Regional Specialization

Asia/Pacific

Courses must focus on countries of the Asian continent or geographical regions, to include East Asian and Southeast Asian countries, Australia, New Zealand, and all countries located in the South Pacific.

UPPER-DIVISION REGIONAL SPECIALIZATION COURSES MAY NOT OVERLAP WITH YOUR MAJOR.
Students entering as freshman must take 3 courses, of which 2 are UPPER DIVISION courses (#100-199).
Students entering as transfers must take 2 UPPER DIVISION courses (#100-199).
Language courses may not count for both language requirement and regional specialization.
Students must take ALL courses from the SAME region.
Only ONE course can be taken P/NP.
Qualifying AP credits for Regional Specialization counts as the one allowable lower-division requirement. It does not count as the one allowable P/NP course.
See General Catalog for complete course descriptions and pre-requisites: http://www.ucsd.edu/catalog
Students may overlap their Regional Specialization requirement with the Upper-Division Writing requirement. Please see Approved Courses for Upper-Division Writing to determine which classes are eligible for overlap.

(^) Must take at least TWO UPPER DIVISION courses to satisfy the Regional Specialization requirement
(#) Courses taught in native language, not English.
(*) May be used for Regional Specialization OR Fine Art requirement, NOT BOTH

Anthropology

Course Number	Course Title
ANAR 124	Archaeology of Asia
ANBI 121	The Original Moonshot: The Voyaging Achievements of the Polynesian Ancestors
ANSC 101A	Korean Wave Media & Cultural Change
ANSC 111	The Chinese Heritage in Taiwan
ANSC 114	Food Cultures of South Asia
ANSC 130	Hinduism
ANSC 136	Traditional Chinese Society
ANSC 137	Chinese Popular Religion
ANSC 165	Contemporary South Asia
ANSC 166	Film & Culture in Asia
ANSC 188	Cultures of Healing
ANSC 190	Yoga Practices: From Banaras to Beverly Hills

Chinese Studies

Course Number	Course Title
^CHIN 20BN-D	Second Year Chinese
^CHIN 20CN-D	Second Year Chinese
#CHIN 100AN-M	Third Year Chinese
#CHIN 100BN-M	Third Year Chinese
#CHIN 100CN-M	Third Year Chinese
#CHIN 160	Late Imperial & 20th Century Chinese Historical Texts
#CHIN 165A-B-C	Business Chinese
#CHIN 169A	Medical Chinese I
#CHIN 169B	Medical Chinese II
#CHIN 182A-B-C	Introduction to Classical Chinese
#CHIN 185A-B-C	Readings in Chinese Culture & Society
#CHIN 186A-B-C	Readings in Chinese Economics, Politics, & Trade
CHIN 196	Directed Thesis Research
#CHIN 198	Directed Group Study in Chinese Studies (must be taken for 4 units)
#CHIN 199	Independent Study in Chinese Studies (must be taken for 4 units)

Communication

Course Number	Course Title
COMM 104D	Comparative Media Systems: Asia
COMM 183	Global Economy and Consumer Culture

Economics

Course Number	Course Title
ECON 164	The Indian Economy
ECON 167	Economics of China
ECON 169	Economics of Korea

Global South Studies

Course Number	Course Title
^GSS 23	China and East Asia: History, Culture, and Politics
^GSS 26	South Asia: History, Culture, and Politics
^GSS 27	Southeast Asia: History, Culture, and Politics

History

Course Number	Course Title
^HILD 10	East Asia: The Great Tradition
^HILD 11	East Asia & The West, 1279-1911
^HILD 12	Twentieth Century East Asia
HIEA 111	Japan: Twelfth to Mid-Nineteenth Centuries
HIEA 112	Japan: Mid-19th Century through U.S Occupation
HIEA 113	The Fifteen-Year War in Asia and the Pacific
HIEA 114	Postwar Japan
HIEA 115	Social & Cultural History of 20th Century Japan
HIEA 116	Japan-US Relations
HIEA 117	Ghosts In Japan
HIEA 122	Late Imperial Chinese Culture and Society
HIEA 123	China under the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
HIEA 124	Life in Ming China (1369-1644)
HIEA 125	Women & Gender in East Asia
HIEA 126	The Silk Road in Chinese & Japanese History
HIEA 129	Faces of the Chinese Past
HIEA 130	End of the Chinese Empire: 1800-1911
HIEA 131	China in War and Revolution, 1911-1949
HIEA 132	Mao’s China, 1949-1976
HIEA 133	Twentieth Century China: Cultural History
HIEA 134	History of Thought and Religion in China: Confucianism
HIEA 137	Women and Family in Chinese History
HIEA 138	Women and the Chinese Revolution
HIEA 140/HIEA 140R	China since 1978
HIEA 144	Topics in East Asian History
HIEA 150	Modern Korean 1800-1945
HIEA 151	The Two Koreas: 1945-Present
HIEA 152	History and Cultures of the Korean Diaspora
HIEA 153	Social & Cultural History of 20th Century Korea
HIEA 154	Korean History Through Film
HIEA 155	China and the Environment
HIEA 163	Cinema & Society in 20th Century China
HIEA 164	Seminar in Late Imperial Chinese History
HIEA 166	Creating Ming Histories
HIEA 168	Topics in Classical & Medieval Chinese History
HIEA 170	Love and Marriage in Chinese History
HIEA 171	Society and Culture in Premodern China
HIEA 180	Topics in Modern Korean History
HIEA 190M	Special Topics in East Asian Modern History
HIEA 199	Independent Study in East Asian History
HIGL 114	History of Modern Vietnam
HISC 176	History of Medicine in East and Southeast Asia

Japanese Studies

Course Number	Course Title
#^JAPN 20B	Second Year Japanese
#^JAPN 20C	Second Year Japanese
#JAPN 130A-B-C	Third Year Japanese
#JAPN 135A-B-C	Japanese for Professional Purposes
#JAPN 140A-B-C	Fourth Year Japanese
#JAPN 150A-B-C	Advanced Japanese
JAPN 180	Special Topics in Japanese Studies
JAPN 190	Japanese Studies Research Seminar

Linguistics

Course Number	Course Title
#LIHL 112F-W-P	Filipino for Filipino Speakers
#LIHL 114F-W-P	Beginning Vietnamese for Vietnamese Speakers
#LIHL 115F-W-P	Korean for Korean Speakers
#LIHL 118	Cantonese for Cantonese Speakers
#LIHL 119F-W-P	Hindi for Hindi Speakers
#LIHL 132F-W-P	Advanced Filipino for Filipino Speakers
#LIHL 134F-W-P	Advanced Vietnamese for Vietnamese Speakers
#LIHL 135F-W-P	Advanced Korean for Korean Speakers
#LIHL 138	Advanced Cantonese for Cantonese Speakers
#LIHL 139F-W-P	Advanced Hindi for Hindi Speakers

Literature

Course Number	Course Title
#LTCH 101	Readings in Contemporary Chinese Literature
LTEA 100A	Classical Chinese Poetry in Translation
LTEA 100B	Modern Chinese Poetry in Translation
LTEA 100C	Contemporary Chinese Poetry in Translation
LTEA 110A	Classical Chinese Fiction in Translation
LTEA 110B	Modern Chinese Fiction in Translation
LTEA 110C	Contemporary Chinese Fiction in Translation
*LTEA 120A	Chinese Films
*LTEA 120B	Taiwan Films
*LTEA 120C	Hong Kong Films
LTEA 132	Later Japanese Literature in Translation
*LTEA 138	Japanese Films
LTEA 140	Modern Korean Literature in Translation from Colonial Period
LTEA 141	Modern Korean Literature in Translation from 1945—Present
*LTEA 142	Korean Film, Literature, and Popular Culture
LTEA 143	Gender and Sexuality in Korean Lit. & Culture
LTEA 144	Korean American Literature and Other Literatures of Korean Diaspora
LTEA 151	Readings in Tagalog Literature and Culture I
LTEA 152B	Topics in Filipino Literature and Culture (World War II—Present)
#^LTKO 2B	Intermediate Korean: Second Year II
#^LTKO 2C	Intermediate Korean: Second Year III
#LTKO 130F-W-P	Advanced Korean: Third Year (I,II,III)
#LTKO 135	Readings in Sino-Korean Characters
#LTKO 140	Readings in Korean Literature
#LTKO 149	Readings in Korean Language History and Structure
LTWL 135	The Buddhist Imaginary
LTWL 136	Socially Engaged Buddhism
LTWL 145	South Asian Religious Literatures: Selected Topics
LTWL 156	Asian Diasporic Cinema
LTWL 168	Death & Desire in India

Philosophy

Course Number	Course Title
PHIL 158	Topics in Chinese Philosophy

Political Science

Course Number	Course Title
POLI 113A	East Asian Thought in Comparative Perspective
POLI 113B	Chinese and Japanese Political Thought I
POLI 113C	Chinese and Japanese Political Thought II
POLI 130B	Politics in the People’s Republic of China
POLI 130D	South Asia: Politics and Conflict
POLI 130G	Politics of Modern India
POLI 131C	The Chinese Revolution
POLI 132	Political Development and Modern China
POLI 133	Democracy, Development and Conflict in South Asia
POLI 133A	Japanese Politics: A Developmental Perspective
POLI 133D	Political Institutions of East Asian Countries
POLI 133G	Postwar US-Japan Relations
POLI 133J	Korean Politics

Sociology

Course Number	Course Title
SOCI 123	Japanese Culture Inside/Out: A Transnational Perspective
SOCI 128	Religion and Popular Culture in East Asia (same as HIEA 119)
SOCI 140K	Law and Society in China
SOCI 176	Transnational Japan Research Practicum
SOCI 188G	Chinese Society

Theatre & Dance

Course Number	Course Title
*TDMV 144	Asian Dance

Visual Arts

Course Number	Course Title
^*VIS 21B	Introduction to Asian Art
*VIS 103A	Contemporary Arts in South Korea (Students may not receive credit for VIS 103A and VIS 127A)
*VIS 103B	Architecture & Urbanism of Korea (Students may not receive credit for VIS 103B and VIS 127I)
*VIS 105D	Art Forms and Chinese Calligraphy
*VIS 105E	Chinese Calligraphy as Installation
*VIS 126K	Oceanic Art
*VIS 127B	Arts of China
*VIS 127C	Arts of Modern China
*VIS 127D	Early Chinese Painting
*VIS 127E	Later Chinese Painting
*VIS 127F	Japanese Buddhist Art
*VIS 127N	20th Century Art in China & Japan
*VIS 127P	Arts of Japan
*VIS 127Q	Japanese Painting & Prints
*VIS 128E	Topics in Art History of Asia
*VIS 129E	Seminar in Art History of Asia

Last Updated: 9/26/24