LITR 015CH. Introduction to East Asian Humanities

(Cross-listed as ASIA 015, CHIN 015)
This course is a survey of East Asian literatures and cultural histories from antiquity to around 1800. The primary purpose is to provide students with a basic literacy in East Asian cultures and literatures with substantive emphasis on topics common across East Asia, such as the classical traditions and cosmology, the Chinese script, Buddhism, the civil service examination, folklore, theater, literature, and medicine. This course is a colloquium designed to meet the needs of students just beginning their study of China, Japan and Korea, who would like to explore the region broadly; and those who have already done substantial study of China or Japan and welcome the chance to situate it within the larger context of traditional East Asia. This course will provide students with information and approaches to analyze primary sources in translation through assigned postings and short writing assignments.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Literatures in Translation
Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/modern-languages-literatures

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