Themes vary from year to year but may include Asian cities, heroic ideals, village and family life, population growth, gender roles, and medicine and healing traditions. Required for Asian Studies majors. Seminar The seminar intensively studies topics in Asian Studies. These courses offer an introduction to speaking, reading and writing Chinese, as well as mastery of basic grammar and command of 500 characters for reading and writing. Class meets five hours weekly, including two hours of drill sections.
Language laboratory is required.
Chinese 111 or equivalent is prerequisite to 112. This course is an overview of women's experience in modern and contemporary China through the eyes of Chinese women writers. Special emphasis is given on women's changing status in the family, on society's attitude towards women, and on women's self-awareness. Offered during Interim. Contemporary China through Film Students study basic concepts and approaches of film analysis, while examining aesthetics, themes, and techniques of masterworks directed by Chinese Fifth Generation directors.