POLS 4440 - East Asia in World Politics

• Students will be able to compare and contrast the political, cultural, and economic experiences and challenges of different countries in East Asia from WWII to the present.
• Students will be able to identify the causes and consequences of key moments of social, economic, and political change that have taken place in East Asia.
• Students will be able to use theories of comparative politics and international relations to analyze and explain political outcomes in East Asia.
• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of how East Asian scholars, political leaders, and activists frame and debate their history and contemporary international relations from a non-western perspective.
• Students will be able to interpret intercultural encounters and conflicts from both Western perspectives and East Asian perspectives and act in a supportive manner that recognizes the feelings of East Asian cultural groups.
• Students will be able to articulate insights about their own cultural rules and biases by examining similarities and differences with East Asian cultures.
• Students will be able to recognize cultural differences between Western and East Asian cultures in verbal and non-verbal communication and negotiate a shared understanding.
• Students will be able to ask complex questions about East Asian cultures and to articulate answers to these questions that reflect multiple cultural perspectives.
• Students will be able to initiate and develop interactions with culturally different people from East Asia while suspending judgment.