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COURSE CATALOGUE
ASIAN & MIDDLE EASTERN CULTURES
Asian and Middle Eastern
Cultures
321 Milbank Hall
854-2125, 5416, 5540, 9538
www.barnard.edu/amec
Associate Professors: Rachel Fell McDermott (Chair), David Moerman, Guobin Yang
Assistant Professor: Wiebke Denecke
Other officers of the
University offering courses listed below:
John Mitchell Mason Professor Emeritus and Special Service Professor: William Theodore de Bary
Shincho Professor Emeritus and Special Service Professor: Donald Keene
Professors: Muhsin Al-Musawi, Paul J. Anderer, Peter J. Awn (Religion), Richard Bulliet (History), Pierre Cachia (Senior Scholars Program), Partha Chatterjee, Myron Cohen (Anthropology), Uri Cohen, Hamid Dabashi, Vidya Dehejia (Art History), Nicholas Dirks (Anthropology), Mamadou Diouf, Bernard Faure, Mason Gentzler (Senior Scholars Program), Carol N. Gluck (History), Jahyun Kim Haboush, Robert Harrist (Art History), John S. Hawley (Religion), Robert Hymes, Sudipta Kaviraj, Rashid Khalidi, Dorothy Ko (History), Lydia Liu, Brinkley M. Messick, Dan Miron, Sheldon Pollock, Frances Pritchett, Morris Rossabi, George Saliba, Conrad Schirokauer (Senior Scholars Program), Alan Segal (Religion), Haruo Shirane, Michael Stanislawski (History), Robert A. F. Thurman (Religion), Gauri Vishwanathan (English and Comparative Literature), Pei-yi Wu (Senior Scholars Program), Marc Van De Mieroop, Chun-fang Yu (Religion), Madeleine Zelin
Associate Professors: Gil Anidjar, Charles Armstrong (History), Aaron Andrew Fox (Music), Lisbeth Kim Brandt, Feng Li, Joseph Massad, Adam McKeown, Gregory Pfugfelder, Jonathan M. Reynolds, Wei Shang, Tomi Suzuki
Assistant Professors: Wendi L. Adamek (Religion), Janaki Bakhle (History), Weihong Bao, Allison Busch, Michael Como (Religion), Theodore Hughes, Eugenia Lean, David Lurie, Joseph Massad, Adam McKeown (History), Noha Radwan, Nader Sohrabi, Wendy Swartz, Gray Tuttle
For a complete list of
faculty on leave see:
http://www.barnard.edu/provost/facleavelist.html
The primary aim of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures is to introduce major Asian civilizations and their works and values as a means of expanding knowledge of the varieties and unities of human experience. The General Courses below are designed for any student, whatever her major interests, who wishes to include knowledge of Asian life in her education.
The satisfactory completion of one of the following courses offered in the departments of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Middle East Languages and Cultures satisfies the college requirements in the respective languages: Akkadian G 4113 Intermediate Akkadian; Arabic W 1215 Intermediate Arabic; Armenian W 1313 Intermediate Armenian; Bengali W 1202 Intermediate Bengali; Chinese C 1202 or F 1202 Intermediate Chinese (second stage); Hebrew W 1513 Intermediate Modern Hebrew; Hindi-Urdu W 1613 Intermediate Hindi-Urdu; Japanese C 1202 or F 1202 Intermediate Japanese (second stage); Iranian W 1713 Intermediate Modern Persian; Korean W 1202 Intermediate Korean; Sanskrit W 4813 Intermediate Sanskrit; Tamil 1202 Intermediate Tamil; Telegu W 1202 Intermediate Telegu; Tibetan W 4413 Intermediate Tibetan; or Turkish W 1913 Intermediate Turkish.
Literature courses in the departments of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures in which readings are in the original languages may be used to fulfill the Barnard distribution requirements only with the permission of the Chair of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures.
Students who wish to enter Chinese, Japanese, or Korean language courses above the introductory level must pass a language placement test before registering. Placement exams are given during the week before classes begin-contact the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (407 Kent) for exact dates. For placement above the introductory level in Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Hindi-Urdu, Panjabi, Persian, Sanskrit, Tamil, Tibetan, or Turkish, contact the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (602 Kent). All students wishing to enter the Hebrew language program or wishing exemption from the Hebrew language requirement must take a placement test. Contact the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (602 Kent) for details.