As announced by the President of Columbia University in April 2020, the 2020-2021 academic year will be comprised of three semesters:  Fall 2020, Spring 2021, and Summer 2021. The East Asian Languages and Cultures department will therefore offer courses for undergraduate students (and, in some cases, for graduate students) in each of these terms.

This page provides an overview of our course offerings for all three terms, to help students as they make decisions and plans for the academic year ahead. Please note that this schedule may be subject to change, and students are encouraged not only to revisit this page but also to confirm the course listings in the online Directory of Courses and Vergil, where course descriptions and class meeting times will be posted. 

Please contact the following people for questions about the courses listed below: 

  • For undergraduate majors and concentrations: Jungwon Kim, Director of Undergraduate Studies 
  • For graduate programs: Feng Li, Director of Graduate Studies 
  • For general course information: Amber Adams, Academic Coordinator

2020-2021 Year at a Glance

Fall 2020

  • “Fall” term courses will run the full 14-week term: Tues., Sept. 8, 2020 – Wed., Dec. 23, 2020.
  • Course descriptions, as well as specific sections and meeting times, can be found in the online Directory of Courses
TERM SUBJECT COURSE NUMBER COURSE TITLE INSTRUCTOR
Fall AHUM 1400 Colloquium on Major Texts: East Asia Jue Guo
Fall AHUM 1400 Colloquium on Major Texts: East Asia John Phan
Fall AHUM 1400 Colloquium on Major Texts: East Asia Ye Yuan
Fall ASCE 1359 Intro to East Asian Civ: China Paddy Booz
Fall ASCE 1361 Intro to East Asian Civ: Japan Gregory Pflugfelder
Fall ASCE 1367 Intro to East Asian Civ: Vietnam John Phan
Fall CHNS 1011 Introductory Chinese B Sec. 001 Cheng Ji
Fall CHNS 1011 Introductory Chinese B Sec. 002 Cheng Ji
Fall CHNS 1101 First Year Chinese N I Sec. 001 Chen Wu
Fall CHNS 1101 First Year Chinese N I Sec. 002 Liping Liu
Fall CHNS 1101 First Year Chinese N I Sec. 003 Lingjun Hu
Fall CHNS 1101 First Year Chinese N I Sec. 004 Yike Li
Fall CHNS 1101 First Year Chinese N I Sec. 005 Ling Yan
Fall CHNS 1111 First Year Chinese W I Sec. 001 Tianqi Jiang
Fall CHNS 1111 First Year Chinese W I Sec. 002 Hailong Wang
Fall CHNS 2201 Second Year Chinese N I Sec. 001 Feng Wang
Fall CHNS 2201 Second Year Chinese N I Sec. 002 Jia Xu
Fall CHNS 2201 Second Year Chinese N I Sec. 003 Huijuan Liu
Fall CHNS 2201 Second Year Chinese N I Sec. 004 Tianqi Jiang
Fall CHNS 2201 Second Year Chinese N I Sec. 005 Cheng Ji
Fall CHNS 2201 Second Year Chinese N I Sec. 006 Yike Li
Fall CHNS 2221 Second Year Chinese W I Feng Wang
Fall CHNS 3003 Third Year Chinese N I Sec. 001 Zhirong Wang
Fall CHNS 3003 Third Year Chinese N I Sec. 002 Huijuan Liu
Fall CHNS 3003 Third Year Chinese N I Sec. 003 Lingjun Hu
Fall CHNS 3003 Third Year Chinese N I Sec. 004 Liping Liu
Fall CHNS 3005 Third Year Chinese W I Hailong Wang
Fall CHNS 4012 Business Chinese I Zhongqi Shi
Fall CHNS 4014 Media Chinese I Sec. 001 Yuan-Yuan Meng
Fall CHNS 4014 Media Chinese I Sec. 002 Yuan-Yuan Meng
Fall CHNS 4015 Fourth Year Chinese I Sec. 001 Jia Xu
Fall CHNS 4015 Fourth Year Chinese I Sec. 002 Ling Yan
Fall CHNS 4017 Fourth Year Chinese Adv I Chen Wu
Fall CHNS 4112 Advanced Business Chinese I Zhongqi Shi
Fall CHNS 4301 Intro to Classical Chinese I Lening Liu
Fall CHNS 4507 Readings in Classical Chinese I Wei Shang
Fall CHNS 4516 Fifth Year Chinese I Lening Liu
Fall EAAS 2342 East Asian Mythology David Lurie
Fall EAAS 3217 Korean Popular Cinema Keung Yoon   “Becky” Bae
Fall EAAS 3423 Discovering Everyday Life In China Yanjie Huang
Fall EAAS 3435 Chinese Revolution, Asian Revolution, World Revolution Benjamin Kindler
Fall EAAS 3844 Culture, Mental Health and Healing in Contemporary East Asia Nicholas Bartlett
Fall EAAS 3927 China in the Modern World Lydia Liu
Fall EAAS 3990 Approaches to East Asian Studies Robert Hymes
Fall EAAS 3999 Research in East Asian Studies Jungwon Kim
Fall EAAS 4017 Ethnography and Representation in Tibet Eveline Washul
Fall EAAS 4122 Japanese New Wave and Cinematic Modernism Takuya Tsunoda
Fall EAAS 4160 Cultures of Colonial Korea Theodore Hughes
Fall EAAS 4226 Gender, Class and Real Estate in Urbanizing China Leta Hong-Fincher
Fall EAAS 4236 China’s Long 1980s: Interrogating the Cultural Politics of Reform and Opening Ying Qian
Fall EAAS 6990 MA Thesis Research Ye Yuan
Fall EAAS 6991 MA Thesis Writing Ye Yuan
Fall EAAS 8992 History of Chinese Cinema and Photography Ying Qian
Fall EAAS 9860 Seminar on Korean Historical Texts Jungwon Kim
Fall EARL 4312 Tibetan Sacred Space (in Comparative Context) Gray Tuttle
Fall EARL 4320 Buddhism and Korean Culture Seong Uk Kim
Fall EARL 4324 Religion and Politics in Korea Seong Uk Kim
Fall EARL 4410 Tibetan Monastic Institutions Gray Tuttle
Fall HIST 6999 Graduate Seminar: Modern Southeast Asia History (Section 20) Lien-Hang Nguyen
Fall HSEA 3871 Modern Japan: Images and Words Gregory Pflugfelder
Fall HSEA 4880 History of Modern China I Madeleine Zelin
Fall HSEA 5013 Readings in Early Chinese Texts and Manuscripts Jue Guo
Fall HSEA 6860 Bronzes and Bronze Inscriptions Feng Li
Fall HSEA 8839 Colloquium on Modern Japanese History Paul Kreitman
Fall HSEA 8880 Colloquium on Modern Chinese History Eugenia Lean
Fall JPNS 1002 Introductory Japanese B Sec. 001 Naoko Sourial
Fall JPNS 1002 Introductory Japanese B Sec. 002 Naoko Sourial
Fall JPNS 1101 First Year Japanese I Sec. 001 Mayumi Nishida
Fall JPNS 1101 First Year Japanese I Sec. 002 Fumiko Nazikian
Fall JPNS 1101 First Year Japanese I Sec. 003 Fumiko Nazikian
Fall JPNS 1101 First Year Japanese I Sec. 004 Naofumi Tatsumi
Fall JPNS 1101 First Year Japanese I Sec. 005 Shuichiro Takeda
Fall JPNS 1101 First Year Japanese I Sec. 006 Keiko Okamoto
Fall JPNS 1101 First Year Japanese I Sec. 007 Naoko Sourial
Fall JPNS 2201 Second Year Japanese I Sec. 001 Naofumi Tatsumi
Fall JPNS 2201 Second Year Japanese I Sec. 002 Shigeru Eguchi
Fall JPNS 2201 Second Year Japanese I Sec. 003 Miharu Nittono
Fall JPNS 2201 Second Year Japanese I Sec. 004 Shigeru Eguchi
Fall JPNS 3005 Third Year Japanese I Sec. 001 Keiko Okamoto
Fall JPNS 3005 Third Year Japanese I Sec. 002 Kyoko M Loetscher
Fall JPNS 3401 Japanese Pop Culture Naofumi Tatsumi
Fall JPNS 4007 Intro to Classical Japanese Bungo I Haruo Shirane
Fall JPNS 4012 Fourth Year Business Japanese I Kyoko M Loetscher
Fall JPNS 4017 Fourth Year Japanese I Shigeru Eguchi
Fall JPNS 4519 Introduction to Kanbun David Lurie
Fall JPNS 4610 Practical Japanese I – N1 Proficiency Miharu Nittono
Fall JPNS 5016 Fifth Year Japanese I Miharu Nittono
Fall JPNS 5030 Scholarly Reading I Fumiko Nazikian
Fall JPNS 8020 Graduate Seminar in Modern Japanese Literature Tomi Suzuki
Fall JPNS 8040 Graduate Seminar in Pre-modern Japanese Literature Haruo Shirane
Fall KORN 1002 Introductory Korean B Sec. 001 Hyunkyu Yi
Fall KORN 1002 Introductory Korean B Sec. 002 Hyunkyu Yi
Fall KORN 1002 Introductory Korean B Sec. 003 Seunghyo Ryu
Fall KORN 1101 First Year Korean I Sec. 001 HeyRyoun Hong
Fall KORN 1101 First Year Korean I Sec. 002 Ga-Hye Song
Fall KORN 1101 First Year Korean I Sec. 003 Ji-Young Jung
Fall KORN 1101 First Year Korean I Sec. 004 Joowon Suh
Fall KORN 2201 Second Year Korean N I Sec. 001 Seunghee Back
Fall KORN 2201 Second Year Korean N I Sec. 002 Beom Lee
Fall KORN 2201 Second Year Korean I Sec. 003 Beom Lee
Fall KORN 2201 Second Year Korean N I Sec. 004 Yong Jun Choi
Fall KORN 3005 Third Year Korean N I Sec. 001 Hyunkyu Yi
Fall KORN 3005 Third Year Korean I Sec. 002 Ji-Young Jung
Fall KORN 4105 Fourth Year Korean I Beom Lee
Fall KORN 4511 Fifth Year Korean I Joowon Suh
Fall RELI 4307 Interactions of Buddhism and Daoism in China Zhaohua Yang
Fall RELI 9355 Readings in Chinese Religion Zhaohua Yang
Fall TIBT 1410 1st Year Literary Tibetan I Sonam Tsering
Fall TIBT 1600 1st Year Modern Tibetan I Sonam Tsering
Fall TIBT 2412 2nd Year Literary Tibetan I Konchog Tseten
Fall TIBT 2603 2nd Year Modern Tibetan I Sonam Tsering
Fall TIBT 2710 Advanced Literary Tibetan I Pema Bhum
Fall TIBT 3611 3rd Year Modern Tibetan I Sonam Tsering
Fall VIET 1101 First Year Vietnamese I Chung Nguyen
Fall VIET 2101 Second Year Vietnamese I Chung Nguyen
Fall VIET 3101 Third Year Vietnamese I Chung Nguyen
Fall VIET 4101 Mixed Advanced Vietnamese I Vinh Nguyen

Spring 2021

  • “Spring” term courses will run the full 14-week term: Mon., Jan. 11, 2021 – Mon., Apr. 26, 2021.
  • Course descriptions, as well as specific sections and meeting times, will be available in advance of the early registration period in November 2020.
  • Please note that the course modality (online, in-person, hybrid) has not been decided yet for the Spring 2021 semester. The department is still awaiting further instruction from the University. 
TERM SUBJECT COURSE NUMBER COURSE TITLE INSTRUCTOR
Spring AHUM 1400 Colloquium on Major Texts: East Asia Seong Uk Kim
Spring AHUM 1400 Colloquium on Major Texts: East Asia Michael Como
Spring AHUM 1400 Colloquium on Major Texts: East Asia Joshua Rogers
Spring AHUM 1400 Colloquium on Major Texts: East Asia Max Moerman
Spring ASCE 1359 Intro to East Asian Civ: China Jue Guo
Spring ASCE 1361 Intro to East Asian Civ: Japan Paul Kreitman
Spring ASCE 1363 Intro to East Asia  Civ: Korea Seong Uk Kim
Spring ASCE 1365 Intro to East Asian Civ: Tibet Patrick Booz
Spring CHNS 1010 Introductory Chinese A Sec. 001 Cheng Ji
Spring CHNS 1010 Introductory Chinese A Sec. 002 Shaoyan Qi
Spring CHNS 1010 Introductory Chinese A Sec. 003 Cheng Ji
Spring CHNS 1010 Introductory Chinese A Sec. 004 Shaoyan Qi
Spring CHNS 1102 First Year Chinese II Sec. 001 Chen Wu
Spring CHNS 1102 First Year Chinese II Sec. 002 Liping Liu
Spring CHNS 1102 First Year Chinese II Sec. 003 Lingjun Hu
Spring CHNS 1102 First Year Chinese II Sec. 004 Yike Li
Spring CHNS 1102 First Year Chinese II Sec. 005 Ling Yan
Spring CHNS 1112 First Year Chinese W II Sec. 001 Cheng Ji
Spring CHNS 1112 First Year Chinese W II Sec. 002 Hailong Wang
Spring CHNS 2202 Second Year Chinese N II Sec. 001 Feng Wang
Spring CHNS 2202 Second Year Chinese N II Sec. 002 Jia Xu
Spring CHNS 2202 Second Year Chinese N II Sec. 003 Shaoyan Qi
Spring CHNS 2202 Second Year Chinese N II Sec. 004 Huijuan Liu
Spring CHNS 2202 Second Year Chinese N II Sec. 005 Yike Li
Spring CHNS 2222 Second Year Chinese W II Sec. 001 Feng Wang
Spring CHNS 3004 Third Year Chinese N II Sec. 001 Zhirong Wang
Spring CHNS 3004 Third Year Chinese N II Sec. 002 Huijuan Liu
Spring CHNS 3004 Third Year Chinese N II Sec. 003 Lingjun Hu
Spring CHNS 3004 Third Year Chinese N II Sec. 004 Zhong Qi Shi
Spring CHNS 3004 Third Year Chinese N II Sec. 005 Liping Liu
Spring CHNS 3006 Third Year Chinese W II Sec. 001 Hailong Wang
Spring CHNS 4013 Business Chinese II Zhong Qi Shi
Spring CHNS 4016 Fourth Year Chinese II Sec. 001 Jia Xu
Spring CHNS 4016 Fourth Year Chinese II Sec. 002 Ling Yan
Spring CHNS 4018 Fourth Year Chinese Adv II Chen Wu
Spring CHNS 4019 History of Chinese Language Zhirong Wang
Spring CHNS 4508 Readings in Classical Chinese II Andrew Plaks
Spring CHNS 4518 Fifth Year Chinese II Lening Liu
Spring CHNS 8028 Directed Readings in Chinese Zhaohua Yang
Spring EAAS 3322 East Asian Cinema Takuya Tsunoda
Spring EAAS 3338 Cultural History of Japanese Monsters Gregory Pflugfelder
Spring EAAS 3710 Film, Fiction, & the Making of Modern Vietnam TBD
Spring EAAS 3898 The Mongols in History Morris Rossabi
Spring EAAS 4022 Japanese Buddhist Visual Culture Max Moerman
Spring EAAS 4244 Chinese Internet Culture Yan Wang
Spring EAAS 4520 Modern Korean Literature in Translation Theodore Hughes
Spring EAAS 4810 Women and Literary Culture in Japan Tomi Suzuki
Spring EAAS 4840 China and the politics of desire Nicholas Bartlett
Spring EAAS 6200 MA Workshop in Methodology and Historiography Paul Kreitman
Spring EAAS 6400 MA Workshop in Methodology/Critical Approaches to East Asian Studies Ye Yuan
Spring EAAS 4XXX Film as History: South Korean Cinema and Modern Korean History (New Course) Keung Yoon "Becky" Bae
Spring EARL 9335 Japanese Religion Michael Como
Spring HIST 4923 Narratives of WWII Carol Gluck
Spring HIST 8910 Approaches to History and Historiography Carol Gluck
Spring HSEA 4700 Rise of Modern Tibet: History and Society, 1600-1913 Gray Tuttle
Spring HSEA 4712 Local History in Tibet Gray Tuttle
Spring HSEA 4813 Early Tibetan History and Its Relations with China Eveline Washul
Spring HSEA 4860 Culture and Society of Choson Korea Jungwon Kim
Spring HSEA 4882 History of Modern China II Eugenia Lean
Spring HSEA 4888 Women and Gender in Korean History Jungwon Kim
Spring HSEA 8660 Seminar in the Sources for Chinese History Robert Hymes
Spring HSEA 8839 Colloquium on Modern Japan Gregory Pflugfelder
Spring HSEA 8883 Topics in the Middle Period of Chinese History (Yuan) Robert Hymes
Spring HSEA 9875 Topics in the Cultural History of Premodern Japan David Lurie
Spring JPNS 1102 First Year Japanese II Sec. 001 Mayumi Nishida
Spring JPNS 1102 First Year Japanese II Sec. 002 Fumiko Nazikian
Spring JPNS 1102 First Year Japanese II Sec. 003 Fumiko Nazikian
Spring JPNS 1102 First   Year Japanese II Sec. 004 Shuichiro Takeda
Spring JPNS 1102 First Year Japanese II Sec. 005 Keiko Okamoto
Spring JPNS 1102 First Year Japanese II Sec. 006 Naofumi Tatsumi
Spring JPNS 2202 Second Year Japanese II Sec. 001 Naofumi Tatsumi
Spring JPNS 2202 Second Year Japanese II Sec. 002 Shigeru Eguchi
Spring JPNS 2202 Second Year Japanese II Sec. 003 Miharu Nittono
Spring JPNS 2202 Second Year Japanese II Sec. 004 Shigeru Eguchi
Spring JPNS 3006 Third Year Japanese II Sec. 001 Keiko Okamoto
Spring JPNS 3006 Third Year Japanese II Sec. 002 Kyoko M Loetscher
Spring JPNS 4008 Readings in Classical Japanese Bungo II: Heian to Meiji Tomi Suzuki
Spring JPNS 4013 Fourth Year Business Japanese II Kyoko M Loetscher
Spring JPNS 4018 Fourth Year Japanese II Shigeru Eguchi
Spring JPNS 5017 Fifth Year Japanese II Miharu Nittono
Spring JPNS 8070 Graduate Seminar in Japanese Cinema and Visual Culture Takuya Tsunoda
Spring JPNS 4XXX Practical Japanese N1 Proficiency II Miharu Nittono
Spring JPNS 5XXX Scholarly Reading II Fumiko Nazikian
Spring KORN 1001 Introductory Korean A Sec. 001 Hyunkyu Yi
Spring KORN 1001 Introductory Korean A Sec. 002 Hyunkyu Yi
Spring KORN 1001 Introductory Korean A Sec. 003 Seunghyo Ryu
Spring KORN 1001 Introductory Korean A Sec. 004 Seunghyo Ryu
Spring KORN 1102 First Year Korean II Sec. 001 Hey-Ryoun Hong
Spring KORN 1102 First Year Korean II Sec. 002 Eunice Chung
Spring KORN 1102 First Year Korean II Sec. 003 Ji-Young Jung
Spring KORN 1102 First Year Korean II Sec. 004 Joowon Suh
Spring KORN 1102 First Year Korean II Sec. 005 Ga-Hye Song
Spring KORN 2202 Second Year Korean N II Sec. 001 Seunghee Back
Spring KORN 2202 Second Year Korean N II Sec. 002 Eunice Chung
Spring KORN 2202 Second Year Korean II Sec. 004 Beom Lee
Spring KORN 2202 Second Year Korean N II Sec. 004 Yong Jun Choi
Spring KORN 3006 Third Year Korean N II Sec. 001 Hyunkyu Yi
Spring KORN 3006 Third Year Korean II Sec. 002 Ji-Young Jung
Spring KORN 4106 Fourth Year Korean II Sec. 001 Beom Lee
Spring KORN 4512 Fifth Year Korean II Sec. 001 Joowon Suh
Spring RELI 2307 Chinese Religious Traditions TBD
Spring RELI 6340 Topics in Chinese Buddhist Studies Zhaohua Yang
Spring TIBT 1411 1st Year Literary Tibetan II Sonam Tsering
Spring TIBT 1601 1st Year Modern Tibetan II Sonam Tsering
Spring TIBT 2413 2nd Year Literary Tibetan II Konchog Tseten
Spring TIBT 2604 2nd Year Modern Tibetan II Sonam Tsering
Spring TIBT 3612 3rd Year Modern Tibetan II Sonam Tsering
Spring TIBT 3710 Advanced Literary Tibetan II Pema Bhum
Spring VIET 1102 First Year Vietnamese II Chung Nguyen
Spring VIET 2102 Second Year Vietnamese II Chung Nguyen
Spring VIET 3102 Third Year Vietnamese II Chung Nguyen
Spring VIET 4102 Mixed Advanced Vietnamese II Vinh Nguyen

Summer 2021

  • “Summer A” courses will run during the first half of the term: Mon., May 3, 2021 – Fri., June 18, 2021.
  • “Summer B” courses will run during the second half of the term: Mon., June 28, 2021 – Mon., Aug. 16, 2021.
  • Course descriptions, as well as specific sections and meeting times, will be available in advance of Summer registration in April 2021.

Tentative Summer A Course List