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 Department:    HIST

 Course #:    270

 Credits:    5

 Variable:     No

 IUs:    5

 CIP:    540106

 EPC:    n/a

 REV:    2024

 Course Description  

Comprehensive look at the events and people who have shaped the past 150 years of Asia-Pacific history, and relates it to Pacific Basin relationships today.

 Prerequisite  

Prerequisite: ENGL& 101 with a "C" or higher.

Contact Hours (based on 11 week quarter)

Lecture: 55

Lab: 0

Other: 0

Systems: 0

Clinical: 0

Intent: Distribution Requirement(s) Status:  

Academic Social Sciences  

Equivalencies At Other Institutions

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

1. Students will be bale to discuss and describe with specific examples five themes that recur throughout the course. Themes are: Progress and Tradition; Collisions between East and West; Democracy, Authority, and Power; the role of the United States in the Pacific.
2. SOCIAL SCIENCES: Apply concepts from the social sciences to analyze individual or social phenomena, processes, events, conflicts, or issues.

General Education Learning Values & Outcomes

Revised August 2008 and affects outlines for 2008 year 1 and later.

Course Contents

1. Dynasty and Empire: Asia to the 19th Century
2. The Two Coasts of China: Asia and the Challenge of the West
3. Meiji: Asia?s Response to the West
4. From the Barrel of a Gun: Power in the Pacific
5. Writers and Revolutionaries
6. Reinventing Japan
7. Inside Japan, Inc.
8. Big Business and the Ghost of Confucius
9. China: Progress and the Burden of History
10. The Fight for Democracy
11. Sentimental Imperialists: America vs. Asia
12. Beyond Revolution: Indonesia and Vietnam
13. Siberian Salients: Russia in the Pacific Asia