General Catalog 2024-25

Lecture, two hours; discussion, one hour. Focus on political, cultural, and historical relationships between majority ethnic groups and minorities in possibly most culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse regions of world—Southeast Asia. Provides productive framework to discuss nature of Southeast Asia’s extreme diversity, and resulting multicultural relationships, in comparative and historical context—both regionally and, to some extent, globally. Discussions and assignments around gaining appreciation of experiences and perspectives of region’s many different types of minority peoples. Critical examination of majorityhood as lived experience and as factor that informs minority rights issues. Includes discussion of significant current events related to minority-majority relationships in Southeast Asia. P/NP or letter grading.