Asian History Major

Total units 48 Units

Areas of interest Cultural Studies, History, Asian Studies, Asia Pacific Studies, Asia-Pacific Studies
Major code AHIST-MAJ

Academic career Undergraduate

Description

The Asian History major offers a suite of courses covering developments in a wide range of Asian societies from early times to the recent past. The major provides students with grounding in the course of history in a variety of Asian societies and it provides an empirical basis for the comparative analysis of historical and contemporary developments in Asia and the rest of the world. The major trains students in techniques of source criticism and document analysis, instructs them in the marshalling of evidence for the development of analysis and argument, develops their skills in narrative analysis and in applying social science theory to past societies that differ greatly from the western context in which most such theories were developed. The major assists them to analyse the social and cultural uses to which history writing and historical memory are put and develops an understanding of the historical traditions of Asian societies.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

1. Understand historical forces that have shaped Asian and Pacific states and societies,

2. Analyse the regional and global significance of historical events and developments in Asia and the Pacific,

3. Identify and critique the uses that are made of history in contemporary Asian and Pacific societies,

4. Understand the techniques that historians use to develop understandings of the past and the meaning of the past to different social groups,

5. Construct coherent arguments based on evidence drawn from the past.

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Requirements

Major Requirement

This major requires the completion of 48 units, which must include:

24 units from completion of the following course(s):

Code	Title	Units
ASIA1999	The Origins of Political Order in Asia	6
HIST2110	Approaches to History	6
ASIA2307	History of Empire in Asia	6
ASIA3029	Reconciliation and the memory of conflict in Asia	6

A minimum of 18 units must come from completion of courses from the following list:

Code	Title	Units
ASIA2044	Chinese History: The Imperial Period (221 BC - 1800)	6
ASIA2270	India Past and Present: The impact of pre-colonial history on India today	6
ASIA2016	The Mongol Empire in World History	6
ASIA3011	Samurai Society and Social Control in Japan	6
ASIA2271	The Making of South Asia	6
ASIA2009	The Making of Modern Japan: From Samurai to Economic Superpower and Beyond	6
ASIA2040	The Making of Modern Korea	6
ASIA2037	History of Modern China	6
ASIA2045	Lies, Conspiracy and Propaganda	6
ASIA2017	History of International Relations in Northeast Asia	6
ASIA3272	Truth and Falsity in Indian History and Politics	6
ASIA2006	Gender in Korean History	6
PASI2002	Australia in Oceania in the 19th and 20th centuries	6
WARS2004	War in the Islands: The Second World War in the Pacific	6
WARS2003	The Korean War	6
ASIA2096	North Korea: History, Culture, Politics	6
ASIA2039	Burma/Myanmar - a Country in Crisis	6
ASIA2167	Borders and their Transgressions in Mainland Southeast Asia	6
ASIA2041	Mainland Southeast Asia: Colonial and Postcolonial Predicaments	6
WARS2002	The Vietnam Wars: 1941-1989	6
ASIA2516	Indonesia: Politics, Society and Development	6
ASIA2165	Islam in Southeast Asia	6
MEAS2000	Iranian History and Culture	6
ASIA2301	Human Migration and Expansion in the Rise of the Asia-Pacific	6
ASIA2308	Linguistic Histories in Asia and the Pacific	6

A maximum of 6 units may come from completion of courses from the following list:

Code	Title	Units
HIST1215	The Twentieth Century World	6
HIST2141	The Cold War: 1945-1989	6
HIST2241	Global Aboriginal and Native Histories	6
MEAS2002	Turkish History: Ottoman State to Modern Turkey	6
MEAS2003	Modern Turkey: History, Culture and Regional Relations	6
HIST2136	World at War, 1939-1945	6
HIST3007	Making History	6

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