’ listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills at an intermediate low level. Students who do not meet the prerequisite must go through placement process conducted by the Department. See www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/chinese for details.

Prerequisite: EAS101Y1 (minimum 67%)/equivalent as determined by placement process.
Exclusion: EAS200Y1, LGGB60H3, LGGB61H3, LGGB62H3, LGGB63H3, CHI203H5, CHI204H5
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS300Y1 - Modern Standard Chinese III

EAS300Y1 - Modern Standard Chinese III
Hours: 96L/36T

This high intermediate-level course is a continuation of EAS200Y1. Students learn to read short texts which deal with cultural and social topics, compose paragraph-length essays, and converse in social situations which require exchanges of basic information and generate interpretations. Students who do not meet the prerequisite must go through placement process conducted by the Department. See www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/chinese for details.

Prerequisite: EAS200Y1 (minimum 70%)/ equivalent as determined by placement process.
Exclusion: LGGC60H3, LGGC61H3, LGGB62H3, LGGB63H3, LGGC62H3, LGGC63H3, CHI303H5, CHI304H5
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS301H1 - Modern Standard Chinese III for Students with Prior Background

EAS301H1 - Modern Standard Chinese III for Students with Prior Background
Hours: 48L

This course is the equivalent of the second half of EAS300Y1. It is for students who have either completed successfully EAS201H1 or reached the intermediate-mid level in speaking, listening, reading and writing by prior study. Successful completion of the course fulfills the prerequisite for EAS401H1, EAS402H1, or EAS404H1.

Prerequisite: EAS201H1 (minimum 70%)/equivalent as determined by placement process.
Exclusion: EAS300Y1, LGGC60H3, LGGC61H3, LGGB62H3, LGGB63H3, CHI303H5, CHI304H5
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS401H1 - Modern Standard Chinese IVa

EAS401H1 - Modern Standard Chinese IVa
Hours: 48L

This course aims to develop students’ abilities at an advanced level, with a focus on reading of fictional and/or journalistic writings. Students will improve their reading comprehension, strengthen writing skills, and advance speaking and listening skills through class discussions and oral presentations. Students who do not meet the prerequisite must go through placement process conducted by the Department. See www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/chinese for details.

Prerequisite: EAS300Y1/ EAS301H1 (minimum 73%)/ equivalent as determined by placement process
Exclusion: CHI411H5 and ECTB61H3
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS402H1 - Modern Standard Chinese IVb

EAS402H1 - Modern Standard Chinese IVb
Hours: 48L/24T

An advanced Chinese language course which explores major concerns in contemporary China, including mass consumption, Western influences and technological innovation. Students will improve their reading comprehension, strengthen their writing skills and, importantly, advance their speaking and listening abilities through debate exercises. Students who do not meet the prerequisite must go through placement process conducted by the Department. See https://www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/chinese for details.

Prerequisite: EAS300Y1/ EAS301H1 (minimum 73%)/ equivalent as determined by placement process
Exclusion: CHI411H5 and ECTB61H3
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS404H1 - Business Chinese

EAS404H1 - Business Chinese
Hours: 48L/24T

This course aims to assist students with upgrading their language proficiency for professional purposes. This advanced Chinese language course focuses on 1) business terms and expressions and 2) formal or semiformal discourse in business. Students who do not meet the prerequisite must go through placement process conducted by the Department. See https://www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/chinese for details.

Prerequisite: EAS300Y1/ EAS301H1 (minimum 73%)/ equivalent as determined by placement process
Exclusion: CHI411H5 and ECTB61H3
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

Japanese

EAS120Y1 - Modern Standard Japanese I

EAS120Y1 - Modern Standard Japanese I
Hours: 48L/48T

This course is for students with no or a very limited background in Japanese. Students must go through screening process conducted by the Department. See www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/japanese/ for details. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: Students must go through screening process conducted by the Department. See https://www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/japanese for details.
Exclusion: EAS121H1, EAS122Y0, LGGA80H3, LGGA81H3
Recommended Preparation: Learning the Japanese alphabets (hiragana & katakana)
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS121H1 - Japanese I for Students with Prior Background

EAS121H1 - Japanese I for Students with Prior Background
Hours: 24L/24T

This course is equivalent to the second half of EAS120Y1 for students with some background in the Japanese language. Students must go through placement process conducted by the Department. See www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/japanese/ for details. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: Students must go through placement process conducted by the Department. See https://www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/japanese for details.
Exclusion: EAS120Y1, EAS222Y0, LGGA81H3
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS220Y1 - Modern Standard Japanese II

EAS220Y1 - Modern Standard Japanese II
Hours: 48L/48T

This is an advanced beginner level language course for those who completed EAS120Y1 or EAS121H1 with a minimum grade of 67%. Students who do not meet the prerequisite must go through placement process conducted by the Department. See https://www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/japanese for details.

Prerequisite: EAS120Y1 (minimum of 67%)/ EAS121H1 (minimum 67%)/equivalent as determined by placement process. Students who did not take the prerequisite in the preceding academic year must take the placement test.
Exclusion: EAS223Y0
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS221H1 - Modern Standard Japanese II for Students with Prior Background

EAS221H1 - Modern Standard Japanese II for Students with Prior Background
Hours: 24L/24T

This course is equivalent to the second half of EAS220Y1. Designed for those who have a good foundation of lower beginners’ grammar, vocabulary, and kanji knowledge and have not yet acquired the proficiency required to take EAS320Y1. Students must go through placement process conducted by the Department. See www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/japanese for details.

Prerequisite: Placement process
Exclusion: EAS220Y1/ EAS223Y0
Recommended Preparation: The first half of the content covered in EAS220Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS320Y1 - Modern Standard Japanese III

EAS320Y1 - Modern Standard Japanese III
Hours: 96S

This is a lower intermediate level course for those who have completed EAS220Y1 with a minimum grade of 70%. Students who do not meet the prerequisite must go through placement process conducted by the Department. See https://www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/japanese for details.

Prerequisite: EAS220Y1 (70% minimum)/equivalent as determined by placement process. Students who did not take the prerequisite in the preceding academic year must take the placement test.
Exclusion: EAS322Y0
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS460H1 - Modern Standard Japanese IVa

EAS460H1 - Modern Standard Japanese IVa
Hours: 48S

This is an upper intermediate level Japanese course that focuses on oral/aural communication. Native or near-native speakers are not permitted to take this course. Students who do not meet the prerequisite must go through placement process conducted by the Department. See https://www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/japanese for details.

Prerequisite: EAS320Y1 (70% minimum)/equivalent as determined by placement process. Students who did not take the prerequisite in the preceding academic year must take the placement test.
Exclusion: EAS460Y1, EAS463Y0
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS461H1 - Modern Standard Japanese IVb

EAS461H1 - Modern Standard Japanese IVb
Hours: 48S

This is an upper intermediate level Japanese course that focuses on reading and writing skills. Native or near-native speakers are not permitted to take this course. Students who do not meet the prerequisite must go through placement process conducted by the Department. See https://www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/japanese for details.

Prerequisite: EAS320Y1 (70% minimum)/equivalent as determined by placement process. Students who did not take the prerequisite in the preceding academic year must take the placement test.
Exclusion: EAS461Y1, EAS463Y0
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

Korean

EAS110Y1 - Modern Standard Korean I

EAS110Y1 - Modern Standard Korean I
Hours: 48L/72T

This course is designed to help students build communication skills in the Korean language. Through an integration of listening, speaking, reading and writing, it aims to provide a solid foundation in beginning-level Korean. This course assumes that students do not have any prior knowledge of Korean. Students must go through screening process conducted by the Department. See https://www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/korean for details.

Prerequisite: Students must go through screening process conducted by the Department. See https://www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/korean for details.
Exclusion: EAS211Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS210Y1 - Modern Standard Korean II

EAS210Y1 - Modern Standard Korean II
Hours: 48L/72T

As a continuation of EAS110Y1, this course is designed to help students improve their skills in the Korean language. Students in this course are expected to perform basic communicative functions, read and write paragraph-level texts, and conjugate verbs/adjectives accurately. Students who do not meet the prerequisite must go through placement process conducted by the Department. See https://www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/korean for details.

Prerequisite: EAS110Y1 (63% minimum)/ equivalent as determined by the Korean placement interview.
Students who do not meet the prerequisite must go through placement process conducted by the Department. See https://www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/korean for details.

Exclusion: EAS211Y1, EAS212H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS211Y1 - Accelerated Modern Standard Korean I & II

EAS211Y1 - Accelerated Modern Standard Korean I & II
Hours: 96L

Covering both EAS110Y1 and EAS210Y1, the course is ideal for self-motivated students who enjoy fast-paced language learning, students with a passion for Korean films and television, students with some listening and speaking skills from prior study or family background, and students taking the full four-year course series. Successful completion of the course fulfils the prerequisite for EAS310Y1. Students must go through screening process conducted by the Department. See www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/korean for details.

Prerequisite: Students must go through screening process conducted by the Department. See https://www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/korean for details.
Exclusion: EAS110Y1, EAS210Y1, EAS212H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS212H1 - Accelerated Modern Standard Korean II

EAS212H1 - Accelerated Modern Standard Korean II
Hours: 48L

As a continuation of EAS110Y1, this course is designed to help students increase their Korean communication skills at beginner high to intermediate low levels. It is ideal for self-motivated students who enjoy fast-paced language learning, and students who have built basic language skills from prior study. Successful completion of the course fulfils the prerequisite for EAS310Y1. Students who do not meet the prerequisite must go through placement process conducted by the Department. See www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/korean for details.

Prerequisite: EAS110Y1 (70% minimum)/Students who do not meet the prerequisite must go through placement process conducted by the Department.
Exclusion: EAS210Y1, EAS211Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS310Y1 - Modern Standard Korean III

EAS310Y1 - Modern Standard Korean III
Hours: 48L/72T

As a continuation of EAS210Y1 and EAS211Y1, this course is designed to help students improve their Korean proficiency at the intermediate level. The class focuses not only on oral fluency and grammar but also on reading comprehension. Students who do not meet the prerequisite must go through placement process conducted by Department. See www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/korean for details.

Prerequisite: EAS210Y1 (67%)/ EAS211Y1 (67%)/ EAS212H1 (67%)/equivalent as determined by placement process
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS410Y1 - Modern Standard Korean IV

EAS410Y1 - Modern Standard Korean IV
Hours: 96L

As a continuation of EAS310Y1, this course is designed for advanced-level learners of Korean. Through reading short essays/articles and watching films, this course aims to improve students’ proficiency in speaking, writing, listening, and reading. Classroom and online discussions are conducted entirely in Korean. Students who do not meet the prerequisite must go through placement process conducted by the Department. See www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/korean for details.

Prerequisite: EAS310Y1 (70% minimum)/equivalent as determined by placement process
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

EAS416Y1 - Academic and Professional Korean

EAS416Y1 - Academic and Professional Korean
Hours: 96L

This course aims to assist students to upgrade their language proficiency for academic and professional purposes. It is ideal for students who seek career opportunities in Korea-related business or in higher education in Korean studies. Emphasis is on comprehension and composition of academic and business texts and preparation for Korean proficiency tests. Students who do not meet the prerequisite must go through placement process conducted by the Department. See www.utoronto.ca/languages/korean for details.

Prerequisite: EAS310Y1 (70% minimum)/equivalent as determined by placement process.
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

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