Group 5 280. This course explores the history of the United States involvement with and policy toward countries in East Asia from the 19th Century to the present. Topics include the changing role of the United States in East Asian affairs, the process of economic development in an international context, cross-cultural misperceptions, and power rivalries in the Pacific Rim. Group 5 349. In this class students will have an opportunity to advance the critical and textual analysis they began in Black Film and Fiction in the previous semester.
Students assign films, film theory, and historical texts and facilitate at least one session.
As importantly, students will also organize and teach a monthly workshop composed of a group of about fifty African American high school students. We will also use films as an entry to working with these students in their analytical and writing skills in smaller groups which Oxy students will lead. May be taken as ECLS 397 . Enrollment is limited. Group 5 390.