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Apr 19, 2024
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REL 270 - History and Culture of East Asia: Tradition & Today4 credits
A survey course on foundational cultural ideas and practices that define and are characteristic of East Asia, foregrounding China and Japan, as they are instituted and developed through time in religion and related literature, arts and social practices. The course centrally deploys the methodologies of history and regional historical comparison. Thematic topics include social definitions of community, traditional depictions of status according to class and gender, and the creation of paths of ethical behavior that promote social cohesion. The course explores these themes through historical interactions among traditions as well as challenges to and the use of tradition in the present day. Primary texts in translation, art and documentary film are central to the course of study. The course includes field trips to Japanese traditional institutions devoted to the practice of Zen and the Way of Tea (Chado) in New York City. Offered spring semester. CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity International
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