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SEAP Featured Course: Introduction to Southeast Asia (ASIAN 2208)

ASIAN 2208: Introduction to Southeast Asia, Summer Online Course 2021, Chiara Formichi, 3 credits
April 8, 2021

Summer 2021: Online Course, Dr. Chiara Formichi

Broaden your understanding of Southeast Asia this summer; earn 3 credits and fulfill these distribution requirements: CA-AS, ALC-AS, HST-AS!

ASIAN 2208: Introduction to Southeast Asia, Summer Online Course 2021, Chiara Formichi, 3 credits
 

Course Description: What is Southeast Asia? How does this faraway, “exotic,” region intersect with our realities? This course introduces key questions in the study of Southeast Asia (which includes Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam) and its diasporas using cinematic, literary, historical and scholarly materials. This introduction to Southeast Asia’s historical, religious, literary, visual, and political traditions – and the ways in which scholars have thought about them – addresses a variety of themes including notions of kinship, gender, political conflict, colonialism, media and the arts, sexuality, textual and visual genres, and forms of belief and belonging. Students will have an opportunity to investigate topics of interest to them, in the form of research essays as well as small-scale fieldwork, curatorial, or media projects.

Date: June 1-17, 2021

Asynchronous distance learning

3 credits

Instructor: Dr. Chiara Formichi

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