HIST-212 History of E Asia to 1600

Credits 3 / 3 Contact Hours
Pre-requisite: Placement into RDNG-030 (ACSR-030), completion of ELAP-110 with a minimum grade of 2.0, or successful completion of RDNG-016 or ACLT-074 with a minimum grade of 3.0.
This course will cover the political social and cultural history of China Japan and Korea from antiquity to 1600. This course will emphasize the relationship of human creativity to needs beliefs and values showing how others have understood themselves and how this understanding has shaped our views and conditions today.

Course Outcomes
1. To help develop within the historical context an understanding of the forces that have patterned East Asian growth and to give an insight into the issues that have been part of East Asian societies and its peoples 2. To acquaint the student with major themes in the development of East Asian civilizations and with the reasons for their importance 3. To demonstrate the interaction of art, science, literature, religion, and philosophy in order for the student to understand the culture as a whole rather than a series of disconnected events and to understand that a change in one field may have far reaching consequences in the other areas 4. To provide the student with a historical base with which to compare developments in contemporary culture in order to analyze and understand ourselves and our milieu 5. To stimulate the student’s interest in as many aspects of East Asian cultures as possible, aspects that are usually overlooking in standard “political history” courses 6. To extend the students’ knowledge of the world beyond their own cultural boundaries so that they can better understand contemporary world markets and world affairs 7. To acquire a greater sense of global interdependency 8. To see the world in the students’ own community