Economic analysis of the spatial structure of cities ? why they are where they are and look like they do. How changes in technology and policy reshape cities over time. Selected urban problems and policies to address them, include housing, transportation, concentrations of poverty, financing local government. Prerequisite: ECO 150.

This course investigates the culture of private life in Late Imperial China (ca. 1400-1900). Using the house as a lens through which to examine how people lived and thought, we will explore topics such as architecture, gardens, cultural consumption, gender roles, foot-binding, homosexuality, and the family. Readings will draw upon important secondary scholarship as well as primary literature, including fiction, art collecting manuals, and Confucian didactic texts.

Topics course. We will study Korean films to think about expressions of and con-temporary uses of emotion. We will consider how these cinematic texts serve as a site for theorizing and historicizing emotion in modern Korea. In particular, we will explore the most extreme, but also the most basic, human emotions such as fear, pain, love, and sadness.In addition, we will ask how Korean films produce versions of emotional life that address various aspects of Korean history, class, gender, sexuality, and culture.

Advanced Korean 302 is the second part of a one-year intensive course for students who have already completed the advanced-level Korean course, Korean 301, or who have the equivalent language competence in Korean. Designed for students seeking to become bilingual (or multilingual), this course provides numerous and varied opportunities to develop and practice speaking, listening, reading and writing skills.

The ongoing nuclear meltdown in Fukushima following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami is the latest episode in Japan?s modern history of horrific natural and unnatural disasters. In this course, we will study how writers and filmmakers make art out of such disasters, from autobiographical fiction by atomic bomb survivors to a documentary account of industrial mercury poisoning, and from Godzilla to Studio Ghibli. Meanwhile, we will interrogate concepts of Japan?s supposed balance of nature-loving tradition and modern technotopia.

This course will introduce the historical, social and ideological background of "standard Japanese" and the Japanese writing system. We will also look at basic structural characteristics of the language and interpersonal relations reflected in the language, such as politeness and gender, as well as contemporary trends in popular media. This course is suitable for students with little knowledge about the language as well as those in Japanese language courses. All readings are in English translation. Enrollment limited to 30.

Topics Course Same as CLT 366.

Topics Course Same as SPN 366.

A study of bilingualism as a legacy of colonialism, as an expression of exile, and as a means of political and artistic transformation in recent texts from Africa and the Americas. We will consider how such writers as Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Kenya), Assia Djebar (Algeria), Patrick Chamoiseau (Martinique), and Edwidge Danticat (Haiti/U.S.) assess the personal and political consequences of writing in the language of a former colonial power, and how they attempt to capture the esthetic and cultural tensions of bilingualism in their work.

Same as ENG 255.