Reason for the course action The course will fill a significant gap at the University of Connecticut, which at this point does not offer any introductory course on Islam, one of the world’s major religions. Specify effect on departments and overlap with existing courses No significant overlap. Please provide a brief description of course goals and learning objectives This course has four learning outcomes: First, students will be able to identify the foundational religious and literary texts of the tradition and articulate their relation to both closed and dynamic approaches to knowledge at different moments of Islamic history. Second, students will be able to differentiate between stereotypes and the historically lived experience of Muslim societies, particularly with respect to heterodoxy and mysticism. Third, students will be able to construct and reconstruct multiple narratives that around seminal moments in the history of Islam, from
Maria Rosa Menocal, The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History: A Forgotten Heritage (selections) Week 7 The Mughals in The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: 1857 (selections) Islam and the British Empire The Corporation that Changed the World, ed. Nick Robins (selections) Week 8 Iran and the Shah Stephen Kinzer. All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (2003), selections The Iranian Revolution Sami Zubaida, “The Ideological Preconditions for Khomeini's Doctrine of Government,” Politics and Society 11, no. 2, 1982, reprinted in Islam, the State and the People, 1991 Sami Zubaida, “Is Iran an Islamic State?” in Political Islam, ed. Joel Beinin and Joe Stork. I.B. Tauris, 1997 Unit Three The Lived Experience of Islam Week 9 From Faith to Practice Vincent Cornell, of the Tree of Knowledge: The Relationship between Faith and Practice in Islam" in The Oxford History of Islam, 63-105. Representation and Experience Malcolm X (or Malik el-Shabazz), "Mecca," chapter 17 of The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Farid Esack, "Pepsi Shows the Way" in On Being a Muslim, 12-17. Ahmadou Kourouma, The Suns of Independence (selections)
Final report due 2018-184 AASI/HIST 3530 Revise Course (S) COURSE ACTION REQUEST CAR ID 18-7622 Request Proposer Chang Course Title Experience Since 1850 CAR Status In Progress Workflow History > Draft > History > AASI > College of Liberal Arts and Sciences COURSE INFO Type of Action Revise Course Is this a UNIV or INTD course? Neither Number of Subject Areas 2 Course Subject Area HIST School / College College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department History Course Subject Area #2 AASI School / College #2 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department #2 AASI Reason for Cross Listing This course counts towards the Minor in Asian American Studies. Both departments desire cross-listing Course Title Experience Since 1850
At which campuses do you anticipate this course will be offered? Hartford,Storrs If not generally available at all campuses, please explain why This course is not staffed at other campuses. Will this course be taught off campus? No Will this course be offered online? No COURSE DETAILS Provide existing title and complete course catalog copy HIST 3530. Experience Since 1850 (Also offered as AASI 3578.) Three credits. Chang Survey of experiences in the United States since 1850. Responses by to both opportunities and discrimination. Provide proposed title and complete course catalog copy HIST 2530. Experience Since 1850 (Also offered as AASI 2530.) Three credits. Survey of experiences in the United States since 1850. Responses by to both opportunities and discrimination. Reason for the course action This course is being changed to 2000 level to adhere to sequential offerings in the Asian American Studies Minor. The new course number conveys the introductory American Americans Americans
nature of the class. Specify effect on other departments and overlap with existing courses The course overlaps with HIST 3554, of which I am the instructor. Content overlaps are minimal as this course focuses upon Asian populations and follows key methods and concepts in the field of Asian American Studies. Please provide a brief description of course goals and learning objectives This course introduces students to Asian American history through an examination of transnational migrations, social movements, and political economic change in the U.S. Students will learn fundamental historical narratives of Asian Americans in U.S. history, covering the experiences of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, South Asian, Filipino, and Southeast Asian immigrants as well as those of other Pacific Islanders. Describe course assessments Online Discussion Forum, Journal Entries, Quizzes
Request Proposer Zarrow Course Title History of Modern Chinese Political Thought CAR Status In Progress Workflow History Start > History > AASI > College of Liberal Arts and Sciences COURSE INFO Type of Action Revise Course Is this a UNIV or INTD course? Neither Number of Subject Areas 2 Course Subject Area HIST School / College College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department History Course Subject Area #2 AASI School / College #2 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department #2 AASI Reason for Cross Listing This History course is appropriate for students concentrating on the new minor in Asian Studies Course Title History of Modern Chinese Political Thought Course Number 3820 Will this use an existing course number? No CONTACT INFO Initiator Name Peter Zarrow Initiator Department History Initiator pez13004
available at all campuses, please explain why this course *could* be offered at other campuses by faculty there. Will this course be taught off campus? No Will this course be offered online? No COURSE DETAILS Provide existing title and complete course catalog copy HIST 3820. History of Modern Chinese Political Thought credits. Survey of Chinese political ideas and ideologies since the nineteenth century. Provide proposed title and complete course catalog copy AASI/HIST 3820. History of Modern Chinese Political Thought credits. Survey of Chinese political ideas and ideologies since the nineteenth century. Reason for the course action Cross-listing with AASI will allow students in the Asian Studies minor to receive proper credit. The course should possess the same number 3820. Specify effect on other departments and overlap with existing courses none Please provide a The course goal is
Unit II: Methods / Theory 9/27 – Problems of language and translation -John E. Toews, “Intellectual History after the Linguistic Turn,” American Historical Review 92 (1987): 879-907 -Juliette Yuehtsen Chung, “Better Science and Better Race?” Journal of the History of Science in Society 105.4 (Dec. 2014): 793-802 9/29 – Translation 2 -Douglas Howland, “The Predicament of in Culture: Translation and Historiography,” History and Theory 42 (Feb. 2013): 45-60 -Ko-wu Huang, “The Origin and Evolution of the Concept of Mixin (Superstition),” Chinese Studies in History 49.2 (2016): 54-79 10/4 – The Eurocentrism problem -Takashi Shogimen, “Dialogue, Eurocentrism, and Comparative Political Theory: A View from Cross-Cultural Intellectual History,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 77.2 (2016): 323-345 -Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen, “Limits to Despotism: Idealizations of Chinese Governance and Legitimizations of Absolutist Europe,” Journal of Early Modern History 17.4 (2013): 347-389. 10/6 – Globalizing the history of thought -Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori, “Approaches to Global Intellectual History,” in Global Intellectual History (Columbia, 2013): 3-30 -David Armitage, “The International Turn in Intellectual History,” in Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History (Oxford, 2014): 232-252 1 due*** Unit III: Chinese Texts, 1890-1949 10/11 – Confucianism: idealism & critique Zongxi: from Waiting for the Dawn, pp. 89-121 & 188-215 10/13 – Confucianism: practical administration -“Chinese Statecraft,” Wm. Theodore de Bary and Richard Lufrano, eds., Sources of Chinese Tradition, pp. 155-198 10/18 – Utopianism
-Kang Youwei, Ta t’ung shu: The Philosophy of K’ang Yu-wei (trans. Laurence G. Thompson), pp. 134-182 -Yan Fu and Kang Youwei: reformist writings in de Bary and Lufrano, SCT vol. 2: 10/20 NO 10/25 – Critique -Tan Sitong, An Exposition of Benevolence (trans. Chan Sin-wai), 55-65 & 153- 196 10/27 – The 1911 Revolution -Tsou Jung [Zou Rong], The Revolutionary Army, 51-98 Binglin [Zhang Taiyan], “Explaining the ‘Republic of China’” in The Stockholm Journal of East Asian Studies, vol. 8 (1997): 15-40 -Hu Hanmin, “The Six Principles of the People’s Report” in de Bary and Lufrano, SCT vol. 2: 316-319 11/1 – Feminism; the “woman question” -He-Yin Zhen, “On the Question of Women’s Liberation,” in Lydia H. Liu et al., The Birth of Chinese Feminism: 53-71 -He-Yin Zhen, “Economic Revolution and Women’s Revolution: 92-104, in ibid. -Liang Qichao, “On Women’s Education”: 189-203, in ibid. 11/3 – “May Fourth” fiction -Lu Xun, “Diary of a Madman”; “Medicine”; “The True Story of Ah Q” ***paper 2 due*** 11/8 – Liberalism -Hu Shi, “The Civilizations of the East and the West,” in Charles A. Beard, Whither Mankind: A Panorama of Modern Civilization (New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1928): 25-41 -Chen Duxiu, “The French and Modern Civilization” and “The Constitution and Confucianism” in Angle and Svennson: 62-76 11/10 – The Nationalists’ ideology -Sun Yat-sen, “San Min Chu-I” and “The Five-Power Constitution” in Memoirs of a Chinese Revolutionary, 225-238 & 239-254 -Chiang Kai-shek, “Problems of Revolution and Reconstruction,” in Destiny,
11/15 – 11/17 NO CLASSES (11/20-26: Thanksgiving vacation) 11/29 – Maoism 1 -Mao Zedong, “On Practice,” “On Contradiction,” and “On New Democracy” in Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung vol. 1: 295-347, vol. 3: 106-156 11/31 – Maoism 2 -Mao Zedong, “Talk on the Yenan [Yan’an] Forum on Art and Literature,” Selected Words of Mao Tze-tung vol. 4: 63-93; and “On the Correct Handling of Contradictions –“Among the People” in Timothy Cheek, ed., Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao: 12/6 – Tiananmen: 1989, and after -Zhu Xueqin, “For a Chinese Liberalism” in Chaohua Wang, ed., One China, Many Paths, 87-107 -Wang Hui, “Contemporary Chinese Thought and the Question of Modernity,” trans. Rebecca Karl, in China’s New Order, 139-187 -Xu Jilin, “The Fate of an Enlightenment—Twenty Years in the Chinese Intellectual Sphere (1978-1998),” trans. Geremie Barme and Gloria Davies, East Asian History 20 (Dec 2000) 12/8 – Conclusions -Timothy Cheek, “Mao: Revolution, and Memory,” in Timothy Cheek, A Critical Introduction to Mao, 3-30 -Cheek: 320-331 ***paper 3 due*** {{{there is no final exam}}} Further (selected) readings primary sources in translation The of Mao Zedong are online at the “Marxist Internet Archive”: (other Chinese Communists’ works are also archived there) Sun Yat-sen’s 1924 lectures on the “Three People’s Principles” are online: Stephen C. Angle and Marina Svensson, eds., The Chinese Human Rights Reader: Documents and Commentary, 1900-2000, M.E. Sharpe, 2001 Chang Chih-Tung [ZHANG Zhidong], China’s Only Hope: An Appeal by Her Greatest Viceroy Chang Chih-Tung, with the Sanction of the Present Emperor, Kwang trans. Samuel I. Woodbridge, Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1901 Chiang Kai-Shek, China’s Destiny, trans, Wang Chung-hui, Macmillan, 1947 [China’s Destiny and Chinese Economic Theory, Leiden: Global Oriental, 2013]
Number of Subject Areas 2 Course Subject Area HIST School / College College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department History Course Subject Area #2 AASI School / College #2 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department #2 AASI Reason for Cross Listing This course is suitable for students majoring/minoring in either/both History and Asian Studies Course Title Modern China Course Number 3822 Will this use an existing course number? No CONTACT INFO Initiator Name Peter Zarrow Initiator Department History Initiator NetId pez13004 Initiator Email Is this request for you or someone else? Myself Does the department/school/program currently have resources to offer the course as proposed? Yes COURSE FEATURES Proposed Term Fall Proposed Year 2019 Will this course be taught in a language other than English? No Is this a General Education Course? No Number of Sections 1 Number of Students per Section 39 Is this a Variable Credits Course? No Is this a Multi-Semester Course? No Credits 3
Instructional Pattern lectures & discussion COURSE RESTRICTIONS Will the course or any sections of the course be taught as Honors? No Prerequisites none Corequisites none Recommended Preparation none Is Consent Required? No Consent Required Is enrollment in this course restricted? No GRADING Is this course repeatable for credit? No What is the Grading for this course? Graded SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONAL FEATURES Do you anticipate the course will be offered at all campuses? No At which campuses do you anticipate this course will be offered? Storrs If not generally available at all campuses, please explain why This course as proposed here is personally taught by me; it *could* be taught at other campuses if faculty there desired. Will this course be taught off campus? No Will this course be offered online? No COURSE DETAILS
Kuomintang Guomindang For a full conversion table, see Place names have also been written in different ways (though the difference is between the old China Postal Map Romanization and pinyin, not WG and pinyin): Peking = Beijing, Nanking = Nanjing, Sinkiang = Xinjiang, Kiangsu = Jiangsu, Szechwan = Sichuan, Canton = Guangzhou, Tientsin = Tianjin, Chekiang = Zhejiang, Fukien = Fujian, Shensi = Shaanxi (the double ‘a’ deviates from pinyin, to mark a different tone from than neighboring Shanxi. How to pronounce pinyin: (NB: most sounds in Chinese are actually easy for English speakers to pronounce; it’s the Romanization that’s tricky) -‘Q’ = ‘ch’ Qu Qiubai = Chu Cheeo-bai -‘X’ = ‘sh’ Xinjiang = Shin-jeeang -‘C’ = ‘ts’ Shen Congwen = Shen Tsung-wen -‘Zh’ = ‘j’ Xu Zhimo = Shu Jir-muo -‘a’ = ‘ah’ lama = lah-mah -‘e’ = ‘uh’ Hebei = Huh-bei -‘i’ = ‘ee’ Xi Jinping = Shee Jin-ping -‘i’ = ‘ir’ when at the end of the syllable (except ‘xi’) = ‘ir’ Zhidong = Jang Jir-doong -‘u’ = oo Hu Shi = Hoo Shir -‘u’ after y then like German über or French lune Yu Yingshi = Yü Ying-shir are many pronunciation guides on the Internet, see for example: Names will become easier to remember if you are confident about saying them. So do familiarize yourself with pronunciation, but don’t worry if you are not sure or make mistakes! Chinese names Chinese family names come before the given name. So if you just want to use someone’s family name, use the name that comes first. For example, “Mao called for a
SOME WEBSITES chinadigitaltimes.net [news about China from a critical/dissenter point of view] blog.lareviewofbooks.org/chinablog [reflections of & observers] en.people.cn/ [official organ of the CCP] [newspaper representing the government’s point of view] Rights Watch] granitestudio.org [personal blog of an American teacher and China-scholar in Beijing] [news analysis/blogging from China-journalists] [media watch group at Hong Kong University] SOME DOCUMENTARIES “Gate of Heavenly dir. Carma Hinton, Long Bow Group; on Youtube (on the Tiananmen Square democracy movement, 1989; free); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gtt2JxmQtg “Li Manshan: Portrait of a Folk Daoist,” dir Stephen Jones; on Vimeo (on traditional religion in China today; free); “Small Happiness,” dir. Carma Hinton, Long Bow Group (on the lives of village women since the Communist Revolution) “Morning Sun,” dir. Hinton, Long Bow Group (on the Cultural Revolution, 1960s) 2018-188 AASI/HIST 3841 Revise Course COURSE ACTION REQUEST CAR ID 18-7613 Request Proposer Tran Course Empire and Nation in Southeast Asia CAR Status In Progress Workflow History Start > Draft > History > AASI > College of Liberal Arts and Sciences COURSE INFO Type of Action Revise Course Is this a UNIV or INTD course? Neither Number of Subject 2
Course Subject Area HIST School / College College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department History Course Subject Area #2 AASI School / College #2 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department #2 AASI Reason for Cross Listing This course doubles as a history class and a course in the new minor in Asian studies. Course Title Empire and Nation in Southeast Asia Course Number 3841 Will this use an existing course number? Yes Please explain the use of existing course number It's a 3000 level course. The 3800 in the history department is for Asian history, and I have used 3840 series for Southeast Asian history. I would like to keep the existing number to avoid confusion and to aid in recruitment. CONTACT INFO Initiator Name Nu-Anh Tran Initiator Department History
Do you anticipate the course will be offered at all campuses? No At which campuses do you anticipate this course will be offered? Storrs If not generally available at all campuses, please explain why I belong to the faculty, and the other campuses do not staff my specialization. Will this course be taught off campus? No Will this course be offered online? No COURSE DETAILS Provide existing and complete course catalog copy HIST 3841. Empire and Nation in Southeast Asia Three credits. Prerequisite: Open to sophomores or higher. Major themes in modern Southeast Asian history from the 17th century to the present: growth of global commerce; western imperialism; nationalism; emergence of independent nation-states; challenges of the period. Emphasis on the region’s largest countries: Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines,
Analyze texts, write argumentative essays, and critically assess arguments. Describe course assessments Midterm and non-cumulative final exam, both of which feature a mix of multiple choice and essay questions. There will be two papers, one that requires analysis of a primary source, and other features critique of a secondary source. Syllabus and attachments COMMENTS / APPROVALS Comments & Approvals Log
COURSE INFO Type of Action Revise Course Is this a UNIV or INTD course? Neither Number of Subject Areas 2 Course Subject Area HIST School / College College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department History Course Subject Area #2 AASI School / College #2 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department #2 AASI Reason for Cross Listing This doubles as a history course and a course in the Asian studies minor. Course Title History of Vietnam Course Number 3842 Will this use an existing course number? Yes Please explain the use of existing course number It is a 3000 level course, and the 3800 is reserved for Asian history in the History Dept. The 3840s is for Southeast Asian history.
CAR ID 18-7618 Request Proposer Tran Course The Vietnam War CAR Status In Progress Workflow History Start > Draft > History > AASI > College of Liberal Arts and Sciences COURSE INFO Type of Action Revise Course Is this a UNIV or INTD course? Neither Number of Subject Areas 2 Course Subject Area HIST School / College College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department History Course Subject Area #2 AASI School / College #2 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department #2 AASI Reason for Listing This course doubles as a history course and a course for the Asian studies minor. Course Title The Vietnam War Course Number 3845 Will this use an existing course number? Yes Please explain the use of existing course number It is a 3000 level course, and the 3800s series are for Asian history in the history department.
de-escalation of the war; the postwar legacy. Provide proposed title and complete course catalog copy AASI/HIST 3845: The Vietnam War Description: Origins, evolution, and aftermath of the Vietnamese conflict: the prewar history of colonialism, nationalism, communism, and anticommunism; the formation and development of the three main Vietnamese belligerents; American intervention; culture and politics in wartime Vietnam; escalation and de-escalation of the war; the postwar legacy. Reason for the course action cross listing Specify effect on other departments and overlap with existing courses The only dept to be affected is the History dept, and are no overlapping courses. Please provide a brief description of course goals and learning objectives Course goals: Learn the basic history of the Vietnam War, including its origins, evolution, and aftermath; understand the political differences between the four main belligerents; appreciate the interplay between the Vietnamese and international dimensions Objectives: Learning objectives: Analyze texts, write argumentative essays, and
Jan 23-25 2. Different Paths to Nationalism Nguyễn Công Luận, Nationalist in the Vietnam Wars, xiii-xv, 3-10, 11-44 (recommended: 45-60) *Hồ Chí Minh, “Appeal Made on the Occasion of the Founding of the Indochinese Communist Party” (excerpt) *Huỳnh Phú Sổ, “The Way to Practice Religion and Rules for Everyday Life” (excerpt) ***Mini-quiz on Jan 30-Feb 1 3. Resistance War or Civil War? Nguyễn Công Luận, Nationalist in the Vietnam Wars, 45-134 Le Ly Hayslip, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, 1-23 CONFLICT Feb 6-8 4. Building Socialism in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam *Dương Thu Hương, Paradise of the Blind, trans. Phan Huy Dương and Nina McPherson (New York: William Morrow, 2002), 5-9, 16-34, 40-42, 47-52, 60-67, 69-81 *Hồ Chí Minh, “On the Basic Completion of Land Reform in the North,” in Sources of Vietnamese Tradition, ed. Dutton et. al. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012), 496-9 *We Want to Live (excerpt) Feb 13-15 5. Consolidation and Expansion in the Republic of Vietnam *Philip Catton, Diem’s Final Failure, 25-56, 63-71 ***Paper #1 due on Tues Feb 20-22 6. Challenging Saigon: The Opposition and the National Liberation Front *Truong Nhu Tang, A Viet Cong Memoir, 31-41, 63-80 *Caravelle Manifesto, in Fall, The Two Viet-Nams (1967), 435-441 *Program of the National Liberation Front, in Fall, The Two Viet-Nams (1967), 443-446 Feb 27-Mar 1 7. Escalation No journals due. ***Quiz on Thurs Mar 6-8 8. The Big War Le Ly Hayslip, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, 26-54, 65-97, S P R I N G B R E A K Mar 20-22 9. Tet Offensive Nick Turse, Kill Anything That Moves, 1-75
Number of Sections 1 Number of Students per Section 25 Is this a Variable Credits Course? No Is this a Multi-Semester Course? No Credits 3 Instructional Pattern lectures and discussion COURSE RESTRICTIONS Will the course or any sections of the course be taught as Honors? No Prerequisites POLS 5600, 5605, 5610 Corequisites NA Recommended Preparation None Is Consent Required? No Consent Required Is enrollment in this course restricted? No GRADING Is this course repeatable for credit? No What is the Grading Basis for this course? Graded SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONAL FEATURES Do you anticipate the course will be offered at all campuses? No At campuses do you anticipate this course will be offered? Storrs If not generally available at all campuses, please explain why Will this course be taught off campus? No Will this course be offered online? No COURSE DETAILS Provide existing title and complete course catalog copy 5615. Seminar in Qualitative Methods of Political Science Three credits. Prerequisite: POLS 5600, 5605, and 5610; department consent required. May be repeated once for credit. A survey of qualitative research
description of course goals and learning objectives course. However, it was the fourth course in a methods sequence but is now the third. As a result, we need to delete 5610 from the list of prerequisites. Describe course assessments Please see syllabus attached Note that this is a course that is taught on a rotation, but Professor Herrera offers it more regularly than any other faculty member. Syllabus and other attachments COMMENTS / APPROVALS Comments & Approvals Log