Fall 2020 Courses

Fall 2020

The Department of Transnational Asian Studies offers a comprehensive selection of courses designed to give our undergraduates an overview of the geography, history, people and their movements, and cultures of Asia. Many of our courses are also cross-listed with other departments and/or offer distribution credit, making our courses strong choices for majors and non-majors alike.

Did you know that courses not listed as ASIA might still count toward the Asian Studies major? If you are interested in a course covering Asia-related topics being offered in another department, reach out to our Director of Undergraduate Studies, Steven W. Lewis, to have it approved for ASIA credit. Some courses already approved are listed under "Non-ASIA Courses" below.

ASIA Courses

Course Title and Instructor(s) Distribution Day and Time Format
ASIA 305 ETHNOGRAPHY IN/OF HOUSTON ASIA
Cheuk, Ka-Kin
II M 5:15-7:45pm Fully Online
ASIA 315 GENDER AND ISLAM
Shehabuddin, Rahnuma
W 1:30-4:00pm Fully Online
ASIA 322 INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHISM
Klein, Anne C.
I TTh 3:10-4:30pm Fully Online
ASIA 323 ART AND RELIGION IN ASIA
Huang, Shih-Shan S. & Huntington, Eric R.
T 3:10-5:40pm Fully Online
ASIA 334 TRADITIONAL CHINESE TALES
Qian, Nanxiu
W 5:15-7:45pm Fully Online
ASIA 335 CLASSICAL CHINESE NOVELS
Qian, Nanxiu
I TTh 1:30-2:50pm Fully Online
ASIA 355 CINEMA AND THE CITY
Oukaderova, Lida
I Th 1:30-4:00pm Fully Online
ASIA 356/556 GENOMIC GOVERNANCE IN ASIA
Visweswaran, Kamala
M 1:30-4:00pm Fully Online
ASIA 372 CHINESE ART AND VISUAL CULTURE
Huang, Shih-Shan S.
I W 1:30-4:00pm Fully Online
ASIA 378 CROSS-CULTURAL ASIAN MUSIC
Chen, Shih-Hui
I TTh 11:20am-12:40pm Fully Online

Non-ASIA Courses

Course Title and Instructor(s) Distribution Day and Time Format
ENGL 376 SOUTHEAST ASIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
Wood, Alden S.
I TTh 4:50-6:10pm Fully Online
FWIS 125 YOUR ARABIAN NIGHTS
Sanders, Paula
MW 5:15-6:35pm Fully Online
HART 385 ARCHITECTURE AND LITERATURE
IN ISLAMIC CULTURES
Emami, Farshid
M 1:30-4:00pm
HIST 271 HISTORY OF SOUTH ASIA
Balabanlilar, Lisa A.
I MWF 11:00-11:55am
HIST 278 MODERN ARAB HISTORY
Makdisi, Ussama
I MWF 11:00-11:55am Fully Online
HIST 342 MODERN CHINA
Barlow, Tani
I MWF 4:00-4:55pm Fully Online
HIST 436 AMERICA IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Makdisi, Ussama
W 1:30-4:00pm Fully Online
RELI 223 QUR'AN AND COMMENTARY
Cook, David B.
MWF 11:00-11:55am
RELI 234 INTERMEDIATE TIBETAN LANGUAGE,
LITERATURE & CULTURE
Klein, Anne C.
I TTh 4:50-6:10pm Fully Online
RELI 378 BUDDHIST ART AND LITERATURE
Foote, Learned M.
I MW 2:45-4:05pm
RELI 442 ARABIC TEXTS
Cook, David B.
TBA Fully Online