Topics and prerequisites vary. May be repeated for credit with different topics. Topic for Fall 2017: Growing Up in Korea. Examines memoirs, prose fiction, film, television dramas, graphic narratives to ask: how have the conventions of Korean coming-of-age narratives evolved over time? What does this say about changes in Korean identity? No knowledge of Korean required. Also offered as CAS CI 490 A1. Topic for Spring 2018: Trauma, Memory, Literature. Explores how we remember, how memory builds biographies and distinct cultural histories, and how various media represent trauma. Readings include theories of memory, literature of cataclysmic events in Asian and European cultures, of East Asia's history wars, and Holocaust literature. Also offered as CAS Lc 470 and CAS LJ 451.