ClassInfo - Spring 2019 Asian Languages and Literature Classes

Spring 2019 | ALL 3265W Section 001: The Fantastic in East Asia: Ghosts, Foxes, and the Alien (54712)

Instructor(s): Morgan Rouzer
Tobias Fong (TA)
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:: UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019

Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM

UMTC, East Bank

Nicholson Hall 125
Enrollment Status:: Closed (68 of 60 seats filled)

Course Catalog Description:: How the strange/alien is constructed in premodern Chinese/Japanese literature. East Asian theories of the strange and their role in the classical tale, through the works of Pu Songling, Edo-era storytellers, and others. Role of Buddhist cosmology and salvation. prereq: Some coursework in East Asia recommended
Class Description:: An investigation into aspects of the weird, the strange, and the fantastic in premodern and modern narrative in East Asia. In comparison to Western conceptions of the Fantastic and the Supernatural, we will look at what the "strange" might mean in a culture that does not share the same cultural and religious assumptions as the West. For example, what defines the human and the non-human? What role do gender presumptions play in constructing a fantastic Other? What impact do the cosmology and the soteriology of Buddhism have in this world? Also, how does this perspective affect how the modern Fantastic manifests itself in China and Japan - particularly in film and anime?
Grading:: 30% Final Exam
40% Reports/Papers
20% Quizzes
10% Class Participation
Exam Format:: Take home; short answer.
Class Format:: 70% Lecture
30% Discussion
Workload:: 50-100 Pages Reading Per Week
10-12 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54712/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 3 October 2014

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