ASIAN 104LIntroduction to East Asian Art
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University of Massachusetts-Boston · Courses
ASIAN
41 courses with the subject ASIAN, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
ASIAN 112LReligions of Asia
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course surveys the major religions of South, Southeast, and East Asia: Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and Shinto, with attention also to Asian Islam and Christianity. The focus is on central teachings, practices, and institutions in their historical and social contexts, as well as interactions between these traditions. The course also considers the enduring vitality of these traditions in the modern world, in and beyond Asia. This course is cross-listed as: RELSTY 112L Distribution Area: World Cultures Course Catalog ID: 039771 395
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- 2026-2027
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ASIAN 115LSurvey of South Asia18
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- 2026-2027
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- catalog.umb.edu
ASIAN 155LGreat Books of East Asia: Classics of Love and War
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This class introduces students to some of the most famous works of literature in China, Japan, and Korea before 1900. The semester is divided into two parts: the first half examines poetry and fiction in which romances are centrally featured, and the second half looks at stories that present specific points of view about major wars, battles, and acts of violence. The course will provide a broad knowledge of premodern literature in East Asia, as well as of cultural and historical contexts that are relevant to the texts. 396
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- 2026-2027
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ASIAN 160LEast Asian Civilizations to 1850
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: An introduction to the traditional civilizations of China, Japan, and to a lesser extent Korea, from the earliest times to the arrival of the modern industrial West in the mid-nineteenth century. Course Note: ASIAN 160L and HIST 160L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: HIST 160L Distribution Area: World Cultures Diversity Area: International Course Catalog ID: 000532 Course Offer Number: 1
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ASIAN 161LEast Asian Civilizations since 185018-20
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- 2026-2027
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ASIAN 212LTraditional Japanese Architecture
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Traditional Japanese Architecture introduces major forms of Japanese architecture, garden, and building practice prior to contact with the west. Students learn about Japan's two major religions, Shinto and Buddhism, and discover how its architecture gives from to ideas about divinity, ritual, and national identity, by closely studying both the ways that Japanese city plans, and government buildings, illuminate notions of class identity and power, and the distinctive aesthetic principles embodied in residential and leisure sites. All of these examples show how culture provides a vital framework for thought and form. The study of its architecture prior to Japan's opening to the West helps us understand how modern Japan builds upon its traditions as its engages with issues of contemporary life. Course Note: ART 212L and ASIAN 212L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: ART 212L Distribution Area: World Cultures Diversity Area: International Course Catalog ID: 040267 Course Offer Number: 2 398
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- 2026-2027
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- catalog.umb.edu
ASIAN 215LIntroduction to Buddhism
ASAMST 226 - Becoming South Asians
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- 2026-2027
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ASIAN 222LIntroduction to Japanese Music
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course is an introduction to Japanese music from the 5th century to the present. Students will explore a variety of genres, including J-pop and music in the contexts of performing arts and films. In addition, we will discuss the use of traditional instruments in modern music and the influence of Japanese music in other parts of the world. The course will consist of lectures, discussions, and in-class demonstrations and workshops by the instructor and guest performer(s). Course Note: Knowledge of Japanese language and formal training in music are not required. This course is cross-listed as: JAPAN 222L Course Catalog ID: 040992 Course Offer Number: 2 399
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- 2026-2027
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- catalog.umb.edu
ASIAN 232LAsian Religions
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- 2026-2027
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- catalog.umb.edu
ASIAN 233LIntroduction to Islam
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course acquaints students with the broad outline of the Islamic religion, 400
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- 2026-2027
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- catalog.umb.edu
ASIAN 234LReligion and Culture in Japan
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- 2026-2027
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- catalog.umb.edu
ASIAN 235LYoga in History, Philosophy, and Practice
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course examines the history, philosophies, and practices of Yoga in their religious and cultural contexts. In the modern west, Yoga has become popular as a secular form of exercise. However, the diverse Yoga traditions of India have also involved sophisticated analyses of the mind and systems of mediation. Intrinsic to no single religion, Yoga has had roles in most South Asian traditions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sufism or Islamic mysticism. The course surveys this rich history and the history of the various forms of meditative and physical discipline Yoga has entailed. Course Note: ASIAN 235L and RELSTY 235L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: RELSTY 235L Distribution Area: World Cultures Course Catalog ID: 039205 Course Offer Number: 1
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- 2026-2027
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ASIAN 239LHindu Myth and Narrative: the Epics and Puranas
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture 401
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- 2026-2027
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ASIAN 246LQueer Asia(n)
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (Includes P/F Option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: What's queer about Asia? What's Asian about queer? This class introduces students to key theoretical problems and empirical issues concerning LGBTQ+ life across Asia and Asian diaspora. We will examine the intersecting webs of forces that condition queer Asia as space, experience, and method: cis-heteropatriarchy, nationalism, regionalism, colonialism, orientalism, neoliberalism, and authoritarianism. Taking an expansive view of Asia and Asian-ness and using a global Asia framework to bridge area and ethnic studies and emphasize connections between regions. LGBTQ+ issues under examination include kinship practices, media representations, community activism, gay and transgender tourism, and international development. This class fulfills the International Diversity requirement. Course Note: WGS 246L and ASIAN 246L are the same course This course is cross-listed as: WGS 246L 402
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- 2026-2027
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ASIAN 251LSouth Asia and the India Ocean World
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: The Indian Ocean region includes Southern and Eastern Africa, the Persian Gulf, South Asia, and parts of Southeast Asia. This course will study the influence of South Asia in the creation of systems of state, and the circulation of goods, labor and capital through his region over two hundred years. This course satisfies the international diversity requirement though focus on the experiences of and interrelationships between participants in the production, trade and consumption of commodities, with a focus on national origin, social class, and the free and unfree and the intersections of these experiences, identities and conditions. Course Note: HIST 251L and ASIAN 251L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: HIST 251L Diversity Area: International Course Catalog ID: 039156 Course Offer Number: 2
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- 2026-2027
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ASIAN 252LPremodern Japanese Culture:From Ancient Times to 1868
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course surveys Japanese culture from the 8th century to the 19th century, with particular emphasis on literature, history, as well as contemporary material culture and social 403
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- 2026-2027
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- catalog.umb.edu
ASIAN 265LIcons of East Asia: Stereotypes, gender, and cultural history from
geisha girls to martial masters 67
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- 2026-2027
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ASIAN 275LPeoples and Cultures of China
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture 404
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- 2026-2027
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ASIAN 280Southeast Asian Cultures
CHINSE 253 - Is Culture Power? Re-thinking 'Traditional' Chinese Culture duism, Buddhism, and Islam geisha girls to martial masters 77
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ASIAN 297LAsian Philosophy
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (Includes P/F Option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course introduces students to some of the principal philosophical traditions of India and China. It examines the belief- systems of Hinduism and Buddhism in both India and China, as well as Taoism. Participants also explore in somewhat more detail the Hindu school of Advaita Vedanta in the work of Sankara, and the Madhyamika Buddhism of Nagarjuna. Traditional topics to be addressed include metaphysics, the theory of self (or not-self), relations of world and mind, the status of God (or the lack thereof), the situation of women in these religions, the goal of philosophy, and others. Comparisons among these traditions and with Western thought are attempted and encouraged, but no prior knowledge of specific traditions is assumed. Course Note: PHIL 297L and ASIAN 297L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: PHIL 297L Distribution Area: World Cultures Diversity Area: International Course Catalog ID: 024764 Course Offer Number: 2
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- 2026-2027
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- catalog.umb.edu
ASIAN 314LMeditation Tradition of Asia
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) 406
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- 2026-2027
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ASIAN 335LLiterature and the Arts of the Islamic World
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course examines the development of literature and the arts of the Islamic world from the early Islamic period to the modern day, focusing upon the specific ways in which religion interacted with the cultures of Islamic lands to inform these developments. The course will draw upon visual, performing, and literary traditions from across the Islamic world, from Andalusia to Mughal India, and from Indonesia to the Caribbean. Through the semester, students will be exposed to a diversity of geographical, religious, devotional, sectarian, and gender perspectives. This is a hands-on, interactive course designed with the support of the Mellon Foundation. Course Note: ASIAN 335L and RELSTY 335L are the same course. 407
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- 2026-2027
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- catalog.umb.edu
ASIAN 345LGender, Religion, and Politics in South Asia
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (included P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course explores the relationship of gender to religious politics in South Asia particularly in the context of liberation movements of the past and current modernization, development and globalization schemes. It examines how ideal images of masculinity, femininity and religious practice are reworked by various actors in the service of anti-colonialist, nationalist, and community struggles. The course highlights the complex ways religious and nationalist politics have created opportunities for women's activism while simultaneously undermining their autonomy. This course is cross-listed as: WGS 345L Distribution Area: World Cultures Diversity Area: International Course Catalog ID: 034679 Course Offer Number: 2
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- 2026-2027
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- catalog.umb.edu
ASIAN 351LReligion and the Arts
Formerly: ASIAN 271L Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture 408
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- 2026-2027
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- catalog.umb.edu
ASIAN 356LJapanese Architecture
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- 2026-2027
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- catalog.umb.edu
ASIAN 357LWomen in South Asian Religions: Gender Ideology and Practice in Hin
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- 2026-2027
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- catalog.umb.edu
ASIAN 358LPsychology, Politics, and Philosophy in East Asia
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Why do attitudes in China, Korea, and Japan differ from Western attitudes on such issues as human rights; individualism and community; child rearing; moral and psychological development; the role of government; and proper behavior in business organizations? This course explores the roots of these differences in the Confucian tradition. Course Note: ASIAN 358L and RELSTY 358L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: RELSTY 358L Distribution Area: World Cultures Diversity Area: International Course Catalog ID: 000254 Course Offer Number: 1
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- 2026-2027
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- catalog.umb.edu
ASIAN 359LWomen in Modern China
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course examines the social and cultural roles of Chinese women, and their changes over time. Emphasis is given to twentieth-century China, especially the People's Republic period. Course Note: ASIAN 359L and HIST 359L and WGS 359L are the same course. 410
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- 2026-2027
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- catalog.umb.edu
ASIAN 360LTraditional China
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: A survey of traditional China from ancient times to about 1800, with emphasis on cultural, intellectual, and social developments. Course Note: ASIAN 360L and HIST 360L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: HIST 360L Course Catalog ID: 000529 Course Offer Number: 1
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- 2026-2027
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- catalog.umb.edu
ASIAN 361LThe History of Modern China
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: A survey of the political, social, and intellectual development of China from 1800 to the present, with emphasis on Sino-Western relations and twentieth century reform and revolution. Course Note: ASIAN 361L and HIST 361L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: HIST 361L 411
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- 2026-2027
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- catalog.umb.edu
ASIAN 362LJapanese Art from 16th to 20th Centuries: Japan and the West
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- 2026-2027
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- catalog.umb.edu
ASIAN 363LModern Japan
om geisha girls to martial masters 78
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- 2026-2027
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ASIAN 364LIndia since 1857
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course explores the formation and transformation of colonial systems of control, administration and governance of South Asia and Indian participation in this process from 1857 to 1947. The course begins looking at early colonialism under the East India Company and the resulting revolt of 1857. It goes on to explore a variety of sites and social issues which were governed by the British colonial state and literary, political and militaristic responses to systems and priorities of government. The colonial state and the colonized were engaged, responsive and adaptive towards each other but locked in an unequal relationship underwritten by race and 412
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- 2026-2027
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- catalog.umb.edu
ASIAN 365LThe Muslim World Since 1979
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- 2026-2027
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- catalog.umb.edu
ASIAN 366LRe-made in Asia: Tellings and re-tellings from the Buddha to Godzilla
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- 2026-2027
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ASIAN 367LFood and Culture in Japan: National Identity and Diversity, Past and Present
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course explores how food and its consumption have been practiced and represented in premodern and modern Japan. Students will learn about the place of food in Japanese society, as well as the less commonly known aspects of Japanese food culture. The preparation, presentation, and consumption of food take place within structures of power. Food is often intimately tied to discourses of nationalism and national identity, yet it can also symbolize the diversity of society, such as regional identity, gendered divisions of labor, or the "foreign" and its appropriations. The class will investigate these and other aspects of Japanese food culture through written texts, visual arts, and film, in order to encourage a nuanced, complex, and critical understanding of the place of food in Japan. 414
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- 2026-2027
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ASIAN 371Environmental Issues in China
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course will analyze China's environmental and resource challenges including food security, wildlife, conservation, water, air, and land pollution, water distribution, deforestation, desertification and population control. We will study the issues from economic, scientific, and social perspectives and look at solutions as well as causes. We will also study China's environmental initiatives and accomplishments. Topics covered include pollution remediation, environmental protection,and investments in clean energy technology. Course Catalog ID: 037407 Course Offer Number: 1
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- 2026-2027
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ASIAN 478Independent Study
Credit(s): 1-3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 999 415
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- 2026-2027
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- catalog.umb.edu
ASIAN 480Topics in Asian Studies
CHINSE 253 - Is Culture Power? Re-thinking 'Traditional' Chinese Culture CHINSE 276 - Modern Chinese Cinema CHINSE 301 - Advanced Chinese I CHINSE 302 - Advanced Chinese II CHINSE 303 - Readings in Chinese: 20th Century CHINSE 304 - Readings in Chinese: Contemporary Culture CHINSE 305 - Readings in Chinese: Classical CHINSE 315 - Chinese Popular Music CHINSE 320 - Introduction to Teaching Chinese Language CHINSE 377L - Topics in Chinese Cinema
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- 2026-2027
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- catalog.umb.edu
ASIAN 488LThe Idea of Asia
Major Track (24 Credits) Leadership and Administration Concentration
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- 2026-2027
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- catalog.umb.edu
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