HIST-363 Seminar: Colonial Encounters in Asia

This research course examines encounters between Asian and Western peoples from Marco Polo to the present. Consideration of problems of orientalism/occidentalism and reassessment of the myth of the Western "impact" on Asia by learning how Asian peoples understood the West and the ways that Europe, too, was affected by these encounters.

Maximum Enrollment

Writing-Intensive (18)

(Writing Intensive, Social Structural and Institutional Hierarchies.)

Credits

1

Prerequisite

One 200-level course in History or Asian Studies or consent of instructor.

Offered

Spring

Notes

No knowledge of Asian history required.