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AST 340 - Ethnography of China (Put on reserve 9/16/17)


Description:
This course is designed to explore China from the perspectives of general cultural patterns and ethnicity. ANTH 340 and AST 340 are cross-listed courses; students may not receive credit for both. (Put on reserve 9/16/17. Will go inactive 8/24/2020.)

Credits: (4)

Learner Outcomes:
Students will be able to:

  • Tell what ethnic identifications are in China and to state the key ethnic and political problems concerning Tibet, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia.
  • Describe the steady, multiethnic formation of China throughout history by a complex process of cultural diffusion, population move, and violent action.
  • Provide an underlying geopolitical explanation of the policy of the Chinese government towards the minority peoples in its frontier regions and towards its national security.
  • Procure concepts and tools for presenting the forms of interethnic relations through what happened and what is going on in multiethnic China.
  • Specify how the Chinese ‘autonomous’ solutions to the ethnic minorities work and fail.
  • Increase experience in reading and writing about ethnic groups and cultures.
Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
11/01/12



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