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.
Number of Credits: 3
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