Spring 2025 Courses

Spring 2025

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 even if you aren't majoring or minoring in Asian Studies.

Did you know that courses offered outside our department might still count toward the Asian Studies major and minor? If you are interested in a course covering Asia-related topics being offered in another department, reach out to our Director of Undergraduate Studies, Sonia Ryang, to have it approved for ASIA credit. Some courses already approved are listed under "Non-department Courses" below. This list will be updated periodically, so check back often.

Department Courses

	Course		Title	Instructor(s)	Day/Time
	ARAB 142		FIRST YEAR ARABIC II	Elsherbiny, Hossam	MWF 9:00-9:50 AM
	ARAB 264	D1	SECOND YEAR ARABIC II	Elsherbiny, Hossam	MWF 10:00-10:50 AM
	ARAB 301	D1	THIRD YEAR ARABIC I	Elsherbiny, Hossam	MWF 11:00-11:50 AM
	ASIA 205	D1	EAST ASIAN FOOD HISTORY	Schoenberger, Casey	MWF 10:00-10:50 AM
	ASIA 214	D1	EAST ASIAN ART & WORLD CULTURAL HERITAGE SITES Approved for the HART major and minor, MDEM major and minor, and MUCH minor	Huang, Susan	TTh 2:30-3:45 PM
	ASIA/MDHM 216	D1	QUACKS AND WONDER DRUGS: A HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN CHINA	Xu, Chang	MWF 1:00-1:50 PM
	ASIA 233	D1	LAW AND SOCIETY IN ASIA: CONFUCIAN LAW, ISLAMIC LAW, AND MODERNIZATION Approved for the PLST minor	Kim, Jaymin	TTh 2:30-3:45 PM
	ASIA 237	D1	TRADITIONAL JAPANESE POETRY AND PERFORMING ARTS	Schoenberger, Casey	MWF 3:00-3:50 PM
	ASIA 238		EAT, PREY, LOVE: HUMAN-ANIMAL RELATIONS IN ASIA Approved for the ENST minor	Xu, Chang	MWF 11:00-11:50 AM
	ASIA 295	D1	INTRODUCTION TO TRANSNATIONAL ASIAN STUDIES	Lu, Sidney Ryang, Sonia	TTh 1:00-2:15 PM
	ASIA 296		ASIAN STUDIES LAB	Ryang, Sonia	Tues 4:30-5:30 PM
	ASIA 310		ASIA BORDERLANDS: FROM FRONTIERS TO BORDERLANDS	Kim, Jaymin	TTh 9:25-10:40 AM
	ASIA/RELI 322	D1	INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHISM	Klein, Anne	TTh 4:00-5:15 PM
	ASIA/HART 371	D1	HOW TO READ CHINESE PAINTING	Huang, Susan	TTh 4:00-5:15 PM
	ASIA/POLI 377		CHINESE POLITICS	Lewis, Steven W.	Wed 7:00-9:50 PM
	ASIA/MUSI 378	D1	CLASSICAL, CONTEMPORARY, AND CROSS-CULTURAL ASIAN MUSIC	Chen, Shih-Hui	Thurs 4:00-6:20 PM
	ASIA 488		ASIA AND ENERGY Approved for the Science and Technology Studies minor	Lewis, Steven W.	Thurs 7:00-9:50 PM
	CHIN 141		FIRST YEAR CHINESE I	Hsu, Wei-Li	MWF 2:00-2:50 PM
	CHIN 142 2 Sections		FIRST YEAR CHINESE II	Yeh, Meng Yeh, Meng	MWF 10:00-10:50 AM MWF 11:00-11:50 AM
	CHIN 264	D1	SECOND YEAR CHINESE II	Fu, Liang	MWF 10:00-10:50 AM
	CHIN 302	D1	THIRD YEAR CHINESE II	Fu, Liang	MWF 11:00-11:50 AM
	CHIN 311	D1	ACCELERATED INTERMEDIATE CHINESE I	Hsu, Wei-Li	MWF 12:00-12:50 PM
	CHIN 319	D1	SPECIAL TOPICS - MEDICAL CHINESE: CHINESE FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONS	Fu, Liang	MWF 2:00-2:50 PM
	CHIN 402		FOURTH YEAR CHINESE II	Hsu, Wei-Li	MWF 1:00-1:50 PM
	HIST 320	D1	IMPERIAL PLEASURE GARDENS	Balabanlilar, Lisa	MW 4:00-5:15 PM
	JAPA 142 3 Sections		FIRST YEAR JAPANESE II	Takayama, Hiromi Takayama, Hiromi Takayama, Hiromi	MWF 10:00-10:50 AM MWF 11:00-11:50 AM MWF 2:00-2:50 PM
	JAPA 238		SPECIAL TOPICS - JAPANESE VOICES ON THE MARGINS: JAPANESE LANGUAGE IN COMMUNITY, MEDIA, AND ART	Suzuki, Mamiko	MW 4:00-5:15 PM
	JAPA 264 2 Sections	D1	SECOND YEAR JAPANESE II	Ozaki, Naoko Ozaki, Naoko	MWF 9:00-9:50 AM MWF 10:00-10:50 AM
	JAPA 302 2 Sections	D1	THIRD YEAR JAPANESE II	Suzuki, Mamiko Suzuki, Mamiko	MWF 10:00-10:50 AM MWF 11:00-11:50 AM
	JAPA 402		FOURTH YEAR JAPANESE II	Ozaki, Naoko	MWF 11:00-11:50 AM
	KORE 106		ACCELERATED FIRST YEAR KOREAN	Oh, Eun Young	MWF 2:00-2:50 PM
	KORE 142		FIRST YEAR KOREAN II	Oh, Eun Young	MWF 11:00-11:50 AM
	KORE 264 2 Sections	D1	SECOND YEAR KOREAN II	Choi, Jaesu Choi, Jaesu	MWF 9:00-9:50 AM MWF 11:00-11:50 AM
	KORE 302	D1	THIRD YEAR KOREAN II	Oh, Eun Young	MWF 1:00-1:50 PM
	KORE 401		CURRENT ISSUES IN KOREA	Choi, Jaesu	MWF 10:00-10:50 AM

Non-Department Courses

Course		Title	Instructor(s)	Day/Time
ENGL 383	D1	GLOBAL FICTIONS	Abdali, Zainab	MWF 1:00-1:50 PM
HIST 342	D1	MODERN CHINA	Barlow, Tani	MW 4:00-5:15 PM
HIST 378	D1	MODERN ARAB HISTORY	Takriti, Abdel Razzaq	TTh 1:00-2:15 PM
HIST 436		AMERICA IN THE MIDDLE EAST	Citino, Nathan	Wed 1:00-3:30 PM
PHIL 289	D1	HISTORY OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY	Schroeder, Timothy	TTh 9:25-10:40 AM
RELI 332	D1	ADVANCED TIBETAN LANGUAGE & CULTURE	Klein, Anne	Wed 4:00-6:50 PM
RELI 442		ARABIC TEXTS	Cook, David	TBD
SPAN 335		ASIAN LATIN(X) AMERICAN ENCOUNTERS	Park, Paula	TTh 9:25-10:40 AM