EALC 362
Popular Culture China & Japan

Credit: 3 hours.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a
Literature and the Arts, and Non-Western Cultures course.

(EALC 262) Introduction to the popular cultural traditions of China and Japan; examines popular morality, cosmology, religion, secret societies, the "way of the samurai," body and health (acupuncture, meditation, Zen, T'ai-chi chuan), aesthetics (poetry, painting, tea ceremony), and the world of the courtesan using a variety of documentary, fictional, and visual sources.