An interdisciplinary introduction to the cultures, peoples, and historical experience of Asia. Religious and aesthetic traditions of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia form the basis of a study of human experience in societies strongly influenced by Hinduism, Buddhism, or Confucianism.
Equal emphasis is given to social science perspectives of geography, politics, and social history.
Students will read original texts from ancient poetry, to graphic arts, to formal essays or public documents from the ancient to the contemporary period and learn techniques for studying and interpreting cultures very different from our own. Fulfills 1 unit Social Science and 1 unit Humanities requirement. 2 units - Cheek, Jiang.