Recommended Area Studies Courses
Recommended Area Studies Courses for FLAS
All students enrolled at the University of Utah during the duration of the FLAS fellowship must take at least one area studies course per semester.
For FLAS purposes, an area studies course dedicates a minimum of 25% of its content on Asia related topics. Many of the courses on this list count towards Asian Studies, International Studies, or language majors and minors.
The University also offers a variety of FLAS-eligible graduate-level courses. They are available through many departments, including independent study and cross-listed courses.
The following list is not comprehensive. If you are interested in taking a course that is not on this list, please contact the FLAS coordinator (flas@utah.edu) for approval.
Course List
ARTH 3020 Arts of China
ARTH 3060 Visual and Material Cultures of Buddhism
ARTH 4020 Chinese Painting
ARTH 4030 Art and Religion Along the Silk Road
ARTH 4060 Art and Politics in Modern China
CHIN 3010 Third-year Mandarin Chinese
CHIN 3060 Introduction to Written Chinese
CHIN 3390 Chinese Calligraphy
CHIN 3410 Teaching Chinese as a Second Language
CHIN 3510 Business Chinese
CHIN 4550 Patterns of Traditional Chinese Culture
CHIN 4560 Problems of a Modernizing China
CHIN 4610 Chinese Narrative Literature (CW)
CHIN 4620 Literature of the Middle Period
CHIN 4710 Classical Chinese
CHIN 4720 Classical Chinese
CHIN 4900 Special Topics
CHIN 5280 Structure of Chinese: Syntax
CHIN 5281 Structure of Chinese: Phonetics
ECON 5420 China and the Global Economy
ECON 5430 Asian Economic History and Development
ECON 5530 Principles of Economic Development
GEOG 3640 Geography of China and Asia (also listed as BUS 3141)
HIST 3500 Pre-modern China
HIST 3510 Modern China
HIST 4510 Asian Social History/Special Topics
HIST 4865 Race and Gender in Colonial Asia
PHIL 3620 Religions of China and Japan
PHIL 3640 World Religions
PHIL 4140 Classical Chinese Philosophy
POLS 3450 Politics in China
POLS 5480 International Relations of East Asia
POLS 5680 Chinese Foreign Policy
SOC 4439 Contemporary Chinese Society (also listed as BUS 3172)
SOC 4674 Global Health
THEA 3210 Tai-Chi Yoga Movement
ARCH 4200 Japanese Architecture
ARTH 3030 Arts of Japan
ARTH 3060 Visual and Material Cultures of Buddhism
ECON 5430 Asian Economic History and Development
HIST 3520 Pre-modern Japan
HIST 4510 Asian Social History/Special Topics
HIST 4765 The Vietnam War
JAPAN 3040/3060 Third-year Japanese
JAPAN 3220 Japanese Linguistics: Language and Society
JAPAN 3330 Third-year Conversational Japanese
JAPAN 3410 Teaching Japanese as a Second Language
JAPAN 3510/3520 Commercial Japanese
JAPAN 3710/4520 Intensive Business Japanese
JAPAN 4550 Japanese Civilization
JAPAN 4560 Newspaper Japanese
JAPAN 4610 Survey of Japanese Lit: Modern Period
JAPAN 4620 Survey of Japanese Lit: Heritage of Japanese Literary Tradition
JAPAN 4630 Japanese Women’s Literature
JAPAN 4660/4670 The Fiction and Poetry of Japan Today
JAPAN 4680 Modern Japanese Lit in Translation
JAPAN 4690 Classical Lit in Translation
JAPAN 4710 Classical Japanese
JAPAN 5290 Structure of Japanese: Syntax
JAPAN 5291 Japanese Linguistics: Language and Society
PHIL 3620 Religions of China and Japan
PHIL 3640 World Religions
POLS 5480 International Relations of East Asia
SOC 4438 Japanese Society
SOC 4674 Global Health
THEA 3001 Zen, The Art of Eastern Theatre
COMM 3000 Korean Media & Culture
KOREA 3060/3070 Third-year Grammar
KOREA 3100 Korean Culture Through Literature
KOREA 4900 Special Topics
HIST 3570 History of Korea
HIST 4780 The Korean War
HIST 3580 Pre-Modern Southeast Asia
HIST 3590 Modern Southeast Asia
HIST 4260 French Colonial Empire
HIST 4765 The Vietnam War
HIST 4865 Race and Gender in Colonial Asia
ARTH 3060 Visual and Material Cultures of Buddhism
ECON 5430 Asian Economic History and Development
ECON 5530 Principles of Economic Development
SW 3720/OC TH 4720 Immigration and Resettlement
BUS 3233 The Global Indian Ocean
BUS 3233 The Global Indian Ocean
BUS 3940 India & Globalization in the Business World
ENGL 5810 The Novel in India
FILM 3250 Indian Cinema and Beyond
HINDI 4610 South Asian Literature and Culture
HINDI 4620 Popular Culture of South Asia
HIST 3550 India: Empire and Religion
HIST 3560 Modern India
HIST 3565 Mughals to Modernity
HIST 4400 Intro to Islam
HIST 4510 Asian Social History/Special Topics
HIST 4865 Race and Gender in Colonial Asia
HIST 4620 Women in the History of Islam
HIST 4855 Environmental History of India
MID-E 3880 Oil in the Middle East & Central Asia
CLCS 4900 Banned Books of the Soviet Era
HIST 3160 Soviet Union
RUSS 3040/3060 Third year Russian
RUSS 3550 Russia under the Czars
RUSS 3560 Soviet Culture
RUSS 4900 Russian Cinema
ANTH 3151 Peoples of the Pacific
ANTH 4960 Tongan Culture and Island Environment: Study Abroad in the Kingdom of Tonga
ARTH 3070 Arts of the Transpacific
