Our society-culture courses offer humanities-based reflections on themes and historical periods related to one or more regions of East Asia.
They are aimed at deepening and expanding the critical concepts and skills introduced in our gateway course sequence (EAS103/105/209), and, at the upper levels, encourage students to undertake reference-based research and writing.
For a list of EAS society-culture courses, please select the appropriate tabs below:
These courses introduce broad themes and historical periods related to one or more regions of East Asia. These courses continue to promote the core concepts and skills as first introduced in our gateway courses (EAS103/105/209), aimed to help students undertake reference-based research work and to prepare students for upper-level courses.
Our 200-level Society-Culture courses are below (please note that they are not all offered every year—please refer to the A&S Timetable for current courses):
These courses consist of more closely defined topics that bring about more depth and nuance of knowledge. They have a greater emphasis on writing, the use of critical concepts, and in-depth engagement with the material. Most courses will involve both lecture-based content and classroom discussion, although the exact proportion will vary from course to course. 300-level courses are typically limited to 50 students (the prerequisite is EAS105).
Our 300-level Society-Culture courses are below (please note that they are not all offered every year—please refer to the A&S Timetable for current courses):
These courses are seminars that deal with more specialized subjects that are often connected to a faculty’s research. They require extensive reading, writing, and in-class discussion. In most cases, they also require from the student a research paper that develops original ideas about the material. 400-Level society-culture courses are limited to 20-25 students (the prerequisite for all of them is EAS209).
Our 400-level Society-Culture courses are below (please note that they are not all offered every year—please refer to the A&S Timetable for current courses):