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 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