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Bard College Catalogue 2009-2010
2009-2010
Asian Studies
http://asian.bard.edu FacultySanjaya DeSilva (director), Michiko Baribeau, Sanjib Baruah, Ian Buruma, Robert J. Culp, Richard H. Davis, Mercedes Dujunco*, Patricia Karetzky, Laura Kunreuther, Hoyt J. Long, Kristin Scheible, Andrew Schonebaum, Yuka Suzuki**, Li-Hua Ying
* leave of absence, fall 2009
** leave of absence, 2009–10 OverviewAsian Studies is a program that draws from courses in literature, history, politics, music, art history, anthropology, religion and economics. With program faculty, students select a regional and disciplinary focus to create a coherent program of study. Although the program focuses on China, Japan, South and Southeast Asia, students can investigate other regions. Intellectual emphasis is placed on comparative perspectives, both within Asia and with other regions.RequirementsBefore Moderation, students in Chinese and Japanese studies are expected to have taken at least one year of Chinese or Japanese language and at least two courses cross-listed with Asian Studies. One of these courses should be in their field of future interest, which may be any of the disciplines taught in the Division of Arts, Languages and Literature, or Social Studies. All other Asian studies students should take four courses cross-listed with the Asian Studies Program.
For graduation, students in Chinese and Japanese studies focusing on language and literature should complete at least three years of language study in either Chinese or Japanese and four courses cross-listed with Asian studies. Of these, at least two courses should be on the literature of the student’s primary region, one course on the literature of another part of East Asia, and one course in non-Asian literature, preferably oriented toward literary theory. Students in Chinese and Japanese studies focusing on the arts and/or social studies should complete at least two years of language study in either Chinese or Japanese and five courses cross-listed with Asian studies. Of these, at least two courses should be in the primary discipline and region. At least one other course should be on the primary region of interest, plus one course in the primary discipline but that considers an area outside of Asia. Students of Chinese and Japanese studies should incorporate materials involving either language into their Senior Projects. All other Asian studies students are expected to take a minimum of 40 credits in Asian Studies. Of these, one course must be an Asian studies core course treating an aspect of Asia in comparative perspective. The Senior Project topic may be specific to a particular culture or may be comparative. CoursesA sampling of Asian studies courses offered in the last few years includes courses from the Division of the Arts (East Meets West, Arts of China, Arts of India, Arts of Japan); Division of Languages and Literature (Chinese Diaspora, Modern Chinese Fiction, Representations of Tibet, Confucius and Socrates, Japanese Translation, Natsume Soseki, Imagining Environment in East Asia, Indian Fiction); and the Division of Social Studies (Cultural Politics of the Raj, South Asia and the Ethnographic Imagination, Asian Economic History, China in the Eyes of the West, Introduction to Modern Japanese History, China in Revolution, Hindu Religious Traditions, Buddhist Thought and Practice, Women and Buddhism).
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