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Arabic
ARAB-102 First-Year Arabic II
Mohamed H. Hassan
(Section 01)
ARAB-202 Second-Year Arabic II
Mohamed H. Hassan
(Section 01)
John Weinert
(Section 01)
ARAB-302 Third-Year Arabic II
Mohamed H. Hassan
(Section 01)
ARAB-402 Topics in Arabic Language and Culture
Mohamed H. Hassan
(Section 01)
Asian Languages & Civilization
ASLC-142 Visual Culture of the Islamic World
Yael R. Rice
(Section 01)
ASLC-160 Chinese Literary Tradition, Antiquity to 1800
Lei Ying
(Section 01)
ASLC-171 History of Dynastic China
George Qiao
(Section 01)
ASLC-185 Orthodoxy and Heresy in Islam
Tariq Jaffer
(Section 01)
ASLC-208 Contemporary China
Kerry E. Ratigan
(Section 01)
ASLC-221 The Spirit of Words: Survey of Classical Japanese Literature
Timothy J. Van Compernolle
(Section 01)
ASLC-247 Japan's Modern Revolutions: 1800–2000s
Trent E. Maxey
(Section 01)
ASLC-249 Buddhism and Social Justice
Sue Darlington (Section 01)
ASLC-277 Islamic Constitutionalism
Mona Oraby (Section 01)
ASLC-282 Muslim Reformers of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Monica M. Ringer
(Section 01)
ASLC-319 The Tea Ceremony and Japanese Culture
Samuel C. Morse
(Section 01)
ASLC-325 Images and Icons—Exploring Devotional Art
Samuel C. Morse
(Section 01)
ASLC-338 Madame Butterfly Lives: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in France and Japan
Laure A. Katsaros
(Section 01)
Timothy J. Van Compernolle
(Section 01)
ASLC-359 Inside Iran
Monica M. Ringer
(Section 01)
ASLC-361 Lu Xun and Modern China
Lei Ying
(Section 01)
ASLC-368 The Frontier Regions in Chinese History
George Qiao
(Section 01)
ASLC-385 The Qur'ān and Its Controversies
Tariq Jaffer
(Section 01)
Chinese
CHIN-102 First-Year Chinese II
Xiaoping S. Teng
(Sections 01 and 02)
CHIN-202 Second-Year Chinese II
Weijia Li (Sections 01 and 02)
CHIN-302 Third-Year Chinese II
Tong Shen
(Sections 01 and 02)
CHIN-402 Fourth-Year Chinese II
Tong Shen
(Sections 01 and 02)
Japanese
JAPA-101 Introduction to the Japanese Language
Fumiko U. Brown
(Section 01)
Wako Tawa
(Section 01)
JAPA-102 Review and Progress in Japanese
Fumiko U. Brown
(Section 01)
Wako Tawa
(Section 01)
JAPA-103 Building Survival Skills in Japanese
Fumiko U. Brown
(Section 01)
Ikumi Kayama
(Section 01)
Wako Tawa
(Section 01)
JAPA-201 Functional Japanese
Kozue Miyama
(Section 01)
Wako Tawa
(Section 01)
JAPA-202 Communicating in Sophisticated Japanese
Wako Tawa
(Section 01)
JAPA-203 Experience with Authentic Japanese Materials
Kozue Miyama
(Section 01)
Wako Tawa
(Section 01)
JAPA-209H Conquering Kanji I
Wako Tawa
(Section 01)
JAPA-210H Conquering Kanji II
Wako Tawa
(Section 01)
JAPA-290H Intermediate Japanese I
Kozue Miyama
(Section 02)
Wako Tawa
(Section 02)
JAPA-301 Introduction to Different Genres of Japanese Writing and Film
Ikumi Kayama
(Section 01)
Wako Tawa
(Section 01)
JAPA-302 Moving From "Learning to Read" to "Reading to Learn" in Japanese
Ikumi Kayama
(Section 01)
Wako Tawa
(Section 01)
JAPA-401 Introduction to Thematic Reading and Writing
Wako Tawa
(Section 01)
JAPA-402 Thematic Reading and Writing
Kozue Miyama
(Section 01)
Wako Tawa
(Section 01)
JAPA-411 Introduction to Great Books and Films in the Original
Wako Tawa
(Section 01)
JAPA-412 Great Books and Films in the Original
Wako Tawa
(Section 01)
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