Gateway Courses
Courses listed below may be used to fulfill department degree requirements. Bold indicates courses being offered in Spring Quarter 2022. 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 Officer, to check.
Gateway Courses
East Asian Studies Courses
- ARCHLGY 135/235 - Constructing National History in East Asian Archaeology
- ARTHIST 2 - Asian Arts and Cultures
- EASTASN 77/277 - Divided Memories & Reconciliation: The Formation of Wartime Historical Memory in the Pacific
- EASTASN 97/297 - The International Relations of Asia since World War II
- EASTASN 117/217 - Health and Healthcare Systems in East Asia
- EASTASN 143/243 - Taiwan's Democratic Evolution
- EASTASN 179/279 - Rebalancing Economic Systems in a World Driven by Tech
- ETHICSOC 146 - Political Thought in Modern Asia
- FILMEDIA 135/335 - Around the World in Ten Films
- 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 21 - Everybody Eats: The Language, Culture, and Ethics of Food in East Asia
- HUMCORE 113 - Looking for the Way (Dao) in East Asia
- HUMCORE 133 - How to be Modern in East Asia
- HUMRTS 114 - Human Rights Practice and Challenges in Southeast Asia
- RELIGST 50 - Exploring Buddhism
- RELIGST 139 - Religion along the Silk Road
- SOC 167A/267A - Asia-Pacific Transformation
Chinese Studies Courses
- ANTHRO 148/248 - Health, Politics, and Culture of Modern China
- ARCHLGY 111/211 - Emergence of Chinese Civilization from Caves to Palaces
- 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
- CHINA 112/212 - Tiananmen Square: History, Literature, Iconography
- CHINA 115/215 - Sex, Gender, and Power in Modern China
- CHINA 168/268 - The Chinese Family
- CHINA 170/270 - Chinese Language, Culture, and Society
- CHINA 174/374 - New Directions in the Study of Poetry and Literary Culture
- CHINA 178/278 - Lives of Confucius
- CLASSICS 143 - The Use of Classical Antiquity in Modern China
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EASTASN 162/262 - Seminar on the Evolution of the Modern Chinese State, 1550-Present
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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
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
- HISTORY 94B/194B - Japan in the Age of the Samurai
- HISTORY 94S - Savoring Japan: Food and Society in Global Perspective
- HISTORY 95C/195C - Modern Japanese History: From Samurai to Pokémon
- HISTORY 194G - Humanities Core: Technology and Media in Modern Japan
- HISTORY 292D/392D - Japan in Asia, Asia in Japan
- HISTORY 396D - Historiography of Modern Japan
- HUMCORE 123 - Beauty and Renunciation in Japan
- INTLPOL 225 - Tech Policy, Innovation, and Startup Ecosystems: Silicon Valley, Japan and Comparative Perspectives
- JAPAN 82N - Joys and Pains of Growing Up and Older in Japan
- JAPAN 121/221 - Translating Japan, Translating the West
- JAPAN 125/225 - Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, and Beyond: Place in Modern Japan
- JAPAN 126/226 - Japanese Functional Objects
- JAPAN 138/238 - Introduction to Modern Japanese Literature and Culture
- 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
- JAPAN 197/297 - Points in Japanese Grammar
- MUSIC 31N - Behind the Big Drums: Exploring Taiko
- RELIGST 8N - Gardens and Sacred Space in Japan
- RELIGST 55 - Exploring Zen Buddhism
- RELIGST 217/317 - The Lotus Sutra in Japanese Buddhism
- RELIGST 253/353 - Recent Research on Japanese Buddhism
Korean Studies Courses
- EASTASN 189K/289K - Korea and the World
- 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 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 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
- KOREA24 - How to be Modern in East Asia
