East Asian Studies Major Requirements

East Asian Studies is a strong and vibrant program at UC Davis. Our faculty research and teach across the disciplines from the Humanities and Social Sciences to the various other sciences. Disciplines include Anthropology, Art History, Agriculture and Plant Sciences, Geology, History, Sociology, Psychology, Political Science, Literature, Nutrition and more.

REQUIREMENTS

Lower Division:

Upper Division:

• Depth Subject Matter Requirement - Choose 24 units from:

• ANTHROPOLOGY 

  ANT 134 - Buddhism in Global Culture
  ANT 137 - Meditation and Culture
  ANT 143A - Ethnology of Southeast Asia
  ANT 148A - Culture and Political Economy in Contemporary China

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  ART HISTORY

  AHI 157: Buddhist Art (Same as RST 171)
  AHI 163A - Early Chinese Art
  AHI 163B - Chinese Painting
  AHI 163C - Early Modern Chinese Painting 
  AHI 163D: Art from China 1900 to the Present 
  AHI 164 - The Arts of Japan 
  AHI 190F - Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: Chinese 
  AHI 190G - Undergraduate Seminar in Art History: Japanese 

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  CHINESE

  CHN 100A - Chinese Intellectual Traditions: Daoist Traditions 
  CHN 100B - Confucian Traditions 
  CHN 101 - Chinese Film 
  CHN 102 - Chinese American Literature (In English) 
  CHN 103 - Modern Chinese Drama 
  CHN 104 - Modern Chinese Fiction (in English)
  CHN 105 - Western Influences on Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature (in English)
  CHN 106 - Chinese Poetry (in English) 
  CHN 107 - Traditional Chinese Fiction (in English) 
  CHN 108 - Poetry of China and Japan (in English) 
  CHN 109A - Topics in Chinese Literature; Crime and Punishment 
  CHN 109C - Topics in Chinese Literature; Women Writers (in English) 
  CHN 109D - Topics in Chinese Literature; The Knight-Errant (in English) 
  CHN 109E - Topics in Chinese Literature; The City in Fiction (in English)
  CHN 109G - Topics in Chinese Literature; The Literature of Twentieth-Century Taiwan (in English) 
  CHN 109H - Topics in Chinese Literature; Popular Literature (in English) 
  CHN 109I - Topics in Chinese Literature; Scholar & The Courtesan (in English) 
  CHN 110: Great Writers of China: Texts & Context (in English) 

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  COMMUNITY & REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 

  CRD 153A - International Community Development: Asia

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  COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

  COM 110 - Hong Kong Cinema
  COM 112: Japanese Cinema
  COM 153 - The Forms of Asian Literature

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  DESIGN 

  DES 142A - World Textiles: Eastern Hemisphere

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  DRAMATIC ART

  DRA 144A - Introduction to Traditional Chinese Embodied Culture 
  DRA 144B - Traditional Chinese Physical Culture 
  DRA 144C - Daoist Philosophy in Traditional Chinese Movement Culture 
  DRA 154 - Asian Theatre and Drama: Contexts and Forms 

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  EAST ASIAN STUDIES

  EAS 113 - Cinema and Society in China
  EAS 190 - East Asian Studies Seminar

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  ECONOMICS

  ECN 171 - Economy of East Asia

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  HISTORY

  HIS 102G - Undergraduate Proseminar in History; China to 1800 
  HIS 102H - Undergraduate Proseminar in History; China Since 1800 
  HIS 102N - Undergraduate Proseminar in History; Japan 
  HIS 191A - Classical China 
  HIS 191B - High Imperial China 
  HIS 191C - Late Imperial China 
  HIS 191D - Nineteenth Century China: The Empire Confronts the West 
  HIS 191E - The Chinese Revolution 
  HIS 191F - History of the People's Republic of China 
  HIS 191G - Special Topics in Chinese History to 1800 
  HIS 191H - Special Topics in Chinese History after 1800 
  HIS 191J - Sex and Society in Modern Chinese History 
  HIS 194A - Aristocratic and Feudal Japan
  HIS 194B - Early Modern Japan 
  HIS 194C - Modern Japan
  HIS 194D - Business and Labor in Modern Japan 
  HIS 194E - Education and Technology in Modern Japan 
  HIS 195B - History of Modern Korea 
  HIS 195C: A History of Vietnam

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  JAPANESE

  JPN 101 - Japanese Literature in Translation: The Early Period 
  JPN 102 - Japanese Literature in Translation: The Middle Period 
  JPN 103 - Japanese Literature in Translation: The Modern Period 
  JPN 104 - Modern Japanese Literature: War and Revolution 
  JPN 105 - Modern Japanese Literature: Hero and Anti-hero 
  JPN 106 - Japanese Culture Through Film 
  JPN 107 - Modern Japanese Autobiographies (in English) 
  JPN 108 - Poetry of China and Japan (in English) 
  JPN 109 - Japanese Popular Culture 
  JPN 152 - Traditional Japanese Drama 
  JPN 153: Love, Sexuality & the Family in Modern Japanese Literature 
  JPN 154: Tourism & Heritage in Japan 
  JPN 155: Introduction to Japanese Folklore 
  JPN 156 -Japanese Literature on Film 
  JPN 157 -Japanese Women Writers 
  JPN 158: The Supernatural in Japan 
  JPN 159: The “Other” in Modern Japanese Literature & Culture 
  JPN 160: The Culture of Japanese Food 
  JPN 162: Japan Travelogue: Ethnographic Writing on Japanese Culture & People 
  JPN 165: Sexuality & Love in Premodern Japanese Literature

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  MUSIC

  MUS 129C - Musics of East & Southeast Asia

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  POLITICAL SCIENCE

  POL 148B - Government and Politics in East Asia: Japan

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  RELIGIOUS STUDIES

  RST 165 - Islam in Asia 
  RST 170 - Buddhism 
  RST 172 - Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism 
  RST 175A - Chinese Intellectual Traditions: Daoist Traditions

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  SOCIOLOGY

  SOC 145A: Sociology of Third World Development 
  SOC 147 - Sociological Perspectives on East Asia 
  SOC 188 - Markets, Culture and Inequality in China

• Elective Requirements - Choose 16 units from:

• - Any EAS special course (approved courses: EAS 190, 192, 194H, 196A-B, 198—maximum 12 units from this list);
  - Any CHN or JPN upper division course;
  - Any Depth Subject Matter course;
  - Any upper division EAP course focusing on East Asia or Southeast Asia.