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 among the public as a whole. We offer a diverse selection of graduate courses every semester. View a list of our courses below:

• 5211 Introductory Classical Chinese I
• 5212 Introductory Classical Chinese II
• 5220 Pedagogy of Asian Languages and Literatures
• 5261 Work of Translation: Theory, Function, and Practice
• 5265 Traditional Poetics and Aesthetics in East Asia
• 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”
• 5636 South Asian Women Writers
• 5672 Buddhism
• 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: 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: Secrecy in Japanese Esoteric Texts
• 5920 Topics in Asian Culture: Japanese Feminisms
• 5920 Topics in Asian Culture: Media and Public Culture in Modern South Asia
• 5990 Directed Study
• 8001 Critical Approaches to Asian Literary and Cultural Studies
• 8002 Critical Approaches to Asian Studies (topics vary)
• 8920 Topics in Asian Culture: "Gendering" in Premodern Japan: AnOther Philosophy