Class Id: 8933
Days: TTh
Start Time: 01:30 PM
End Time: 02:50 PM
Building: FRIST
Room: 309
Course Id: 3980
Departments and Numbers: EAS 282, HIS 282
Area: HA
Title: A Documents-based Approach to Asian History
Description: An intensive introduction to the methods and practices of history, designed to prepare students for future independent work. The focus is on interpreting primary sources on three topics: 1) Did Marco Polo go to China? 2) Did the Jesuits in China go beyond early European knowledge of Asia? 3) Why did China lose and Japan win the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95?
Prerequisites: Priority will be given to sophomores and prospective history concentrators. The class will cap at 20 students.
Professors: Benjamin A. Elman
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