Spring 2022 Courses

Also listed as HIST 1150

Instructor: Phillip Thai

CRN: 30360

Days, Time: MWR 1:35 – 2:40 PM

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: Doreen Lee

CRN: 38244

Days, Time: MT 11:45 AM – 1:25 PM

Description:

Offers a seminar on the societies and cultures of Southeast Asia. Uses an interdisciplinary approach to this diverse and dynamic geopolitical region, with readings from anthropology, history, political science, and literature. Covers the major political and cultural changes that have shaped Southeast Asia in relation to the world—from the age of colonial expansion, to the rise of nation-states, to the present global era.

Instructor: Shuishan Yu

CRN: 35614

Days, Time: TF 8:00 – 9:40 AM

Description:

Covers the development of the built environment in China from prehistory to the nineteenth century. Emphasizes technological transformation, structural and stylistic evolvement, cultural exchange, and ideological engagement.

Instructors: Ruth Aguilera, Ravi Ramamurti, Chris Robertson and Ravi Sarathy 

CRN:  36299

Days, Time: MW 2:50-4:30

Description:

This course is designed to emphasize four separate yet related domains: Competing in emerging markets during economic recovery,  strategic global governance, reverse innovation, digital currencies. From an international business perspective we will also incorporate topics such as the cultural, economic, technological, and political aspects of varying national business environments and their impact on international business operations. Several sessions will be focused on Asia. Classes will be run seminar style.

Instructor: Ju-Chun Wei, Qinghong Cai

CRN: 30085, 31158

Days, Time: Online, MWR 4:35 – 5:40 PM 

Description: Designed for students who have very little or no prior knowledge of Chinese. Provides a lively introduction to basic oral expression, listening comprehension, and elementary reading and writing. Each lesson incorporates helpful information about daily life in China and the varied cultures within the world of Chinese speakers. Laboratory practice complements class work, enables students to work aloud at their own speed, reinforces their acquisition of essential structures, and acquaints them with a vast library of audio-visual resources. Focuses on Mandarin Chinese; students who wish to speak another dialect of Chinese should consult instructor for proper placement.

Instructor: Qinghong Cai

CRN: 33726

Days, Time: MWR 1:35 – 2:40 PM 

Description: Continues CHNS 1101. Reviews and continues the study of grammar and basic language skills. Offers progressively more intensive practice in oral and written communication. Laboratory practice complements class work, enables students to work aloud at their own speed, reinforces their acquisition of essential structures, and acquaints them with a vast library of audio-visual resources.

Instructor: Qinghong Cai

CRN: 31178

Days, Time: MWR 10:30 – 11:35 AM 

Description:  Seeks to consolidate the foundation built in elementary Chinese courses. Offers students an opportunity to develop higher oral proficiency, as well as reading and writing skills. Requires students to perform various tasks, such as describing, comparing, and narrating, in culturally appropriate ways.

Instructor: Hua Dong

CRN: 33214

Days, Time: MWR 1:35 – 2:40 PM 

Description: Emphasizes vocabulary building and mastery of fine points of grammar through written compositions, prepared oral reports, and reading and discussions of material from everyday life to situate language learning in authentic contexts.

Instructor: Ju-Chun Wei

CRN: 30023

Days, Time: MWR 1:35 – 2:40 PM

Description: Stresses the fundamentals of Chinese to promote effective self-expression through speaking and writing and to explore the idiomatic aspects of the language. Through progressive class discussions and oral and written commentaries, students analyze a contemporary Chinese novel or a Chinese cultural reader, screenplay, or collection of short stories. The course strives, first, to help students read and comprehend modern Chinese writing with confidence and to be able to talk and write about it in good Chinese; and second, to provide preparation for advanced courses.

Instructor: Hua Dong

CRN: 33797

Days, Time: MWR 10:30 – 11:35 AM 

Description: Continues CHNS 3101. Designed to enhance and reinforce the practical language and communication skills that students employ when they are abroad. Offers students an opportunity to participate in service-learning experiences.

Instructor: Ju-Chun Wei

CRN: 34542

Days, Time: T 1:35 – 3:15 PM

Description:  Focuses on a unique aspect of the Chinese language. Requires at least an intermediate level of skill in the language.

Instructor: Hua Dong

CRN: 36039

Days, Time: MW 2;50 – 4:30 PM

Description: Focuses on a unique aspect of the Chinese language. Requires at least an advanced level of skill in the language.

Instructor: Jennifer Cullen

CRN:30044

Days, Time: TF 9:50 – 11:30 AM

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: Jennifer Cullen

CRN: 38030

Days, Time: TF 1:35- 3:15 PM

Description: Provides an introduction to Japanese film through works by such great masters as Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu, as well as works by new directors from the 1980s and 1990s such as Tami, Morita, and Suo. Studies both form and content; relates major works to Japanese culture. Conducted in English.

Major only course

Instructor: Mohammad Alam

CRN: 38142

Days, Time: TF 1:35 – 3:15 PM

Description: Covers ideological biases in economics; the extent of global disparities around 1800; evolution of global disparities since 1800; evolution of international integration and international trading and monetary regimes, 1800–2000; theories explaining global disparities, and structuralist; import-substituting industrialization in Latin America, Asia, and Africa; international debt crises; the new global regime; structural adjustment; and socialist interlude

Instructor: Eunsong Kim

CRN: 37939

Days, Time: TF 9:50 – 11:30 AM

Description: Introduces students to American writers of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, South Asian, and Southeast Asian descent. Focuses on works published since the 1960s. Pays close attention to prevalent themes, sociohistorical contexts, and literary form.

Instructor: Qianqian Zhang-Wu

CRN: 37947

Days, Time: M 1:35 – 4:40

Description: This course explores writing in the multilingual world and the various ways that linguistic diversity shapes our everyday, academic, and professional lives. Students will learn about the changing place of World Englishes in globalization, what contemporary theories of linguistic diversity mean for written communication, and how multilingual identities can be included in writing research/practice. Students will conduct research on their own linguistic communities and identities.

Instructor: Peter Fraunholtz

CRN: 37561

Days, Time: Online

Description: Examines the Cold War, emphasizing how the Soviet-American struggle for global preeminence intersected with decolonization and the rise of the “Third World.” Uses primary sources, monographs, and scholarly articles to trace the major events and developments of the Cold War—ideological differences between the capitalist and socialist systems, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the construction of the Berlin Wall, the Vietnam War—while also exploring how and why the Cold War came to pervade economic, cultural, and social relations globally. Examines how unexpected actors—Cuban doctors and Peace Corps volunteers—responded to and shaped superpower rivalry. Considers how the Cold War continues to shape the world today.

Crosslisted as CLTR 1500

Instructor: TBD

CRN: 35266

Days, Time: MWR 10:30 – 11:35 AM 

Description: Introduces modern Chinese history and culture through literary works, films, and historical texts. Examines political, social, and cultural changes in China since 1800: the decline of empire; the New Culture Movement of the 1920s; the rise of nationalism and rural revolution; the changing roles of women; the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s; and China’s cinematic, literary, and economic engagement with the world since 1978.

Major Only Course

Instructor: Matthew Bowser

CRN: 38780

Days, Time: MWR 10:30 – 11:35 AM 

Description: Focuses on the historical roots of four pressing contemporary issues with global implications. Our world has grown increasingly complex and interconnected, and the planet’s diverse peoples are facing common problems that have tremendous impact on the immediate future. They are globalization, the potential for global pandemics to alter the course of history, racial inequality, and gender inequality. For each issue, studies cases and locations spread across the world, examines the links between past and present, and attempts to identify ways forward

Major Only Course

Instructor: Peter Fraunholtz, Matthew Bowser

CRN: 31881, 24505

Days, Time: Online, MT 11:45 AM – 1:25 PM

Description: Examines the political, economic, social, and cultural relationship between the developed and developing world since the end of World War II. Topics include the Cold War, independence and national movements in developing countries, the globalization of the world economy, scientific and technological innovations, wealth and poverty, the eradication of some diseases and the spread of others, the fall of the Soviet Union, Middle East turmoil, and the enduring conflict between Israel and Palestine.

Instructor: Rei Inouye, Kumiko Tsuji, TBD

CRN: 32711, 30041, 31977, 33379

Days, Time: MWR 9:15 – 10:20 AM, MWR 1:35 – 2:40 PM, T 3:25 – 5:10 PM, MWR 10:30 – 11:35 AM 

Description: Introduces basic grammar, sentence patterns, and vocabulary of Japanese with emphasis on spoken Japanese. Includes an introduction to the hiragana and katakana syllabaries in the written component. Designed for students with no previous knowledge of Japanese.

Instructor: TBD, Kumiko Tsuji

CRN: 30076, 31144, 37596

Days, Time: MWR 9:15 – 10:20 AM, MWR 10:30 – 11:35 AM , Online

Description: Continues JPNS 1101. Emphasizes the development of oral skills; secondary emphasis is on reading. Offers students the opportunity to learn basic grammatical patterns, expand vocabulary, and improve communication skills in modern Japanese. Includes the introduction to kanji characters in the written component.

Instructor: Rei Inouye

CRN: 30075

Days, Time: MWR 10:30 – 11:35 AM 

Description: Emphasizes further vocabulary building. Offers students an opportunity to master the fine points of grammar through written composition, prepared oral reports, and reading and discussion from contemporary Japanese materials.

Instructor: Kumiko Tsuji

CRN: 31620

Days, Time: TRF 11:45 AM – 12:30 PM

Description: Builds on JPNS 2101 and focuses on further development of vocabulary. Offers students an opportunity to continue to master grammar and conversation through written composition, prepared oral reports, and reading and discussion from contemporary Japanese materials.

Instructor: Kumiko Tsuji

CRN: 33266

Days, Time: TF 1:35 – 3:25 PM

Description: Continues further development of vocabulary. Offers students an opportunity to continue to master grammar and conversation through advanced reading, composition, grammar review, and listening skills. Whenever possible, offers students an opportunity to engage in local community activities to enhance communication skills and cultural knowledge.

Instructor: TBD

CRN: 31614

Days, Time: T 9:50 – 11:30 AM

Description: Builds on JPNS 3101 and continues further development of vocabulary. Offers students an opportunity to continue to master grammar and conversation through advanced reading, composition, grammar review, and listening skills. Whenever possible, offers students an opportunity to engage in local community activities to enhance communication skills and cultural knowledge.

Instructor: Jung Lee

CRN: 38041

Days, Time: MW 2:50 – 4:30 PM

Description: Focuses on how traditions imagine the moral life in cross-cultural contexts. Topics may include ideals of human flourishing, notions of virtue and vice, and conceptions of self and community. Offers students an opportunity to learn methods of philosophical analysis and argumentation in cross-cultural contexts.

Instructor: M Whitney Kelting

CRN: 36225

Days, Time: MWR  10:30 – 11:35 AM

Description: Examines Hinduism, Jainism, Theravada Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto within South Asia (India) and east Asia (China and Japan). Combines readings in primary source materials (the religious texts of these traditions) with secondary examinations of the historical and doctrinal developments within each tradition and region.

Instructor: William Miles

CRN: 33498

Days, Time: MT 11:45 AM – 1:25 PM

Description:

Examines the political, governmental, social, economic, cultural, environmental, and geopolitical dimensions of change in nations regarded as “developing” by international standards. Covers a broad spectrum of types of nations including those in Eastern and Central Europe but pays particular attention to those in Asia, Africa, and Central and South America.

• ASNS 1150 – East Asian Studies

• HIST 1150 – Origins of Today
• HIST 2211 – The World Since 1945
• POLS 3487 – Politics of Developing Nations
• ECON 3290 – History of the Global Economy

• CHNS 1101 – Elementary Chinese 1
• CHNS 1102 – Elementary Chinese 2
• CHNS 2101 – Intermediate Chinese 1
• CHNS 2102 – Intermediate Chinese 2
• CHNS 3101 – Advanced Chinese 1
• CHNS 3102 – Advanced Chinses 2
• CHNS 3800 – Being Taiwanese: Diverse Voices
• CHNS 4800 – Special Topics: Health and Food in Chinese
• JPNS 1101 – Elementary Japanese 1
• JPNS 1102 – Elementary Japanese 2
• JPNS 2101 – Intermediate Japanese 1
• JPNS 2102 – Intermediate Japanese 2
• JPNS 3101 – Advanced Japanese 1
• JPNS 3102 – Advanced Japanese 2

• ARCH 2310 – History of Chinese Architecture
• ANTH 4350 – Ethnography of Southeast Asia
• CLTR 1260 – Japanese Film
• CLTR 1700 – Introduction to Japanese Pop Culture
• INTB 4983 – Special Topics in International Business
• POLS 3487 – Politics of Developing Nations
• ENGL 2470 – Asian American Literature
• ENGL 7395  – Topics in Writing: Writing in the Multilingual World
• PHIL 1130 – Ethics: East and West
• PHIL 1275 – Hinduism, Buddhism and Beyond: Eastern Religions
• POLS 3487 – Politics of Developing Nations