Courses

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Course # (Section)	Title	Day/Times	Instructor	Location	Term	Additional Details
AS.010.327 (01)	Asia America: Art and Architecture	MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Brown, Rebecca Mary	Gilman 177	Spring 2026	Description: This course examines a set of case studies spanning the last century that will enable us to explore the shifting landscape of Asian transnational art and architecture. Each week will focus on a different artist, group, exhibition, architect, urban space, or site to unpack artistsʼ and architectsʼ engagements with the changing landscape of immigration policies, movements to build solidarity with other artists of color, and campaigns for gender and sexual equality. The course will situate these artists within American art, and build an expansive idea of Asia America to include the discussion of artists whose work directly addresses fluidity of location and transnational studio practice. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: HART-MODERN
AS.010.356 (01)	Landscape in World Cinema	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Liu, Mia Yinxing	Gilman 119	Spring 2026	Description: Landscape in narrative cinema has silent enunciating power. The choice of location shots alone constitutes a set of complex considerations. We may wonder, why was Monument Valley featured in so many westerns? Is it only because of the site’s marvelous photogenicity, or its geographic location, or its social and historical significance? The formal and stylistic choices filmmakers made regarding how landscape is represented on screen, whether as a real or a fictional site, also reveal critical engagements with both social reality and the pictorial conventions of landscape art. Does it look barren or lush? sublime or banal? What is the concept of nature, what is a “view,” or picturesque, and how are these critical questions in representations of landscape framed and mediated in cinema? Does the representation of landscape work for or against the storyline unfolding on screen? What does it tell us about social reality, ecological concerns, and political commentary? This course examines landscape in narrative cinema not only as subject or part of the mise-en-scene but also as a way of seeing, a site of expression, and locus of social, historical, and political meaning. Each week we explore a film genre or a film movement, for example, Western, or Japanese New Wave, and study how landscape functions in that genre. Students are expected to watch films, read, and analyze both the readings and films carefully prior to coming to class. As a term project, each student selects a particular site (any site of their choice) for the focus of their study and research of cinematic landscape in the course. These sites can be a place personal to you, or a place you think is interesting or important in cinema. There will be workshops during the course of the semester to help complete the final project. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/15 Tags: HART-MODERN
AS.070.205 (01)	Gods and Ancestors: East Asian Religions in Everyday Life	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Kim, Sujung	Mergenthaler 426	Spring 2026	Description: This course offers an introduction to the religious traditions of East Asia, including Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, and Shinto. Moving chronologically from ancient foundations to modern developments, we will explore how religious ideas and practices have shaped—and been shaped by—East Asian societies over time. Emphasis will be placed on the diversity and unity of religious expressions in these traditions, with readings drawn from a wide range of texts: religious scriptures, philosophical texts, popular literature, and ethnographic accounts. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/20 Tags: n/a
AS.100.143 (01)	China: Neolithic to Song	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Meyer-Fong, Tobie	Hodson 316; Gilman 377	Spring 2026	Description: This class offers a broad overview of changes in China from Neolithic times through the Song dynasty (roughly from 5000 BCE through the 13th century CE). It features discussion of art, material culture, philosophical texts, religious ideas, and literary works as well as providing a broad overview of politics and society. Close readings of primary sources in discussion sections and extensive use of visual material in lectures will allow students to consider the relationship between what (sources) we have—and what we can know about the past. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/20 Tags: HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.143 (02)	China: Neolithic to Song	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Meyer-Fong, Tobie	Hodson 316; Gilman 55	Spring 2026	Description: This class offers a broad overview of changes in China from Neolithic times through the Song dynasty (roughly from 5000 BCE through the 13th century CE). It features discussion of art, material culture, philosophical texts, religious ideas, and literary works as well as providing a broad overview of politics and society. Close readings of primary sources in discussion sections and extensive use of visual material in lectures will allow students to consider the relationship between what (sources) we have—and what we can know about the past. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 7/20 Tags: HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.348 (01)	20th-Century China	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Rowe, William T	Hodson 203	Spring 2026	Description: Survey of the history of China from ca. 1895 to ca. 1976. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 7/30 Tags: HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.100.482 (01)	Historiography of Modern China	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Rowe, William T	Gilman 75	Spring 2026	Description: How has the history of modern China been told by Chinese, Western, and Japanese historians and social thinkers, and how did this affect popular attitudes and government policies toward China? Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/12 Tags: HIST-ASIA, INST-GLOBAL
AS.150.241 (01)	Introduction to the History of Chinese Philosophy	MW 3:00PM - 3:50PM, F 3:00PM - 3:50PM	Dong, Hao	Ames 234; Krieger 300	Spring 2026	Description: This is a survey of the main philosophers and philosophical schools in China from the classical age to the early modern age. Special focus is given to three historical periods: the pre-Qin era, the Wei-Jin era, and the Song-Ming era. We will see how Chinese philosophers tackled important questions such as what the world is like, are human beings special, how we should live our lives, and how we should construct a political community. Some of the philosophers surveyed are Confucius (Kongzi), Laozi, Mencius (Mengzi), Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Guo Xiang, Zhu Xi, and Wang Yangming.. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 9/20 Tags: PHIL-ANCIEN
AS.150.241 (02)	Introduction to the History of Chinese Philosophy	MW 3:00PM - 3:50PM, F 1:30PM - 2:20PM	Dong, Hao	Ames 234; Gilman 186	Spring 2026	Description: This is a survey of the main philosophers and philosophical schools in China from the classical age to the early modern age. Special focus is given to three historical periods: the pre-Qin era, the Wei-Jin era, and the Song-Ming era. We will see how Chinese philosophers tackled important questions such as what the world is like, are human beings special, how we should live our lives, and how we should construct a political community. Some of the philosophers surveyed are Confucius (Kongzi), Laozi, Mencius (Mengzi), Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Guo Xiang, Zhu Xi, and Wang Yangming.. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 10/20 Tags: PHIL-ANCIEN
AS.180.210 (01)	Migrating to Opportunity? Economic Evidence from East Asia, the U.S. and the EU	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Dore, Giovanna Maria Dora	Shaffer 002	Spring 2026	Description: Increased mobility of people across national borders, whether by choice or by force, has become an integral part of the modern world. Using a comparative perspective and an applied economics approach, the course explores the economic and political determinants, and (likely) consequences of migration flows for East Asia, the US and the EU. Lectures, assignments and in class discussions, will be built around the following topics: i) migrants’ self-selection; ii) human capital investment decision-making; iii) remittance decisions and effects; iv) impacts on labor markets of both receiving and sending countries; and v) the economic benefits from immigration. Overall, the course will give students perspective on the why people choose or feel compelled to leave their countries, how receiving countries respond to migrants’ presence, and the key economic policy concerns that are influencing the shaping of immigration policy in East Asia, the US, and the EU. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 7/25 Tags: CES-BM, INST-ECON
AS.190.337 (01)	Politics of the Korean Diaspora	T 4:00PM - 6:30PM	Chung, Erin	Krieger 308	Spring 2026	Description: This seminar explores some of the core questions in the study of citizenship, migration, and racial and ethnic politics through the lens of Korean diasporic populations in the United States, Japan, China, and the former Soviet Union. We will examine how immigration, citizenship, and minority policies have structured and constrained the relationship of Korean communities to both the receiving and sending states. As a diasporic group, is there a collective self-identification among members of Korean communities that transcends territorial, hemispheric, linguistic, and cultural differences? Or is the Korean ethnic identity more a reflection of racial and ethnic politics in the receiving society? What factors determine the assimilability of a particular group at a given historical moment? Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 1/12 Tags: INST-CP, CDS-MB, POLI-CP
AS.190.347 (01)	A New Cold War? Sino-American Relations in the 21st Century	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	David, Steven R	Smokler Center Library	Spring 2026	Description: “Can the United States and China avoid a new Cold War? One might think not given disputes over the South China Sea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, human rights, trade, ideology and so much more. Moreover, competition for influence in the developing world and American concerns as to whether China will replace it as the preeminent world power suggest a new Cold War is in the offing. Nevertheless, their extensive economic ties and need to work together to solve common problems such as climate change, nuclear proliferation, and pandemics argues against a continuing confrontation. This course will examine whether cooperation or conflict will define Sino-American relations, and whether a new Cold War—or even a shooting war—lies in the future.” Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: INST-IR, CES-FT, CES-LSO
AS.192.404 (01)	Autocracy, Democracy and Development: Korea, Indonesia and Myanmar	M 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Dore, Giovanna Maria Dora	Gilman 119	Spring 2026	Description: East Asia’s “miracle growth” has not gone hand in hand with a decisive move toward democracy. Over the last 30 years, only eight East Asian countries have become democratic out of more than 60 countries worldwide, and they continue to struggle with the challenges of democratic consolidation, weak political governance, and limited citizens’ political engagement. This course explores the reasons why democratization proceeds slowly in East Asia, and seems to be essentially decoupled from the region’s fast-paced economic growth. The choice of Korea, Indonesia, and Myanmar as the case studies for this course results from their authoritarian past as well as their more recent institutional and political trajectories towards democracy.Contact instructor if prerequisites are not met. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/15 Tags: INST-CP, INST-ECON, CES-PD
AS.220.220 (01)	Reading Korean Literature in Translation: A Survey	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Kim, Kyeong-Soo	Mergenthaler 431	Spring 2026	Description: An introduction for students unfamiliar with the Korean language but interested in Korean culture / literature. Students will read a variety of translated texts, especially of works written in the 20th and early 21st centuries by authors including Kim Tong-in, Hwang Sun-wŏn, Pak Wansŏ, Hwang Sŏk-yŏng and Han Kang; there will also be classes on traditional sijo poetry. Students will become familiar with Korean literary genres and formal features, and develop a broad understanding of the historical and sociocultural context of Korean literature. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 15/15 Tags: WRIT-FICT, WRIT-READ, CDS-MB
AS.230.175 (01)	Chinese Revolutions	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Kuo, Huei-Ying	Hodson 303	Spring 2026	Description: This survey course situates China's political and cultural revolutions within broader transnational contexts from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It examines foreign influences and global entanglements through topics such as Christian missionaries and anti-dynastic revolutions, the contest between the New Culture Movement and the Confucian Revering Movement, Chinese overseas and federalist movements, and the international dimensions of Chinese nationalist projects between 1898 and 1949. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 6/20 Tags: INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL, CES-LC, CES-PD, AGRI-ELECT
AS.230.228 (01)	Colonialism in Asia and Its Contested Legacies	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Kuo, Huei-Ying	Gilman 119	Spring 2026	Description: This course examines the impact of colonialism on East and Southeast Asia from the long nineteenth century to the postwar era. Focusing on British Singapore and Hong Kong, and Japanese Korea and Taiwan, it explores colonial social and economic change, as well as postcolonial transformations. Topics include free-trade imperialism, capitalist exploitation, colonial modernity, Pan-Asianism, anticolonial movements, and nation-building in the Cold War. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 9/20 Tags: INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL, CES-CC, CES-PD
AS.230.415 (01)	Social Problems in Contemporary China	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Andreas, Joel	Hodson 303	Spring 2026	Description: In this course we will examine contemporary Chinese society, looking at economic development, rural transformation, urbanization and migration, labor relations, class structure, governance, and popular protest. The course is designed for both undergraduate and graduate students. Undergraduates should have already completed a course about China. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/15 Tags: INST-CP, CES-LSO, CES-PD
AS.300.401 (01)	Comparative Late- and Post-Cold War Cultures in China, the USSR, and Beyond	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Hashimoto, Satoru; Schmelz, Peter John	Gilman 208	Spring 2026	Description: This course invites students to explore culture in the late and post-Cold War world from a broader perspective by surveying literature, thought, cinema, art, and music in Chinese and Soviet (and post-Soviet) societies from the 1980s to the present. How did Chinese and Soviet (and post-Soviet) intellectuals reconfigure, reform, and/or reinvent their cultures as they re-embraced or debated ideas of freedom, democracy, and globalization? How did they grapple with the legacies of their socialist and even pre-socialist pasts as they entered new eras of reforms? How did reform movements adopt different forms and strategies in different parts of the USSR and in the Sinophone world? What kinds of negotiations took place between various centers and peripheries within and around these regions? What can we learn from their cultural endeavors about the promises, contradictions, and discontents of the post-Cold War world, as we witness the rise of a so-called “new cold war” and revisionist coalitions against globalization today? In this co-taught course, specialists in Sinophone and Soviet cultures and their legacies will guide students in reading and discussing representative works from the 1980s onward from a comparative perspective. Readings include the film Hibiscus Town, Cui Jian, Yu Hua, Ge Fei, Can Xue, Mo Yan, Yan Lianke, and Ng Kim Chew, as well as the film Russian Ark, Viktor Tsoi, Komar and Melamid, Aka Morchiladze, Oksana Zabuzhko, and Serhiy Zhadan. No prerequisites. All course materials will be provided in English translation or with English subtitles. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 7/18 Tags: CES-LSO, CTAL-TEXT
AS.310.208 (01)	U.S. National Security Technology Partnerships in Asia	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	White, Jennifer Hendrixson	Smokler Center 213	Spring 2026	Description: This course explores the intersection of U.S. national security strategy, emerging technologies, and alliance partnerships in East Asia. Through readings, discussions, guest speakers, and a group project (oral policy briefing and policy memo), students will examine the roles of executive and legislative actors, the private sector, and foreign governments in shaping the future of technology partnerships with key U.S. allies and partners. The final assignment simulates an interagency memo-writing and briefing exercise to the National Security Advisor. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: INST-IR, INST-CP
AS.310.326 (01)	Labor Politics in China	Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM	He, Gaochao	Mergenthaler 266	Spring 2026	Description: This course explores the transformation of labor relations in China over the past century. It will cover the origins of the labor movement, the changes brought about by the 1949 Revolution, the industrial battles of the Cultural Revolution, the traumatic restructuring of state-owned enterprises over the past two decades, the rise of private enterprise and export-oriented industry, the conditions faced by migrant workers today, and recent developments in industrial relations and labor conflict. The course is designed for upper division undergraduates and graduate students. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/15 Tags: INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL, INST-ECON, CES-LC, CES-PD
AS.310.329 (01)	Women, Patriarchy, and Feminism in China, South Korea, and Japan	TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM	Henning, Stefan	Gilman 313	Spring 2026	Description: We will try to get a quick overview of the recent history of patriarchy in China, South Korea, and Japan from the mid-twentieth century to our present and then compare the initiatives of feminists to transform the lives of women throughout these three societies. We will also debate whether or how it makes sense to adapt the Western notions of patriarchy and sexism as well as the Western political program of feminism to the non-Western context of East Asia by reading books by historians, anthropologists, and sociologists. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/15 Tags: INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP, CES-GI
AS.310.331 (01)	Islam in Asia	TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM	Henning, Stefan	Gilman 381	Spring 2026	Description: You will learn about the efforts of ordinary, non-elite Muslims to shape the relation between their communities and the state as well as to (where applicable) the non-Muslim majority through collective organizing over the last forty years. We will read and discuss books by anthropologists, historians, and sociologists studying Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, China, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 9/15 Tags: CES-ELECT, INST-CP, ISLM-ISLMST
AS.310.338 (01)	Korean American Literature	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Rhee, Sharlyn	BLC 4040	Spring 2026	Description: This course examines Korean American Literature with emphasis on questions of aesthetics and belonging. Topics of discussion will include the flow of popular culture between the U.S. and South Korea, the depiction of North Korea in mass media, and the import of World War II and the Korean War. In querying the representation of the Korean American experience, we will pay particular attention to how writers, artists, and performers contribute to the perception of what it means to be Korean American. No prior knowledge of Korean is required. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 15/15 Tags: n/a
AS.310.432 (01)	Senior Thesis Seminar: East Asian Studies	W 9:00AM - 11:30AM	Yasuda, John Kojiro	Mergenthaler 252	Spring 2026	Description: This course is the continuation of Senior Thesis Course AS.360.431 for students completing their thesis in the East Asian Studies program. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 8/10 Tags: n/a
AS.310.501 (01)	Independent Study - East Asia		Dore, Giovanna Maria Dora		Spring 2026	Description: Students carry out an independent research project involving East Asia. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.373.112 (01)	First Year Heritage Chinese II	MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Zhao, Nan	Krieger 302	Spring 2026	Description: For students who have significant previously-acquired ability to understand and speak Modern Standard Chinese. Course focuses on reading and writing. Teaching materials are the same as used in AS.373.115-116; however, both traditional and simplified versions of written Chinese characters are used. Lab required. Continuation of AS.373.111. Recommended Course Background: AS.373.111 or permission required. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/18 Tags: n/a
AS.373.116 (01)	First Year Chinese II	MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, TTh 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Yang, Shuyi; Zhao, Nan	Krieger 304; Krieger 304	Spring 2026	Description: Introductory course in Modern Standard Chinese. Goals: mastery of elements of pronunciation and control of basic vocabulary of 800-900 words and most basic grammatical patterns. Students work first with Pin-Yin system, then with simplified version of written Chinese characters. Continuation of AS.373.115. Note: Student with existing demonstrable skills in spoken Chinese should take AS.373.111-112. Recommended Course Background: AS.373.115 or permission required. Credits: 5.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 7/12 Tags: n/a
AS.373.116 (02)	First Year Chinese II	TTh 3:00PM - 3:50PM, MWF 1:30PM - 2:20PM	Yang, Shuyi; Zhao, Nan	Krieger 308; Krieger 308	Spring 2026	Description: Introductory course in Modern Standard Chinese. Goals: mastery of elements of pronunciation and control of basic vocabulary of 800-900 words and most basic grammatical patterns. Students work first with Pin-Yin system, then with simplified version of written Chinese characters. Continuation of AS.373.115. Note: Student with existing demonstrable skills in spoken Chinese should take AS.373.111-112. Recommended Course Background: AS.373.115 or permission required. Credits: 5.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 1/14 Tags: n/a
AS.373.212 (01)	Second Year Heritage Chinese II	MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Zhao, Nan	Krieger 308	Spring 2026	Description: For students who have significant previously-acquired ability to understand and speak Modern Standard Chinese. Course focuses on reading and writing. Teaching materials are the same as used in AS.373.115-116; however, both traditional and simplified versions of written Chinese characters are used. Continuation of AS.373.211. Recommended Course Background: AS.373.211 or permission required. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/12 Tags: n/a
AS.373.216 (01)	Second Year Chinese II	MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, TTh 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Wang, Qian; Yang, Shuyi	Krieger 308; Krieger 306	Spring 2026	Description: Consolidation of the foundation that students have laid in their first year of study and continued drill and practice in the spoken language, with continued expansion of reading and writing vocabulary and sentence patterns. Students will work with both simplified and traditional characters. Note: Students who have native-like abilities in comprehension and speaking should take AS.373.211-212. Recommended Course Background: AS.373.215 or Permission Required. Cross-listed with East Asian Studies Credits: 5.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 5/12 Tags: n/a
AS.373.216 (02)	Second Year Chinese II	MWF 1:30PM - 2:20PM, TTh 1:30PM - 2:20PM	Wang, Qian; Yang, Shuyi	Krieger Laverty; Gilman 313	Spring 2026	Description: Consolidation of the foundation that students have laid in their first year of study and continued drill and practice in the spoken language, with continued expansion of reading and writing vocabulary and sentence patterns. Students will work with both simplified and traditional characters. Note: Students who have native-like abilities in comprehension and speaking should take AS.373.211-212. Recommended Course Background: AS.373.215 or Permission Required. Cross-listed with East Asian Studies Credits: 5.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 7/12 Tags: n/a
AS.373.314 (01)	Third Year Heritage Chinese II	MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Wang, Qian	Krieger 504	Spring 2026	Description: This course is a continuation of AS.373.313. Students need to have native-level fluency in speaking and understanding Chinese. The course focuses on reading and writing. In addition to the textbooks, downloaded articles on current affairs may also be included on a regular basis. Recommended Course Background: AS.373.313 or Permission Required. Lab required. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 7/12 Tags: n/a
AS.373.316 (01)	Third Year Chinese II	MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Yang, Shuyi	Krieger Laverty	Spring 2026	Description: This two-semester course consolidates and further expands students' knowledge of grammar and vocabulary and further develops reading ability through work with textbook material and selected modern essays and short stories. Class discussions will be in Chinese insofar as feasible, and written assignments will be given. Continuation of AS.373.315. Recommended Course Background: AS.373.315 or permission required. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/16 Tags: n/a
AS.373.416 (01)	Fourth Year Chinese II	MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Wang, Qian	Krieger 504	Spring 2026	Description: Continuation of AS.373.415. Readings in modern Chinese prose, including outstanding examples of literature, newspaper articles, etc. Students should understand most of the readings with the aid of a dictionary, so that class discussion need not focus primarily on detailed explanations of grammar. Discussion, to be conducted in Chinese, will concentrate on the cultural significance of the readings' content. Recommended Course Background: AS.373.415 or Permission Required. Cross-listed with East Asian Studies Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 1/6 Tags: n/a
AS.378.116 (01)	First Year Japanese II	MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM, TTh 10:30AM - 11:20AM	Tasho, Emi	Krieger 300; Maryland 217	Spring 2026	Description: This course is designed for students who have no background or previous knowledge in Japanese. The course consists of lectures on Tuesday/Thursday and conversation classes on Monday/Wednesdays/Fridays. The goal of the course is the simultaneous progression of four skills (speaking, listening, writing, and reading) as well as familiarity with aspects of Japanese culture. By the end of the fall term, students will have basic speaking and listening comprehension skills, a solid grasp of basic grammar items, reading and writing skills, and a recognition and production of approximately 60 kanji in context. Knowledge of grammar will be expanded significantly in 2nd year Japanese. May not be taken Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. Recommended Course Background: AS.378.115 Credits: 5.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 2/16 Tags: n/a
AS.378.116 (02)	First Year Japanese II	TTh 1:30PM - 2:20PM, MWF 1:30PM - 2:20PM	Tasho, Emi	Krieger 309; Shaffer 202	Spring 2026	Description: This course is designed for students who have no background or previous knowledge in Japanese. The course consists of lectures on Tuesday/Thursday and conversation classes on Monday/Wednesdays/Fridays. The goal of the course is the simultaneous progression of four skills (speaking, listening, writing, and reading) as well as familiarity with aspects of Japanese culture. By the end of the fall term, students will have basic speaking and listening comprehension skills, a solid grasp of basic grammar items, reading and writing skills, and a recognition and production of approximately 60 kanji in context. Knowledge of grammar will be expanded significantly in 2nd year Japanese. May not be taken Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. Recommended Course Background: AS.378.115 Credits: 5.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/16 Tags: n/a
AS.378.216 (01)	Second Year Japanese II	MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM, TTh 10:30AM - 11:20AM	Nakao, Makiko	Gilman 77; Gilman 313	Spring 2026	Description: Continuation of Beginning Japanese and Intermediate Japanese I. Training in spoken and written language, increasing students' knowledge of more complex patterns. At completion, students will have a working knowledge of about 250 Kanji. Recommended Course Background: AS.378.215 or equivalent. Credits: 5.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/8 Tags: n/a
AS.378.216 (02)	Second Year Japanese II	MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM, TTh 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Nakao, Makiko	Gilman 77; Gilman 313	Spring 2026	Description: Continuation of Beginning Japanese and Intermediate Japanese I. Training in spoken and written language, increasing students' knowledge of more complex patterns. At completion, students will have a working knowledge of about 250 Kanji. Recommended Course Background: AS.378.215 or equivalent. Credits: 5.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 3/8 Tags: n/a
AS.378.316 (01)	Third Year Japanese II	MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Nakao, Makiko	Krieger 517	Spring 2026	Description: Emphasis shifts toward reading, while development of oral-aural skills also continues apace. The course presents graded readings in expository prose and requires students to expand their knowledge of Kanji, grammar, and both spoken and written vocabulary. Lab required. Continuation of AS.378.315. Recommended Course Background: AS.378.315 or equivalent. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/6 Tags: n/a
AS.378.416 (01)	Fourth Year Japanese II	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Tasho, Emi	Krieger 517	Spring 2026	Description: By using four skills in participatory activities (reading, writing, presentation, and discussion), students will develop reading skills in modern Japanese and deepen and enhance their knowledge on Kanji and Japanese culture. Lab required. Recommended Course Background: AS.378.415 Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 4/6 Tags: n/a
AS.380.102 (01)	First Year Korean II	MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, TTh 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Kim, Soo Yun Lee	Krieger 504; Krieger 504	Spring 2026	Description: Focuses on improving speaking fluency to Limited Proficiency so that one can handle simple daily conversations with confidence. It provides basic high-frequency structures and covers Korean holidays. Continuation of AS.380.101. Recommended Course Background: AS.380.101 or permission required. Credits: 5.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 6/16 Tags: n/a
AS.380.202 (01)	Second Year Korean II	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, TTh 10:30AM - 11:20AM	Kim, Soo Yun Lee	Krieger 517; Krieger 517	Spring 2026	Description: Aims for improving writing skills with correct spelling. Reading materials of Korean people, places, and societies will enhance cultural understanding and awareness, including discussion on family tree. Continuation of AS.380.201. Recommended Course Background: AS.380.201 or equivalent. Credits: 4.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 15/16 Tags: n/a
AS.380.302 (01)	Third Year Korean II	MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Kim, Soo Yun Lee	Krieger 521	Spring 2026	Description: Emphasizes reading literacy in classic and modern Korean prose. By reading Korean newspapers and professional articles in one’s major, it enables one to be well-versed and truly literate. Continuation of AS.380.301. Cross-listed with East Asian Studies Prerequisite: AS.380.301 or equivalent. Credits: 3.00 Status: Closed Seats Available: 6/8 Tags: n/a
AS.190.224 (85)	The Politics and Society of E. Asia	MTWThF 10:30AM - 12:00PM	Yasuda, John Kojiro	Online	Summer 2026	Description: This introductory course seeks to examine the politics of China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan as part of a distinct region. We will seek to understand how individual polities responded to regional developments and trends, such as the tide of colonialism, socialism, regional economic developments, and democracy. The course will introduce students to the most pressing questions concerning the rise of China, the future of the innovation economy, and intra-regional tensions. Credits: 3.00 Status: Canceled Seats Available: 25/25 Tags: POLI-CP, INST-CP
AS.001.294 (01)	FYS: Living and Writing Across Cultures	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Hashimoto, Satoru	Gilman 108	Fall 2026	Description: Many of us live across multiple cultures, but those real, visceral experiences often go unrecognized or even suppressed in our everyday lives. Whether stemming from migration, relocation, family backgrounds, or even the global ubiquity of social media and pop culture content, more people are living cross-cultural lives than ever before. And yet, the existing vocabularies appear quite inadequate to grasp the nuances, challenges, and complexities of those lives. Going beyond overused notions like cosmopolitanism, multiculturalism, and cultural hybridity, we explore in this First-Year Seminar what it means for us as individuals to live and exist across multiple cultures and consider the roles reading and writing play in making sense of such lives. What happens to us when we cross a cultural boundary? How have cross-cultural experiences been written about and conceptualized in different civilizations and periods of human history? How do economic and political circumstances influence those experiences? How do the transformation of information and media technologies shape them? We examine literary, philosophical, ethnographic, cinematic, and other artistic works from different civilizations and historical periods that engage with cross-cultural lives. Based on discussions of those texts, students are invited to explore their own cross-cultural experiences through writing and other creative media. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 12/12 Tags: n/a
AS.010.373 (01)	Art and Politics in Modern China	TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Liu, Mia Yinxing	Gilman 119	Fall 2026	Description: Art has always been intertwined with politics; one can even say art is always political. In modern China, this statement is especially poignant. The relationship between art and politics has been at the core of art production in China in the past century, and a perennial preoccupation of those in power, including now. This course will therefore examine three major threads: the documents, dictums, and decrees by the artists and by the regimes concerning the nature, function, and practice of art and artists in the 20th century, for example, Mao’s famous Yan’an talk in 1942; artists’ response to and art’s participation in the important political events and historical moments, for example, the 1989 democracy movement; we will also examine the space of resistance, intervention, and alterity that art created in modern China, concerning topics of gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, ecocriticism, privacy, and questions of historiography. The period we examine will begin at the end of the 19th century when artists struggled with a crumbling empire facing the onslaught of modernity, to the present. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: HART-MODERN, INST-CP
AS.010.386 (01)	Modern Art in a Global Frame	MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM	Brown, Rebecca Mary	Gilman 186	Fall 2026	Description: This course will grapple with modern art as it emerges in critically important locations around the world over the course of the twentieth century, with an emphasis on Asia, Africa, and South America. Anti-colonial movements, national formations, geopolitical alliances, institution-building, exhibition, fair, and biennial histories, art group manifestos, and the intertwined relations of race, ethnicity, Indigeneity, gender, class, and sexuality. Museum visits to view works of art in person will be incorporated into the course. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: HART-MODERN
AS.010.451 (01)	Script, Character, Scribble: Writing and Pseudo-Writing in Modern and Contemporary Art	M 4:30PM - 7:00PM	Brown, Rebecca Mary	Gilman 177	Fall 2026	Description: Almost readable, but not quite: artists in the twentieth and twenty-first century played with script of all kinds, from ancient glyphs and Persian script to Roman typefaces and Korean Hangul. Artists also scribbled in ways that evoke writing without script or meaning. This course takes on the question of meaning-making in art through the form of script—flirting with that tantalizing feeling that we can almost read the work of art through the marks on its surface. We will engage with artists from around the world whose work grapples with knowledge, meaning, and script, and discuss the limits and possibilities of legibility, knowing, and language. In addition to painting and drawing, we will also discuss conceptual art, installation, video, architecture, tapestry, ceramics, graphic novel forms, book arts, and sculpture. We will have opportunities to situate these works within longer histories of script and pseudo-script and image-text relations. Our discussion-driven seminars will be guided by readings in art history and theory. The course carries no expectation that you are multi-lingual or have experience with multiple scripts. Central to our semester will be group trips to see art in person in DC and Baltimore. Assignments include an option for short, focused writing with feedback and opportunities to experiment with genre and to rewrite, or a longer seminar paper, chosen in consultation with the professor. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/8 Tags: HART-MODERN
AS.100.347 (01)	Early Modern China	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Rowe, William T	Gilman 17	Fall 2026	Description: The history of China from the 16th to the late 19th centuries. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 7/25 Tags: INST-GLOBAL, HIST-ASIA
AS.100.422 (01)	Society & Social Change in 18th Century China	W 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Rowe, William T	Gilman 381	Fall 2026	Description: What did Chinese local society look like under the Qing Empire, and how did it change over the early modern era? Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/12 Tags: INST-GLOBAL, HIST-ASIA
AS.180.214 (01)	The Economic Experience of the BRIC Countries	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Dasgupta, Somasree	Wyman Park N105	Fall 2026	Description: In 2001, Jim O’Neill, the Chief Economist at Goldman Sachs, coined the acronym BRIC to identify the four large emerging economies, Brazil, Russia, India and China. These economies had an amazing run for the next decade, and emerged as the biggest and fastest growing emerging markets. However, since 2014 there has been some divergence in the BRICs’ economic performance. In this course, we look at the economic experiences of the BRIC countries for the past several decades. We discuss the reasons that contributed to their exceptional growth rates, with particular emphasis on their transformation into market economies, and the reasons for their eventual divergence. We also analyze some of the challenges that these countries continue to face in their development process. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/20 Tags: INST-ECON, INST-CP, CES-FT, CES-PD
AS.180.214 (02)	The Economic Experience of the BRIC Countries	TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Dasgupta, Somasree	Gilman 132	Fall 2026	Description: In 2001, Jim O’Neill, the Chief Economist at Goldman Sachs, coined the acronym BRIC to identify the four large emerging economies, Brazil, Russia, India and China. These economies had an amazing run for the next decade, and emerged as the biggest and fastest growing emerging markets. However, since 2014 there has been some divergence in the BRICs’ economic performance. In this course, we look at the economic experiences of the BRIC countries for the past several decades. We discuss the reasons that contributed to their exceptional growth rates, with particular emphasis on their transformation into market economies, and the reasons for their eventual divergence. We also analyze some of the challenges that these countries continue to face in their development process. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/20 Tags: INST-ECON, INST-CP, CES-FT, CES-PD
AS.192.345 (01)	Trade Wars: Easy to Win, Good, or Fantastically Disruptive?	M 1:00PM - 3:30PM	Dore, Giovanna Maria Dora	Mergenthaler 266	Fall 2026	Description: Changing technologies, economic and market conditions challenge the international system of rules governing trade and make it more susceptible to the possibility of trade wars. This course will take an interdisciplinary approach toward understanding current trade wars and the world trading system. You will learn what international trade policy is about, why it becomes politicized, how trade policies are formulated in the U.S., the European Union and East Asian countries, especially China, and how current trade policies are governed by international agreements and laws (i.e., the WTO). Along the way, the course will explore current trade trends and how they affect consumers, workers, firms, and industries globally, as well as whether trade wars boost the fortunes of countries/regions that remain outside the fray, have shaped and changed relationships among world’s big and small trade partners, aided or damaged bilateral, multilateral trade agreements, or the relevance of the WTO. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 12/15 Tags: INST-ECON, CES-FT, CES-LSO
AS.220.220 (01)	Reading Korean Literature in Translation: A Survey	Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Kim, Kyeong-Soo	Gilman 75	Fall 2026	Description: An introduction for students unfamiliar with the Korean language but interested in Korean culture / literature. Students will read a variety of translated texts, especially of works written in the 20th and early 21st centuries by authors including Kim Tong-in, Hwang Sun-wŏn, Pak Wansŏ, Hwang Sŏk-yŏng and Han Kang; there will also be classes on traditional sijo poetry. Students will become familiar with Korean literary genres and formal features, and develop a broad understanding of the historical and sociocultural context of Korean literature. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 3/15 Tags: WRIT-FICT, WRIT-READ
AS.230.377 (01)	Health disparities in America	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Hagos, Rama Michael	Bloomberg 278	Fall 2026	Description: This course evaluates contemporary health disparities in the United States through a sociological lens. In particular, this course examines how social positions, such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and socioeconomic status, shape health patterns in the U.S. population. Students will learn how health disparities are defined and measured, potential causes, and strategies to mitigate observed health inequities. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 16/20 Tags: n/a
AS.310.202 (01)	Introduction to Korean Culture	MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM	Kim, Sujung	Mergenthaler 426	Fall 2026	Description: From North Korea’s nuclear threat to South Korea’s K-pop, Korea is constantly in the US media. But how much do you know about Korea? This introductory course is designed to introduce students to the long and complex cultural history of Korea. While focusing on key aspects in shaping premodern and modern Korean identity, the course also places Korea in a larger cross-national context, particularly its close interactions with China and Japan. Reading primary and secondary sources combined with visual materials, the course chronologically and thematically examines major historical moments, from Korea’s participation in and exit from a Sino-centric premodern world order, Japanese colonialism and its ramifications in Korean society, economic development and democratization, to the global popularity of Korean popular culture. Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/18 Tags: INST-CP
AS.310.305 (01)	China, Southeast Asia, and U.S. National Security	T 1:30PM - 4:00PM	Ott, marvin C	Mergenthaler 266	Fall 2026	Description: The global political and security landscape of the 21st century will be shaped by the rivalry between two superpowers -- China and the U.S. For the foreseeable future, the geographic focus of that contest will be Southeast Asia and the surrounding maritime space, particularly the South China Sea. Southeast Asia is a complex, highly differentiated region of ten-plus nations, each with its own unique history and relationship with China. This course will introduce Southeast Asia as a key region -- geographically, economically, and strategically -- often overlooked by policymakers and scholars. It will also focus on the craft of national security strategy as the best tool for understanding the multi-sided competition, already well underway involving China, the U.S., and the Southeast Asian states. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 6/15 Tags: INST-CP, INST-IR, CES-FT, CES-LE, CES-LSO
AS.310.332 (01)	Ethnicity in China	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Henning, Stefan	Ames 320	Fall 2026	Description: Ever since the Chinese Empire fell in 1911, Chinese have tried to think of themselves as modern and to build a modern Chinese state. Among the Western concepts that Chinese appropriated to define and comprehend themselves were the notions of ethnicity, culture, nationality, and race. We will try to answer the following questions: What was the allure of arcane and elusive Western categories on culture, ethnicity, and race for Chinese scientists in the 20th century, and how did these categories come to underpin the rule of the Chinese state over its enormous population since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949? How have the Chinese state’s policies on nationality and ethnicity shaped the minds of American China scholars as they study ethnicity and nationality in China? Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/15 Tags: INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL, CES-RI
AS.310.336 (01)	Rebellion and Its Enemies in China Today	TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM	Henning, Stefan	Gilman 313	Fall 2026	Description: On 13 October 2022, a middle-aged upper-middle class Chinese man staged a public political protest on an elevated road in Beijing. Peng Lifa, or “Bridge Man,” as he has become known in allusion to Tank Man from the Tiananmen demonstrations in 1989, demanded elections and reforms. How have urban Chinese been able to be so content or even happy despite their lack of political freedom? The class readings will introduce you to different kinds of activists who have confronted the authoritarian state since the late 1990s, among them human rights lawyers, reporters, environmental activists, feminists, religious activists, and labor activists. We will ask whether freedom, an obviously Western notion, is useful as an analytical category to think about China. Does freedom translate across the West/non-West divide? Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 2/15 Tags: INST-CP, CES-LSO
AS.310.431 (01)	Senior Thesis Seminar: East Asian Studies	W 9:00AM - 11:30AM	Yasuda, John Kojiro	Mergenthaler 252	Fall 2026	Description: The East Asian Studies Senior Honors Thesis Seminar is a workshop for EAS majors writing an honors thesis. It is a year-long course with meetings scheduled in both the fall and spring semesters. Please note that in order to qualify for honors in the major, the thesis must receive a final grade of A- or better. Students will receive credit for the seminar regardless of whether their thesis qualifies for honors. Credits: 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 8/10 Tags: n/a
AS.310.501 (01)	Independent Study - East Asia		Dore, Giovanna Maria Dora		Fall 2026	Description: Students carry out an independent research project involving East Asia. Credits: 1.00 - 3.00 Status: Approval Required Seats Available: 10/10 Tags: n/a
AS.373.111 (01)	First Year Heritage Chinese	MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Zhao, Nan	Maryland 217	Fall 2026	Description: This course is designed for students who were raised in an environment in which Chinese is spoken by parents or guardians at home and for those who are familiar with the language and possess native-like abilities in comprehension and speaking. The course therefore focuses on reading and writing (including the correct use of grammar). Cross-listed with East Asian Studies Credits: 3.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/19 Tags: n/a
AS.373.115 (01)	First Year Chinese	MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, TTh 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Yang, Shuyi; Zhao, Nan	Maryland 202; Maryland 217	Fall 2026	Description: This course is designed primarily for students who have no prior exposure to Chinese. The objective of the course is to help students build a solid foundation of the four basic skills---listening, speaking, reading, and writing in an interactive and communicative learning environment. The emphasis is on correct pronunciation, accurate tones and mastery of basic grammatical structures. Note: Students with existing demonstrable skills in spoken Chinese should take AS.373.111-112. No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory. Cross-listed with East Asian Studies Credits: 5.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 3/19 Tags: n/a
AS.373.115 (02)	First Year Chinese	MWF 1:30PM - 2:20PM, TTh 3:00PM - 3:50PM	Yang, Shuyi; Zhao, Nan	Krieger 308; Krieger 300	Fall 2026	Description: This course is designed primarily for students who have no prior exposure to Chinese. The objective of the course is to help students build a solid foundation of the four basic skills---listening, speaking, reading, and writing in an interactive and communicative learning environment. The emphasis is on correct pronunciation, accurate tones and mastery of basic grammatical structures. Note: Students with existing demonstrable skills in spoken Chinese should take AS.373.111-112. No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory. Cross-listed with East Asian Studies Credits: 5.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 7/16 Tags: n/a
AS.373.211 (01)	Second Year Heritage Chinese	MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Zhao, Nan	Maryland 217	Fall 2026	Description: This course is designed for students who finished AS.373.112 with C+ and above (or equivalent). Students in this course possess native-like abilities in comprehension and speaking. The course focuses on reading and writing. Cross-listed with East Asian Studies Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 8/16 Tags: n/a
AS.373.215 (01)	Second Year Chinese	MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, TTh 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Wang, Qian; Yang, Shuyi	Maryland 309; Krieger 306	Fall 2026	Description: Consolidation of the foundation that students have laid in their first year of study and continued drill and practice in the spoken language, with continued expansion of reading and writing vocabulary and sentence patterns. Students will work with both simplified and traditional characters. Note: Students who have native-like abilities in comprehension and speaking should take AS.373.211-212. Cross-listed with East Asian Studies Credits: 5.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 9/16 Tags: n/a
AS.373.215 (02)	Second Year Chinese	MWF 1:30PM - 2:20PM, TTh 1:30PM - 2:20PM	Wang, Qian; Yang, Shuyi	Krieger 307; Maryland 309	Fall 2026	Description: Consolidation of the foundation that students have laid in their first year of study and continued drill and practice in the spoken language, with continued expansion of reading and writing vocabulary and sentence patterns. Students will work with both simplified and traditional characters. Note: Students who have native-like abilities in comprehension and speaking should take AS.373.211-212. Cross-listed with East Asian Studies Credits: 5.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 10/16 Tags: n/a
AS.373.313 (01)	Third Year Heritage Chinese	MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Wang, Qian	Shaffer 301	Fall 2026	Description: This course is designed for those who have already taken AS.373.212 or equivalent. Students need to have native-level fluency in speaking and understanding Chinese. The course focuses on reading and writing. In addition to the textbooks, downloaded articles on current affairs may also be introduced on a regular basis. Cross-listed with East Asian Studies Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 11/16 Tags: n/a
AS.373.315 (01)	Third Year Chinese	MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Yang, Shuyi	Krieger 307	Fall 2026	Description: This two-semester course consolidates and further expands students' knowledge of grammar and vocabulary and further develops reading ability through work with textbook material and selected modern essays and short stories. Class discussions will be in Chinese insofar as feasible and written assignments will be given. Cross-listed with East Asian Studies Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 11/16 Tags: n/a
AS.373.415 (01)	Fourth Year Chinese	MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM	Wang, Qian	Krieger 307	Fall 2026	Description: This course is designed for students who finished AS.373.316 with a C+ or above (or equivalent). Readings in modern Chinese prose, including outstanding examples of literature, newspaper articles, etc. Students are supposed to be able to understand most of the readings with the aid of a dictionary, so that class discussion is not focused primarily on detailed explanation of grammar. Discussion, to be conducted in Chinese, will concentrate on the cultural significance of the readings' content. Cross-listed with East Asian Studies Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 8/16 Tags: n/a
AS.373.491 (01)	5th Year Chinese	TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM	Zhao, Nan	Maryland 217	Fall 2026	Description: Fifth Year Chinese is designed for students who finished fourth year regular or third year heritage Chinese course at JHU or its equivalent and wish to achieve a higher advanced proficiency level in Chinese. The goal of the course is to help students further develop their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills cohesively and to enhance students’ understanding of Chinese culture and society through language learning. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 13/16 Tags: n/a
AS.378.115 (01)	First Year Japanese	MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM, TTh 10:30AM - 11:20AM	Tasho, Emi	Krieger 302; Krieger 307	Fall 2026	Description: This course is designed for students who have no background or previous knowledge in Japanese. The course consists of two components: lectures and conversation practicums to ensure the simultaneous progression of four skills (speaking, listening, writing, and reading) . Students participate in speaking exercises and pair/group activities, engaging in interactions within an immersive learning environment. By the end of the semester, students: 1) Can read and write Hiragana/Katakana symbols, and approximately 60 Kanji; 2) Can conjugate verbs, adjectives, and nouns into past tense as well as present tense in their long form; 3) Can create sentences to incorporate locations and time with particles, 4) Can talk about themselves using familiar tangible topics in single subject sentences. No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory. Credits: 5.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 2/16 Tags: n/a
AS.378.115 (02)	First Year Japanese	MWF 1:30PM - 2:20PM, TTh 1:30PM - 2:20PM	Tasho, Emi	Krieger 302; Maryland 109	Fall 2026	Description: This course is designed for students who have no background or previous knowledge in Japanese. The course consists of two components: lectures and conversation practicums to ensure the simultaneous progression of four skills (speaking, listening, writing, and reading) . Students participate in speaking exercises and pair/group activities, engaging in interactions within an immersive learning environment. By the end of the semester, students: 1) Can read and write Hiragana/Katakana symbols, and approximately 60 Kanji; 2) Can conjugate verbs, adjectives, and nouns into past tense as well as present tense in their long form; 3) Can create sentences to incorporate locations and time with particles, 4) Can talk about themselves using familiar tangible topics in single subject sentences. No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory. Credits: 5.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 11/16 Tags: n/a
AS.378.115 (03)	First Year Japanese	MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, TTh 1:30PM - 2:20PM	Tasho, Emi	Maryland 109; Maryland 109	Fall 2026	Description: This course is designed for students who have no background or previous knowledge in Japanese. The course consists of two components: lectures and conversation practicums to ensure the simultaneous progression of four skills (speaking, listening, writing, and reading) . Students participate in speaking exercises and pair/group activities, engaging in interactions within an immersive learning environment. By the end of the semester, students: 1) Can read and write Hiragana/Katakana symbols, and approximately 60 Kanji; 2) Can conjugate verbs, adjectives, and nouns into past tense as well as present tense in their long form; 3) Can create sentences to incorporate locations and time with particles, 4) Can talk about themselves using familiar tangible topics in single subject sentences. No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory. Credits: 5.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 4/16 Tags: n/a
AS.378.215 (01)	Second Year Japanese	MWF 11:00AM - 11:50AM, TTh 10:30AM - 11:20AM	Nakao, Makiko	Krieger 300; Maryland 202	Fall 2026	Description: The goal of the course is the simultaneous progression of four skills as well as familiarity with aspects of Japanese linguistics and culture that are necessary for language competency. Students participate in speaking exercises and pair/group activities, engaging in interactions within an immersive learning environment. By the end of the semester, students: 1) Can read and write a short paragraph with Hiragana, Katakana and approximately 200 Kanji; 2) Can use short forms and long forms whenever necessary; 3) Can talk about other people than themselves (3rd person) by using structures such as a quote and a conjecture; 4) Can expand their conversation using a reason and a contrast. Credits: 5.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 14/16 Tags: n/a
AS.378.215 (02)	Second Year Japanese	MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM, TTh 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Nakao, Makiko	Shaffer 002; Krieger 306	Fall 2026	Description: The goal of the course is the simultaneous progression of four skills as well as familiarity with aspects of Japanese linguistics and culture that are necessary for language competency. Students participate in speaking exercises and pair/group activities, engaging in interactions within an immersive learning environment. By the end of the semester, students: 1) Can read and write a short paragraph with Hiragana, Katakana and approximately 200 Kanji; 2) Can use short forms and long forms whenever necessary; 3) Can talk about other people than themselves (3rd person) by using structures such as a quote and a conjecture; 4) Can expand their conversation using a reason and a contrast. Credits: 5.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 7/16 Tags: n/a
AS.378.315 (01)	Third Year Japanese	MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Nakao, Makiko	Maryland 114	Fall 2026	Description: This course is designed for students who have completed AS.378.216. The course aims to develop communicative skills through participatory activities and to establish a solid linguistic foundation in the basic Japanese grammar patterns. By the end of the semester, students: 1) Can read and write a short paragraph with Hiragana, Katakana and approximately 340 Kanji; 2) can have a command using the basic patterns including the passive and causative; 3) Can explain and describe a simple and familiar subject using multiple sentences; 4) Can create an engaging two-way exchange including follow-ups. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 9/16 Tags: n/a
AS.378.415 (01)	Fourth Year Japanese	TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM	Tasho, Emi	Krieger 304	Fall 2026	Description: The course promotes the development of effective communication and collaborative skills, while nurturing learning autonomy. The course builds advanced Japanese skills that can be applied to real-life issues and problems through participatory activities. By the end of the semester, students: 1) Can read and write multiple paragraphs with Hiragana, Katakana, and approximately 550 Kanji; 2) Can summarize news stories related to Japan and provide their opinions; 3) Can give a presentation on a topic of their interests and provide the facts and their viewpoints; 4) Can enhance a discussion by posing an opposite point of view as well as acknowledging others’ opinions. Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 11/12 Tags: n/a
AS.380.101 (01)	First Year Korean	MWF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, TTh 9:00AM - 9:50AM	Kim, Soo Yun Lee	Krieger 308; Krieger 302	Fall 2026	Description: Introduces the Korean alphabet, hangeul. Covers basic elements of the Korean language, high-frequency words and phrases, including cultural aspects. Focuses on oral fluency reaching Limited Proficiency where one can handle simple daily conversations. No Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory. Cross-listed with East Asian Studies Credits: 5.00 Status: Waitlist Only Seats Available: 0/18 Tags: n/a
AS.380.201 (01)	Second Year Korean	MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, TTh 10:30AM - 11:20AM	Kim, Soo Yun Lee	Krieger 308; Maryland 114	Fall 2026	Description: Aims for improving oral proficiency and confident control of grammar with vocabulary building and correct spelling intended. Reading materials of Korean people, places, and societies will enhance cultural understanding and awareness. Project due on Korean cities. Existing demonstrable skills in spoken Korean preferred. Credits: 4.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 8/16 Tags: n/a
AS.380.301 (01)	Third Year Korean	MWF 12:00PM - 12:50PM	Kim, Soo Yun Lee	Shriver Hall 104	Fall 2026	Description: Emphasizes reading literacy in classic and modern Korean prose, from easy essays to difficult short stories. Vocabulary refinement and native-like grasp of grammar explored. Project due on Korean culture. Cross-listed with East Asian Studies Credits: 3.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 12/16 Tags: n/a
AS.380.401 (01)	Fourth Year Korean	MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM	Kim, Soo Yun Lee	Krieger 517	Fall 2026	Description: This course is designed for those who have finished AS 380.302 or beyond advanced mid level of competency in Korean in four skills. By dealing with various topics on authentic materials including news, articles on websites, short stories, this course aims to help students enhance not only linguistics knowledge and skills, but also current issues in Korea. It is expected that, by the end of the term, students will be able to discuss a variety of topics and express opinions fluently in both spoken and written language. Credits: 2.00 Status: Open Seats Available: 11/12 Tags: n/a