| Course Description |
This course introduces students to the social and cultural complexity of Southeast Asia (SEA) region. This can be mapped as mainland and island Southeast Asia. The mainland SEA includes the countries of Burma/Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Malaysia while the island SEA includes Indonesia, The Philippines, Singapore, Brunei, and Timor-Leste. The course conducts in a form of seminar. The class discussions will organized around selected assigned readings and guest speakers from selected individual countries. The seminar will begin with historical background before moving onto case studies. These cover belief systems, family, politics, development and economic change. In addition to providing a broad and comparative exploration of “traditional” Southeast Asia, the course will place special emphasis on nation-building through modernization and development, highlighting the ways different Southeast Asian nations contend with the forces of globalization |
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