Poll of the Day > For students, does your college teach history other then 'U.S. History'

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I've seen no classes for Asian history, European history, anymore. Southeast Asian studies are almost gone if not thought anymore.

How about classic music history?? Or Jazz music history, which is one of the most important parts of USA history as it is the most Avant-garde form of music that was born in America. It was born from the blues but went in another direction than country music.

I took an Asian Studies class this summer and it required us to go through and research a bunch of stuff relating to the history of the Asian-American community.
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*For American Students. Lol. :P

There were definitely a number of different world history and culture classes available back when i was enrolled, yeah. Absolutely.
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Yes, probably most of them
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EclairReturns posted...

I took an Asian Studies class this summer and it required us to go through and research a bunch of stuff relating to the history of the Asian-American community.

Was it about the interment camps during WW2 times? If they are doing that then they're teaching about victimization of minority groups which is more of a political move; and why not teach the cultural values of other nations if education REALLY want to be multi-cultural.

Hopefully they had a bunch of stuff about Mao Zedong in China. I doubt it though.

I'm too lazy to give you a summary of what I covered during the summer; I'm just going to copy-paste the topics from my course syllabus and call it a day, dude. :P

ES 318: Course Topics and Associated Readings

"This course is a survey of Asian American immigration history, social history, labor, politics, and culture from the 1840s through the present. This course will focus on five major themes: immigration and migration to the United States and Hawai`i, ethnic Asian communities, transnational Asians within and outside of the United States and Hawai`i, work and labor, and culture and art. Part of the course will focus specifically on ethnic Asians and Asian Americans on the continental United States including, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, South Asian/Indian, Hmong, Ameriasians and Mixed Race Asian Americans. The remainder of the course will focus on Asian ethnic groups in Hawai`i including Japanese, Koreans, Chinese, Okinawans, Filipinos, and ethnically and racially mixed Asians."

Early Chinese Migration to Hawaii: Lum, Wing Tek and Gregory Yee Mark.
Poems and Family Portraits

Early Asian Migration to Hawaii, Plantation Labor, Interethnic Tensions
Murayama, Milton. All I Asking for is my body.

American Colonization, Filipino Migration, Migrant Labor and Worker Activism
Bulosan, Carlos. Selections from America is in the Heart.

World War II & Japanese Internment, Interracial Marriage
Takaki, Ronald. The Watershed of World War II: Democracy and Race. From Strangers from a Different Shore.

Gender and War, Interethnic Animosity
Kim-Gibson, Dai Sil. They Defiled My Body, Not My Spirit: The Story of a Korean Comfort Woman. Make sure to analyze for Contemporary Ethical Issues.

Amerasians, Vietnam War Refugees & Resettlement:
From War Baby/Love Child, Schlund-Vials, Cathy J. Lost in Their Fathers Land: War, Migration, and Vietnamese Americans, (95-100) and In Love in a Faraway Place: An Interview with Serene Ford.

South Asian Transnationals and Post-1965 Immigration, Birth, Rituals, Naming
Generational Differences/Conflicts, Americanization, Interracial Dating, Freedom
Death, Cultural Rituals, Re-claiming of Culture, Freedom

Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Namesake.

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AC_Dragonfire posted...

stuff about Mao Zedong in China. I doubt it though.

What do you think that has to do with the Asian community in America?
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Yeah. The stage 1 history papers we have are:
Global History
Pacific History: An Introduction
Europe Transformed: Pre-modern to the Present
Rethinking New Zealand History
Rise and Fall of the USA
Sexual Histories: Western Sexualities from Medieval to Modern Times

It branches out more for stages 2 and 3, and of course that's not including all the papers for the Ancient History and Art History departments, or cultural history papers for stuff like Japanese, Asian Studies, French, etc. There are maybe two undergraduate papers you can on US history in total.
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American Colonization.
Japanese Internment camps
Gender and War
Vietnam War Refugees & Resettle

Sounds boring. I'd rather learn about the wars that happened. 3 Kingdoms in China, Mongols, Vietnam war, famine, communism.

EclairReturns posted...

AC_Dragonfire posted...

stuff about Mao Zedong in China. I doubt it though.

What do you think that has to do with the Asian community in America?

Did you really not study Mao Zedong dictatorship in China? WTF.. That's just.... evil to not teach the class about that. Is it too #Triggered for kids these days??

Top Ten Most Evil Dictators of All Time (in order of kill count)
http://www.popten.net/2010/05/top-ten-most-evil-dictators-of-all-time-in-order-of-kill-count/

Who was the biggest mass murderer in the history of the world? Most people probably assume that the answer is Adolf Hitler, architect of the Holocaust. Others might guess Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who may indeed have managed to kill even more innocent people than Hitler did, many of them as part of a terror famine that likely took more lives than the Holocaust. But both Hitler and Stalin were outdone by Mao Zedong. From 1958 to 1962, his Great Leap Forward policy led to the deaths of up to 45 million people easily making it the biggest episode of mass murder ever recorded.

AC_Dragonfire posted...

Did you really not study Mao Zedong dictatorship in China? WTF.. That's just.... evil to not teach the class about that. Is it too #Triggered for kids these days??

lol, we learned about that shit in world history in high school.

How many years of education do you have, TC? >__>
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RCtheWSBC posted...

AC_Dragonfire posted...

Did you really not study Mao Zedong dictatorship in China? WTF.. That's just.... evil to not teach the class about that. Is it too #Triggered for kids these days??

lol, we learned about that shit in world history in high school.

IT SHOULD BE THOUGHT IN COLLEGE AS WELL.

I took a bunch of history courses my first two years of college but actually didn't take US history in college, just world history and european history
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Who said it isn't taught in college?

People have the option to choose courses in college. Even in general education requirements, there is no mandatory curriculum that everyone learns. EclairReturns was describing an Asian studies course that focused on Asian Americans. I'm sure there are courses in history and Asian studies departments that go into Mao Zedong and other periods of Chinese leadership.

Calm your tits. Again I asked how many years of schooling you've had because your topics rail about college a lot but it sounds like you haven't attended yourself >_>
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AC_Dragonfire posted...

I've seen no classes for Asian history, European history, anymore. Southeast Asian studies are almost gone if not thought anymore.

Then you're either trolling or at a terrible university. Knowing you, probably the former.

Granted, some more basic foreign history courses fall under humanities designations. I believe that may have been the case with a course or two I took.
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AC_Dragonfire posted...

Mao Zedong dictatorship in China

No, I did not study that, but I'm asking you what that has to do with the Asian-American community in the United States.
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I'm Canadian, so...of course.

I took 4 history courses during my degree. My university required all students interested in taking history to take their "General World History" course first. After that, I took Canadian History Pre-Confederation, Canadian History Post-Confederation, and US History. I considered also taking Soviet Russian History.
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What shitty dirtbag school did you go to that only teaches American History? That can't be a thing, right?

faramir77 posted...

I considered also taking Soviet Russian History.

I took a course on this, it was great.

Blightzkrieg posted...

What shitty dirtbag school did you go to that only teaches American History? That can't be a thing, right?

He never stated how many years of school he's had if any
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My college offered mostly world history. Every student had to take at least one world history class. They did offer 1 or 2 U.S. history classes for history majors.
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My university offered several regional history courses to take. I took Asian history because the professor has the best reviews and my capstone paper was on geographic determinism regarding Japan prior to WWII.

I don't even know if U.S. history is offered
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My school offered a variety of u.s. and non-u.s. courses. For example I took a course in Muslim history, and also one in pre-Renaissance european history. For a degree you had to take a least 2 classes outside if u.s. and modern european history. The also offered ancient Greece and others.
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