Proseminar: Studies in Cultures of Asia

Proseminar covering advanced topics in Asian studies, focusing on cultures, historiography, and comparative analysis of societal narratives.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.95 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=21 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.85 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.50 GPA, 87.5% A/AB (n=8 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe the different histories and historiographies of cultural studies of Asia.

  • Use different materials, such as academic analysis, literature, memoir and legal documents, and also cultural political production beyond text, such as film and visual art, to interrogate what is at stake (intellectually, politically, culturally and socially) in how stories about the past, and its resonances in the present, are recorded, represented, and circulated.

  • Critically discuss comparative theories (across time, across identity, across space) thinking about Asia.

  • Understand multiple perspectives scholars use to study society in Asia and use these perspectives in a comparative analysis.

Source: UW Guide

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ASIAN 630

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Spring 2027
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Raw average: 4.73/5 from 11 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Raw average: 4.56/5 from 9 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.91 GPA, 96.3% A/AB (n=27 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

TYRELL HABERKORN is recorded teaching in Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 200
LEC 002Classroom Instruction0 / 150
LEC 003Classroom Instruction0 / 300
LEC 004Classroom Instruction0 / 150

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.95 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=21 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.85 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.50 GPA, 87.5% A/AB (n=8 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Histories and historiographies of cultural studies of Asia
  • Interrogating historical narratives through academic, literary, legal, and visual media
  • Comparative theories of Asia across time, identity, and space
  • Scholarly perspectives on studying society in Asia

Skills

  • Describing the different histories and historiographies of cultural studies of Asia.
  • Using diverse materials including academic analysis, literature, memoir, legal documents, film, and visual art to interrogate historical narratives and their present-day resonances.
  • Critically discussing comparative theories across time, identity, and space regarding Asia.
  • Understanding multiple scholarly perspectives on Asian societies and applying them in comparative analysis.

Grades

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ASIAN 630 · Spring 2027

Proseminar: Studies in Cultures of Asia

Recorded 2026-10-14
ASIAN 630 · Spring 2027

Communism, Anarchism, Other

Recorded 2026-10-14
ASIAN 630 · Spring 2027

Films of Kore-eda

Recorded 2026-10-14
ASIAN 630 · Spring 2027

Qualitative Stds. of Lang Use

Recorded 2026-10-14
ASIAN 630 · Spring 2027

Diasporic Korea

Recorded 2026-10-14
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