Spring 2020 - GA 400 D100
Selected Topics in Global Asia (3)
Class Number: 5503
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2020: Mon, 2:30–5:20 p.m.
Burnaby
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Prerequisites:
45 units.
Description
COURSE DETAILS:
Looking around us today, the Global Indigenous might seem self-evident. The UN adopts a Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Indigenous athletes compete in a World Indigenous Games. Indigenous communities in Southeast Asia declare solidarity with residential school survivors in North America. But how much traction does the concept have in the past? Is there a Global Indigenous history? Or is there merely a collection of regional histories about Indigenous peoples?
Mobilizing a variety of teaching methods, engaging materials written by Indigenous scholars, and welcoming several Indigenous speakers, this seminar begins in Asia and works outwards to test the historical concept of the Global Indigenous. Students will gain expertise in an Asian region of their choice while collaborating on an historical question global in scope.
Grading
- Seminar contributions 20%
- Annotated readings list 10%
- Keynote address 10%
- Research updates (2) 10%
- Reading responses/unresponses 20%
- Written project 30%
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
Ken S. Coates, A Global History of Indigenous Peoples: Struggle and Survival (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
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