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New course: EALC 505—Introduction to East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALC pro-seminar)
Meets: 2-5pm Wednesdays, in Doheny's 110C, the seminar room
Instructor: Anne McKnight, EALC
EALC 505 is a core seminar required of all first-year graduate students in East Asian Languages & Cultures, and open to interested students in related fields. The seminar presents to the incoming students a comprehensive and in-depth introduction to East Asian studies, as well as to the specific research projects that EALC faculty engage in. It is designed to give students entering the program a general overview that will prepare them for more focused work, and will introduce them to resources available at USC and the greater Los Angeles area, as well as working relationships with faculty that will be useful in future work.
FORMAT: Over the course of a semester, faculty members from EALC and other East Asian studies programs on campus will give presentations, assign reading materials, and conduct discussion with students.
STUDENT WORK: Written assignments will include: response papers to assigned readings, cumulative research tasks, and book reviews. At the end of the course, students are required to develop a bibliography in consultation with a given faculty member.
Topics will include:
- EALC and area studies
- Language pedagogy: theory and practice
- Chinese poetics
- Modern Chinese Literature
- Modern and contemporary Japanese lit
- Pre-modern Japanese literature
- Film studies
- Linguistics and East Asian languages
- Japanese cultural History
- Transnational East Asian studies & post-colonial studies
- Scholars who run institutions
- Chinese history and civilization
Questions: please contact Anne McKnight at mcknight@usc.edu
