EAS 2005 Critical Approaches to East Asia, Fall 2019

Days and Times: Mo 2:00-4:50pm
Room: Posvar 5403
Instructor: Charles Exley 
This course is a pre-approved elective for Fall Term 2019.

The main purpose of this course is to introduce graduate students to current topics of interest in the field of Asian Studies and to identify and evaluate strategies for reflecting on Asia in a global context.  Students will learn to parse research on Asia, to select and evaluate secondary literature, and to develop skills necessary for critically informed writing about Asia in the 21stcentury.  Students from different programs are welcome to join us in considering how their fields connect to Asian Studies.  

Students can expect to gain an understanding of advanced research methods, including the use of online databases and archives, bibliographic management software, and digital workflows.

Students will participate actively and lead class discussions, demonstrate through short assignments and critical reviews the ability to synthesize and assess the arguments of scholarly articles and monographs, and demonstrate in a longer essay the ability to research, synthesize, and evaluate a topic related to their own particular interests.