HIST 245 - (CH,D,W) History of Modern China

3 cr.

(Prerequisites: None, but any previous course related to any aspect of China would be helpful.)

A writing intensive course to explore China’s path to modernization from the 17th century to the present. It examines the political, economic, social, cultural, and intellectual transformations in China, and the internal and external driving forces and personalities that have shaped these transformations.