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Courses by Field of Study
Courses listed below may be used to fulfill department degree requirements. Bold indicates courses being offered during the current academic year. For full course listings, please visit Stanford ExploreCourses or Stanford Navigate Classes.
Please note that the lists contain examples and are not exhaustive. If uncertain whether a particular course fits into one of these categories, contact Cyril Millendez, Assistant Director of Student Services, to check.
Humanities Courses
- ANTHRO 148/248 - Health, Politics, and Culture of Modern China
- ARCHLGY 111/211 - Emergence of Chinese Civilization from Caves to Palaces (Winter)
- ARCHLGY 135/235 - Constructing National History in East Asian Archaeology (Spring)
- ANTHRO 157/257 - Japanese Anthropology (Spring)
- ARTHIST 2 - Asian Arts and Cultures (Winter)
- ARTHIST 182B/382B - Cultures in Competition: Arts of Song-Era China (Winter)
- ARTHIST 185/385 - Arts of China in the Early Modern World, 1550-1800 (Autumn)
- ARTHIST 226/426 - New Landscapes of China: Ecologies, Media, Imaginaries
- CHINA 81N - The Art of Chinese Poetry (Winter)
- CHINA 111/211 - Literature in 20th-Century China (Autumn)
- CHINA 115/215 - Sex, Gender, and Power in Modern China (Autumn)
- CHINA 168/268 - The Chinese Family (Spring)
- CHINA 174/374 - New Directions in the Study of Poetry and Literary Culture (Winter)
- CHINA 185/285 - Literary Translation, Chinese to English (Autumn)
- CHINA 190/290 - The Structure of Modern Chinese (Winter)
- CHINA 279/379 - For Love of Country: National Narratives in Chinese Film and Literature (Winter)
- CHINA 380 - Survey in Sinophone Literature (Winter)
- CHINLANG 125/225 - Chinese through Modern Fiction (Autumn)
- CLASSICS 143 - The Use of Classical Antiquity in Modern China
- EALC 83N - Ghosts, Zombies, and Cyborgs: More-Than-Humans in East Asian Literature (Winter)
- EALC 105 - "How It's Made": Craft, Innovation, and Social Change in the Ancient World (Spring)
- EALC 110 - Sexuality and Gender in East Asia (Winter)
- EALC 114 - Aesthetics of Trauma: Ghosts, Memory, and the Afterlives of War in East Asia (Spring)
- EALC 114A/214A - Books Before Printing: Manuscript Culture in East Asia Up to 1200
- EALC 164 - Border Crossings of Literary and Game Worlds (Spring)
- EALC 170 - Where the Wild Things Are: The Ecology and Ethics of Conserving Megafauna
- EALC 214/314 - Specters of Asia: Hauntology and Ethnography of East Asia (Spring)
- EASTASN 256 - 350 Years of America-China Relations (Autumn)
- FILMEDIA 135/335 - Around the World in Ten Films (Spring)
- HUMCORE 113 - Looking for the Way (Dao) in East Asia
- HUMCORE 123 - Beauty and Renunciation in Japan
- HUMCORE 133 - How to be Modern in East Asia (Spring)
- JAPAN 124 - How to Construct a Language: Kokugo and Nihongo from the Meiji Restoration to Today (Winter)
- JAPAN 125 - Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, and Beyond: Place in Modern Japan (Spring)
- JAPAN 138/238 - Introduction to Modern Japanese Literature and Culture (Autumn)
- JAPAN 151/251 - Japanese Business Culture and Systems (Winter)
- JAPAN 164/264 - Introduction to Premodern Japanese (Spring)
- JAPAN 188/288 - The Japanese Tea Ceremony: The History, Aesthetics, and Politics Behind a National Pastime (Autumn)
- JAPAN 193/293 - Acquisition of Japanese as a Second Language (Spring)
- JAPAN 197/297 - Points in Japanese Grammar (Autumn)
- MUSIC 31N - Behind the Big Drums: Exploring Taiko (Spring)
- RELIGST 8N - Gardens and Sacred Space in Japan
- RELIGST 12N - Perspectives on the Good Life (Autumn)
- RELIGST 17N - Meditation and Arts in Zen Buddhism (Spring)
- RELIGST 50 - Exploring Buddhism
- RELIGST 55 - Exploring Zen Buddhism
- RELIGST 56 - Exploring Chinese Religions (Autumn)
- RELIGST 212 - Zhuangzi
- RELIGST 224 - Ritual and the Senses in Asian Religions
- RELIGST 242/342 - Chinese Buddhism (Winter)
- RELIGST 314 - Seminar in Buddhist Historiography (Autumn)
- RELIGST 315A - Chinese Buddhism
- RELIGST 217/317 - The Lotus Sutra in Japanese Buddhism (Spring)
History Courses
- HISTORY 90/190 - Early Chinese Thought
- HISTORY 91B/191B - The City in Imperial China
- HISTORY 92S - How to Divide a Country: The Making of Two Koreas in the Post-1945 World
- HISTORY 93/193 - The Chinese Empire from the Mongol Invasion to the Boxer Uprising (Winter)
- HISTORY 94B/194B - Japan in the Age of the Samurai (Winter)
- HISTORY 94S - Savoring Japan: Food and Society in Global Perspective
- HISTORY 95/195 - Modern Korean History
- HISTORY 95C/195C - Modern Japanese History: From Samurai to Pokémon (Spring)
- HISTORY 96N - World War II in Asia
- HISTORY 98/198 - The History of Modern China (Autumn)
- HISTORY 98S - Crime and Punishment in Late Imperial China: Law, State Formation, and Society
- HISTORY 99S - Nine Chinese Things: Global Technological Encounters in the Modern Age
- HISTORY 106A - Human Geography: Asia and Africa
- HISTORY 194G - Humanities Core: Technology and Media in Modern Japan
- HISTORY 203B - East Asia Discovers the World: Cartographic Encounters from the Mongols to Meiji
- HISTORY 205E - Comparative Historical Development of Latin America and East Asia
- HISTORY/AMSTUD 254F - Anti-Asian Violence in America: A History (Winter)
- HISTORY 256/356 - 350 Year of America-China Relations (Autumn)
- HISTORY 298/398 - Major Topics in Modern Chinese History: Science and Technology in East Asia (Winter)
- HISTORY 290/390 - North Korea in a Historical and Cultural Perspective
- HISTORY 291G/391G - Pre-Modern Chinese Warfare
- HISTORY 291K/391K - Korean History and Culture before 1900
- HISTORY 292D/392D - Japan in Asia, Asia in Japan (Winter)
- HISTORY 292F/392F - Culture and Religions in Korean History
- HISTORY 293E/393E - Female Divinities in China
- HISTORY 293F/393F - Chinese Politics and Society
- HISTORY 295F - Race and Ethnicity in East Asia (Autumn)
- HISTORY 298/398 - Major Topics in Chinese History: Cultural and Intellectual History
- HISTORY 298C/398C - Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chinese History
- HISTORY 307 - Transpacific History
- HISTORY 392B - Law and Society in Late Imperial China (Autumn)
- HISTORY 392G - Modern Korea
- HISTORY 396D - Historiography of Modern Japan (Winter)
- HISTORY 495A - Qing Legal Documents (Winter)
Social Sciences Courses
- ANTHRO 148/248 - Health, Politics, and Culture of Modern China
- EASTASN 117/217 - Health and Healthcare Systems in East Asia (Autumn)
- EASTASN 143/243 - Taiwan's Democratic Evolution
- EASTASN 168/268 - Taiwan Security Issues (Winter)
- EASTASN 177/277 - Divided Memories & Reconciliation: The Formation of Wartime Historical Memory in the Pacific
- EASTASN 179/279 - Rebalancing Economic Systems in a World Driven by Tech
- ECON 131 - The Chinese Economy (Winter, Spring)
- ETHICSOC 146 - Political Thought in Modern Asia
- FINANCE 377 - China's Financial System (Winter)
- HUMRTS 114 - Human Rights Practice and Challenges in Southeast Asia
- INTLPOL 244 - U.S. Policy toward Northeast Asia (Winter)
- INTLPOL 285 - American and Chinese Approaches to Managing Global Challenges
- JAPAN 151/251 - Japanese Business Culture and Systems (Winter)
- POLISCI 148/348 - Chinese Politics (Winter)
- POLISCI 235/335 - Chinese Political Thought
- POLISCI 235A/334A - From Cold War to New Cold War: Politics and Political Theory in Contemporary China
- POLISCI 248D/248D - China in the Global Economy
- SOC 111/211 - State and Society in Korea
- SOC 116/216 - The Logic of Governance in Contemporary China
- SOC 117A/217A - China Under Mao
- SOC 167A/267A - Asia-Pacific Transformation
- SOC 175/275 - China's Political Economy (Winter)
- SOC 217B/317B - Chinese Politics and Society