Courses

0-99 Advanced Placement Credit; House Courses; First-Year Seminars; First-Year Writing; Registrar/Department special purpose
100-199 Introductory-level undergraduate courses; basic skills/activity courses; foundation courses; Focus program courses
200-399 Undergraduate courses above introductory level
400-499 Advanced undergraduate, senior seminars, capstone courses, honors thesis courses
500-699 Graduate courses open to advanced undergraduates
700-999 Graduate only courses (not open to undergraduates)

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Number Title Codes
AMES 80S Studies in Special Topics
AMES 89S First-Year Seminar
AMES 146 Korean Popular Music (K-pop) R, ALP, CZ
AMES 106FS Documenting the Middle East: Community and Oral History CCI, R, ALP, CZ
AMES 107 Introduction to East Asian Cultures: Narrating East Asia through Word and Image CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 108 Intro to Middle East: History, Culture, Politics CCI, CZ
AMES 111 Self, Society and Art in Modern Hinduism CCI, EI, CZ
AMES 114 Buddhism CCI, EI, CZ
AMES 115 Religions of Asia CCI, EI, CZ
AMES 122 Islamic Civilization I CCI, EI, CZ
AMES 123 History and Culture of Iran CCI, R, ALP, CZ
AMES 125 Egypt: Mother of the World CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 126S Understanding the Qur'an CCI, EI, CZ
AMES 127 The Modern Middle East CCI, CZ
AMES 129 Master Filmmakers of Chinese Cinemas CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 136 China from Antiquity to 1400 CCI, CZ
AMES 137 Popular Music of Asia and Asian America
AMES 138 Scripture: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
AMES 141S Audiovisual Cultures in East Asia: Film, Music, and Other Media CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 142 History of Chinese Medicine CCI, STS, W, CZ
AMES 143 Contemporary Israeli Cinema CCI, EI, ALP
AMES 144 Introduction to Israeli Culture CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 145 Chinese Music Ensemble
AMES 150 Chinese Art 1900 to Present CCI, R, ALP, CZ
AMES 151 Indian Cinema CCI, R, ALP, CZ
AMES 157S Indian Civilization CCI, EI, W, CZ, SS
AMES 160 Islam CCI, EI, CZ
AMES 161 Japanese Cinema CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 162 Anime: Origins, Forms, Mutations CCI, ALP
AMES 165S The World of Japanese Pop Culture CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 167 Ancient and Early Modern Japan CCI, CZ
AMES 169 The Emergence of Modern Japan CCI, CZ
AMES 171 World of Korean Cinema CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
AMES 174 Japanese Religions: Buddhas, Gods, and Monsters CCI, EI, CZ
AMES 178S Migration and Human Rights in Korea: Local and Global Perspectives CCI, EI, CZ, SS
AMES 179FS Turkey: Muslim and Modern CCI, CZ, SS
AMES 179S Turkey: Muslim and Modern CCI, CZ, SS
AMES 180FS Heroes and Villains: Dissidence in the Middle East CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 182S Asian American Theater CCI, ALP
AMES 185 Islamic Civilization II CCI, EI, CZ
AMES 186 The Turks: From Ottoman Empire to European Union CCI, EI, R, ALP, CZ
AMES 187S Gateway Seminar: Civil Rights and Asian Americans CCI, EI, R, CZ, SS
AMES 188FS Games and Culture: Gateway to the Study of Games CCI, SS
AMES 189 Women and Gender in the Middle East CCI, EI, CZ
AMES 190FS AMES Special Topics-Focus Program
AMES 190S Special Topics in Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
AMES 191 Indian Literature of Marginalized Society CCI, ALP, CZ, SS
AMES 195S Gateway Seminar: Rethinking Asia and the Middle East CCI, CZ
AMES 201S The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Films CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
AMES 203S Modern Islam: Contemporary Islamic thought between revival and reform CCI, EI, R, CZ
AMES 205FS Literary Islam: Poetry, Scripture, Philosophy CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 206FS Clash of Civilizations: In the Heart of Europe ALP, CZ
AMES 207 Silk Roads and China, Ancient and Medieval Transformations CCI, CZ
AMES 209S Love, Spirit, and Mysticism: The Path of Love in Middle East and South Asia CCI, W, ALP, CZ
AMES 210 Arab Cultures: Literature, Politics, History CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 211 Melodrama East and West CCI, ALP
AMES 212S North Indian Classical Music: Structure, Culture and Lyric CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 213S Muslim Ethics and Islamic Law: Issues and Debates CCI, EI, CZ
AMES 214 9/11 and Its Aftermath: How Bin Laden Changed America and the World EI, CZ, SS
AMES 215S The Middle East: From Facebook to Film CCI, CZ, SS
AMES 217 Astrology and Religion CCI, CZ
AMES 218 The Middle East Through Film CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
AMES 219 Elements of Linguistic Structure SS
AMES 220S From Al-Qaeda to Boko Haram: Understanding Terrorism, its Roots, Responses, and Ramifications CCI, EI, W, CZ, SS
AMES 221 Arab Society and Culture in Film CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
AMES 222 Indian Cinema & Social Change CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 223S Muhammad: The Prophet of Islam CCI, W, ALP, CZ
AMES 224S Muslim Women Across the Ages CCI, W, CZ, SS
AMES 225 Islam in the Age of Trump: Race, Immigration, and Empire CCI, EI, R, CZ, SS
AMES 226S World of Gaming: Art, Theory, Technology, and Business of a Multi-Billion Dollar Global Industry CCI, EI, STS, CZ, SS
AMES 227SA Korea in Performance: Global Culture and Soft Power CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 228S Islam, Art, and Society CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 229D From Agra to Istanbul: Islamic Art and Architecture in the Early Modern Era CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 230S Islam in the Americas CCI, W, CZ, SS
AMES 231 Migrant China CCI, CZ, SS
AMES 232S Jerusalem CCI, CZ
AMES 233 Global Chinese Cities through Literature and Film CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 234 Survey of Modern China 1800-Present CCI, CZ
AMES 235S Cross-Cultural Encounters CCI, CZ
AMES 236S From Ottoman Empire to the Modern Middle East CCI, CZ
AMES 237 K-Pop, Idols, and Fandom
AMES 240 Games and Culture: Gateway to the Study of Games CCI, SS
AMES 240S Games and Culture: Gateway to the Study of Games CCI, SS
AMES 242S Jihad: Of the Self and the Sword
AMES 244 Israel/Palestine: Comparative Approaches to Rights and Justice CCI, EI, SS
AMES 246 Dance and Dance Theater of Asia CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 252S Indigenous Journeys in South Asian Film and Literature CCI, ALP
AMES 253S Epics of India: Ethics, Politics, and Performance Traditions CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 255 Religion and the Novel in Modern India CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
AMES 257 Four Funerals and a Wedding: Introduction to Chinese Religious Life CCI, R, CZ, SS
AMES 257S Four Funerals and a Wedding: Introduction to Chinese Religious Life CCI, R, CZ, SS
AMES 258S The Tokyo Idea: Visualizing a Global City CCI, STS, ALP
AMES 260S Reading Palestine: Politics, History, and Literature
AMES 262 Contemporary Japanese Visual Culture CCI, W, ALP, CZ
AMES 265 The Transnational Realities of an Ancient Tradition CCI, R, CZ, SS
AMES 267 Spiritual But Not Religious CCI, R, CZ, SS
AMES 270T-1 Voices in Global Health: Arabic Tutorial
AMES 270T-4 Voices in Global Health: Hindi Tutorial
AMES 270T-5 Voices in Global Health: Mandarin Tutorial
AMES 271T Voices in Philosophy: Chinese Tutorial
AMES 272T Voices in the Environment: Mandarin
AMES 274S Introduction to Asian American Literature
AMES 275 Chinese Philosophy CCI, EI, CZ
AMES 276 Introduction to Asian American and Diaspora Studies CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 277T Voices in Marketing: Advertising in Chinese
AMES 278S Cyber Connections: Communication in the Digital Age W, ALP
AMES 283S Istanbul: Religion, Politics and Cosmopolitanism CCI, CZ
AMES 288S Religion and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Iran CCI, EI, CZ
AMES 290S Special Topics in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
AMES 295S Black Muslims: Race, Religion, & Culture CCI, CZ
AMES 296S Turkish History through the Novels of Orhan Pamuk CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
AMES 301D Religion, Restrictions, and Violence CCI, EI, CZ
AMES 304 Africa and Arabia: Cultures, Communities, and Connections CCI, CZ, SS
AMES 308S Bilingualism CCI, SS
AMES 309 Chinese Im/migration: Chinese Migrant Labor and Immigration to the US CCI, EI, ALP, SS
AMES 310S Acquisition of Japanese as a Second Language CCI, SS
AMES 311S Poetic Cinema CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 312S Asian Religion and Knowledge of the Other CCI, R, CZ, SS
AMES 314 Zen Buddhism: A Survey from Its Origins to the Present Day CCI, EI, CZ
AMES 315 Buddhist Meditation in Transformation: Historical, Scientific, and Medical Perspectives CCI, EI, CZ
AMES 315S Buddhist Meditation: Cultivation Practices and Psychology CCI, EI, CZ
AMES 316 Introduction to Critical Theory CCI, EI, CZ
AMES 317 Martin Luther King and the Prophetic Tradition CCI, EI, R, CZ, SS
AMES 318S Social Movements and Social Media CCI, EI, STS, ALP, CZ
AMES 319S Andalusia: Muslim, Jewish, Christian Spain CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 320S Asian American and Latinx Literature and Film
AMES 321 Rumi: Mysticism and Poetry CCI, R, ALP, CZ
AMES 323S Modern Buddhism in Asia and America CCI, CZ
AMES 324S Islam & the Meaning of Life EI, CZ
AMES 326A Religion, Security and Global Citizenship in the Arab World CCI, EI, CZ
AMES 327S 9/11 and The Global Novel
AMES 328S Literary Islam CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 329S Islamic Media CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 331S Buddhist Ethics CCI, EI, W, CZ
AMES 332S Asian American Literature CCI, ALP
AMES 334S Japanese Language & Society CCI, SS
AMES 335 Chinatowns: A Cultural History CCI, R, ALP, CZ
AMES 336 Chinese science fiction CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 337S Chinese Sociolinguistics CCI, SS
AMES 338S Globalization and Theater CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
AMES 340S Anthropology of Japan: Past, Present, Future(s)
AMES 342S Languages in Southwest China: Grammar of Multilingualism CCI, CZ, SS
AMES 347S War
AMES 349S Hinduism and Judaism: Culture, Religion, and Identity CCI, CZ
AMES 352 Modern Hindi Literature CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 353S East Asian languages as second languages CCI, R, SS
AMES 357 Modern & Global India CCI, EI, W, CZ, SS
AMES 359 Violent Jihad in the Twentieth Century - A Global History CCI, CZ
AMES 360 Global Apple: Life and Death and the Digital Revolution EI, STS, CZ, SS
AMES 360S Global Apple: Life and Death and the Digital Revolution EI, STS, CZ, SS
AMES 372 Two Koreas: History, Society and Culture CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 373S Islamic Mysticism CCI, EI, CZ
AMES 379SA Gender and Immigration between Europe and the Middle East CCI, ALP
AMES 380SA Transnational Muslims in Germany: Politics of Migration, Religion, and Culture CCI, EI, CZ, SS
AMES 381SA Politics and Culture Between Europe and the Middle East CCI, CZ
AMES 385S Islam, Medicine, and Healing CCI, STS, CZ
AMES 388S Global South Asia: History and Culture of Diaspora CCI, CZ
AMES 390 Special Topics
AMES 390A Duke-Administered Study Abroad: Advanced Special Topics in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
AMES 390S Special Topics
AMES 391 Independent Study
AMES 402 Hashtags Memes, Digital Tribes CCI, EI, STS, ALP, CZ
AMES 402S Hashtags Memes, Digital Tribes CCI, EI, STS, ALP, CZ
AMES 403S Cairo - A Global History CCI, R, CZ
AMES 405S Media and Conflict CCI, EI, SS
AMES 408S The Geopolitics of Islamophobia from Bosnia to Xinjiang CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 410S Trauma and Space in Asia CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 411S Imperialism and Islamism CCI, CZ, SS
AMES 416 Civil Society and Civic Engagement in the Middle East
AMES 417S Imagining Freedom: Literature and Cinema of Decolonization in South Asia
AMES 420S Critical Digital Studies
AMES 425S Cultures of New Media STS, ALP, SS
AMES 426S France-Asia: Cultural Transfers and Translations in a Globalized Context CCI, FL, W, ALP, CZ
AMES 427S Archives of Literacy: West Africa, Islam, and American Slavery CCI, CZ
AMES 432S Storyworlds: The Art, Technology, and Pleasure of Narrative CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 435S Chinese Media and Popular Culture: Politics, Ideology, and Social Change CCI, SS
AMES 437S Capstone Seminar - Globalization: Asia and Asian America CCI, R, STS, CZ, SS
AMES 438S Techno-Orientalism: Asian/America, (Post)Human and Science Fiction CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 439 Queer China CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
AMES 449S The History of Modern Syria, 1921-2021 CCI, W, CZ
AMES 452S From the Art of the Pleasure Quarters to Tokyo Pop CCI, EI, R, ALP, CZ
AMES 456S Chinese Culture and Ideology in the 20th Century and Now CCI, ALP, SS
AMES 463S Nightmare Japan CCI, EI, R, ALP, CZ
AMES 476S Archiving and Visualizing Asia: Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production CCI, R, CZ
AMES 477S The Global Arab World CCI, CZ, SS
AMES 478S Korean Sociolinguistics CCI, CZ, SS
AMES 490S Special Topics
AMES 493 Research Independent Study R
AMES 494A Research Independent Study on Contemporary China FL, R
AMES 495 Collaborative Research Projects R
AMES 498S Senior Honors Thesis Seminar R, W
AMES 499S Senior Honors Thesis Seminar R, W
AMES 503S Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
AMES 511 Documentary and East Asian Cultures CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
AMES 512S Travel Japan CCI, R, CZ, SS
AMES 518S Approaches and Practices in Second Language Pedagogy CCI
AMES 523 China Science and Technology Policy and Innovation CCI, STS, SS
AMES 531S Culture and Environment in Modern Chinese History CCI, EI, STS, CZ, SS
AMES 539S Queer China CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
AMES 540S Reading Heidegger CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
AMES 541S Jews and the End of Theory CCI, EI, R, CZ, SS
AMES 549S Techno-Orientalism: Asian/America, (Post)Human and SF CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 550S New Directions in Asian American Studies CCI, R, CZ
AMES 551S Translation: Theory/Praxis CCI, ALP
AMES 560S Reading the Chinese Novel FL, ALP
AMES 566S Imaging a Nation: Japanese Visual Culture 1868-1945 CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 570S The Evil Eye in Material Culture from Late Antiquity to Islam CCI, R, ALP, CZ
AMES 576S Archiving and Visualizing Asia: Politics of Poetics of Knowledge Production R
AMES 577S Edward Said: Theory, Politics, Culture
AMES 580S History of Buddhist and Christian Interactions CCI, CZ
AMES 581S Pan-Asianism, Religion, and the State in Modern Asia CCI, EI, CZ
AMES 590 Special Topics in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
AMES 590S Special Topics in Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
AMES 593 Research Independent Study R
AMES 605 East Asian Cultural Studies CCI, R, ALP, CZ
AMES 609S Transpacific and Global Asia/America: Connecting Divided Histories and Knowledges CCI, ALP
AMES 610S Trauma and Space in Asia CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 616S China As World Picture CCI, ALP
AMES 620S Critical Genealogies of the Middle East: An examination of the canon of Middle East scholarship CCI, CZ, SS
AMES 627S Comparative Media Studies STS, ALP
AMES 631 Questions of National Cinemas R, CZ
AMES 660S Games, Play, and Selfhood: Immersive Media and Extended Realities
AMES 671 World of Korean Cinema
AMES 672 Two Koreas: History, Society and Culture CCI, ALP, CZ
AMES 690S Special Topics in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
AMES 695 Collaborative Research Projects R
AMES 700 East Asian Studies Core Course: Fields and Methods
AMES 709 Chinese Im/migration: Chinese Migrant Labor and Immigration to the US
AMES 720 Professionalization Workshop in Middle East Studies
AMES 738 Theories of Minority Discourse
AMES 740S Critical Genealogies
AMES 774S Ideology and Religion in Muslim Central Eurasia
AMES 790S Special Topics in Critical Asian Humanities Methodologies
AMES 890 Special Topics in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
AMES 890S Special Topics in Critical Asian Humanities
AMES 919S Transnational Confucianism