Grad-level Courses

UW-Madison Graduate School requires students to take classes at 300-level and above. Here is a list of possible courses to consider for Fall 2023.

All language courses may be found on Course Search & Enroll. Students should discuss their course selection with their faculty advisor(s).

Asian Languages & Cultures (ASIAN):

ASIAN 300 (002): Korean Popular Culture, 3 cr. (H. Kim)

ASIAN 300 (003) Picturing Korea, 3 cr. (H. Kim)

ASIAN 300 (oo4) Folk Performance: South Asia, 3 cr. (S. Vamsi and J. Jones)

ASIAN 301 (002) Language & Social Interaction, 3 cr. (Y. Yang)

ASIAN 307: A Survey of Tibetan Buddhism, 3 cr. (J. Khedup)

ASIAN 310: Introduction to Comics and Graphic Novels: Theory, History, Method, 3 cr. (A. Kern)

ASIAN 351: Survey of Classical Chinese Literature, 3 cr. (R. Huntington), ASIALANG 356

ASIAN 370: Islam: Religion and Culture, 3 cr. (A. Gade)

LITTRANS 373: Contemporary Japanese Novels, 3 cr. (S. Ridgely)

ASIAN 375: Survey of Chinese Film, 3 cr. (A. Detwyler)

ASIAN 378: Anime, 3 cr. (S. Ridgely), ASIALANG 356

ASIAN 379: Cities of Asia, 3 cr. (P. Chopra)

ASIAN 434: Introduction to Japanese Linguistics, 3 cr. (J. Mori), ASIALANG 356

ASIAN 438: Buddhism and Society in Southeast Asian History, 3 cr. (tbc)

ASIAN 443: Indian Cinema and Beyond, 3 cr. (D. Mini)

ASIAN 473: Meditation Buddhism & Hinduism, 3 cr. (G. Buhnemann)

ASIAN 533: Readings in Early Modern Japanese Literature: Graphic Narrative, 3 c. (A. Kern), ASIALANG 303

ASIAN 630: (001) Communism, Anarchism, Other, (t. Haberkorn)

ASIAN 630: (002) Gender, Work, and Family: East Asia, (E. Oh)
Note: students may not take this course twice, if you already completed A301, you may not enroll in A630,002.

ASIAN 631: History of Chinese Language, 3 cr. (Y. Yang), ASIALANG 356

ASIAN 633: Chinese Applied Linguistics, 3 cr. (W. Zhu)

ASIAN 672: Studies in Chinese Fiction, 3 cr. (R. Huntington)

ASIAN 698: Directed Study, 2-3 cr. (permission of instructor) Pass/Fail

ASIAN 699: Directed Study, 2-3 cr. (permission of instructor)

ASIAN 799: Reading for Research, 1-3 cr. (permission of instructor, pre-dissertation stage)

ASIAN 990: Thesis Research, 3 cr. (permission of instructor, post-dissertation stage)

ASIAN 999: Independent Research, 1-3 cr. (permission of instructor, post-dissertation stage)

Affiliate faculty:

ART HIST 411: Opera & Chinese Visual Culture, 3 cr. (Y. Li)

HIST 600 (005): Empire and Revolution in Southeast Asia, 3 cr., (A. McCoy)
Note: students interested in taking this seminar should send a short email with their (a.) campus ID (for registration); (b.) student status (senior/junior/grad student); (c.) major/discipline; (d.) GPA; and; (e.) reasons for their interest in the class to Professor Al McCoy, for permission to enroll in the course.

Enrollment notes:

If you haven’t taken language at UW-Madison, you may require permission to enroll in some courses. For ALC courses, please contact Rachel Weiss.

For non-ALC courses, questions about enrollment should be sent to the faculty of record, or department offering the course.