Southeast Asian Governments and Politics
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General
Prefix
POL
Course Number
436
Course ID
00147094
Course Level
Undergraduate
Department/Unit(s)
College/School
College of Liberal Arts
Description
Southeast Asian governmental institutions, their political processes, and recent political and economic trajectories that form the prospects of democratization in some countries and democratic consolidation in others.
Credits
Min
3
Max
3
Goals and Diversity
MN Goal Course
Yes
MN Goal Designation(s)
08
Cultural Diversity
Yes
Learning Outcomes
Outcome
Identify Island SEA countries and Mainland SEA countries.
Outcome
Analyze each country's political background, cultures, and religions.
Outcome
Examine how Buddhism, Islamism, and western colonialism formed the basis of SEA political systems.
Outcome
Analyze SEA Al Qaeda networks.
Outcome
Analyze the causes and consequences of European colonialism and will be able to examine local resistances against European colonists after WWII and approaches to gain independences.
Outcome
Identify political and economic trajectories of SEA countries after independences.
Outcome
Analyze U.S. foreign policy toward Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam from the 1960s to the 1970s.
Outcome
Examine contemporary regional issues.
Outcome
Analyze international relations between SEA countries and China and between SEA countries and U.S.
Outcome
Analyze SEA politics of drug trafficking.
Dependencies
Programs
POL436
is a
completion requirement
for: