The following courses may be offered by the department. Not all courses are offered every year. Please consult the department's website for a current course listing.
Cultural Studies
| Course Code | Course Title |
|---|---|
EAS1101Y | Classical Chinese I |
EAS1102H | Classical Chinese II (prerequisite: EAS110Y1; exclusion: EAS458H1) |
| EAS1103Y | Introduction to Classical Japanese |
EAS1177H | Chinese Cultural and Historical Studies |
EAS1180H | Environmental Criticism |
EAS1335H | Violence, Justice, the Human |
| EAS1336H | Memory and Trauma in Critical East Asian Historical Perspective |
| EAS1337H | Diaspora and Transpacific Studies |
EAS1339H | Topics in Chinese Art Theories |
EAS1419H | Chinese Cultural Studies Seminar: May Fourth |
EAS1432H | Korean Cultural Studies Seminar |
EAS1436H | Rethinking Realism in 20th Century Korea |
EAS1439H | Crisis, Population, Archive |
| EAS1445H | On the Organic: Land and Labour Power |
EAS1447H | Sound Studies and Modern Japan |
EAS1449H | Future, Architecture, Japan |
EAS1475H | Contemporary Cultural Theories |
EAS1477H | Samurai Culture (exclusion: EAS477H1) |
| EAS1530H | Sound Matters |
EAS2020H | Critical Approaches to East Asia |
| EAS2323H | Rethinking Chinese Cultural History |
History
| Course Code | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EAS1130H | Rethinking China's Cultural Revolution: History, Politics, and Theory |
EAS1140Y | From Republic to People's Republic: The Chinese Revolution from 1895 to the Present |
| EAS1173H | Modern Korean History Seminar |
| EAS1173Y | Modern Korean History Seminar |
| EAS1174Y | Rethinking Empire in East Asia |
EAS1176H | Comparative Historical Socialisms in East Asia and Beyond |
| EAS1411H | Art and Archaeology of Early China |
EAS1412H | Special Topics in Archaeology of Ancient China |
EAS1425H | Critique of Everyday Life and Capitalism |
| EAS1426H | Transition, Subjectivity, Revolution |
| EAS1427H | The Production of Difference and the Logic of Capital |
EAS1446H | The Communist Hypothesis and Asia (exclusion: EAS446H1) |
| EAS1466H | History, Everyday Life, and North Korea |
| EAS1471H | Issues in Political Economy of South Korea |
| EAS1472H | Cold War in the Pacific |
| EAS1496H | History of the Chinese Book |
| EAS1543H | Empire, Ethnicity, and Translation in Inner Asian and Chinese History |
Language
| Course Code | Course Title |
|---|---|
EAS1115Y | Reading Japanese for Graduate Purposes (Credit/No Credit) |
EAS1301Y | Modern Standard Japanese I (Credit/No Credit) |
EAS1302Y | Modern Standard Japanese II (Credit/No Credit) |
EAS1303Y | Modern Standard Japanese III (Credit/No Credit) |
| EAS1304H | Modern Standard Japanese IVa (Credit/No Credit) |
EAS1305H | Modern Standard Japanese IVb (Credit/No Credit) |
EAS1321H | Japanese I for Students with Prior Background (Credit/No Credit) |
EAS1322H | Modern Standard Japanese II Prior Background (Credit/No Credit) |
EAS1621Y | Modern Standard Korean I (Credit/No Credit) |
EAS1622Y | Modern Standard Korean II (Credit/No Credit) |
| EAS1623Y | Modern Standard Korean III (Credit/No Credit) |
| EAS1631Y | Accelerated Modern Standard Korean 1 and 2 (Credit/No Credit) |
EAS1632H | Accelerated Modern Standard Korean 2 (Credit/No Credit) |
EAS1801Y | Modern Standard Chinese I (Credit/No Credit) |
EAS1802Y | Modern Standard Chinese II (Credit/No Credit) |
EAS1803Y | Modern Standard Chinese III (Credit/No Credit) |
EAS1811Y | Modern Standard Chinese I for Students With Background in Chinese (Credit/No Credit) |
EAS1814H | Modern Standard Chinese IVa (Credit/No Credit) |
EAS1815H | Modern Standard Chinese IVb (Credit/No Credit) |
Literature
| Course Code | Course Title |
|---|---|
EAS1137H | Chinese Poetics |
| EAS1137Y | Chinese Poetics |
| EAS1151H | Chinese Poetry I |
| EAS1152H | Chinese Poetry II |
EAS1182H | Writing as Technology in Modern China |
| EAS1408H | Identity and Diaspora in Modern Taiwanese Literature |
EAS1417H | Korean Literary Translation |
EAS1437H | Mid-century Modernism in the Koreas: Literature, War, and Decolonization |
EAS1444H | The City, Body, and Text in Modern Japanese Literature |
EAS1468H | Mahayana Sutra Literature |
EAS1538H | Writing Women in Premodern China |
| EAS1541H | A Comparative History of Reading in East Asia and Beyond |
| EAS1542H | Manchu Language and History |
| EAS1550H | Hong Kong Literature |
COL5101H | Diasporic Cities: Itinerant Narratives of Metropoles by Travellers and Expatriates |
JLA5082H | The Rhetoric of Photography |
Philosophy and Religion
| Course Code | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EAS1407H | Textual Analysis of Classical Chinese Philosophy |
POL2416Y | Politics and Society in Contemporary China |
Research Seminars
| Course Code | Course Title |
|---|---|
EAS1100H | Special Topics in Chinese Studies |
| EAS1100Y | Special Topics in Chinese Studies |
EAS1116H | Special Topics in Chinese Culture |
| EAS1116Y | Special Topics in Chinese Culture |
EAS1143H | Topics in Medieval China |
EAS1150H | Reading and Major Research Paper |
| EAS1150Y | Reading and Major Research Paper |
EAS1163H | Special Topics in Korean Studies |
EAS1250Y | MA Thesis (Credit/No Credit) |
EAS1300H | Special Topics in Japanese Studies |
EAS1313Y | Japanese Source Materials and Reference Works |
EAS1323Y | Readings in Japanese Documentary Source Materials |
EAS1497H | Special Topics in East Asian Studies |
EAS1999Y | East Asian Studies Bibliography, Reference, and Research Methodology |