Sample Courses
As part of a large public research university, the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES) is dedicated to increasing awareness and learning about Asia and the Middle East among the public as a whole. We offer a diverse selection of graduate courses every semester.
View a list of current and upcoming courses in Schedule Builder or in ClassInfo.
View a list of our recently taught courses below:
- 5211 Introductory Classical Chinese I
- 5212 Introductory Classical Chinese II
- 5221 Pedagogy for Less Commonly Taught Languages
- 5277 Space and Modernity in Asia
- 5351 Chinese New Media
- 5358 Revolutionary Cinema: Realism, Revolution, and the Moving Image
- 5359 Early Shanghai Film Culture
- 5374 The Monkey King and Transcultural China
- 5433 Women’s Writing in Premodern Japan in Translation
- 5436 Literature by 20th-Century Japanese Women in Translation
- 5446 Kabuki: A Pop, Queer, and Classical Theater in Japan
- 5486 Images of “Japan”
- 5620 Topics in South Asian Culture: South Asian Cinema and Media
- 5636 South Asian Women Writers
- 5672 Buddhism
- 5820 Topics in Arab Culture: Minorities in Asia and the Middle East
- 5820 Topics in Arab Culture: Arab Prison Writing
- 5866 Gender and Sexuality in Modern Arabic Literature
- 5868 Culture and Society of the Arabian Peninsula
- 5900 Topics in Asian Literature
- 5920 Topics in Asian Culture: Media Theory and Fan Culture
- 5920 Topics in Asian Culture: Language Politics Across Asia
- 5920 Topics in Asian Culture: Literature and Justice in South Asia
- 5920 Topics in Asian Culture: Visuality and Japanese Modernity
- 5920 Topics in Asian Culture: Taiwan Film
- 5920 Topics in Asian Culture: “Cross-Gender" Performance in Japanese Theater
- 5920 Topics in Asian Culture: Media and Public Culture in Modern South Asia
- 8001 Critical Approaches to Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
- 8002 Research Seminar (topics vary)
- 8920 Topics in Asian Culture: Seminar in Japanese Cultural and Literary Studies