All participants must complete three required and two optional components from the choices below. It should take no more than five hours to complete each one. Please be sure to read and follow the specific instructions for each component.

Required Components

The three components below are required to complete the NCTA East Asia seminar. You must have these three components approved by each instructor before you can move to the optional components, where you will select two from the seven offered.

Component 1: The Physical Geography of East Asia

Component 2: East Asian History

• Introduction
• Inventions and Ideas - China
• Early Modern Japan

Component 3: Philosophy and Religion

• Introduction and Instructions
• Confucianism in East Asia
• The Migration of Buddhism in East Asia
• China Encounters Religions of the West

Optional Components

There are seven optional components below. Please choose and complete two of these components to complete the seminar.

Lucien Ellington: Component 4
East Asian Literature

Introduction

Tang Dynasty Poetry: The Golden Age of Chinese Poetry Readings

Two Classic Genres of Japanese Literature

Lucien Ellington: Component 5
East Asian Art

Introduction

Garden Design as Art in China

Japanese Narrative Handscrolls

Lucien Ellington: Component 6
Contemporary East Asia

Introduction

Contemporary East Asia

Japan's Schools

Lucien Ellington: Component 7
East Asian Economic History

Introduction

East Asia's Economic History: Antiquity to 1945

Post War East Asian Economic History

East Asia's Contemporary Economies: Problems and Prospects

Lucien Ellington: Component 8

East Asian Economics

Component 9: East Asian Geography: Demographic Challenges and Human Capital Issues

Component 10:East Asian Geography: Exports and Economic Development Across the Regio