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Fall 2018

ARTH 003. Asian Art: Past and Present
ASIA 015. Introduction to East Asian Humanities
CHIN 003. Second-Year Mandarin Chinese
CHIN 007. Chinese/Japanese Calligraphy
CHIN 011. Third-Year Chinese
CHIN 020. Readings in Modern Chinese
CHIN 055. Contemporary Chinese Cinema: The New Waves (1984-2005)
CHIN 090. Practicum in Bridging Swarthmore and Local Chinese Communities
DANC 049D. Dance Performance Repertory: Taiko
ECON 081. Economic Development*
ECON 083. East Asian Economies
ECON 181. Economic Development+
FMST 055. Contemporary Chinese Cinema
HIST 009A. Premodern China
HIST 078. China, Capitalism, and Their Critics
JPNS 003. Second-Year Japanese
JPNS 007. Chinese/Japanese Calligraphy
JPNS 012. Third-Year Japanese
JPNS 012A. Japanese Conversation
JPNS 019. Fourth-Year Japanese
JPNS 075. Japanese Modernism
LITR 027CH. The Story in Dynastic China
LITR 075J. Japanese Modernism
MUSI 042. Performance. (Chinese Music Ensemble)
MUSI 049A. Performance (Balinese Gamelan)
RELG 114. Love and Religion+

Spring 2019

CHIN 004. Second-Year Mandarin Chinese
CHIN 012. Advanced Chinese
CHIN 012A. Advanced Chinese Conversation
CHIN 021. Reading and Writing in Modern Chinese
CHIN 033. Introduction to Classical Chinese
CHIN 052. Chinese Opera and Performing Art
CHIN 091. Special Topics in English: Text and Image: Classical Chinese Painting and Poetry From Early Times to the Middle Period
CHIN 099. Senior Colloquium
CHIN 108. The Remaking of Cinematic China: Zhang Yimou, Wong Kar-wai, and Ang Lee
DANC 049D. Dance Performance Repertory: Taiko
DANC 049F. Dance Performance Repertory: Kathak
ECON 151. International Economics+
ENGL 065. Asian American Literature
HIST 001D. First-Year Seminar: China and the World: A History of Collecting
HIST 145. Women and Gender in Chinese History
JPNS 004. Second-Year Japanese
JPNS 008. Extensive Reading in Japanese
JPNS 012A. Japanese Conversation
JPNS 013. Third-Year Japanese
JPNS 018. Manga, Bande Dessinée, and the Graphic Novel: A Transnational Study of Graphic Fictions*
JPNS 020. Fourth-Year Japanese
JPNS 022. Introduction to Japanese Linguistics
LING 033. Introduction to Classical Chinese
LING 073. Computational Linguistics*
LITR 018FJ. Manga, Bande Dessinée, and the Graphic Novel: A Transnational Study of Graphic Fictions
MUSI 042. Performance. (Chinese Music Ensemble)
MUSI 049A. Performance (Balinese Gamelan)
RELG 008. Patterns of Asian Religions

Fall 2019

CHIN 003. Second-Year Mandarin Chinese
CHIN 007. Chinese/Japanese Calligraphy
CHIN 011. Third-Year Chinese
CHIN 020. Readings in Modern Chinese
DANC 025A. Dance and Diaspora
DANC 046. Dance Technique: Kathak
DANC 049D. Dance Performance Repertory: Taiko
ECON 051. International Trade and Finance*
ECON 083. East Asian Economies
HIST 009B. Modern China: Reformers, Revolutionaries, and Rebels
HIST 075. Craft and Technology in China
JPNS 003. Second-Year Japanese
JPNS 007. Chinese/Japanese Calligraphy
JPNS 012. Third-Year Japanese
JPNS 012A. Japanese Conversation
JPNS 019. Fourth-Year Japanese
JPNS 042. Language Policy and Planning in Japan
MUSI 042. Performance. (Chinese Music Ensemble)
MUSI 049A. Performance (Balinese Gamelan)
POLS 058. Contemporary Chinese Politics
POLS 102. Comparative Politics: Greater China
RELG 009. The Buddhist Traditions of Asia
RELG 108. Poets, Saints, and Storytellers: The Poetry and Poetics of Devotion in South Asian Religions

Spring 2020

CHIN 004. Second-Year Mandarin Chinese
CHIN 012. Advanced Chinese
CHIN 012A. Advanced Chinese Conversation
CHIN 021. Reading and Writing in Modern Chinese
CHIN 033. Introduction to Classical Chinese
CHIN 103. Lu Xun and His Legacy in 20th- Century China
DANC 038. Performing Ecstasy Dancing the Sacred
DANC 049D. Dance Performance Repertory: Taiko
DANC 079. Dancing Desire in Bollywood Films
ECON 151. International Economics+
ENGL 077. South Asians in America
HIST 073. Perils & Phobias: The Case of Yellow
JPNS 004. Second-Year Japanese
JPNS 008. Extensive Reading in Japanese
JPNS 012A. Japanese Conversation
JPNS 013. Third-Year Japanese
JPNS 020. Fourth-Year Japanese
JPNS 024. Japanese Film and Animation
MUSI 002C. Taiko and the Asian American Experience
MUSI 042. Performance. (Chinese Music Ensemble)
MUSI 049A. Performance (Balinese Gamelan)
RELG 008. Patterns of Asian Religions
RELG 034. Partitions: Religions, Politics, and Gender in South Asia Through the Novel

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