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EAST at Brown University | CourseTrees

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Department paths

EAST at Brown University

Catalog Open in Explore

Courses: 110
Prereq links: 5
Depth: 2 tiers
Feeder courses: 3

Where to start

Courses with no prerequisites inside the department that unlock the most downstream work.

EAST 0100VBeginning VietnameseEAST 0300VIntermediate Vietnamese

Intro sequences

The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.

1. EAST 0100VBeginning Vietnamese

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EAST 0300V

Intermediate Vietnamese

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Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate EAST coursework.

EAST 0100VBeginning Vietnameseopens 1 course (1 directly)
EAST 0300VIntermediate Vietnameseopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate EAST work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 8 EAST and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 105 more EAST courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

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Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

More upper-level work

EAST 0200VBeginning VietnameseEAST 0400VIntermediate Vietnamese

Standalone courses

EAST 0010Beyond Orientalism: Understanding “East Asia”EAST 0140Childhood and Culture in JapanEAST 0141Catastrophic JapanEAST 0150Language, Culture, and Society: KoreaEAST 0152Worlds of Korean CinemaEAST 0303Literature, Science, and Technology in ChinaEAST 0304Words on Things: Literature and Material Culture in Early Modern ChinaEAST 0305China Modern: An Introduction to the Literature of Twentieth-Century ChinaEAST 0307China Through the Lens: History, Cinema, and Critical DiscourseEAST 0309Courtesans, Concubines, and Wives: Gender Relations in Imperial ChinaEAST 0310Japan's Floating WorldEAST 0311Chinese Language, Arts, and CultureEAST 0315Beyond the K-Wave: A Deep Dive into Korea's Energy IndustryEAST 0350Pop and Political: Modern Culture in Japan and the KoreasEAST 0380Introduction to Premodern Japanese LiteratureEAST 0401Japan: Nature, Ritual, and the ArtsEAST 0402Japan's Floating WorldEAST 0406Foreign Bodies in Japan, 600–1600EAST 0407Yo no naka: Fiction and the Virtual in Heian JapanEAST 0408The Erotic Family: Sex, Money and Intimacy in JapanEAST 0409Sinners and Seers in Japanese LiteratureEAST 0411Diplomats, Drunkards, and Anarchists: Competing Visions of the Future in Japan’s Global PastEAST 0413Explore Multicultural JapanEAST 0415Moments in Japanese Poetry from the Beginnings to TodayEAST 0500Childhood and Culture in JapanEAST 0501Korean Youth, Identity, and NationEAST 0520Sex, Gender, and Society in Imperial ChinaEAST 0530Modern Korea: Politics, Culture, and SocietyEAST 0531Introduction to KoreaEAST 0532Korean Controversies and Negotiations: Moving Beyond Colonial Origins of National DivisionEAST 0533Beyond Gangnam Style: Seoul, Dislocation, and the Search for PlaceEAST 0534Patriots, Communists, and Traitors in Modern KoreaEAST 0535Korean Popular CultureEAST 0550K-Pop: History, Culture, PoliticsEAST 0560Forms of Attachment: Writing Love in Korean LiteratureEAST 0600Literature and Social Inequality in Late Imperial ChinaEAST 0610Popular Culture across Media in Early Modern ChinaEAST 0620Literature, Science, and Technology in ChinaEAST 0650Language, Culture, and Society: KoreaEAST 0655Savoring History: The Story of Vietnamese Food Across Regions and Time+ 66 more courses in Explore

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in EAST. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

2 courses deep, ending at EAST 0200V
1. EAST 0100VBeginning Vietnamese
2. EAST 0200VBeginning Vietnamese
2 courses deep, ending at EAST 0400V
1. EAST 0300VIntermediate Vietnamese
2. EAST 0400VIntermediate Vietnamese
2 courses deep, ending at EAST 1942
1. CHIN 0400Intermediate Chinese
2. EAST 1942Queer Japan and Beyond

Semester by semester

Derived, not official

A suggested order for the 8 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

Semester 1fall

CHIN 0400EAST 0100Vusually fallEAST 0300Vusually fallJAPN 0400KREA 0400

Semester 2spring

EAST 0200Vusually springEAST 0400Vusually spring

Semester 3fall

EAST 1942usually fall

All EAST courses in the Brown catalog

Grade medians

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Teaching in Spring 2027

Instructors on EAST sections in Spring 2027, from the registrar's schedule.

Beverly Bossler
Cynthia Brokaw
H. Wang
Hieyoon Kim
Janine Sawada
Jeffrey Niedermaier
Joshua Babcock
K. Smith
K. Yamashita
Kaijun Chen
L. Wang
Rebecca Nedostup
Samuel Perry
T. Chin

Clubs & organizations

Groups the university lists under this department.

Graduate Student Association for East Asian Studies (GSAEAS)

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Department events

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