ClassInfo - Fall 2024 History Classes

Fall 2024 | HIST 3485 Section 001: History of Southeast Asia (32426)

Instructor(s): Mai Na Lee
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person
Class Attributes:: UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024

Mon 05:30PM - 08:00PM

UMTC, West Bank

Blegen Hall 240
Enrollment Status:: Open (3 of 40 seats filled)
Also Offered:: Fall 2024
Fall 2022
Fall 2021

Course Catalog Description:: Origins of civilization/indigenous states. impact of world religions and Western colonialism on gender, social, political, and economic structures. Nationalism. Establishment of Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
Class Description:: This course provides a general introduction to Southeast Asia's past and present. The course is organized chronologically around three broad periods: 1) traditional states and societies (to 1800); 2) colonial transformations and indigenous responses (1800-1945); and 3) the emergence of nation-states: Indonesia, Thailand, and Philippines. Topics and themes include: the origins of indigenous states; religious conversion and practice; ethnicity, social organization, and gender relations; modern social and economic transformations; response to colonial domination; the development of "imagined communities" and nationalist and revolutionary movements; post-colonial societies and political systems; ethnic conflict and national integration; the impact of Cold War international relations; and U.S. involvement in the region.
Grading:: Grading: 2 midterms, 1 paper, final exam, discussions, small in-class assignments.
Exam Format:: Identifying themes/terms and essay question
Class Format:: 85% Lecture
15% Discussion
Workload:: 75-80 Pages Reading Per Week
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32426/1249
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 8 April 2016

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