Asia in Washington

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course examines Washington's Asian history by focusing on sites, monuments, and markers throughout the District. Students will identify, research, and document the evidence of cultural and social interactions in the nineteenth- and twentieth centuries, examining present and bygone sites in the city through research that utilizes university, city, and national archives. Throughout the semester, we will explore the historical footprints of Asians and Asian Americans in Washington, with opportunities to study high politics, social interactions, cultural exchanges, and migration history, among many other approaches. Classes will be structured around discussion and fieldwork. Course requirements will be one major research paper and biweekly contributions to a guidebook to the capital.