16:217:501 / 16:217:598  Pro-seminar I: Critical Approaches to East Asian Studies

Description: Familiarizes graduate students with the major paradigms of literary and cultural studies in order to help students generate critical contexts for analyzing and understanding East Asian literature and culture in a comparative framework.

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Prerequisites: None 

Expected Work: Reading and discussion of weekly assignments. Responses to the texts and engagment in group discussion. Students are also required to participate class discussions on Sakai before each lesson.

Exams: Two papers and final exam

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