ARTH 376
The Path to Enlightenment: Zen and Zen Art In China and Japan Spring 2014
Division I Writing Skills
Cross-listed REL 252 / ASST 376
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This CRASS undergraduate seminar emphasizes writing, critical reasoning, and analytical skills. It explores a variety of Zen art forms {painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, tea ceremony, and gardens} as expressions or visualizations of the ideals and doctrines of Zen Buddhism in the context of Chinese and Japanese cultures. Highlights include Zen’s aesthetic principles as manifested in painting; dry gardens; the tea ceremony and its related art forms; iconographic development in Zen art; political functions of Zen in China and Japan’s samurai culture; and feminine motifs of the Bodhidharma (founder of Zen Buddhism) symbology;and gender transformation of Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 19
Expected: 12
Class#: 3334
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: midterm; oral presentations; short written assignments (2-3 pp); critiques &1oral presentation write-up (3-4 pp); 1 final paper oral presentation; final paper (10-15 pp); peer review essay (2-3 pp); contribution to discussions; attendance
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: none, students who do not show up in the first class will not be admitted
Unit Notes: does NOT satisfy the seminar requirement for the Art History major
Distributions: Division I Writing Skills
Notes: meets Division 1 requirement if registration is under ARTH, CHIN or JAPN; meets Division 2 requirement if registration is under ASST or REL
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ARTH 376 Division I REL 252 Division II ASST 376 Division II
Attributes: ARTH pre-1800 Courses
ARTH Middle East, Asia and Africa Courses
ASST Interdepartmental Electives
INST East Asian Studies Electives

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