| Course Title |
Southeast Asia: From Subsistence to Industrialization |
| Course Code |
AH 4303 |
| Credit |
4 |
| Semester Offered |
3 |
| Duration of Courses |
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| Degree |
Undergraduate |
| Programme |
Bachelor of Arts |
| Course Description |
This module aims to bring awareness to students about the differential processes of changes
that have occurred in Southeast Asian economies and societies in the post-colonial period.
The students are expected to develop analytical tools to investigate such phenomena as the
shedding of colonial rule, the accommodation, and adjustment to the colonial legacy. More
specifically the module addresses how economic and techno-cultural between the
industrialized countries and Southeast Asian societies after WW II brought about major social
and economic change in the region.
|
| Prerequisite |
None
|
| Other Description |
Among the topics to be covered are: the Legacy of Colonial Rule; theoretical implications of
the relationship between economics and politics; economic planning and administrative
reforms; impact of urbanization and population growth; ethnicity issues and sources of
communal conflicts; religion and traditions; processes of societal and economic
modernization; growth of modern education; ideological underpinnings of growth and
conflicts; managing social evils; problems of poverty management; issues of neo-capitalism
and corruption, authoritarianism; mass production: computers and IT; technology transfer;
nuclear weapons and pacific testing; the rise of environmentalism; micro-electronics; and
‘networking’ as both metaphor and reality.
|
| Language of Instruction |
English
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