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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Examines the impact of Asian immigrant communities on U.S. political, economic, social, and cultural life and their encounters with racial, political, and economic discrimination from the nineteenth century to the present.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the origins of civilization in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam and the gradual cultural, economic, technological, political, and social developments that occurred from 2000 B.C.E. until 1850 C.E. Emphasis is on notions of kinship, religious beliefs, concepts of the relationship of the individual to nature, kinship systems, urbanization, patterns of education, intellectual trends, and the rise of commerce.
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4.00 Credits
Traces the development of the region from the mid-nineteenth century until the end of the twentieth century. Emphasis is on the impact of the West, the roots of nationalism, industrialization, the causes and effects of the Japanese colonial empire on the region, the American occupation of Japan, the rise of the People's Republic of China, and wars in Korea and Vietnam. Also devoted to contemporary issues in the region.
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4.00 Credits
Explores major works of Japanese fiction and poetry in historical and cultural context. All readings are in English translation.
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4.00 Credits
Presents a history of military conflicts on the Indochinese peninsula from its precolonial settlement, internal developments and divisions, its stormy relationship with China, French colonization and the resistance to it, the rise of the Viet Minh during World War II, the postwar struggle against the French, the impact of the Cold War, and the involvement of the United States after 1950 in the creation of two Vietnams and in the conflict that engulfed it and its neighbors, Laos and Cambodia, in the decades that followed. Emphasizes the roles of nationalism and communism in the twentieth-century conflicts and the motives for American intervention. Films revealing the reactions of Americans to the escalating conflict are shown and evaluated.
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4.00 Credits
Assesses the impact of the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949 on state-societal relations. Focuses on the efforts during the Mao era to transform Chinese society through social mobilization campaigns, political culture, industrialization, and rural collectivization. In the second half of the course, examines the impact of the Economic Reform Era policies, paying close attention to the rise of a consumer culture, the development of a legal system, and the heightened tensions between the dominant Han Chinese population and the minorities, especially in Tibet and Xinjiang.
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4.00 Credits
Presents an historical analysis of gender dynamics and roles in China from late imperial times to the present. Examines notions of masculinity and femininity in Confucian culture, patriarchal practices including foot binding, chastity arches, and arranged marriages, and the ways in which the Chinese empire becomes feminized in the eyes of its elite as a result of Western intrusions. Explores women's efforts to acquire "personhood" and the rights of citizens during the period of nation building and to negotiate state regulatory powers over their labor, sexuality, and reproduction in recent times
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4.00 Credits
Uses some of the tools of contemporary feminist theory and methodology to focus on questions about the resurgence of ethnic/religious identities in the United States and the meaning of this for contemporary Jewish women. Analyzes the changing relationship of women to Judaism by trying to recover Jewish women's experiences in America since the turn of the century. Accomplishes this by looking at some key institutions-work, family, religion, the feminist movement, the media, literature, and film.
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4.00 Credits
Traces the developments in this region since independence and the inception of nationhood. Topics include state formation and society in the nineteenth century; economic development and underdevelopment in the region; race, class, and ideology; United States/Latin American relations; populism; the roots of revolution and authoritarianism; and the contemporary experiments with neoliberal policies.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on the social, economic, and cultural forces that have shaped the character of the Caribbean people. Examines the variety of societies, cultures, and institutions of the region in their historical and contemporary settings, beginning with pre-Colombian cultures, moving through the colonial period, plantation agriculture, slavery, the expansion of U.S. influence, urbanization, economic development models, authoritarian politics, and the contemporary migration of Caribbean people to the United States and Europe.
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