East Asian Relations Certificate

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Certificate Description

East Asia is a place where traditions and ancient spirituality stay alive. At the same time, contemporary East Asia takes a lead for business, trade and commercial exchange as one of the new and vast marketplaces of the 21st century through the East Asian culturel products - computer games, manga, anime music from Japan/Korea/Chinese/other EAS countries. Being in Hawaiʻi with strong East Asian heritage and its population, students learn historical and current interactions between East Asia and the rest of the world. This East Asian Relations Certificate offers students the opportunity for an integrative look at trans-regional issues related to East Asia. Understanding the East Asian culture is increasingly important in more and more fields - from Social Sciences to Humanities, history and political sciences to the arts and industries, and profit to non-profit.

Students pursuing the Certificate in East Asian Relations will have the flexibility to study the country - Japan, China and Korea - through the scope of interdisciplinary subjects (such as Anthropology, Art History, Film, Literature, History, Political Science, Religions, Sociology, and Women's and Gender & Studies). The certificate enables students to document valuable expertise and train research and teaching skills about East Asia.

Requirements (36-38 credits)

Culture Core Courses (3)
- LANG 200 Intro to Jpns & Chns Studies (3)
Language Core Courses (6-8)
- 6-8 semester hours of East Asian Language courses
  - JPNS 101 Elementary Japanese I (4)
  - JPNS 101S Elementary Japanese I, Special (3)
  - JPNS 102 Elementary Japanese II (4)
  - JPNS 102S Elementary Japanese II Special (3)
  - JPNS 107 Accelerated Element Japanese (8)
  - JPNS 201 Intermediate Japanese I (4)
  - JPNS 202 Intermediate Japanese II (4)
  - JPNS 301 Third-Year Japanese I (3)
  - JPNS 302 Third-Year Japanese II (3)
  - JPNS 340 Japanese Composition (3)
  - JPNS 401 Fourth-Yr Japanese I (3)
  - JPNS 402 Fourth-Year Japanese II (3)
  - JPNS 425 Translation Workshop (3)
  - CHNS 101 Elementary Chinese I (4)
  - CHNS 102 Elementary Chinese II (4)
  - CHNS 200 Conversational CHNS Business (3)
  - CHNS 201 Intermediate Chinese I (4)
  - CHNS 202 Intermediate Chinese II (4)
  - KOR 101 Elementary Korean I (4)
  - KOR 102 Elementary Korean II (4)
Electives (27) Nine different courses, selected from at least two different course alphas in each area.
- I. History
  - CHNS 360 Chinese Culture through Film (3)
  - HIST 310 Hist of Japan I: Early Japan (3)
  - HIST 311 Hist Japan II: Tokugawa to Mej (3)
  - HIST 312 Hist of China I: Early China (3)
  - HIST 313 History Of China II: Qing (3)
  - HIST 314 Hist of Jpn III: 20th Cent-Pre (3)
  - HIST 318 Hist China III: 20th Cent-Pres (3)
  - HIST 394 Asian American History (experimental course)
  - HIST 420 Mao (3)
- JPNS 385 Postwar Japn through Film (3)
  - PHIL 302 Hist Of Buddhist Philosophy (3)
- II. Art and Culture
  - ANTH 359 Cross-Cultural Cosmology (3)
  - ART 380 Art Of China (3)
  - ART 381 Art Of Japan (3)
  - CHNS 350 Chinese Folklore and Symbolism (3)
  - CHNS 364 Chns Lit in Eng-Modern (3)
  - CHNS 381 Chns Cult thru Arch & Garden (3)
  - JPNS 365 Japanese Lit in English (3)
  - PHIL 430 Philosophy of Zen (3)
  - PHIL 435 Daoism (3)
- III. Science of Human Society
  - ANTH 356 Japan (3)
  - ANTH 358 Japanese Immigrants (3)
  - ANTH 445 Ethnographic Field Tech (3)
  - JPNS 361 Girls and Women in Japan (3)
  - JPNS 383 Japanese Theatre & Performance (3)
  - POLS 351 Politics Of China Through Film (3)
  - POLS 353 Politics Of Japan (3)
  - POLS 357 Politics of Pac Rim Thru Film (3)
  - POLS 457 U.S.-China Relations (3)

Notes: The topic of internship, thesis and fieldwork courses must be East-Asia focused