Oct 05, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
HIST 2460 - The Rise of Modern Asia
This course introduces students to the interconnected histories of China, Japan, and Korea from 1600 to the present. Special attention is paid to the historical role of the United States in East Asia. Emphasis is placed on the importance of history and historical memory as tools to examine culture, cultural differences, and cross-cultural encounters both in the past and in the present.
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Arch: Connected World, Foundations: Intercultural Explorations
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 2CP
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Course Transferability: OTM course: TMSBS Social & Behavioral Sciences
College Credit Plus: Level 1
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to enumerate major political, economic, social and cultural characteristics of China, Japan, and Korea during the period 1600-present.
- Students will be able to discuss and interrogate how major political, economic, social and cultural characteristics have or have not changed over time.
- Students will be able to identify specific individuals and events that illustrate major political, economic, social and cultural characteristics and the ways in which they have changed.
- Students will be able to articulate and interrogate useful connections and comparisons between China, Japan, and Korea, both historically and in the present day.
- Students will be able to enumerate major political, economic, social and cultural characteristics of the interactions between the American colonies/United States and East Asia during the period 1600-present.
- Students will be able to analyze diverse historical and contemporary primary sources (textual, visual, and aural materials with examples of verbal and non-verbal communication) and contextualize them within their cultural and historical frameworks.
- Students will be able to construct thesis-driven arguments, supported by appropriate evidence and ending with a logical conclusion.
- Students will be able to conceptualize historical arguments about East Asia as contingent constructs that are based, in part, on a historian’s own cultural and historical context.
- Students will be able to express an empathy for how differences in cultural frameworks, communication styles, and understandings of the past affect historical and contemporary events in East Asia.
- Students will be able to analyze, interpret, and evaluate East Asian cultural texts to articulate insights about their own cultural rules and biases and develop approaches to mitigate them.
- Students will be able to interact with others about intercultural differences, including their own experiences and perspectives, in ways that express curiosity and empathy for East Asian cultural perspectives.
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