East Asian History

Undergraduate Program

History majors can designate East Asian History as their area of concentration. The course offerings in this program include general surveys of East Asian civilization and upper-level lecture and seminar classes on China and Japan. These courses can also be taken as electives by history and other majors. The East Asian History program encourages students to devise their course selection to meet their special interests and to achieve balance between diversification and specialization. (See Undergraduate Program for more details.) Students concentrating on East Asian History might also wish to complete the 24-credit interdisciplinary Certificate in East Asian Studies.

Regularly offered courses in East Asian History include:

• HIST 284 East Asian Civilization I
• HIST 285 East Asian Civilization II
• HIST 208 Eighteenth-Century China through The Story of the Stone
• HIST 309 East Asia and the World
• HIST 319 Asian Age in World History
• HIST 319 History of Korea
• HIST 402 Gender & Sexuality in Modern Japanese History
• HIST 408 Senior Seminar on East Asia
• HIST 419F Chinese Popular Culture, ca. 1600-1900
• HIST 419G Cultural History of the Chinese Revolution
• HIST 419H Chinese Cultural History and Its Literary Sources
• HIST 419I Family, Gender, and Sexuality in Early Modern China
• HIST 419L Social Issues in Modern China
• HIST 480 Traditional Chinese History
• HIST 481 Modern Chinese History
• HIST 482 History of Japan to 1800
• HIST 483 History of Japan since 1800

Students may find interesting East Asia-related courses in other departments. Primary and advanced East Asian language courses (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) are regularly offered by the Department of Asian and East European Literatures and Cultures.

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