Please join us for the first in-person event of the academic year hosted by the East Asia Center and organized by Dominic Steavu in collaboration with Religious Studies and our department.
Meditation Sickness and the Ethics of Buddhist Studies
a lecture by Pierce Salguero, PhD
October 14, 5pm
Social Science & Media Studies, room 2135
This fall, we will be introducing two new courses, both of which are taught by our new colleague, Dr. Beth Tsai (Visiting Assistant Professor of Taiwan Studies).
Please see the flyers below for more details.
The Classical Chinese placement exam is intended for students who have already studied some Classical Chinese (文言) and would like to skip Chinese 101A and enroll directly in Chinese 101B instead. It is offered once per year, administered by Professor Thomas Mazanec. Please email Prof. Mazanec (mazanec@ucsb.edu) if you are interested in taking this exam.
The test will take place on Tuesday, September 28, 3:30–4:30pm (location to be determined). Prof. Mazanec will provide a short passage in Classical Chinese from a Master’s text (like Mencius 孟子, Zhuangzi 莊子, or Hanfeizi 韓非子) and ask students to translate it into English, focusing on the literal meaning of the words and their grammatical relationship to one another. Students may consult a paper dictionary. Prof. Mazanec will provide several copies of Paul Kroll’s A Student’s Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese for reference.
If this time is impossible for you due to scheduling conflicts, please email Prof. Mazanec by Monday, September 27, to make alternative arrangements.
The application period for the placement test Fall’21 has closed. Please check back in November 2021 for the dates of the next Japanese Placement Test in Winter 2022.
If you have any questions, please contact Yoko Yamauchi (yokoy@eastasian.ucsb.edu)
〈How to prepare for the Placement Test〉
Review the materials (textbooks) of the course(s) you have taken before. We recommend to review verb and adjective conjugations as well as vocabulary and kanji. Please refer to the course description (Japanese Language Course Description) for more information about the each level of our Japanese courses. If you have a certain course you wish to start, look at the description of the course prior to the placement test. A course description indicates what you are expected to be able to do to take the course you wish to take.
“By calling something ‘good,’ you are drawing a line, saying some things are good, some are bad,” Mazanec said. “That line was drawn differently in different times and different places. There are all sorts of considerations that go into drawing that line: aesthetic, moral, social and political standards that change with time. By investigating these standards, we can learn a lot about Chinese literary history.”
