Performance study - individual instruction.

Discover how the forces of nature shape our understanding of the cosmos. Explore the origin, structure, and evolution of the Earth, moons and planets, comets and asteroids, the sun and other stars, star clusters, the Milky Way and other galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and the universe as a whole.

Performance study - individual instruction.

This course advances students' Chinese reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills by studying journalistic reports on the most pressing issues in China and the U.S. It also introduces the formal expressions, writing styles, and terminology commonly used in Chinese media. In addition, the course intends to help familiarize students with various media channels and agencies, understand the challenges of journalistic practice in the internet age, and enhance students' critical thinking and analytical stills by broadening their perspective and comparing Chinese and English media sources.

Performance study - individual instruction.

This course helps students to 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.

Intermediate Korean I is the first course in a two-semester Intermediate Korean sequence, designed for students who have completed Beginning Korean II or possess equivalent proficiency. This course enhances students' ability to communicate more fluently and accurately on a broader range of personal and societal topics. Students engage in extended conversations, produce connected speech and text, and interpret written and spoken materials with sensitivity to politeness levels and formality.

ASIAN-222 is the third-semester course in Japanese for those who have taken ASIAN-121 or have equivalent preparation in Japanese. Includes approximately 250 kanji. Students in this course learn to listen and comprehend conversations about more sophisticated topics they would encounter in daily life in Japan, such as conducting conversations in a hospital, expressing their plans and intentions, asking a favor, asking for and listening to navigation directions, and giving and receiving gifts.

This course examines the changing ideas and media practices of "craft" from pre-modern to the contemporary era, and from the British Art and Craft Movement to folkcraft promotion in East Asia. We will navigate intellectual writings, games, documentaries, novels, paintings, films, design manuscripts and products, and video blogs. We will also engage in DIY activities.

Yue Opera, an all-female art that flourished in Shanghai in 1923, resulted from China's social changes and the women's movement. Combining traditional with modern forms and Chinese with Western cultures, Yue Opera today attracts loyal and enthusiastic audiences despite pop arts crazes. We will focus on how audiences, particularly women, are fascinated by gender renegotiations as well as by the all-female cast. The class will read and watch classics of this theater, including Romance of the Western Bower, Peony Pavilion, and Butterfly Lovers.