Complete List of Graduate Courses
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
| EAS 1101Y | Classical Chinese I |
| EAS 1102H | Classical Chinese II (prerequisite: EAS110Y1; exclusion: EAS458H1) |
| EAS 1103Y | Introduction to Classical Japanese |
| EAS 1118H | Translation and Modernity |
| EAS 1177H | Chinese Cultural and Historical Studies |
| EAS1180H | Environmental Criticism |
| EAS 1181H | Questioning Humanities: 20th Century China |
| EAS1335H | Violence, Justice, the Human |
| EAS 1337H | Diaspora and Transpacific Studies |
| EAS1339H | Topics in Chinese Art Theories |
| EAS 1419H | Chinese Cultural Studies Seminar: May Fourth |
| EAS1424H | Multitude, Labour Power, Population |
| EAS1432H | Korean Cultural Studies Seminar |
| EAS1433H | Surplus Populations in East Asia and in Theory |
| EAS1435H | Crisis, Repetition, and History |
| EAS1436H | Rethinking Realism in 20th Century Korea |
| EAS1439H | Crisis, Population, Archive |
| EAS 1441H | Advanced Topics in Japanese Cinema |
| EAS1447H | Sound Studies and Modern Japan |
| EAS1449H | Future, Architecture, Japan |
| EAS1474H | US and Canada’s Wars in East Asia |
| EAS 1475H | Contemporary Cultural Theories |
| EAS 1477H | Samurai Culture (exclusion: EAS477H1) |
| EAS2020H | Critical Approaches to East Asia |
| EAS2323H | Rethinking Chinese Cultural History |
History
| EAS 1130H | Rethinking China’s Cultural Revolution: History, Politics, and Theory |
| EAS 1140Y | From Republic to People’s Republic: The Chinese Revolution from 1895 to the Present |
| EAS 1175H | 20th Century East Asia in Comparative World History |
| EAS 1176H | Comparative Historical Socialisms in East Asia and Beyond |
| EAS1297H | Texts, Images, and Objects in East Asia |
| EAS1409H | Cities in Premodern China |
| EAS 1411H | Art and Archaeology of Early China |
| EAS 1412H | Special Topics in Archaeology of Ancient China |
| EAS1173H,Y | Modern Korean History Seminar |
| EAS 1174Y | Rethinking Empire in East Asia |
| EAS 1425H | Critique of Everyday Life and Capitalism |
| EAS 1429H | Topics in Marxism and Japan |
| EAS 1430H | Introduction to the Countryside |
| EAS 1431H | Mass Culture, Capitalist Crisis, Fascism in Modern Japan |
| EAS 1434H | Karatani’s The Structure of World History and the Politics of Marx |
| EAS 1446H | The Communist Hypothesis and Asia (exclusion: EAS446H1) |
| EAS 1466H | History, Everyday Life, and North Korea |
| EAS 1471H | Issues in Political Economy of South Korea |
| EAS 1496H | History of the Chinese Book |
Language
| EAS 1115Y | Reading Japanese for Graduate Purposes (Credit/No Credit) |
| EAS1263H | Classical Japanese I |
| EAS 1301Y | Modern Standard Japanese I (Credit/No Credit) |
| EAS 1302Y | Modern Standard Japanese II (Credit/No Credit) |
| EAS 1303Y | Modern Standard Japanese III (Credit/No Credit) |
| EAS1304H | Modern Standard Japanese IVa (Credit/No Credit) |
| EAS1305H | Modern Standard Japanese IVb (Credit/No Credit) |
| EAS 1321H | Japanese I for Students with Prior Background (Credit/No Credit) |
| EAS1322H | Modern Standard Japanese II Prior Background (Credit/No Credit) |
| EAS 1621Y | Modern Standard Korean I (Credit/No Credit) |
| EAS 1622Y | Modern Standard Korean II (Credit/No Credit) |
| EAS 1623Y | Modern Standard Korean III (Credit/No Credit) |
| EAS 1624Y | Modern Standard Korean IV (Credit/No Credit) |
| EAS 1626Y | Academic and Professional Korean (Credit/No Credit) |
| EAS 1631Y | Accelerated Modern Standard Korean 1 and 2 (Credit/No Credit) |
| EAS1632H | Accelerated Modern Standard Korean 2 (Credit/No Credit) |
| EAS 1801Y | Modern Standard Chinese I (Credit/No Credit) |
| EAS 1802Y | Modern Standard Chinese II (Credit/No Credit) |
| EAS 1803Y | Modern Standard Chinese III (Credit/No Credit) |
| EAS 1804Y | Modern Standard Chinese IV (Credit/No Credit) |
| EAS 1811Y | Modern Standard Chinese I for Students With Background in Chinese (Credit/No Credit) |
| EAS 1812H | Modern Standard Chinese II for Students With Background in Chinese (Credit/No Credit) |
| EAS 1814H | Modern Standard Chinese IVa (Credit/No Credit) |
| EAS 1815H | Modern Standard Chinese IVb (Credit/No Credit) |
Literature
| EAS1137H,Y | Chinese Poetics |
| EAS 1151H | Chinese Poetry I |
| EAS 1152H | Chinese Poetry II |
| EAS 1182H | Writing as Technology in Modern China |
| EAS 1345H | Readings in Japanese Literary Criticism |
| EAS 1408H | Identity and Diaspora in Modern Taiwanese Literature |
| EAS 1417H | Korean Literary Translation |
| EAS 1437H | Mid-century Modernism in the Koreas: Literature, War, and Decolonization |
| EAS 1444H | The City, Body, and Text in Modern Japanese Literature |
| EAS 1467H | Photographic Narratives of Japan |
| EAS 1468H | Mahayana Sutra Literature |
| EAS 1538H | Writing Women in Premodern China |
| COL 5101H | Diasporic Cities: Itinerant Narratives of Metropoles by Travellers and Expatriates |
| JLA 1456H | Japan As Seen By ?: Reference, Apparatus, Operation |
| JLA 5082H | The Rhetoric of Photography |
Philosophy and Religion
| EAS1225H | Self-Cultivation and Health in Chinese Philosophy |
| EAS1226H | Topics in Modern Chinese Philosophy |
| EAS1227H | Topics in Chinese Religions |
| EAS1229H | Topics in Chinese Aesthetics |
| EAS1407H | Textual Analysis of Classical Chinese Philosophy |
| EAS1438H | New Approaches to Classical Daoism |
| EAS1455H | Classical Confucianism (exclusion: EAS455H1) |
| EAS 1601Y | Seminar in East Asian Buddhism |
Politics
| POL 2416Y | Politics and Society in Contemporary China |
Research Seminars
| EAS1100H,Y | Special Topics in Chinese Studies |
| EAS1116H,Y | Special Topics in Chinese Culture |
| EAS 1143H | Topics in Medieval China |
| EAS1150H,Y | Reading and Major Research Paper |
| EAS 1163H | Special Topics in Korean Studies |
| EAS 1250Y | MA Thesis (Credit/No Credit) |
| EAS 1300H | Special Topics in Japanese Studies |
| EAS 1313Y | Japanese Source Materials and Reference Works |
| EAS 1320Y | Special Topics in Japanese Culture |
| EAS 1323Y | Readings in Japanese Documentary Source Materials |
| EAS 1497H | Special Topics in East Asian Studies |
| EAS 1999Y | East Asian Studies Bibliography, Reference, and Research Methodology |