This course is a graduate seminar on Southeast Asian history. Its aim is to survey a selection of major works published on selected topics in Southeast Asian history since approximately 1960, and in doing so, to assess the changing structure of the field. Topics to be examined will include but not limited to religion and belief systems, trade, the nature of polities, family and gender, and colonialism and post-colonialism.

CILO-1: Familiarize with selected works of recent scholarship, and the types of materials and methodologies used in constructing these books. Enhance the skills needed by research scholars: critical reading, thinking, and writing. CILO-2: Enhance their ability to ask questions of, accurately evaluate, and effectively synthesize primary and secondary historical writings. CILO-3: Develop the ability to effectively express their own ideas in written and oral forms. CILO-4: Expand their knowledge of the historical and social contexts that created diversity in past and present human cultures.