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Pre-Modern East Asian Literature

Analytical Thinking
Critical Thinking

Course Description

Poetry, prose, and drama in traditional China, Japan, Korea, and elsewhere in East Asia. The works will be in English translation.

Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Graduate students will be expected to engage critically with the material on a level that conforms with the standards of scholarship set forth by the Graduate School. For every primary text assigned, graduate students will be required to examine a minimum of two critical articles and demonstrate that they can integrate their knowledge of secondary sources with their own analysis of the primary text. Graduate student papers will be twice the length of undergraduate student papers and involve a substantial research component: they will be asked to incorporate primary evidence (historical, archeological, philological) into an integrated analysis of the text or texts they choose to examine.

Athena Title

Pre-Modern East Asian Lit

Semester Course Offered

Offered every year.

Grading System

A - F (Traditional)

Student Learning Outcomes

  • Students will be able to develop, support, and express ideas in written and oral form using language with clarity and precision in coherent, cohesive essays, and/or oral presentations.
  • Students will be able to interpret the formal, aesthetic, and creative elements of literary, cinematic, and cultural texts and the social and historical contexts in which they circulate.
  • Students will be able to synthesize competing positions into an original argument supported by textual evidence.
  • Students will be able to investigate, analyze, synthesize, and demonstrate knowledgeably and coherently, in written and oral form, the relationship between literature and film.

Topical Outline

  • Select choka and tanka poems Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji Sei Shonagon: The Pillow Book Confucius: The Analects The Tales of the Heike Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching Chuan Tzu: Chuang Tzu Kamo Chomei: Ten-Foot-Square Hut Yoshida Kenko: Essays in Idleness Renga poem samples Haiku poem samples Noh drama samples Matsuo Basho: The Narrow Road to the Deep North We Cheng-en: Monkey

Institutional Competencies

Analytical Thinking

The ability to reason, interpret, analyze, and solve problems from a wide array of authentic contexts.


Critical Thinking

The ability to pursue and comprehensively evaluate information before accepting or establishing a conclusion, decision, or action.


Syllabus

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