An introduction to the people and cultures of Asia, emphasizing India, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific.
Course employs a multi-mediated approach to learning.
This is an approved General Education course. This is an approved Non-Western Course. The course provides a basic linguistic description of the Hmong language, its sound system, writing system, and grammar. The class examines the relationship between spoken Hmong and emerging literacy for Hmong Americans. Finally, it explores the Hmong-American experience through the traditions of oral literature and chronicles of escape and resettlement.