- Maritime Asia: Diasporic Migrations and Cultural Encounters

Catalog description

An exploration of the mobility of individuals and groups across maritime Asia with a focus on the travels of migrants in different times.  Special attention given to the changing dynamics between "center" and "periphery" through interdisciplinary lenses.  By looking at texts in geography, literature and trans-national culture in the past and more recently, we will study the multi-lingual, multiethnic encounters and interactions in maritime Asia and beyond. The course fulfills both the "global cultural perspectives" requirement and the requirement in "humanistic inquiry and practice" in the new Gen Ed Curriculum