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TIBETAN 1A Elementary Tibetan 5 Units [+]Expand course description

Offered through: East Asian Languages and Cultures
Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2017, Fall 2016
A beginning Tibetan class developing basic listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in modern Tibetan (Lhasa dialect). The course also helps students begin to acquire competence in relevant Tibetan cultural issues.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Tibetan/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.

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TIBETAN 1B Elementary Tibetan 5 Units [+]Expand course description

Offered through: East Asian Languages and Cultures
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
A continuation of Tibetan 1A, Tibetan 1B develops further listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in modern Tibetan (Lhasa dialect), with a gradually increasing emphasis on basic cultural readings and developing intercultural competence.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Tibetan 1A

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Tibetan/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.

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TIBETAN 10A Intermediate Tibetan 3 Units [+]Expand course description

Offered through: East Asian Languages and Cultures
Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2012
This course, a continuation of 1A-1B (elementary Tibetan), is designed to develop the student's skills in modern standard Tibetan. The emphasis is on communication skills in vernacular Tibetan, as well as grammar, reading, writing, and a familiarity with contemporary Tibetan culture more generally.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Tibetan 1B

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Tibetan/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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TIBETAN 10B Intermediate Tibetan 3 Units [+]Expand course description

Offered through: East Asian Languages and Cultures
Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2013, Spring 2010
This course, a continuation of 10A, is designed to develop further the student's skills in modern standard Tibetan. The emphasis is on communication skills in vernacular Tibetan, as well as grammar, reading, writing, and a familiarity with contemporary Tibetan culture more generally.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Tibetan 10A

Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for TIBETAN 10B after passing TIBETAN 100A.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Tibetan/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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TIBETAN 24 Freshman Seminar 1 Unit [+]Expand course description

Offered through: East Asian Languages and Cultures
Terms offered: Prior to 2007
The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small seminar setting. Freshman seminars are offered in all campus departments and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to fifteen freshmen.
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Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring:
5 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
6 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week
10 weeks - 1.5 hours of lecture per week
15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Tibetan/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam not required.

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TIBETAN 84 Sophomore Seminar 1 Unit [+]Expand course description

Offered through: East Asian Languages and Cultures
Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Sophomore seminars are small interactive courses offered by faculty members in departments all across the campus. Sophomore seminars offer opportunity for close, regular intellectual contact between faculty members and students in the crucial second year. The topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to 15 sophomores.
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Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring:
5 weeks - 3-6 hours of seminar per week
8 weeks - 2-4 hours of seminar per week
10 weeks - 1.5-3 hours of seminar per week
15 weeks - 1-2 hours of seminar per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 3-4 hours of seminar per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Tibetan/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam not required.

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TIBETAN 100S Advanced Tibetan Conversation 1 Unit [+]Expand course description

Offered through: East Asian Languages and Cultures
Terms offered: Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012
This course is designed for advanced students of Tibetan language. Its goal is to provide an opportunity for advanced students to develop their colloquial Tibetan conversation skills. More sophisticated linguistic forms are used and reinforced while dealing with various socio-cultural topics, with a particular focus on Buddhist-related subjects toward the end of the term. Primary emphasis will be on the Lhasa dialect of Tibetan, though some variant dialects may also be introduced.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Tibetan 10B or equivalent, or consent of instructor

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Tibetan/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.

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TIBETAN 110A Intensive Readings in Tibetan 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Offered through: East Asian Languages and Cultures
Terms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016
This course is an intensive introduction to reading literary Tibetan literature. Following an introduction to basic grammar, the course moves quickly into selected readings from Buddhist texts in Tibetan. It typically builds on basic skills acquired in 1A-1B (elementary Tibetan), though with consent it may be taken independently.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Tibetan 1B or consent of instructor

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Tibetan/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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TIBETAN 110B Intensive Readings in Tibetan 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Offered through: East Asian Languages and Cultures
Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017
A continuation of Tibetan 110A, this course provides an intensive introduction to a range of literary Tibetan literature. Assuming knowledge of basic literary Tibetan grammar, the course focuses on selected readings from Buddhist texts in Tibetan.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Tibetan 110A, or consent of instructor

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Tibetan/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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TIBETAN C114 Tibetan Buddhism 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Offered through: East Asian Languages and Cultures
Terms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016
This course is a broad introduction to the history, doctrine, and culture of the Buddhism of Tibet. We will begin with the introduction of Buddhism to Tibet in the eighth century and move on to the evolution of the major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhist literature, ritual and monastic practice, the place of Buddhism in Tibetan political history, and the contemporary situation of Tibetan Buddhism both inside and outside of Tibet.
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Rules & Requirements

Credit Restrictions: Students who have passed S ASIAN C114 will not get credit for SASIAN C114.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Tibetan/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Also listed as: BUDDSTD C114/SASIAN C114

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TIBETAN 115 Contemporary Tibet 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Offered through: East Asian Languages and Cultures
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
This course seeks to develop a critical understanding of contemporary Tibet, characterized as it is by modernity, invasion, Maoism, liberalization, exile, and diaspora. It explores the cultural dynamism of the Tibetans over the last 100 years as expressed in literature, film, music, modern art, and political protest. The core topics include intra-Tibetan arguments regarding the preservation and "modernization" of traditional cultural forms, the development of new aesthetic creations and values, the constraints and opportunities on cultural life under colonialism and in the diaspora, and the religious nationalism of the recent political protests.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Tibetan/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.

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TIBETAN 116 Traditional Tibet 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Offered through: East Asian Languages and Cultures
Terms offered: Prior to 2007
This class will explore Tibetan civilization throughout the pre-modern period with an emphasis on literature, the visual arts, ethnography, and the history of Tibet's important cultural exchanges on the broader Inner Asian and Himalayan stages. The overall lesson plan will cover a wide range of Tibetan cultural forms and regions, and highlights the many international links that so animated Tibet itself and were crucial to the politics of Asia for many centuries. Furthermore, the theme of "early modernities" will be prominent in the readings in the second half of the course.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Tibetan/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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TIBETAN 118 The Politics of Modern Tibet 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Offered through: East Asian Languages and Cultures
Terms offered: Fall 2016
For over a hundred years, the political status of Tibet has commanded a level of attention on the international stage – and within China – seemingly disproportionate to the size of its population and economy, and in spite of its reputation as a remote periphery. This course will examine the historical, cultural, and economic assumptions underlying contemporary discourses of Tibetan politics, and relate them to discourses of global power and peripheries more generally. Grounding discussion in primary sources and critical works from across regions and disciplines, we will examine the roots of current conflict and the ways in which contending Buddhist, nationalist and internationalist projects have contributed to the making of modern Tibet.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Tibetan/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.

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TIBETAN 119 Tibetan Medicine in History and Society 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Offered through: East Asian Languages and Cultures
Terms offered: Prior to 2007
This course will investigate the theory, practice and development of Tibetan medicine or sowa rikpa, “the knowledge of healing.” Using Tibetan medicine as our lens, we will consider how all medical systems are based on ways of knowing that are culturally as well as biologically determined, and historically situated within linguistic, ecological, religious, and political frameworks. Drawing from primary sources as well as cross-disciplinary scholarship, we will examine issues of translation in canonical medical literature; traditions of ritual and practice; how medicine is taught; relationships between medicine and Buddhism; ideas about human bodies, subtle anatomy, cosmology, and gender norms; and aspects of modernization and globalization.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Tibetan/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.