This course completes the presentation of basic structures of the language. There is continued emphasis on oral communication, with practice in reading simple texts and acquisition of an additional 500 Chinese characters by the end of the term. ARTS 103, Arts of Asia P. Kaimal Arts of Asia, like ARTS 101 and 102, is an introduction to the field of art history as well as a survey of the architecture, sculpture and painting of Asia. Through Asian art from Neolithic times to the present, from China, India, Japan, Persia, Korea, Central Asia, Java, Cambodia and Vietnam, this course demonstrates what distinguishes these artistic cultures from each other and from various European artistic traditions. This course also introduces the vocabulary, techniques and patterns of thinking students will need in advanced art history courses.
Priority is given to first-year students and sophomores.
This study of East Asian paintings and woodblock prints from China's Han Dynasty to twentieth-century Japan includes discussion of the impact of the artists social status on works of art and the nature of Japans reinterpretation of Chinese forms. This course studies the experiences and struggles of Asian-Americans in their search for their hyphenated identities and their place in the United States. An introduction to the traditional structure and organization of knowledge in China and Japan provides the background for exploring contemporary issues in Chinese and Japanese education and schooling. Asian American Literature L. Philip A study of Asian American literature and its major themes. Works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by contemporary Asian American writers are studied and placed in the larger context of American literature.