Minor in Southeast Asian Studies (24 units + language)

Students may take a minor in Southeast Asian Studies which, with an emphasis on language and humanities, provides students with the opportunity to enhance their knowledge of Southeast Asian languages, cultures and literatures. Requirements for the minor includes study in one Southeast Asian language (Vietnamese, Tagalog, or Indonesian) for at least three quarters, 2 lower division courses and 4 upper division courses. The following courses are offered:

 

Lower Division

AST 62 Introduction to Southeast Asian Literature

AST 63 Reading Southeast Asian Stories

AST 64 Introduction to Vietnamese and Diasporic Film Culture

AST 65 Introduction to Southeast Asian Cultures

HIST 46 Introduction to Southeast Asian History

DAN 75A Philippine Dance

 

Upper Division

ANTH 140-I Peoples and Cultures of Southeast Asia

AST/CPLT 161 Translating Southeast Asia

AST/VNM/CPLT 162 or HIST 187 Vietnamese Literary History

AST/CPLT 163 Nationalism and the Novel

AST 164/VNM 164 Vietnamese-American Culture

AST/VNM/WST 165 Themes in Vietnamese Literature

AST/CPLT/VNM 166 Vietnam and the Philippines

AST/CPLT 167 Post-colonial Southeast Asia and South Asia

AST 168 Javanese Gamelan Ensemble

HIST 184 Modern Vietnam and the Vietnam Wars

HIST 185 Early Southeast Asia to 1800

HIST 186 Modern Southeast Asia since 1800

RLST 106 Buddhism

RLST 144 Buddhist Literature

RLST 145 Buddhism in Southeast Asia

RLST 150 Islam in Southeast Asia

MUS 123 Southeast Asian Performance

MUS 124 Music of Asian America

MUS 127 Music Cultures of Southeast Asia

MUS 128 Performing Arts of Asia

MUS 168 Javanese Gamelan Ensemble: Beginning

MUS 170 Rondalla Ensemble

LANGUAGE COURSES:

TAG 10-A Accelerated Basic Tagalog

TAG 10-B Accelerated Intermediate Tagalog

TAG 10-C Accelerated Advanced Tagalog

IND 001 Basic Bahasa Indonesia

IND 002 Intermediate Indonesian

IND 003 Advanced Indonesian

VNM 001-003 Beginning Vietnamese

VNM 004, 005 Intermediate Vietnamese

VNM 101 Advanced Vietnamese

 

A Southeast Asian Studies Major Program is being developed. Graduate courses currently offered on Southeast Asia include:

 

SEAS 200 Proseminar Southeast Asian Studies

SEAS 201 Southeast Asian Performance

SEAS 202 Southeast Asian Religions

SEAS 203 Southeast Asian Cultures

SEAS 204 Topics in Southeast Asian History

SEAS 205 Literatures of Southeast Asia