History of East Asia to 1800. 4

Catalog description

This course introduces students to major trends in East Asian (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) history prior to 1800. Major themes in the course include traditional philosophies and religions such as Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism, formation of aristocratic empires, rise of new elites, interaction between sedentary and nomadic civilizations, cultural identities, ?technologies? of rule and trading networks, and East Asia from a global perspective. Fulfills humanities and intercultural requirement (1998). Fulfills arts/humanities and sociocultural engagement requirements (2019).