HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST ASIA SINCE 1800

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the relationships between local and regional histories and broader, global historical trends that characterize the emergence of modernity. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Interpret and contextualize a variety of primary textual, visual, and material sources produced in and about Southeast Asia to develop the historian's analytic toolkit. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Analyze critically the histories of Southeast Asia to understand the enduring consequences of colonial-era transformations on the cultures and societies of the peoples of the region. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Assess the historiography of the region through in-depth structural analyses of other scholars' uses of primary sources, and by doing so acquire a solid foundation with which to contextualize future interventions into the field. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the relationships between local and regional histories and broader, global historical trends that characterize the emergence of modernity. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Interpret and contextualize a variety of primary textual, visual, and material sources produced in and about Southeast Asia to develop the historian's analytic toolkit. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Analyze critically the histories of Southeast Asia to understand the enduring consequences of colonial-era transformations on the cultures and societies of the peoples of the region. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Assess the historiography of the region through in-depth structural analyses of other scholars' uses of primary sources, and by doing so acquire a solid foundation with which to contextualize future interventions into the field. Audience: Graduate