Minor in Southeast Asian Studies

Drawing from Asian American Studies and Asian Studies, the course explores the political histories and lived experiences of Southeast Asians and Southeast Asian Americans in North Carolina.

This course explores the intersection of environmental studies and social justice/injustice in the context of Southeast Asia broadly conceived.

The past in Southeast Asia’s present, focusing on global, national, and local processes; individual and collective memory; and the legacies of violent death.

An introduction to the societies of Southeast Asia through literature.

This course examines popular culture in Southeast Asia as a response to colonialism, nationalism, modernization, the state, and globalization.

Explores modern Vietnam and situates the American war in broader spatial and historical context.

This survey integrates sociological, biophysical, and geographical elements to examine interactions of population and environment across the ecologically-diverse and historically-rich region of Southeast Asia.

The history of Southeast Asia from prehistory to “high imperialism.”

The history of Southeast Asia from the 19th century to the present.

This course surveys languages spoken in Southeast Asia, an area rich in linguistic diversity, which is home to five distinct language families and well over 1,000 individual languages.

Learn to play the gamelan.

The study and comparison of contemporary Southeast Asian performance genres (music, theatre, dance, ritual) in historical and cultural contexts.

A wide-ranging exploration of America’s longest war, from 19th-century origins to 1990s legacies, from village battlegrounds to the Cold War context, from national leadership to popular participation and impact.

How does globalization affect religious life? How do historical, cultural, and religious traditions mediate the experience of globalization in particular locales?

Modern Vietnamese Language