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Course numbers: 001-499 undergrad
*; 500-800 graduate; a/b - spring/fall
*Summer
Abroad in Singapore is a Yale Summer Session course
open to both graduate and undergraduate students.
ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH
244a, Modern Southeast Asia
Erik
Harms
Introduction to the peoples and cultures of Southeast Asia,
with special emphasis on the challenges of modernization,
development, and globalization. Southeast Asian history,
literature, arts, belief systems, agriculture, industrialization
and urbanization, politics, ecological challenges, and economic
change.
ANTH
201b, Postwar Vietnam
Erik
Harms
Vietnamese society since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.
Focus on the effect of economic and political changes on
cultural and social life. The challenges of postwar socialism;
economic renovation; the intersection of market-oriented
socialism with class dynamics, urbanization, gender, health
care, and ritual life.
ANTH
382a, Environmental Anthropology: From Historic Origins
to Current Debates
(also EVST 345a, F&ES 384a)
Michael
R. Dove
(Substantial Southeast Asian content)
This is an upper-division undergraduate course on the history
of the anthropological study of the environment. It is organized
around a number of key, persisting themes in the field,
including the Nature-Culture Dichotomy, Ecology and Social
Organization, Methodological Debates, the Politics of the
Environment, and Knowing the Environment. Each theme is
examined through writings that are theoretically important
but also readable, interesting, and relevant. . No prerequisites.
ANTH
406a, Rivers: Nature and Politics (also
EVST 424a/ PLSC 420a)
James
C. Scott
The
natural history of rivers and river systems and the politics
surrounding the efforts of states to manage and engineer
them.
(some/partial
Southeast Asian content)
ANTH
541a, Agrarian
Societies: Culture, Society, History, and Development
(See also F&ES
753a /HIST 965a / PLSC 779a
Michael McGovern, Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan,
James
C. Scott
(some/partial
Southeast Asian content)
An interdisciplinary examination
of agrarian societies, contemporary and historical, Western
and non-Western. Major analytical perspectives from anthropology,
economics, history, political science, and environmental
studies are used to develop a meaning-centered and historically-grounded
account of the transformation of rural societies. Four-hour
lecture-plus-discussion. (open to undergraduates with special
permission)
ANTH
581a, Society
and Environment: Introduction to Theory and Method
See
also F&ES
520a
Michael
R. Dove
(Substantial
Southeast Asian content)
This
is an introductory course on the scope of social scientific
contributions to environmental and natural resource issues.
It is designed to be the first course for students who will
be specializing in social science approaches as well as
the last/only course for students who take only one course
in this area. The approach taken in the course is inductive,
problem-oriented, and case study-based. Enrollment limited
to thirty.
951a
or b Directed Research in Ethnology & Social Anthropology
952a or b Directed Research in Linguistics
ECONOMICS
ECON 899a or b Individual Reading
and Research
by arrangement with
faculty
ENVIRONMENTAL
STUDIES
EVST
345a, Environmental
Anthropology:
From Historic Origins to Current Debates
See ANTH 382
for course description
Michael
R. Dove
(Substantial Southeast Asian content)
EVST
424a,
Rivers: Nature and Politics James
C. Scott
(also ANTH 406a/ PLSC 420a)
The natural history of rivers and river systems and the
politics surrounding the efforts of states to manage and
engineer them.
(some/partial
Southeast Asian content)
FORESTRY
& ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
FES
384a, Environmental Anthropology: From Historic Origins
to Current Debates
(See ANTH 382a
for course description; also EVST 345a)
Michael
R. Dove
(Substantial Southeast Asian content)
F&ES 753a, Agrarian
Societies: Culture, Society, History, and Development
Michael
McGovern, Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, James
C. Scott
(some/partial
Southeast Asian content)
See
ANTH
541a for course description
F&ES
520a, Society and Environment: Introduction to Theory and
Method
See ANTH 581a
for course description
Michael
R. Dove
(Substantial
Southeast Asian content)
HISTORY
HIST
323b, Southeast Asia Since 1900
Ben
Kiernan
Comparative colonialism, nationalism,
revolution, and independence in modern Southeast Asia. Topics
include Indonesia and the Dutch, Indochina under French
rule, the United States in the Philippines and Vietnam,
Buddhism in Burma and Thailand, communist and peasant movements,
and the Cambodian revolution and its regional repercussions.
HIST
382j, Vietnamese History from Earliest Times to 1920
Ben
Kiernan
Evolution
of a Vietnamese national identity, from Chinese colonization
to medieval statehood, to French conquest and capitalist
development. Topics include the roles of Confucianism, Buddhism,
gender, and ethnicity in a Southeast Asian context.
HIST
980a, Genocide in History and Theory (graduate
seminar)
Ben
Kiernan
(Partial
Southeast Asian content - Cambodia and East Timor)
HIST
965a, Agrarian
Societies: Culture, Society, History, and Development
See
ANTH
541a
998a/b
Directed Readings
999a/b Directed Research
Offered by arrangement
with instructor and permission of Director of Graduate Studies
(Some
graduate and professional school courses are open to qualified
undergraduates with permission of the instructor and the
DGS)
INDONESIAN
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INDN
110a/120b/ 520a/b,
Elementary Indonesian.
Indriyo
Sukmono
An introductory course
in standard Indonesian with emphasis on developing communicative
skills through systematic survey of grammar and graded exercises.
Introduction to reading in the second term, leading to mastery
of language patterns, essential vocabulary, and basic cultural
competence.
INDN
130a/140b/ 527a/b,
Intermediate Indonesian.
Indriyo
Sukmono
Continued practice in
colloquial Indonesian conversation and reading and discussion
of texts. (After INDN 120 or equivalent)
INDN 470a/471b, Independent
Tutorial. Indriyo
Sukmono
For students with
advanced Indonesian language skills who wish to engage in
concentrated reading and research on material not otherwise
offered in courses. The work must be supervised by an adviser
and must terminate in a term paper or its equivalent. (Permission
of instructor/submission of project proposal)
INDN 560 a/b, Readings
in Indonesian. Indriyo
Sukmono
For students
with advanced Indonesian language skills working on modern
Indonesian literature.
MUSIC
MUSI
346a, Javanese Gamelan in Context: History, Literature,
Theory and Performance
Sarah
Weiss
This
course will be offered as a seminar on Tuesday afternoons,
2:30-4:20 plus a 2 hour rehearsal HTBA. Members
of the class form the nucleus of the Yale Javanese Gamelan
Ensemble. (No previous experience in gamelan performance
required). See Yale
Gamelan Suprabanggo
MUSI
711a, Permeable Boundaries: Musical Hybrididty and Cultural
Interaaction
Sarah
Weiss
(Substantial
Southeast Asian content)
What
is musical hybridity? Do hybrid musical styles ever come
to be considered pure or original? Or, thinking from the
other direction, were musical styles now considered pure
ever hybrid? What are the musical implications of cultural
interaction? What are the cultural implications of musical
interaction? How does hybridity discourse intersect with
postcolonial discourse? How do audience expectations determine
the reception of hybrid musical performances in different
places around the world? What does hybridity mean to people
who experience and/or create it? With
the 'edges' of the world as our boundary, we will explore
the musical results of cultural interactions in several
locations and periods. Some of these may include: musical
manifestations of European fascination with/fear of the
Other during the colonial period and orientalism; touristic
performance cultures in Asia; the nexus between local popular
musics, postcoloniality, and global world beat; the exploration/incorporation/exclusion
of the world through the work of new music composers (from
around the world) over the last century.
PHILOSOPHY
*PHIL 210a Eastern Philosophy.
Quang
Phu Van
(Substantial
Southeast Asian content)
An
Introduction to Eastern philosophy through the study of
philosophical and religious texts. Topics include reality
and illusion, knowledge, self, right and wrong, nonattachment,
meditation, aesthetics, meaning of life, and death. (Limited
enrollment)
*[OFFERED
SUMMER SESSION ONLY]
POLITICAL SCIENCE
PLSC
420a, Rivers: Nature and Politics. James
C. Scott
See EVST 424
for course descsription
(some/partial
Southeast Asian content)
PLSC 779a Agarian Societies: Culture, Society, History,
and Development.
See ANTH 541a
for description. (partial
Southeast Asian content)
Michael
McGovern, Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, James
C. Scott
(some/partial
Southeast Asian content)
VIETNAMESE
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
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on -> Vietnamese
Studies at Yale)
VIET
110a/120b/
515a/b,
Elementary Vietnamese.
Quang
Phu Van
Students acquire basic working ability in Vietnamese including
sociocultural knowledge. Attention paid to integrated skills
such as speaking, listening, writing (Roman script), and
reading. No previous knowledge of or experience with Vietnamese
language required.
VIET
130a/140b/
530a/b,
Intermediate Vietnamese. Quang
Phu Van
An integrated approach
to language learning aimed at strengthening students' listening,
speaking, reading, and writing skills in Vietnamese. Students
are thoroughly grounded in communicative activities such
as conversations, performance simulation, drills, role playing,
and games. Discussion of aspects of Vietnamese society and
culture. Prior knowledge of Vietnamese required.
VIET
220b Introduction to Vietnamese Culture, Values, and Literature
Quang
Phu Van
(NOT
OFFERED THIS YEAR - TO BE OFFERED 2012-13 AND ALTERNATE
YEARS THEREAFTER)
A brief
introduction to Vietnamese culture and values. Topics include
cultural and national identity, aesthetics, meaning of life,
war, and death. Selected readings from Zen poems, folklore,
autobiographies, and religious and philosophical writings.
*
All readings in translation. No previous knowledge of Vietnamese
required.
VIET
470a/471b,
Independent Tutorial Quang
Phu Van
For students with advanced Vietnamese language skills who
wish to engage in concentrated reading and research on material
not otherwise offered in courses. The work must be supervised
byan adviser and must terminate in a term paper or its equivalent.
(Permission of instructor/submission of project proposal)
VIET 560 a/b Readings in
Vietnamese Quang
Phu Van
For students with advanced Vietnamese language skills who
wish to engage in concentrated reading and research.
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