International Affairs

Asia

Choose at least one course from Group A and one from Group B. The other two courses may be taken from group A, B, C, or D.

Group A: Modern Asian History
Hist 253 or 254 Seminar: History of Sino-Soviet Relations
Hist 288 Modern SE Asia
Hist 289 Seminar: Modern Japanese History
Hist 289 Readings Seminar: Modern Japanese History
Hist 293 Readings Seminar: Modern East Asian History (prerequisite: Hist 289, 295 or 296)
Hist 295 Readings Seminar: Late Imperial China
Hist 296 Readings Seminar: 20th Century China
Hist 297 Showa Japan
Hist 297 US-East Asian Relations
Hist 298 Readings/Research Seminar: Special Topics in Korean History


Other related Asian history courses may, with permission of the major field faculty advisor, be used to fulfill the required number of credits

Group B: Contemporary Asian Politics and Society
Educ 220 Education and Modernization in Asia
IAff 322 Taiwan: Internal Development and Foreign Policy
PSc 235 Comparative Politics of Industrialization
PSc 270 Politics of China
PSc 271 Politics of China (prerequisite: Psc 270)
PSc 273 Asian Industrialism
PSc 288 Political Economy of South Asian Development
PSc 288 Politics of Japan

Other related Asian politics and society courses m ay, with permission of the major field faculty advisor, be used to fulfill the required number of credits.

Group C: International Relations of Asia
Hist 253 or 254 Seminar: History of Sino-Soviet Relations
Hist 260 US-Russian-Chinese Relations
Psc 272 Foreign Policy of China
Hist 275 International Politics of East Asia
Hist 297 Central Asian History
Hist 298 Modern Korean History
IAff 322 Taiwan: Internal Developments and Foreign Affairs
IAff 325 U.S.–South Asia Relations
IAff 328 Special Topics in Asian Studies
PSc 289 China's Military and Security
PSc 289 Japanese Foreign Policy
PSc 289 US-China Relations
PSc 289 Asian Security
PSc 289 Asian Regionalism

Other related Asian politics and society courses may, with permission of the major field faculty advisor, be used to fulfill the required number of credits

Group D: Asian Economics
Econ 269 Economy of China
Econ 271 Economy of Japan
Econ 295 APEC and Economies of the Asia Pacific
PSc 236 Political Econ-Dev Countries

Special Topics courses (IAff 218, 238, 258, 288, 308, 318, 328, 338, 358), may, with permission of the major field faculty advisor, be used to fulfill the required number of credits for the Regional Major Field in Asia.

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