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Minor in Global Studies: Asia

University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science 85 courses

About This Program

As interactions between states, societies, and cultures increase, so do the responses to these interactions multiply. The Global Studies major allows students to explore such interactions and their outcomes. By bringing in both historical and contemporary material, the major provides students with the tools that they need in order to make sense of the world in which they liveβ€”as well as understanding how it got to be that way. Students pursuing an undergraduate degree in global studies will engage in thinking critically about how global change has (and can) come about during their lifetimes. The major aims to have students focus on relevant issues to them in a way that provides intellectual flexibility. The major will offer solid training in how to use acquired knowledge to become agents of positive change on the global issues that matter most to people here, and elsewhere around the world. Global Studies Major The Global Studies major requires students to choose a concentration and a geographic region in which to become an expert. It connects this regional specialization to language training. Global Studies majors will choose one of three concentrations: (1) Global Development, (2) Global Peace and Conflict, or (3) Global Societies and Cultures. This will allow students to focus their studies on a specific aspect of the β€œglobal.” At the same time, those pursuing this major will choose one of five regions (Asia, Africa, Europe/Russia, The Americas or the Middle East) in...

Degree Requirements

Minor Requirements: Asia

Complete all of the following.

Code Course Title Credits
GLOBAL 110Q Asia In Global Context 3

Minor Requirements: Area Courses

Complete at least 3 of the following. No more than two courses may be taken from the same department for the Area and Disciplinary requirements.

Code Course Title Credits
ANTHRO 170 China 4
ANTHRO 171 Japan 4
ANTHRO 184 South Asia 4
ANTHRO C125A Archaeology of East Asia 4
ASAMST 126 Southeast Asian Migration and Community Formation 4
BUDDSTD 114 Tibetan Buddhism 4
BUDDSTD 128 Buddhism in Contemporary Society 4
BUDDSTD C115 Buddhism and its Culture in Japan 4
BUDDSTD C116 Buddhism in China 4
BUDDSTD C117 Mongolian Buddhism 4
BUDDSTD C120 Buddhism on the Silk Road 4
BUDDSTD C140 Readings in Chinese Buddhist Texts 4
BUDDSTD C141 Introductory Readings in Kanbun 4
CHINESE 101 Fourth-Year Chinese Readings: Literature 4
CHINESE 102 Fourth-Year Chinese Readings: Social Sciences and History 4
CHINESE 111 Fifth-Year Readings: Reading and Analysis of Advanced Chinese Texts 4
CHINESE 112 Fifth-Year Readings: Chinese for Research and Professional Use 4
CHINESE 122 Ancient Chinese Poetry 4
CHINESE 134 Readings in Classical Chinese Poetry 4
CHINESE 153 Reading Taiwan 4
CHINESE 155 Readings in Vernacular Chinese Literature 4
CHINESE 157 Contemporary Chinese Literature 4
CHINESE 158 Reading Chinese Cities 4
CHINESE 172 Contemporary Chinese Language Cinema 4
CHINESE 176 Bad Emperors: Fantasies of Sovereignty and Transgression in the Chinese Tradition 4
CHINESE 178 Traditional Chinese Drama 4
CHINESE 179 Exploring Premodern Chinese Novels 4
CHINESE 180 The Story of the Stone 4
CHINESE 186 Confucius and His Interpreters 4
CHINESE C116 Buddhism in China 4
CHINESE C140 Readings in Chinese Buddhist Texts 4
CHINESE C184 Sonic Culture in China 4
EALANG 101 Catastrophe, Memory, and Narrative: Comparative Responses to Atrocity in the Twentieth Century 4
EALANG 105 Dynamics of Romantic Core Values in East Asian Premodern Literature and Contemporary Film 4
EALANG 108 Revising the Classics: Chinese and Greek Poetry in Translation 4
EALANG 109 History of the Culture of Tea in China and Japan 4
EALANG 118 Sex and Gender in Premodern Chinese Culture 4
EALANG C120 Buddhism on the Silk Road 4
EALANG C175 Archaeology of East Asia 4
ECON 162 The Chinese Economy 3
GEOG 164 Global China 3
GLOBAL 121 India in Global Studies 4
GLOBAL 143Q Contentious History and Memory: Comfort Women Issues in Japan and Korea 6
HISTART 130A Early Chinese Art, Part I 4
HISTART 134A Topics in Buddhist Art and Architecture: Buddhist Temple Art & Architecture in Japan 4
HISTART 136A South Asian Art: Ancient 4
HISTART 134C Topics in Buddhist Art and Architecture: Buddhist Art in the Modern/Contemporary World 4
HISTORY 111B Topics in the History of Southeast Asia: Modern Southeast Asia 4
HISTORY 111C Topics in the History of Southeast Asia: Political and Cultural History of Vietnam 4
HISTORY 111D Vietnam at War 4
HISTORY 113B Modern Korean History 4
HISTORY 114A Politics, Culture, and Philosophy in South Asia before Modernity 4
HISTORY 114B India: Modern South Asia 4
HISTORY 116C China: Modern China 4
HISTORY 116D China: Twentieth-Century China 4
HISTORY 116G Imperial China and the World 4
HISTORY 117A Topics in Chinese History: Chinese Popular Culture 4
HISTORY 118C The Twentieth Century in Japan 4
HISTORY 119A Topics in Japanese History: Postwar Japan 4
HISTORY N119A Postwar Japan 4
JAPAN C115 Buddhism and its Culture in Japan 4
JAPAN C141 Introductory Readings in Kanbun 4
LEGALST 153 Law and Society in Asia 4
LEGALST 161 Law in Chinese Society 4
MONGOLN C117 Mongolian Buddhism 4
MUSIC 131A Music of India 4
MUSIC 133C Music and Theater in Southeast Asia 4
MUSIC 134A Music of the East Asia Tradition 4
MUSIC 134B Music of Japan 4
MUSIC C134C Sonic Culture in China 4
POLSCI 128 Chinese Foreign Policy 4
POLSCI 143A Northeast Asian Politics 4
POLSCI 143B Japanese Politics 4
POLSCI 143C Chinese Politics 4
POLSCI 143D Democracy and China 4
POLSCI 143E The Political Economy of China 4
POLSCI 144 American Foreign Policy Toward Asia 4
POLSCI 144B Politics of Divided Korea 4
POLSCI 145A South Asian Politics 4
POLSCI 145B South Asian Politics 4
POLSCI 149E Special Topics in Area Studies 4
SEASIAN 148 Philippines: History, Literature, Performance 4
SEASIAN 150 Southeast Asian Mythology 4
SEASIAN 160 Philippine Cultural Politics 4

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