HIST 282 - M/History of Modern East Asia

2020-2021 Catalog Year

Credit(s): 4
Lecture: 4
Non-Lecture: 0
General Education Area(s): Other World Civilizations

This course will examine the transformation of East Asia as a region and a global player from 1800 to the present. Exploring both regional and international relations and domestic challenges and social life, the course pays special attention to changing East Asian notions of gender, race, class, culture, community, and modernity, as well as East Asian experiences with imperialism, nationalism, liberalism, communism, and global capitalism. The course will develop students’ capacities in interpreting primary sources and in drawing comparison and connections across time and space.

Offered: Not on a Regular Basis
Program Attribute: HLAC