Hiroshima and Beyond

Catalog description

This course will undertake an intensive field study in Hiroshima, Japan on the human and material consequences of the atomic bombings and the subsequent history of nuclear politics and culture. The students will witness the aftermath of a nuclear attack in a historical context and study the means of achieving world peace. No prerequisites, but students who have taken ASIA 3000 will be given priority to enrollment. Students must assume the expense of round trip airfare to Japan.