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HIS 121 - Perspectives on China (First-Year Seminar*)

Three or Four Credits
Fall Semester

This course follows in the footsteps of Venetian merchants, Japanese monks, British diplomats, Western missionaries and other foreign visitors to China’s shores throughout the centuries. We explore what happens when cultures meet for the first time, how they perceive one another, and how this shapes the writing of history.

 

Prerequisite(s): *Four-Credit version open to First-Year Students only.
Considered a World History.
Three-Credit version fulfills the Cornerstone History Requirement.
*Four-Credit version fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Cornerstone History Requirements.