University Center for International Studies - Asian Studies Program

Graduate Advisor:

Dianne F. Dakis, Assistant Director

Asian Studies Program

4E48 Posvar Hall

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Phone: (412) 648-7367

Fax: (412) 648-2199

E-mail: dakis@ucis.pitt.edu

Web site: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/asp/

The Asian Studies Program (ASP), part of the University Center for International Studies, has a long tradition of excellence at the University of Pittsburgh. Established in 1969 to promote an enhanced understanding of the nations of East, South, and Southeast Asia and the Pacific, the program continues to enrich the University community today. For the past decade, ASP has served as a National Resource Center for East Asian Studies with support provided by the U.S. Department of Education. This designation identifies the program as being among the best and most comprehensive in the country in research, public service, and teaching about East Asia.

The East Asian Library, located in Hillman Library, contains significant collections of books and periodicals in both the Chinese and Japanese languages, in addition to materials in English and other Western languages housed in the general collections. Those pursuing research on current topics concerned with Japan can make use of the Japan Information Center (JIC), which gives users direct access to a wide array of government documents, economic reports, and a wide range of data related to social and economic issues.

The Advanced Certificate in Asian Studies may be earned by U.S. and international students from any department or school of the University. It entails a combination of foreign language training and multidisciplinary area studies necessary for both communicative and cultural competence. The certificate is designed for students who wish to intensify their study of Asia, either because they would like to be able to use their knowledge of that critical part of the world in their careers after graduation, or because they recognize the importance of an understanding of Asian history, language, and culture for all educated people.

Asian Studies Certificate Requirements

The following are the requirements for the Certificate of Advanced Study in Asian Studies:

Financial Assistance

To be eligible for financial aid administered by the Asian Studies Program, students must be enrolled as certificate students. Prospective students must enroll when they have been admitted to the University. The scholarships and fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis. Current as well as prospective full-time students at the University of Pittsburgh are encouraged to apply. Annual deadline for submission is the last working day of January for funds awarded the following year. Contact the Asian Studies Program to request an official application form.

There are a variety of sources for this financial aid. Included are $3 million in endowments established with contributions from the Japan Iron and Steel Federation and 12 Mitsubishi companies, and grants from federal agencies and private foundations, among them the U.S. Department of Education (the source of FLAS - Foreign Language and Area Studies grants), the Henry Luce Foundation, the Toshiba International Foundation, the Freeman Foundation, and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange.

Asian Studies Program — Graduate Course Listing (as of Spring 2000)

(1000-level courses may be taken for graduate credit)

Anthropology

ANTH 1447 Language, Culture, & Society

ANTH 1524 Chinese Archaeology

ANTH 1731 Women and Gender in the Third World

ANTH 1738 Gender Perspectives in Anthropology

ANTH 1739 Cultures of East Asia: Korea and Japan

ANTH 1752 Anthropology of Food

ANTH 1756 Economic Anthropology

ANTH 1759 Chinese Society

ANTH 1761 Patients & Healers: Medical Anthropology 1

ANTH 1764 Cultures & Societies of India

ANTH 1770 Kinship & the Family

ANTH 1771 Religion and Culture

ANTH 1772 Anthropology of Women

ANTH 1774 Perspectives on Religion

ANTH 1776 Myth, Symbol & Ritual

ANTH 1783 Japanese Culture

ANTH 1784 Japanese Society

ANTH 1786 Cultures of the Pacific

ANTH 1787 Special Topics in Archaeology: Cultural Anthropology of Ancient China

ANTH 1787 Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology: Anthropology of the Body

ANTH 1787 Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology: Asian Medical Systems

ANTH 1787 Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology: Conflict and Violence

ANTH 1787 Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology: Folklore

ANTH 1787 Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology: Japanese Culture

ANTH 1787 Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology: Migration and Mental Health

ANTH 1787 Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology: Shamanic Healing

ANTH 2728 Educational Anthropology

ANTH 2740 Pacific Ethnology

ANTH 2753 Conflict & Violence

ANTH 2760 Seminar on Japanese Society, Culture, and Education

ANTH 2760 Development, Education, and Applied Anthropology

ANTH 2764 Kinship Theory

ANTH 2782 Special Topics: Pacific Prehistory and Ethnographic Analysis

ANTH 2782 Special Topics: Gender and Health

ANTH 2850 Ethnography of Education and Evaluation

Chinese Literature and Film

(taught in English)

CHIN 1040 Literary Chinese 1: Classical

CHIN 1041 Literary Chinese 2: Classical

CHIN 1047 Chinese and Western Poetry

CHIN 1065 Sources on East Asia: New Wave Chinese Cinema

CHIN 1070 Love and Power

CHIN 1083 Masterpieces of Chinese Literature: Premodern

CHIN 1084 Masterpieces of Chinese Literature and Film

CHIN 1085 Introduction to East Asian Cinema

CHIN 1086 Love in Chinese and Western Literature

CHIN 1087 Introduction to Chinese Narrative

CHIN 1088 New Chinese Cinema

CHIN 1089 The World of China, According to The Dream of the Red Chamber

Classics

CLAS 1160 Greek Tragedy and Japanese Noh Drama

CLAS 1710 Sanskrit 1

CLAS 1720 Sanskrit 2

CLAS 1730 Sanskrit 3

CLAS 1740 Sanskrit 4

CLAS 1790 Topics in Sanskrit

East Asian Languages

Chinese

CHIN 0001 First Year Spoken

CHIN 0002 First Year Spoken

CHIN 0003 Second Year Spoken

CHIN 0004 Second Year Spoken

CHIN 0011 First Year Reading

CHIN 0012 First Year Reading

CHIN 0013 Second Year Reading

CHIN 0014 Second Year Reading

CHIN 1005 Third Year Spoken

CHIN 1006 Third Year Spoken

CHIN 1020 Third Year Reading

CHIN 1021 Third Year Reading

CHIN 1050 Fourth Year Reading

CHIN 1051 Fourth Year Reading

Japanese

JPNSE 0001 First Year Japanese 1

JPNSE 0002 First Year Japanese 2

JPNSE 0003 Second Year Japanese 1

JPNSE 0004 Second Year Japanese 2

JPNSE 1011 Basic Japanese Language 1

JPNSE 1012 Basic Japanese Language 2

JPNSE 1013 Basic Japanese Language 3

JPNSE 1014 Intermediate Japanese Language 1

JPNSE 1015 Intermediate Japanese Language 2

JPNSE 1016 Intermediate Japanese Language 3

JPNSE 1020 Third Year Japanese 1

JPNSE 1021 Third Year Japanese 2

JPNSE 1023 Structure of the Japanese Language

JPNSE 1026 Advanced Japanese: Technical 1

JPNSE 1027 Advanced Japanese: Technical 2

JPNSE 1040 Introduction to Classical Japanese 1

JPNSE 1041 Introduction to Classical Japanese 2

JPNSE 1050 Fourth Year Japanese 1

JPNSE 1051 Fourth Year Japanese 2

Economics

ECON 1510 Intermediate International Finance

ECON 1530 Economics of Development

ECON 1630 Economic Development of China

ECON 1640 Japanese Economic Growth

ECON 2700 Special Topics: Dynamics of Economic Systems

ECON 2930 Research Seminar: Economy of China

Film Studies

FILMST 1058 Western and Samurai Films

History

HIST 1000 Seminar: The City in the Communist Revolution

HIST 1005 Special Topics: China's Cultural Revolution

HIST 1005 Special Topics: Communist China

HIST 1420 Ancient China

HIST 1421 Medieval China

HIST 1422 Late Imperial China

HIST 1423 Modern China

HIST 1431 Traditional Japan

HIST 1432 Readings in Early Modern Japan

HIST 1433 Modern Japan

HIST 1447 Economic History of Japan

HIST 1460 History of Japanese Women

HIST 1475 East Asian Buddhism

HIST 1476 Chinese Religious Traditions

HIST 1477 Japanese Religious Traditions

HIST 1480 Chinese Thought

HIST 1482 Japanese Culture

HIST 1756 Comparative Civilizations

HIST 1757 Religion in India 1

HIST 1758 Religion in India 2

HIST 1900 Asian Cities

HIST 2005 Special Topics: Constructing the Early Modern World

HIST 2083 Comparative Nationalisms

HIST 2400 East Asia: Introduction

HIST 2400 East Asia: Readings

HIST 2400 East Asia: Research

HIST 2432 Readings in Early Modern Japan

HIST 2432 Readings: World War II in Asia

History of Art and Architecture

HA&A 1600 Special Topics: Chinese Architecture

HA&A 1601 Special Topics: Japanese Aesthetics

HA&A 1601 Special Topics: The World of the Shining Prince: The Tale of the Genji in Pictures and Writing

HA&A 1601 Special Topics: Asian

HA&A 1605 Ancient Chinese Art

HA&A 1610 Early Chinese Painting

HA&A 1620 Later Chinese Painting

HA&A 1650 Chinese Archaeology

HA&A 1675 15th and 16th Century Japanese Art and Painting

HA&A 1680 Special Topics: Japanese Woodblock Prints

HA&A 1700 Special Topics: India - Early Buddhist Traditions

HA&A 1700 Migrations 1

HA&A 1700 Migrations 2

HA&A 2065 East and Southeast Asia: Bronze Age

HA&A 2600 Special Topics: Chinese Bronzes

HA&A 2600 Special Topics: Japanese

HA&A 2603 Ukiyo-e to Modern Japanese Prints

HA&A 2603 East Asian Research

HA&A 2603 East and Southeast Asian Bronze Age

HA&A 2603 Early Chinese Bronzes

HA&A 2603 Northeast Asian Art and Practice in Antiquity

HA&A 2700 Special Topics: India

Japanese Literature and Film

(taught in English)

JPNSE 1022 History of Japanese Language

JPNSE 1023 Structure of the Japanese Language

JPNSE 1023 Aspects of the Japanese Language

JPNSE 1025 Exploring the Japanese Language and Mind

JPNSE 1030 Readings in Japanese Literature

JPNSE 1032 Readings in Social Science

JPNSE 1035 Understanding What Is Unsaid: Pragmatics of Japanese

JPNSE 1040 Introduction to Classical Japanese

JPNSE 1045 Language of Japanese Aesthetics

JPNSE 1050 Newspapers & Periodicals 1

JPNSE 1051 Newspapers & Periodicals 2

JPNSE 1056 Japanese Literature and the West

JPNSE 1057 Japanese Films as Literature

JPNSE 1058 Westerns and Samurai Films

JPNSE 1059 Japanese Literature on Screen

JPNSE 1071 The World of Japan: The Tale of Genji

JPNSE 1072 Writers & Thinkers: Modern Japan in the World

JPNSE 1080 Ghosts, Masks, & Actors

JPNSE 1081 Forms of Japanese Theatre

JPNSE 1083 Introduction to Japanese Literature

JPNSE 1085 Introduction to East Asian Cinema

Linguistics

LING 0281-0284 Hindi-Urdu

LING 0321-0324 Indonesian

LING 0341-0344 Korean

LING 0351-0354 Laotian

LING 0391-0394 Malay

LING 0401-0404 Nepali

LING 0431-0434 Punjabi

LING 0531-0534 Tagalog

LING 0551-0554 Thai

LING 0581-0584 Vietnamese

Music

MUSIC 1352 Music in Southeast Asia

MUSIC 1354 Music in East Asia

MUSIC 1355 Music in the Middle East & India

MUSIC 1358 Music in South Asia

MUSIC 2352 Seminar in Southeast Asian Music

MUSIC 2353 Seminar in Chinese Music

MUSIC 2358 Seminar in South Asian Music

Philosophy

PHIL 1270 East-West Philosophy

Political Science

PS 1331 Government and Politics of Southeast Asia

PS 1332 Government and Politics of Contemporary China

PS 1333 Government and Politics of Japan

PS 1334 Vietnam War

PS 1335 Political Economy of Japan

PS 1336 Contemporary China: Politics, Society, and Economy

PS 1343 Comparative Post-Socialist Systems

PS 1523 East Asia in World Politics

PS 1533 Political Violence and Revolution

PS 1541 Politics of Global Economic Relations

PS 1581 Seminar in International Relations

PS 1601 Contemporary Political Thought

PS 2302 Politics of Developing Areas

PS 2333 State, Society, and Policy-making in Japan

PS 2335 Problems and Political Development in Southeast Asia

PS 2336 Peasant Politics

PS 2337 Topics in Chinese Politics

PS 2375 Politics of Advanced Industrial Societies

PS 2503 Topics in International Affairs: Multinationals Trade and Technology

PS 2503 Topics in International Affairs: U.S. and Asia

PS 2543 International Political Economy

Religious Studies

RELGST 1500 Religion in India 1

RELGST 1510 Religion in India 2

RELGST 1516 Temple, Icon, and Deity in India

RELGST 1520 Buddhist Civilization

RELGST 1530 Topics in Buddhist Civilization

RELGST 1540 Saints East and West

RELGST 1550 East Asian Buddhism: China and Japan

RELGST 1560 Chinese Religious Traditions

RELGST 1570 Japanese Religious Traditions

RELGST 1610 Myth, Symbol, and Ritual

RELGST 1620 Women in Religion

RELGST 1710 Perspectives on Religion

RELGST 1720 Religion and Culture

Religious Studies - Cooperative Graduate Program in Religion

REL 2365 Religion in India

REL 2375 Tradition and Change in Southeast Asia

REL 2705 Myth, Symbol, and Ritual

REL 3369 Directed Study: Hinduism

REL 3374 Topics in East Asian Buddhism

REL 3375 Topics in East Asian Religions

REL 3379 Directed Study: Buddhism

REL 3384 Topics in Chinese Religions

REL 3385 Directed Study: Chinese Religious Traditions

REL 3389 Directed Study: Chinese Buddhism

REL 3394 Japanese Religious Traditions

REL 3395 Directed Study: Japanese Religious Traditions

REL 3398 Topics in Japanese Buddhism

REL 3399 Directed Study: Japanese Buddhism

Sociology

SOC 1342 Mass Society in Japan

SOC 1354 Japan and the USA

SOC 1358 Contemporary Chinese Society

SOC 1382 Comparative Civilizations

SOC 1447 Science and Technology in the USA, Japan, and Europe

SOC 1470 Research on Aging

SOC 2302 Modernization

SOC 2316 Collective Memory: Legacies of Defeat in Japan and Germany

SOC 2340 World Systems

SOC 2400 Knowledge in Society

SOC 3343 Comparative Education

Theater Arts

THEA 1361 Forms of Japanese Theatre

THEA 2270 Special Topics: Studies in Asian Theatre

THEA 2270 Special Topics: Japanese Noh Theatre: With and Without Ghosts

School of Education

EDUC 2352 Educational Anthropology

EDUC 2354 Development Education and Applied Anthropology

EDUC 2355 Ethnography of Education

EDUC 2360 Japanese Society, Culture, and Education

EDUC 2361 Apprenticeship Education in Japan

EDUC 2398 Economics of Education

EDUC 3200 Educational Policy and Planning: Models and Paradigms

EDUC 3210 Implementation of Educational Policy

EDUC 3302 Educational, Social, and Economic Change

EDUC 3315 Theories of Educational Systems

EDUC 3345 Adult and Non-formal Education

EDUC 3347 International Organizations in Development Education

EDUC 3352 Education in Asia and the Pacific

EDUC 3361 Comparative Educational Technology

Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

PIA 2008 Economics for Public Affairs

PIA 2300 Theories and Concepts of International Relations

PIA 2301 International Political Economy

PIA 2302 International Financial Policy

PIA 2303 National and International Security Policy

PIA 2305 Foreign Policy and Diplomacy

PIA 2314 Multinational Corporations and Political Risk Analysis

PIA 2316 Intercultural Communication

PIA 2319 International Trade

PIA 2321 Political Economy of International Trade

PIA 2322 World Economic Patterns

PIA 2341 Alternative Approaches to International Security

PIA 2344 Problems in International Security

PIA 2353 Modern International Affairs

PIA 2356 Transnational Interactions

PIA 2363 International History

PIA 2378 Politics of Advanced Industrial Societies

PIA 2410 Economic Development and Policy Choices

PIA 2437 Topics in Chinese Politics

PIA 2490 Topics in International Affairs: Economics of U.S.- Japanese Relations

PIA 2490 Topics in International Affairs: Women and International Development: Theoretical Debates and Practical Issues

PIA 2490 Topics in International Affairs: World War II, Impact on the Cold War

PIA 2517 World Cities

PIA 2525 Politics of Development

PIA 2575 Seminar in Southeast Asia

Katz Graduate School of Business

BFIN 2005 International Financial Management

BSEO 2015 Comparative Management I

BECN 2016 International Monetary Economics

BECN 2017 International Trade & Investment

BFIN 2043 International Financial Management

BMKT 2523 International Marketing

BOAH 2527 Cross-Cultural Dimensions of International Management

BSEO 2536 International Corporate Planning 2

School of Law

LAW 5423 International Trade: Direct Foreign Investments

LAW 5439 Japanese for Lawyers

LAW 5457 Chinese for Lawyers

LAW 5463 Chinese Laws in Context

LAW 5467 Comparative Law

LAW 5525 International Trade Seminar: U.S.-China Trade

LAW 5576 International & Cross-Cultural Dispute Resolution