ASIA 1000 - Origins of Contemporary Southeast Asia
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Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Summer 2024 / Summer 2025
Explores the dynamic present of Southeast Asia in light of its complex past. Introduces the shared historical experiences that have shaped diverse Southeast Asian societies, with a focus on the continuing effects of colonialism, nationalism, and globalization in the region. Examines key issues facing contemporary Southeast Asian communities, including current debates around gender, faith, human rights, democracy, development, etc. Engages with Southeast Asian literature, film, art, journalism, and museum collections from a transdisciplinary perspective. Recommended prerequisite: students may find some prior coursework in history, anthropology, or Asian Studies to be helpful, but this is not required.
ASIA 2500 - Catastrophe and Resilience: Asia's Experiences of Climate Change
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Fall 2024 / Fall 2025
This course introduces Asia�s battle with climate change and explores scholarship related to climate change and its impacts on Asia, particularly from a community perspective. Explores the resilience and strategies that different parts of Asia have developed in response to a changing climate. This interdisciplinary course will survey ideas from climate sciences, paleoclimate, anthropology, environmental studies, archeology, geography, and history.
ASIA 2852 - Contemporary Southeast Asia: Environmental Politics
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Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Spring 2025 / Spring 2026
Examines globally pressing questions of environmental sustainability, regional inequality and development in the dynamic and heterogeneous landscapes of contemporary Southeast Asia. Focuses on interactions between histories of uneven development and contemporary debates over energy and infrastructure, food security, governance and access to land, forest and water-based resources. Same as GEOG 2852.
ASIA 4500 - Urban Asia: Tradition, Modernity, Challenges
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Fall 2023 / Fall 2024 / Spring 2025 / Fall 2025 / Spring 2026
Explores change in urban Asia, the representation of Asian cities, and the challenges of urban life through a transdisciplinary and thematic approach using academic articles, documentaries, and literary materials. The class discusses the role of tradition, concepts of modernity, the impact of tourism, rural to urban migration, poverty, the effects of war, legacies of colonialism, and environmental challenges.
GEOG 1972 - Sustainable Futures, Environment and Society
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Fall 2024 / Spring 2025
Deepen your understanding of key global environmental issues, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, overconsumption, and environmental health hazards. We will discuss topics including conservation, water use, ethics, and environmental justice, and think about the relationship between politics, economy, culture and nature with case studies from around the globe.
GEOG 2321 - Geography of Skiing and Snowboarding
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Fall 2024 / Spring 2026
Skiing and snowboarding (hereafter, skiing) are sports that lie at the convergence of diverse Earth science disciplines. Skiing is about the unique interaction between mountains, climate, the physics of glissading, technological innovation, and human expression. This course studies skiing through the lens of geographic inquiry, introducing students to the science of geography, by investigating the physical processes that govern mountain weather, snow properties, and the dynamics by which humans glissade over snow.
GEOG 2852 - Contemporary Southeast Asia: Environmental Politics
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Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Spring 2025
Examines globally pressing questions of environmental sustainability, regional inequality and development in the dynamic and heterogeneous landscapes of contemporary Southeast Asia. Focuses on interactions between histories of uneven development and contemporary debates over energy and infrastructure, food security, governance and access to land, forest and water-based resources. Same as ASIA 2852.
GEOG 3682 - International Development: Economics, Power, and Place
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Fall 2025 / Spring 2026
Learn about global economic and political inequalities through international development programs. Understand why some countries are in conditions of cyclical poverty while others experience massive economic growth and wealth. We will examine different approaches to economic development and critically consider existing and future planning. Recommended prerequisite: GEOG 1962 or GEOG 1972 or GEOG 1982 or GEOG 1992 or GEOG 2092.
