COURSES OF STUDY
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Birmingham-Southern College Catalog 2014-2015
Minor Requirements
The following courses are required (8 units):
two introductory courses, as defined in the major requirements
two courses in an Asian language relevant to the student’s primary
cultural/geographic area of interest, as defined in the major
requirements
four elective courses, which will constitute a cultural or geographic
area of concentration in either Sinitic (East) Asia or Indic/Islamic
(South, Southeast or Southwest) Asia
Courses in the Asian Studies Curriculum
* denotes introductory courses
Sinitic World (East Asia)
History
Introductory Survey of China
HI 181 East Asian Civilization I: China to 15th Century*
Introductory Survey of Japan
HI 182 East Asian Civilization II: Japan to 15th Century*
Modern China
HI 283 Modern China
Contemporary China
HI 385 The People’s Republic of China
Modern Japan
HI 284 Modern Japan
Contemporary Japan
HI 287 Western Images of Asia
HI 288 Remembering World War II (A): The Wars in Asia and the
Pacific
HI 386 Japan in the Twentieth Century
Asian History in Multinational Perspective
HI 287 Western Images of Asia
HI 288 Remembering World War II (A): The Wars in Asia and the
Pacific
Asian Thought and Religion
HI 282 Disputers of the Dao: Confucianism, Daoism and
Buddhism in East Asia
RE 221 World Religions*
Politics
PS 361 Politics in China and Japan
