Gateway Courses
Courses listed below may be used to fulfill department degree requirements. Bold indicates courses being offered during Academic Year 2022-23. For full course listings, please visit Stanford ExploreCourses.
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, Student Services Manager, to check.
Gateway Courses
East Asian Studies Courses
- ARCHLGY 135/235 - Constructing National History in East Asian Archaeology (Winter)
- ARTHIST 2 - Asian Arts and Cultures
- EASTASN 77/277 - Divided Memories & Reconciliation: The Formation of Wartime Historical Memory in the Pacific (Autumn)
- EASTASN 97/297 - The International Relations of Asia since World War II
- EASTASN 117/217 - Health and Healthcare Systems in East Asia (Winter)
- EASTASN 143/243 - Taiwan's Democratic Evolution (Winter)
- EASTASN 179/279 - Rebalancing Economic Systems in a World Driven by Tech (Winter)
- ETHICSOC 146 - Political Thought in Modern Asia
- FILMEDIA 135/335 - Around the World in Ten Films (Winter)
- FILMSTUD 103S - Anima to Anime
- INTLPOL 244 - U.S. Policy toward Northeast Asia
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HISTORY 205E - Comparative Historical Development of Latin America and East Asia
- HUMCORE 20 - Dao, Virtue, and Nature: Foundations of East Asian Thought
- HUMCORE 22 - Everybody Eats: The Language, Culture, and Ethics of Food in East Asia
- HUMCORE 113 - Looking for the Way (Dao) in East Asia (Autumn)
- HUMCORE 133 - How to be Modern in East Asia (Spring)
- HUMRTS 114 - Human Rights Practice and Challenges in Southeast Asia (Spring)
- RELIGST 50 - Exploring Buddhism
- RELIGST 139 - Religion along the Silk Road
- SOC 167A/267A - Asia-Pacific Transformation (Winter)
Chinese Studies Courses
- ANTHRO 148/248 - Health, Politics, and Culture of Modern China
- ARCHLGY 111/211 - Emergence of Chinese Civilization from Caves to Palaces (Spring)
- ARTHIST 182B/382B - Cultures in Competition: Arts of Song-Era China
- ARTHIST 185/385 - Arts of China in the Early Modern World, 1550-1800
- ARTHIST 226/426 - New Landscapes of China: Ecologies, Media, Imaginaries
- CHINA 111/211 - Literature in 20th-Century China (Autumn)
- CHINA 112/212 - Tiananmen Square: History, Literature, Iconography
- CHINA 115/215 - Sex, Gender, and Power in Modern China
- CHINA 168/268 - The Chinese Family (Winter)
- CHINA 170/270 - Chinese Language, Culture, and Society
- CHINA 174/374 - New Directions in the Study of Poetry and Literary Culture (Winter)
- CHINA 178/278 - Lives of Confucius
- CHINLANG 125/225 - Chinese through Modern Fiction (Autumn)
- CLASSICS 143 - The Use of Classical Antiquity in Modern China (Spring)
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EASTASN 162/262 - Seminar on the Evolution of the Modern Chinese State, 1550-Present
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ECON 131 - The Chinese Economy (Winter)
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ESF 9 - Education as Self-Fashioning: Chinese Traditions of the Self
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HISTORY 98S - Crime and Punishment in Late Imperial China: Law, State Formation, and Society
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HISTORY 298C/398C - Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chinese History
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INTLPOL 285 - American and Chinese Approaches to Managing Global Challenges
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POLISCI 148/348 - Chinese Politics (Winter)
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RELIGST 55 - Exploring Zen Buddhism (Spring)
Japanese Studies Courses
- ANTHRO 156/256 - Japanese Anthropology
- ANTHRO 157/257 - Japanese Popular Culture
- ARTHIST 287/487X - Pictures of the Floating World: Images from Japanese Popular Culture
- ARTHIST 287A - The Japanese Tea Ceremony: The History, Aesthetics, and Politics Behind a National Pastime (Autumn)
- HISTORY 94B/194B - Japan in the Age of the Samurai (Winter)
- HISTORY 94S - Savoring Japan: Food and Society in Global Perspective
- HISTORY 95C/195C - Modern Japanese History: From Samurai to Pokémon (Autumn)
- HISTORY 194G - Humanities Core: Technology and Media in Modern Japan
- HISTORY 292D/392D - Japan in Asia, Asia in Japan (Autumn)
- HISTORY 396D - Historiography of Modern Japan
- HUMCORE 123 - Beauty and Renunciation in Japan (Winter)
- INTLPOL 225 - Tech Policy, Innovation, and Startup Ecosystems: Silicon Valley, Japan and Comparative Perspectives (Spring)
- JAPAN 82N - Joys and Pains of Growing Up and Older in Japan (Spring)
- JAPAN 121/221 - Translating Japan, Translating the West
- JAPAN 125/225 - Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, and Beyond: Place in Modern Japan (Spring)
- JAPAN 126/226 - Japanese Functional Objects
- JAPAN 138/238 - Introduction to Modern Japanese Literature and Culture (Winter)
- JAPAN 141/241 - Japanese Performance Traditions
- JAPAN 151/251 - Japanese Business Culture and Systems
- JAPAN 158/258 - A Critical and Historical Survey of Classical Japanese Literature
- JAPAN 159/259 - The Paranormal in Premodern Japan
- JAPAN 164/264 - Introduction to Premodern Japanese
- JAPAN 192/292 - Analyzing Japanese Text and Talk (Winter)
- JAPAN 197/297 - Points in Japanese Grammar (Autumn)
- MUSIC 31N - Behind the Big Drums: Exploring Taiko
- RELIGST 8N - Gardens and Sacred Space in Japan (Spring)
- RELIGST 55 - Exploring Zen Buddhism (Spring)
- RELIGST 217/317 - The Lotus Sutra in Japanese Buddhism (Winter)
- RELIGST 253/353 - Recent Research on Japanese Buddhism
Korean Studies Courses
- EASTASN 189K/289K - Korea and the World (Winter)
- HISTORY 95/195 - Modern Korean History
- HISTORY 290/390 - North Korea in a Historical and Cultural Perspective
- HISTORY 291K/391K - Korean History and Culture before 1900
- HISTORY 292F/392F - Culture and Religions in Korean History
- HISTORY 392G - Modern Korea
- KOREA 24 - How to be Modern in East Asia (Spring)
- KOREA 101N - Kangnam Style: K-pop and the Globalization of Korean Soft Power
- KOREA 120/220 - Narratives of Modern and Contemporary Korea
- KOREA 121/221 - Doing the Right Thing: Ethical Dilemmas in Korean Film
- KOREA 111/222 - Gender and Race in South Korean Culture (Winter)
- KOREA 152/252 - Modernization and Design - A South Korean Case Study
- KOREA 153/253 - Olympic Spectacles: Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, and Tokyo
- KOREA 154/254 - From State Propaganda to COVID-19 Contact-Tracing: Korean Media and Culture
- KOREA 250/350 - More Real than Fiction: Perspectives of History and Theory in Modern Korean Literature
- KOREA 355 - History and Historiography of "Premodern" Korea
- SOC 111/211 - State and Society in Korea (Winter)