ASIAN-223 is the fourth semester course in Japanese for those who have taken ASIAN-222 or have equivalent preparation in Japanese. Students in this course are taught to be able to explain procedures, ask and express opinions, understand and express complaints and apologies, while learning grammatical constructions such as passive, causative, causative-passive and different levels of politeness.

In the last hundred years, China witnessed the emergence of many talented Chinese women writers. Not only did they take part in every stage of important socio-political changes in modern and contemporary China, they were and still are the avant-garde of literary reform and innovation. Many of their works, in particular, take gender and gender ideology/politics at issue, while deviating from the traditional discourse of marginalized or trivialized women, exploring creative and effective ways of literary dialogue and imagination.

Intermediate Korean II is the second course in a two-semester Intermediate Korean sequence, designed for students who have completed Intermediate Korean I (ASIAN-262) or possess equivalent proficiency. This course enhances communicative competence, enabling students to express themselves with greater fluency, accuracy, and confidence in both informal and formal settings while engaging with a broader range of personal, academic, and societal topics.

This course continues ASIAN-310, Third Year Chinese I, in helping students build linguistic and communicative competence in Mandarin Chinese through reading, discussing, and writing about authentic texts. Newspapers, essays, and short stories will be the teaching materials for the course. An interactive approach will be incorporated into the curriculum to improve students' conversational skills. The class will be conducted mostly in Chinese, and class hours will be supplemented by individual work in the Language Resource Center.

This course, open to advanced learners of Chinese and native Chinese speakers, aims to develop crosscultural communication skills in an immersive environment. Students will examine discourse and behavioral patterns in daily and workplace interactions within the broader context of Chinese history, philosophy, and values. In addition to the core textbook, students will engage with a documentary film, business cases, and cultural exploration videos filmed in China.

This course continues ASIAN-324, Third Year Japanese I. It emphasizes attaining a higher level of proficiency in modern Japanese through the extended use of the language in practical contexts. The class will be conducted mostly in Japanese.

A seminar on the eighteenth-century Chinese masterpiece The Story of the Stone and selected literary criticism in response to this work. Discussions will focus on love, gender-crossing, and women's supremacy and the paradoxical treatments of these themes in the novel. We will explore multiple aspects of these themes, including the sociological, philosophical, and literary milieus of eighteenth-century China. We will also examine this novel in its relation to Chinese literary tradition in general and the generic conventions of pre-modern Chinese vernacular fiction in particular.

Offers study and practice in the grammar and syntax of classical Latin.

This course introduces the ancient Greek language and epic meter through the study of the Iliad. The grammar of the Iliad, originally an oral poem, is relatively uncomplicated, so that by the middle of the first semester students will begin to read the poem in Greek. By the end of the year they will have read a portion of Iliad, Book I.

Bread and circuses (panem et circenses) was a catchphrase in the Roman empire that described the political strategy of controlling an unruly populace through free bread and public entertainment.