1. By examining course materials, the students will learn in
 detail how social, cultural, and historical circumstances affect
 women in several East Asian nations, and how they cope with
 resulting problems.

2. The students will compare situations of women in several
 different cultures, including American culture, thereby gaining
 analytical skills to discern similarities and differences for
 a better understanding of each of the involved cultures.

3. The students will examine how female writers in East Asia
 choose to represent themselves and other women in their various
 literary expressions.

4. This course will widen choice of courses for students'
 programs of study as an elective course of CMLT and JPNS 
 undergraduate majors as well as of five minors, including CHNS,
 CMLT, JPNS, KREN, and Asian Languages and Literatures.  If 
 cross-listed with Women's Studies, the new course will also
 enrich the course offering of that program.
 
5. The course will provide non-CMLT undergraduate students with
 relatively easy access to the discipline of Comparative
 Literature without having to major or minor in it.

Topics to be explored in CMLT 3220 include, among others:

Women's role in East Asian family life

Women's status as a labor force in East Asian society

Women, education, and women's movement in East Asia

Representation and self-representation of women in East Asian
 film

"Feminine" writing in East Asia

Women and belief systems in East Asia

Students are required to abide by the University of Georgia academic honesty policy.