Rice Course Schedule, Fall 2003
Asian Studies (ASIA)
Rice Course Schedule as of 11/06/2003.
This schedule is maintained by the Office of the Registrar
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NOTE: Course web pages are available for some ASIA courses.
ASIA 170 THE ARTS OF CHINA Credits 3.00 Fall 03
Introduction to history of the visual arts in China in the Bronze Age to the
present. We will pay special attention to the artworks' physical and social
contexts (e.g. tomb, temple, court, literati's garden and studio, city,
nation-state). Topics include: funerary art and the imagination of the
afterlife, art and imperial cosmology, the rise of literati aesthetics,
relationship between landscape painting and calligraphy, and the emergence of
propoganda and avant-garde in Modern China. Also offered as HART 170.
001 SH 305 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Nakatani, H Enr: 0 Max: NA
ASIA 211 INTRODUCTION TO ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS Credits 3.00 Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP I
Introduction to the great cultural traditions of Asia, past and present, with
emphasis on evolving religious and philosophical traditions, artistic and
literary achievements, and patterns of political, social, and economic change.
Also offered as HIST 206. Enrollment is limited to 70.
001 HUM 117 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Klein, Anne C. Enr: 32 Max: 50
Shehabuddin, Elora
Thal, Sarah
ASIA 231 THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF THE BODY Credits 3.00 Fall 03
Beginning with a historical survey of the American metaphysical tradition, this
course turns to a close study of the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California,
as a unique window into some of the different ways the tradition has
appropriated Asian religions, psychological models of the unconscious, and
contemporary scientific paradigms. Also offered as RELI 231.
001 RH 121 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Kripal, Jeffrey Enr: 5 Max: NA
ASIA 332 CHINESE FILMS AND MODERN CHINESE LITERAT Credits 3.00 Fall 03
Exploration of modern Chinese literature though the visual imagery of Chinese
films. Includes an analysis using literary history and narrative structure to
link film adaptations to their original texts
in Chinese fiction, with
emphasis on narratology and movie theory. Films, subtitled in English, shown
outside of class. All reading in English translation. No previous knowledge
of Chinese literature or language required. Also offered as CHIN 332.
001 RH 106 - TTH 02:30PM - 03:50PM Qian, Nanxiu Enr: 8 Max: NA
ASIA 335 INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL CHINESE NOVELS Credits 3.00 Fall 03
Examination of the basic characteristics of classical Chinese novels, primarily
through six important works from the 16th to 18th centuries: Water Margin,
Monkey, Golden Lotus, Scholars, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and Dream of the
Red Chamber. Also offered as CHIN 335.
001 RH 304 - TTH 10:50AM - 12:05PM Qian, Nanxiu Enr: 2 Max: NA
ASIA 361 THE ORIENTAL RENAISSANCE Credits 3.00 Fall 03
This course will explore the European and American encounters with India from
seventeenth-century France to twentieth-century America. Particular attention
will be given to the translation of Sanskrit texts, the English and German
Roman traditions, the depth psychology of C.G. Jung, and the American New Age.
Also offered as RELI 361/501
001 HUM 226 - TTH 01:00PM - 02:20PM Kripal, Jeffrey Enr: 4 Max: NA
ASIA 366 TOPICS IN AMERICAN LIT: THE ASIAN AMERIC Credits 3.00 Fall 03
Topics in American Literature: The Asian American Novel. This course surveys
the thematics and historical contexts of Asian American literary traditions. We
read a range of texts, from the late nineteenth century to the present,
emphasizing the novel but also including some short fiction. We start in Gold
Rush California, move to early Chinese America, then to mid-century Chinatown,
and World War II and Japanese internment. The largest part of the course deals
in Civil Rights inspired literatures, and this backdrop also informs the
course's concluding look at recent texts that work from new and different
political and literary paradigms. Also offered as ENGL 366.
001 HUM 118 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Comer, Krista Enr: 7 Max: NA
ASIA 369 FILM, LITERATURE, AND THE JAPANESE PAST Credits 3.00 Fall 03
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Every day, we retell our past to find meaning in our present. Authors and film
directors in Japan have shaped national identities, created moral ideas, made
sense of the horrors of war, and articulated new visions of the future-- all
through artistic reinterpretations of historical themes. In this class, we will
examine both these allusions to the past and the uses to which they have been
put in Japanese film and literature over the years. Also offered as HIST 369.
Enrollment is limited to 20.
001 HUM 119 - TTH 09:25AM - 10:40AM Thal, Sarah Enr: 2 Max: 15
ASIA 401 INDEPENDENT STUDY Credits Fall 03
Reading or research project to be determined by discussions between student(s)
and faculty member(s).
Prereq- Consent of instructor.
001 TBA - TBA Yeh, Meng Enr: 0 Max: 0
002 TBA - TBA Staff Enr: 2 Max: NA
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