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Sound system, parts of speech, basic sentence structure, writing system, and language change and variation. Note: Not open to students with credit in JAPAN 325. Prerequisite: JAPAN 202 and one of EASIA 211, EASIA 316 or LING 101, or consent of Department.
Introduction to social and interactional aspects of the Japanese language. Prerequisite: JAPAN 202 and 3 units from EASIA 211, EASIA 315 or LING 101, or consent of Department.
Effective: 2026-09-01 EASIA 320 - Indigeneity and Visual Culture of East Asia
An examination of how visual representations of indigenous peoples across East Asia both perpetuate colonial power structures and enable contemporary self-representation, cultural resilience, and decolonizing practices.
Introduction to the history of Buddhist art of South and East Asia. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 and 3 units in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of Department.
Note: May be repeated for credit when course content differs. Prerequisite: EASIA 223 or RELIG 240, or consent of Department.
Note: Not open to students with credit in EASIA 323 with the topic Edo and Modern Japan.
Cultural interactions involving China, Japan, and Korea in media in East Asia. Topics may include Singleton and Otaku culture, Asian Martial Arts, Taekwondo, Three Kingdoms, The Great War in East Asia, Judge Dee stories and films, Internet Literature.
Effective: 2026-05-01 EASIA 326 - Otaku, Video Games, and Martial Arts: Cultural Interactions in East Asian Media
Cultural interactions involving China, Japan, and Korea in media in East Asia. Topics may include Singleton and Otaku culture, Asian Martial Arts, Taekwondo, Three Kingdoms, The Great War in East Asia, Judge Dee stories and films, Internet Literature.
A workshop on translating poetry from Chinese, Japanese, or Korean into English. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 and one of CHINA 301, JAPAN 301, or KOREA 301, or consent of Department.
From earliest times through the Qing Dynasty. Note: Not open to students with credit in CHINA 321. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 and 3 units in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of Department.
Chinese literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 and 3 units in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of Department.
May be repeated for credit when course content differs. Prerequisite: one of EASIA, or consent of Department.
Survey of Japanese anime focused on history of the animation industry in Japan, processes and aesthetics of Japanese animation, anime's role in contemporary Japanese popular culture, and global fandoms of anime. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 or FS 100.
Course on video games originating from Japan and their role within Japanese society, and as a vessel for exporting Japanese popular culture over the last half century. Readings will include current research on Japanese history and popular culture as well as theory of the aesthetics and ludics and video games. Students will play and analyze video games made in Japan.Prerequisite: EASIA 101.
Effective: 2026-05-01 EASIA 343 - Video Games and Japanese Culture
Course on video games originating from Japan and their role within Japanese society, and as a vessel for exporting Japanese popular culture over the last half century. Readings will include current research on Japanese history and popular culture as well as theory of the aesthetics and ludics and video games. Students will play and analyze video games made in Japan.Prerequisite: EASIA 101.
Environmental history and representations of nature and the environment in premodern Chinese literature. Prerequisites: EASIA 101 or 3 units in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of the department.
Effective: 2026-05-01 EASIA 345 - Literature and the Environment in Premodern China
Environmental history and representations of nature and the environment in premodern Chinese literature. Prerequisites: EASIA 101 or 3 units in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of the department.
Selected works by prominent writers from 1868 to the present. Note: Not open to students with credit in JAPAN 322. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 and 3 units in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of Department.
Effective: 2026-09-01 EASIA 346 - Mirrors, Masks, and Modernity: Self-Representation in Modern Japanese Literature
This course examines how Japanese writers from the Meiji Restoration through the middle of the 20th Century explore themes of self-representation in literature in the face of modernizing and globalizing understandings of the self and nation. Authors include Natsume Soseki, Tanizaki Junichiro, Akutagawa Ryunosuke Kawabata Yasunari, Mishima Yukio, and Enchi Fumiko. Prerequisites: EASIA 101 or consent of the department.
Representations of the supernatural in Japanese literature from the earliest times to the present day. Prerequisites: EASIA 101 and 3 units in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of the Department.
Representations of the supernatural in Chinese literature, from the earliest times to the present. Prerequisites: EASIA 101 and 3 units in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of the department. All readings in English.
The relationship between culture and identity in Taiwan through the study of literature and film in translation. Note: Not open to students with credit in CHINA 351. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 and 3 units in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of Department.
Culture and identity in Hong Kong through the study of literature and film in translation. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 and 3 units in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of Department.
Survey of East Asian cinemas such as those of mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea. Prerequisite: FS 100 or EASIA 101
Note: May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 and 3 units in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of Department.
From earliest times through the Joseon (Choson) Dynasty. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 and 3 units in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of Department.
Note: Not open to students with credit in EASIA 370 when its topic is Culture Reflected on K-Pop. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 or consent of Department.
The development of art made in and about Korea, from the Three Kingdoms era to the 21st century. Painting, sculpture, architecture, urban design, video art, installation, performance, and photography.
Effective: 2026-05-01 EASIA 373 - Arts of Korea: Tomb Murals to Video Art and VR Films
The development of art made in and about Korea, from the Three Kingdoms era to the 21st century. Painting, sculpture, architecture, urban design, video art, installation, performance, and photography.
Examination of the political, economic, social, or cultural relationship between Korea and Canada.
Sound system, parts of speech, basic sentence structure, writing system, and language change and variation. Prerequisite: LING 101 and KOREA 202, or consent of Department. Note: Not open to students with credit in KOREA 325.
Introduction to social and cultural aspects of the Korean language. Prerequisite: LING 101 and KOREA 202 or consent of Department.
Discussion of the major linguistic features of the Chinese language. Note: Not open to students with credit in CHINA 408. Prerequisite: CHINA 302 and EASIA 305, or consent of Department.
Discussion and application of the research methods for Chinese linguistics and pedagogy. Prerequisites: CHINA 302 or equivalent and EASIA 305, or consent of Department.
Discussion of the major linguistic features of the Japanese language. Lectures in English. Note: Not open to students with credit in JAPAN 425. Prerequisite: 3 units from EASIA 315, EASIA 316, or EASIA 456, or consent of Department.
Critical reading of Western representations of the East, and Eastern representations of the West. All readings in English. Prerequisite: EASIA 101, or consent of Department. Not to be taken by students with credit in C LIT 426.
Seminar on the crime genre in East Asian cinema, focusing on how it visualizes unseen and illicit networks of interaction in urban spaces in the modern and contemporary metropolises of Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 or FS 100.
May be repeated for credit when course content differs. Prerequisite: 3 units from EASIA 223, EASIA 323, or RELIG 240, or consent of the Department.
Exploration of changing visions of Japanese religions, past and present. Prerequisite: 3 units from EASIA 101, RELIG 103, EASIA 223, RELIG 240, EASIA 325, or RELIG 343, or consent of instructor.
Effective: 2026-05-01 EASIA 424 - Revisioning Buddhism and Shinto
Exploration of changing visions of Japanese religions, past and present. Prerequisite: 3 units from EASIA 101, RELIG 103, EASIA 223, RELIG 240, EASIA 325, or RELIG 343, or consent of instructor.
Readings in English of East Asian and Euro-American philosophers and critics. Prerequisite: EASIA 101, or 3 units in literary theory, or consent of Department.
Colonialism, soft power and transnational connections in East Asia through the lens of cultural production. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 and 3 units in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of Department.
May be repeated for credit when course content differs. Prerequisite EASIA 101 and 3 units in EASIA at a senior level, or consent of Department.
The interdisciplinary study of East Asian traditional landscape painting and music through combined research and creative practices. Prerequisites; EASIA 101 and 3 units in EASIA at a senior level, or consent of Department.
The major works of a particular period or aspect of Chinese literature prior to 1900. Note: May be repeated for credit when course content differs. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 and 3 units in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of Department. CHINA 341 recommended.
Addresses material and social aspects of book history in premodern China. Prerequisites: EASIA 101 and 3 units in EASIA at a senior level, or consent of Department. Taught in English. All readings in English.
Emphasis on the production of poetry as a cultural object. Note: Not open to students with credit in CHINA 410. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 and 3 units in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of Department. CHINA 341 recommended.
A crossdisciplinary study of Chinese and Sinophone literary and cinematic texts in English translation. May be repeated for credit when content varies. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 and 3 units in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of Department.
Effective: 2026-05-01 EASIA 436 - Topics in Chinese Literature and Film
A crossdisciplinary study of Chinese and Sinophone literary and cinematic texts in English translation. May be repeated for credit when content varies. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 and 3 units in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of Department.
May be repeated for credit when course content differs. May involve discussions in Chinese. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 AND 3 units in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of the Department.
The major works of a particular period or aspect of Japanese literature. Note: May be repeated for credit when course content differs. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 and 3 units in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of Department.
A critically-informed exploration and examination of Japan's greatest literary text and its thousand-year reception history. Not open to students with credit in EASIA 441. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 and 3 units in senior-level EASIA, or consent of Department. Not open to Students with Credits in EASIA 441 When the Topic was 'Tale of Genji'.
Note: Not open to students with credit in JAPAN 416. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 and 3 units in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of Department.
Effective: 2026-09-01 EASIA 444 - Dawn of the Samurai: The Tale of the Heike and Warrior Rule in Japan
Depictions of the rise and rule of the warrior class in Japan in the medieval war epic The Tale of the Heike and other texts. Prerequisites: EASIA 101 and 3 units in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of Department.
May be repeated for credit when course content differs. Not open to web registration. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 and 3 units in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of Department.
Note: May be repeated for credit when course content differs. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 and 3 units in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of Department.
Readings in Taiwan literature with emphasis on tradition, theme, and technique. Note: May be repeated for credit when course content differs. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 and 3 units in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of Department.
Introduction to linguistic and socio-cultural aspects of the Ryukyus, a past independent kingdom with strong ties to China, more recently subsumed by Japan. Prerequisite: 3 units from EASIA 215 or LING 101 and 3 units from JAPAN 202 or EASIA 211, or consent of Department.
Seminar on the horror genre in Japan since the 1990s. Readings focus on translated writings by prominent Japanese filmmakers, critics, and theorists associated with J-horror, viewings include canonical J-horror films as well as locally influential television and video work, and international horror films that J-horror filmmakers write about. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 or FS 100
Note: May be repeated for credit when course content differs. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 and 3 units in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of Department.
The major works of a particular period or aspect of Korean literature. Note: May be repeated for credit when course content differs. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 and 3 units in EASIA at the senior level, or consent of Department.
Note: Not open to students with credit in EASIA 472 when its topic is Jeong in Korean Lit/Culture. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 or consent of Department.
Effective: 2026-09-01 EASIA 475 - Korean Foodways: Tradition, Globalization, and Identity
Explores Korean foodways - the practices and meanings surrounding food - and analyzes how they reflect and shape cultural identity through the intersection of tradition, colonial transformation, modernization, globalization, and diaspora experiences. Prerequisites: EASIA 101 or consent of the department.
Note: Open to fourth year Honors students only.
Note: Open to fourth year Honors students only.
Discussion of the major linguistic features of the Chinese language. Prerequisite: consent of Department.
Effective: 2026-05-01 EASIA 505 - Chinese Linguistics
Discussion of the major linguistic features of the Chinese language. Prerequisite: consent of Department.
Discussion and application of the research methods for Chinese linguistics and pedagogy. Prerequisite: Consent of Department.
Discussion of the major linguistic features of the Japanese language. Lectures in English. Prerequisite: advanced knowledge of Japanese language, a prior linguistics course, and consent of Department.
Exploration of changing visions of Japanese religions, past and present.
Effective: 2026-05-01 EASIA 524 - Revisioning Buddhism and Shinto
Exploration of changing visions of Japanese religions, past and present.
Readings of East Asian and Euro-American philosophers and critics. Prerequisite: 3 units in literary theory at the 400-level, or equivalent.
Online asynchronous graduate-level research methods course consisting of multiple modules covering the different languages, regions, and disciplines addressed in our graduate program.
Introduction to linguistic and socio-cultural aspects of the Ryukyus, a past independent kingdom with strong ties to China, more recently subsumed by Japan. Prerequisite: JAPAN 301 or equivalent and consent of department.
Discussion and application of the theory and practice of teaching East Asian languages. Lectures in English. Prerequisite: Consent of Department.
An inquiry into the diversity of disciplines used in the study of East Asian literatures and cultures. Prerequisite: Consent of Department.
May be repeated for credit when course content differs. Prerequisite: Consent of Department.
Effective: 2026-05-01 EASIA 599 - Directed Reading in East Asian Studies
May be repeated for credit when course content differs. Prerequisite: Consent of Department.
Literary and cultural theory in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Prerequisite: consent of Department. Note: This course is equivalent to MLCS 652.
Effective: 2026-05-01 EASIA 652 - Literary and Cultural Theory
Literary and cultural theory in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Prerequisite: consent of Department. Note: This course is equivalent to MLCS 652.
Topics of interest to second year Electrical and Computer Engineering students, with special reference to industries in Alberta, including coverage of elements of ethics, equity, concepts of sustainable development and environmental stewardship, public and worker safety and health considerations including the context of the Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Act. Offered in a single day near the beginning of the Fall term. Restricted to students registered in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Circuit element definitions. Circuit laws: Ohm's, KVL, KCL. Resistive voltage and current dividers. Basic loop and nodal analysis. Dependent sources. Circuit theorems: linearity, superposition, maximum power transfer, Thevenin, Norton. Time domain behavior of inductance and capacitance, energy storage. Sinusoidal signals, complex numbers, phasor and impedance concepts. Magnetically coupled networks. Single phase power and power factor. Prerequisites: MATH 101, 102. Credit may be obtained in only one of ECE 202, E E 240, ECE 209 or E E 239, unless approved by the Department.
Nonlinear circuit analysis. Diodes: ideal and simple and models, single phase rectifiers. Ideal and finite gain op-amps. Treatment of RLC circuits in the time domain, frequency domain and s-plane. Two port networks. Prerequisites: ECE 202 or E E 240. Corequisite: ECE 240 or E E 238. Credit may be obtained in only one of ECE 203 or E E 250.
Physical concepts of passive circuit elements, Kirchhoff's laws and DC circuit equations. Energy concepts, time domain analysis of AC circuits. Impedance, complex numbers and phasor algebra. AC power concepts, resonance, three phase circuits, introduction to machines. Credit may be obtained in only one of ECE 209, E E 239, ECE 202, or E E 240, unless approved by the Department.
Physical concepts of passive circuit elements, Kirchhoff's laws and DC circuit equations. Energy concepts, time domain analysis of AC circuits. Impedance, complex numbers and phasor algebra. AC power concepts, resonance, three phase circuits, introduction to machines. Credit may be obtained in only one of ECE 209, E E 239, ECE 202, or E E 240, unless approved by the Department.
Physical concepts of passive circuit elements, Kirchhoff's laws and DC circuit equations. Energy concepts, time domain analysis of AC circuits. Impedance, complex numbers and phasor algebra. AC power concepts, resonance, three phase circuits, introduction to machines. Credit may be obtained in only one of ECE 209, E E 239, ECE 202, or E E 240, unless approved by the Department.
Boolean algebra, truth tables, Karnaugh maps. Switching devices and their symbology with an introduction to NAND and NOR logic. Number systems, codes, minimization procedures, synthesis of combinational networks. Synchronous sequential circuits, flip-flops, counters. Arithmetic circuits. Introduction to computer-aided design and simulation tools for digital design and implementation. Requires payment of additional student instructional support fees. Refer to the Tuition and Fees page in the University Regulations section of the Calendar. Credit may be obtained in only one of ECE 210, E E 280 or CMPUT 329.
Microcomputer architecture, assembly language programming, sub-routine handling, memory and input/output system and interrupt concepts. Prerequisite: ECE 210 or E E 280 or CMPUT 329. Credit may be obtained in only one of ECE 212, E E 380 or CMPUT 229.
Architecture and basic components of computing systems. Programming environment and program development methodology. Basics of programming: from data structures and functions to communication with external devices. Principles of object-oriented programming. Good programming style. Prerequisite: ENCMP 100.
Effective: 2026-09-01 ECE 220 - Programming and Numerical Analysis for Electrical Engineering
Basics of computing systems architecture. Programming environment and development: data structures, functions, peripheral communication, object-oriented model. Introduction to numerical methods through programming: differentiation, integration, root finding for non-linear equations, linear systems of equations, and curve fitting. Prerequisite: ENCMP 100. Corequisite: MATH 201.
Introduction to linear systems and signal classification. Delta function and convolution. Fourier series expansion. Fourier transform and its properties. Laplace transform. Analysis of linear time invariant (LTI) systems using the Laplace transform. Prerequisites: ECE 202 or E E 240, MATH 201. Credit may be obtained in only one of ECE 240 or E E 238.
PN junction semiconductor basics, charge flow and diode equation. Zener diodes. BJT and MOSFET devices and operating regions. Amplifier basics: biasing, gain, input and output resistance, analysis and design. Large signal effects. Requires payment of additional student instructional support fees. Refer to the Tuition and Fees page in the University Regulations section of the Calendar. Prerequisite: ECE 203 or E E 250. Credit may be obtained in only one of ECE 302 or E E 340.
Differential amplifiers. Frequency response: active device high-frequency behaviour and circuit models; amplifier circuits and design. Feedback: concepts and structure; feedback topologies and amplifiers; open- and closed-loop response. Operational amplifiers: behaviour, circuit analysis and design. Requires payment of additional student instructional support fees. Refer to the Tuition and Fees page in the University Regulations section of the Calendar. Prerequisite: ECE 302 or E E 340. Credit may be obtained in only one of ECE 303 or E E 350.
Differential amplifiers. Frequency response: active device high-frequency behaviour and circuit models; amplifier circuits and design. Feedback: concepts and structure; feedback topologies and amplifiers; open- and closed-loop response. Operational amplifiers: behaviour, circuit analysis and design. Requires payment of additional student instructional support fees. Refer to the Tuition and Fees page in the University Regulations section of the Calendar. Prerequisite: ECE 302 or E E 340. Credit may be obtained in only one of ECE 303 or E E 350.
Differential amplifiers. Frequency response: active device high-frequency behaviour and circuit models; amplifier circuits and design. Feedback: concepts and structure; feedback topologies and amplifiers; open- and closed-loop response. Operational amplifiers: behaviour, circuit analysis and design. Requires payment of additional student instructional support fees. Refer to the Tuition and Fees page in the University Regulations section of the Calendar. Prerequisite: ECE 302 or E E 340. Credit may be obtained in only one of ECE 303 or E E 350.
MOS digital circuits, logic gates, threshold voltages. MOS logic families: design and simulation. CMOS timing: propagation delay, rise and fall times. Storage elements, memory, I/O and interfacing. Prerequisites: ECE 210 or E E 280 or CMPUT 329, and ECE 302 or E E 340. Credit may be obtained in only one of ECE 304 or E E 351.
Survey of modern computer architecture and design concepts. Benchmarks, instruction set design and encoding. Pipelined and superscalar processors. Techniques for exposing and exploiting instruction-level parallelism. Performance of cache and virtual memory hierarchies. Input/output subsystem design. Prerequisite: ECE 212 or E E 380 or CMPUT 229. Credit may be obtained in only one of ECE 311, CMPE 382 or CMPUT 429.
Design methodology. Internal and external peripherals: serial communication, timers, D/A converters, interrupt controllers. Embedded system programming: introduction to real time operating systems, basics of real time programming, real-time debugging. Power and memory management. Fault tolerance. Prerequisites: ECE 220, and ECE 212 or E E 380. Corequisite: ECE 340.
Design and use of digital interfaces, including memory, serial, parallel, synchronous and asynchronous interfaces. Hardware implementations of interrupts, buses, input/output devices and direct memory access. Multitasking software architecture, real-time preemptive multitasking kernels. Data structures and mechanisms for flow control. Computer communications interfaces, interfacing of microcontroller to peripheral devices such as stepper motors. Requires payment of additional student instructional support fees. Refer to the Tuition and Fees page in the University Regulations section of the Calendar. Prerequisite: ECE 212 or E E 380 or CMPUT 229, and 275 or permission of the Instructor. Credit may be obtained in only one of CMPE 401 or ECE 315.
Software quality attributes. Software requirements. Requirements elicitation via interviewing, workshops, prototyping, and use case analysis. Vision document and Software Requirement Specification document standards. Formal software specification methods including operational and descriptive models. Design by contract. Verification and validation of requirements. Prerequisite: CMPUT 275. Credit may be obtained in only one of CMPE 310 or ECE 321.