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