Fall 2024 Courses
Fall 2024 registration begins April 8, 2024.
For the most up-to-date and comprehensive course schedule, including meeting times, course additions, cancellations, and room assignments, refer to the Banner Class Schedule on the Registrar’s website. For curriculum information, see the Undergraduate Full-Time Day Programs catalog.
Asian Studies Courses
Also listed as HIST 1150
Instructor: Michael Thornton
CRN: 14213
Days, Time: MWR 10:30 – 11:35 AM
Description:
East Asian Studies is a multidisciplinary introduction to the study of China, Korea, Japan, and adjacent regions from antiquity to the present, mainly through historical and literary texts. Course is taught in English by staff from the History Department and is open to registered Northeastern University students.
Instructor: Sasha Sabherwal
CRN: 17148
Days, Time: MR 11:45 – 1:25 PM
Description:
Seeks to provide an understanding of the major concepts, historical narratives, and analytical approaches in the field of Asian American studies. Concentrates on the experiences of migrants and descendants from China, Japan, India, Korea, the Philippines, and Southeast Asia. Offers students an opportunity to obtain interdisciplinary analytical skills, including approaches in history, anthropology, sociology, critical ethnic studies, American studies, cultural studies, and media studies.
Instructor: Denise Khor
CRN: 20121
Days, Time: M 9:15 – 11:20 AM, WR 9:15 – 10:20AM
Description:
Introduces the multiple and complex histories of Asian American cinema, from its genesis as radical independent filmmaking to its development across commercial industries and new digital media. Concentrates on a range of creative productions, from documentary and narrative features to experimental, avant-garde, and short video. Offers students an opportunity to obtain the skills to analyze the institutional processes and historical contexts of Asian American cinema and the genres, techniques, and aesthetics of Asian American filmmakers.
History Courses
Instructor: Jennifer Cullen
CRN: 21980
Days, Time: T 11:45-1:25, R 2:50 – 4:30 PM
Description:
Explores major works of Japanese fiction and poetry in historical and cultural context. All readings are in English translation.
Instructor: Michael Thornton
CRN: 19983
Days, Time: MWR 4:35 – 5:40
Description:
Studies World War II, the most devastating war in history, which began in Asia and had a great long-term impact there. Using historical and literary texts, examines the causes, decisive battles, and lingering significance of the conflict on both sides of the Pacific.
Instructor: Philip Thai
CRN: 19988
Days, Time: MW 2:50 – 4:30 PM
Description:
Traces capitalism’s transformation of economic life in East Asia from the early modern era to the contemporary world. Explores changes in the human participation of production, exchange, and consumption. Reading a wide range of scholarly articles and monographs, the course examines key topics, including the great divergence debate, commodification of labor, consumer cultures, birth of industrialization, resilience of family enterprises, gender and the economy, and the role of the developmental state.
Instructor: Michael Thornton
CRN: 20016
Days, Time: MWR 1:35 – 2:40 PM
Description:
Examines state formation, economic growth, imperialism and colonialism, war and defeat, and contemporary culture of Japan.
Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies Courses
Instructor: Jennifer Cullen
CRN: 14264
Days, Time: TF 9:50 – 11:30 AM, T 1:00 – 3:00 PM
Description:
Provides an introduction to Japanese popular culture through critical analysis of mass media such as film, television, comics, and animation. Investigates various social and cultural issues, such as gender, family, and education. Films and videos supplement readings. Conducted in English.
Instructor: Ga Hye Song
CRN: 20642
Days, Time: MW 2:50 – 4:30 PM
Description:
Introduces students to Korean popular culture with texts ranging from comics, films, K-drama, pop music, and popular novellas in translation. Explores how “Hallyu” (the Korean wave) reverberated through different Asian regions and the rest of the globe in the 1990s and 2000s and continues into the present through global fandoms and streaming platforms. Critically examines the rising popularity of Korean popular cultural genres and influences in various global contexts in relation to race, class, gender, ethnicity, social media, and youth culture.
Architecture
Instructor: Lily Song
CRN: 13140, 12309
Days, Time: MR 1:35 – 4:30 PM
Description:
Offers an upper-level design studio that covers new studio topics, content, and studio instructors each semester. The studio instructors offer topical content that best aligns with their research and practice expertise, which provides students with the latest concepts in architectural design, theory, and research on a consistently updated and rotating basis. Students select their top choices of studio topics and instructors, giving them more flexibility in the areas for which they would like to focus their education. May be repeated twice for credit.
Instructor: Lily Song
CRN: 22119
Days, Time: TF 1:35 – 3:15 PM
Description:
Encourages students to develop the connections between critical attitudes and techniques in design, through important historical texts. Offers an approach to the integration of design and history, introducing the writings and seminal designs of Alberti, Palladio, Wright, Le Corbusier, Semper, Sitte, Rowe, Colquhoun, Moneo, Koolhaas, Rossi, Frampton, Venturi and Scott Brown, Scarpa, and Lynch.
Sociology and Anthropology Courses
Instructor: Doreen Lee
CRN: 20901
Days, Time: MR 11:45 – 1:25 PM
Description:
Introduces key definitions and theories of neoliberalism and situates these ideas through Asian experiences of neoliberalism. Emphasizes the relationship between neoliberal processes and state-led development, as well as the relationship between neoliberal thought and bottom-up societal changes. Combines films, theoretical readings, and ethnography to explore hallmarks of anthropological analyses of neoliberalism in debates over cultural agency, locality, values, and politics in East, South, and Southeast Asian countries. Critically examines topics such as English-language dominance in the Asian region, the rise of plastic surgery, youth unemployment and political consciousness, and real estate speculation in Asian megacities.
Instructor: Doreen Lee
CRN: 21395
Days, Time: M 4:35 – 7:55
Description:
Offers a broad survey of scholarly debates on the redistribution of political power, economic power, and social capital across the globe. Emphasizes an ethnographic analysis of how colonial and imperial legacies inform contemporary arrangements that structure inequality and how political imaginations are exercised through aesthetics, identities, and institutions. Considers how experiments with economic justice and juridical and political forms of justice find expression in contemporary grassroots movements and theories. Draws on interdisciplinary conversations from the social sciences and humanities to examine and compare radical forms of social change across various global contexts.
Courses by Requirement
- ASNS 1150 – East Asian Studies
- HIST 1215 – Origins of Today: Historical Roots of Contemporary Issues
- HIST 2211 – The World Since 1945
- ASNS 2245 – Introduction to Asian American Studies
- ANTH 4350 – Ethnography of Southeast Asia
- PHIL 1275 – Hinduism, Buddhism, and Beyond
- PHIL 1290 – Chinese Philosophy and Religion
- ASNS 2245 – Introduction to Asian American Studies
- ASNS 3100 – Asian American Cinemas
- HIST 1252 – Japanese Literature & Culture
- HIST 2308 – Law, Justice, and Society in Modern China
- HIST 2351 – Modern Japan
- AFAM 4526 – Afro-Asian Relations in the Americas
- CLTR 1700 – Intro to Japanese Pop Culture
- PHIL 1275 – Hinduism, Buddhism, and Beyond
- PHIL 1290 – Chinese Philosophy and Religion
- ANTH 4350 – Ethnography of Southeast Asia
See course catalog for more options – or email csgs@northeastern.edu if you see a potential class that would apply!