Spring '24
- Graduate Seminar: The Man'yōshū
- Asian Humanities: Colloquium on Major Texts
AY24-25 Tentative Courses:
(On leave both semesters)
Previous Years' Courses
| Spring '02 |
Readings in Classical
Japanese; Asian Humanities Colloquium on Major
Texts, East Asia |
| Fall '02 |
Introduction to Kanbun;
Japan to 1600 |
| Spring '03 |
Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: Japan;
Asian Humanities Colloquium on Major Texts, East
Asia |
| Fall '03 |
Reading Japanese
Historical Sources; Introduction to East Asian
Civilizations: Japan |
| Spring '04 |
Topics in the Cultural
History of Premodern Japan (Prince
Shotoku); Asian Humanities Colloquium on Major
Texts, East Asia |
| Fall '04 |
Introduction to
Kanbun; History
of East Asian Writing Systems |
| Spring '05- Fall '06 |
(On leave) |
| Spring '07 |
Introduction to
Kanbun; Japan
to 1600 (Graduate Colloquium) |
| Fall '07 |
Japanese Literature to
1900 (w/ Wiebke Denecke); Introduction to East Asian
Civilizations: Japan |
| Spring '08 |
Linguistic Thought in Japan, 712-1941 (grad seminar; pdf link to syllabus) |
| Fall '08 |
Japanese Bibliography;
Introduction to Kanbun |
| Spring '09 |
Graduate Seminar on Japanese Literature: 8th Century Classics (Interaction and Reception); pdf link to syllabus |
| Fall '09 |
Asian Humanities Colloquium on Major Texts, East Asia; Japan to 1600 |
| Spring '10 |
(On leave) |
| Fall '10 |
Introduction to Kanbun |
| Spring '11 |
Intro. to East Asian Civilizations: Japan; Graduate Seminar: Japanese Mythology I (pdf syllabus) |
| Fall '11 |
Introduction to Classical Japanese (pdf syllabus); Japanese Bibliography |
| Spring '12 |
Graduate Seminar:
Japanese Mythology II (pdf syllabus) |
| Fall '12 |
Intro. to East Asian Civilizations: Japan; Intro. to Kanbun |
| Spring '13 |
Japan to 1600; Graduate
Seminar: Legendary Emperors (pdf
syllabus) |
| Fall '13- Spring '14 |
(On leave) |
| Fall '14 |
Intro. to East Asian Civilizations: Japan; Intro. to Kanbun |
| Spring '15 |
Japan to 1600; Graduate
Seminar: Motoori Norinaga (pdf syllabus) |
| Fall '15 |
Intro. to East Asian Civilizations: Japan; Mythology of East Asia |
| Spring '16 |
Readings in Classical
Japanese; Graduate Seminar: Tsuda Sokichi and
Orikuchi Shinobu (pdf syllabus) |
| Fall '16 |
Mythology of East Asia; Introduction to Kanbun |
| Spring '17 |
World Philology (pdf syllabus); Graduate Seminar on Book I of the Kojiki (pdf syllabus) |
| Fall '17 |
Intro. to East Asian Civilizations: Japan; Introduction to Classical Japanese |
| Spring '18 |
(On leave) |
| Fall '18 |
Graduate Seminar on 8th Century Narrative (pdf syllabus); Introduction to Kanbun |
| Spring '19 | (On leave) |
| Fall '19 | Intro. to East Asian Civilizations: Japan; World Philology |
| Spring '20 | Readings in Classical Japanese; Graduate Seminar: Ancient Imperial Literature and the 21st Century: Roots of Reiwa (pdf syllabus) |
| Fall '20 | East Asian Mythology; Introduction to Kanbun |
| Spring '21 | Intro. to ICLS; Graduate Seminar: Making Nara Classics: The World of Edo Period Commentary (pdf syllabus) |
| Fall '21 |
East Asian Mythology;
Literature Humanities |
| Spring '22 |
Graduate Seminar: Nihon shoki books 1-2 (pdf syllabus); Literature Humanities |
| Fall '22 |
Introduction to Kanbun;
Historical Methods and Craft |
| Spring '23 | Graduate Seminar: The Fudoki
(pdf
syllabus); Intro. to ICLS |
| Fall '23 |
World Philology;
Approaches to East Asian Studies |