MACRO SOUTHEAST ASIA: INTRODUCTION TO SE ASIA
SPRING SEMESTER 2004
Course:
Time: T Th 9:15 – 10:30
Place: AED 68
Instructor: Chris Lundry
Office: COOR 6666
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 10am to noon, or by appointment
Phone: 965-0477
e-mail: lundry@asu.edu
Teaching Assistant: Fonvunjuntr Srijuntr,
or Fon
Office: Coor 6666
e-mail: fons@asu.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 10:40 to 12:40
Course Description:
This interdisciplinary course introduces students to the peoples, cultures, and
history of
Requirements:
Attendance and participation
Reading and other class assignments
Map quiz: pass/fail
Six scheduled multiple-choice quizzes, lowest score discareded
(33.3% of grade)
Final examination, cumulative (33.3% of grade)
Term paper (33.3% of grade)
Students are expected to read the New
York Times or something equivalent daily (I will provide some on-line news
sources) as we will discuss in class developments in Southeast Asia. Students
will be required to log on to my.asu.edu in order to access grades and postings
relevant to the course.
Required texts: (Available at the ASU bookstore except where noted)
Mary Somers Heidhues
Southeast Asia: A Concise History
London: Thames and
Alfredo and Grace Roces
Culture Shock Philippines
Graphic Arts Center Publishing company, 1991
Robert and Nanthapa Cooper
Culture Shock Thailand
Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company, 1991
Please note: The Culture Shock books may be between printings, and the bookstore may not be able to fill the order. Students who cannot find the books at the bookstore are urged to find an alternative source for the books (amazon.com, Borders, Changing Hands, Powell’s Books, etc.).
Hammond Map of Southeast Asia
Hammond Maps
(recommended, or access to an online map source)
Uni-Print Reader for History 240
Compiled by instructor and available at Uni-Print,
Inc.
710 S. Forest Street, Tempe, Phone: 968-0799
(Note: although this course is
cross-listed with other prefixes, the reading packet is under History 240)
This semester the PSEAS is composing a companion website for this course, at
www.asu.edu/clas/asian/psea/hst240. The site is a work in progress, and meant
to supplement the lectures and readings. I may direct you to the site at
certain times during the semester, and I encourage feedback.
Schedule of classes and assignments (Please remember that this syllabus is a
fairly rigid guideline as to how the course proceeds, but we will inevitably
get ahead or behind at some points. The way to make sure you are on top of
things, including assignments and quizzes, is to attend every session. In the case of an absence, it is up to the
student to find out if what he/she has missed and if there are any schedule
changes):
Note: We will be having guests from the organization Feed
the Hungry come in and give a lecture on their experience with the relief
effort in
1) Tuesday, January 18: Introduction
Introduction to the course and the region
Short films: Betel Chewing, and the Cockfight
2) Thursday, January 20: The Region: What is
Themes and dichotomies of Southeast Asia
**** Read: Heidhues, pp 7-14 (“Introduction”)
We will begin watching a feature length documentary film entitled Celso and
Cora, about a young couple who make their home in the slums of modern
Manila.
3) Tuesday, January 25:
At this point, locate places for the map quiz.
4) Thursday, January 27: How Millions Live, cont’d
We will finish and discuss the film Celso and Cora
**** Reconnaissance assignment due
5) Tuesday, February 1: Early Southeast Asia: Kingdoms
****Before this class, read “Material Culture” and “Social Organization” from
the reader, and Heidhues, chapters 1 and 2,
“Waterways,” pp. 15-34, and “Temples and Rice,” pp. 35-64.
**** Map Quiz. Pass/Fail.
6) Thursday, February 3: Guest Lecture: Rasmi Shoocongdej
Thai Anthropologist Rasmi Shoocongdej will speak about her research and ethnic
diversity in
7) Tuesday, February 8: Kingdoms, cont’d, and Colonies
****Assignment: Heidhues, chapter 4, “
**** Paper Topic Due
8) Thursday, February 10: Colonies
**** QUIZ #1 on all material to date
****Assignment: Heidhues, chapter 5, “New Directions,
New Elites,” pp. 109-130 and the Introduction and chapters 1 and 2 from This Earth of Mankind from the reader.
**** Film: Max Havelaar
We will view a small part of the film Max Havelaar.
Anyone wishing to watch the entire film and submit a one-page write up can do
so for extra credit. The film can be viewed in the PSEAS library.
9) Tuesday, February 15: Nations
**** Assignment: Heidhues, chapters 6, “Violence and
Transition,” and 7, “Development and Democracy,” pp. 163-184.
10) Thursday, February 17: Religion: Buddhism and Islam
**** Assignment: Read Heidhues, Chapter 3,
“Multiplicity of Beliefs,” pp. 65-86
Film: The Middle Path
11) Tuesday, February 22: Islam
Film: Muslims
12) Thursday, February 24: Christianity
**** Assignment: Read The Mass of Saint
Sylvester in the reader
Film: Flowers of May
13) Tuesday, March 1: Environment: Natural Resources and the Human Habitat
**** Assignment: James Rush: “The Human Habitat” and “Transformation of the
Land” in the reader
14) Thursday, March 3: Urban Southeast Asia
Film: Cities Under Siege
**** Paper Assignment: Bibliography and Refinement of topic
15) Tuesday, March 8: The Philippines
**** Assignment: Read Children of the Ash
Covered Loam in the reader, and by
this time, have the entire Culture Shock
Philippines book read
****Note: At any time between March 9 and April 8 students may hand in a rough
draft of their term paper for review and feedback. This is recommended but not
required, and the draft will not count toward your final paper grade.
16) Thursday, March 10: The Philippines, cont’d, and Indonesia
Spring Break, March 13-20
17) Tuesday, March 22:
****Assignment: Read selections from Tales
from Djakarta by Pramoedya
Ananta Toer (“Houseboy +
Maid,” “My Kampung,” and “Creatures Behind Houses”)
in the reader
Film: Riding the Tiger
**** QUIZ #3 on classes 12-16
18) Thursday, March 24: Indonesia, cont’d, and East Timor
19) Tuesday, March 29: East Timor, cont’d
Film: Death of a Nation
21) Thursday, March 31: Malaysia
Film: Mini Dragons: Malaysia
22) Tuesday, April 5: Malaysia, cont’d and Singapore
**** QUIZ #4 on classes 17-21
**** Assignment: Read “The Prisoner in the Theme Park” from the reader
23) Thursday, April 7: Singapore
24) Tuesday, April 12:
25) Thursday, April 14:
By this class, have read the entire Culture Shock Thailand book
Term papers due
26) Tuesday, April 19:
Assignment: Read The General Retires
in the reader.
****QUIZ #5, on classes 22-25
27) Thursday, April 21:
Film: The Mekong in Vietnam
28) Tuesday, April 26: Cambodia
Film: Raising the Bamboo Curtain
29) Thursday, April 28: Burma
Film: Raising the Bamboo Curtain
30) Tuesday, May 3: Conclusion and Review
**** Quiz #6 on classes 26-29
Final Exam: Thursday, May 5, 7:40 – 9:30 AM, AED 68
Policies:
First and foremost, I follow the university’s guidelines on classroom
environment. No inappropriate behavior or language will be tolerated in the
class (i.e. racism, sexism, immature behavior). I want my classroom environment
to foster learning without distraction, so I do not tolerate disruptive
behavior, including talking, reading the State
Press or any other newspaper, studying for another class, etc. If you think
that what you are talking or reading about is more important than my class, I
respect that, but I will ask you to leave and do it elsewhere. I will not
hesitate to remove people from my class if these policies are violated, and
repeated violation can result in complete withdrawal from the class. PLEASE,
PLEASE, PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CELL PHONES AND PAGERS DURING CLASS!
Plagiarism: Refer to the university’s policy on plagiarism (http://www.asu.edu/clas/fhd/plagiarism.htm)
if you are unsure what constitutes plagiarism. I do not tolerate cheating.
Cheating will result in a failing grade, and may endanger your enrollment at
the university.
Make-ups: The final exam: The university’s
final exam schedule is inviolate. No one will be excused from taking the final
exam at the appointed time except for the most extraordinary circumstances, and
certainly not because of “travel plans.” Quizzes: A student’s cumulative quiz
score will be based on the average of his or her five best quiz scores; in
other words, the lowest of the student’s six quiz scores will be dropped. If a
student misses a quiz, however, for any reason, that is the quiz that will be
dropped. In case of extended illness, or recurring serious illness that may
cause someone to miss more than one quiz, documentation must be provided (i.e.
a doctor’s note) before the case will be considered. Please do this without my
having to ask you for documentation, in other words come talk to me with a note
in hand so I don’t have to ask for it. Otherwise, there will be no make-up
quizzes. Quizzes will be given at the beginning of the class period, and will
last approximately ten minutes. Students who come in too late to take the quiz
will forfeit that quiz.
Assignments and extra credit: All assignments must be typewritten, and follow
the guidelines set above. Extra credit may be handwritten, although I prefer
them to be typed. Some extra credit opportunities are listed in the syllabus,
others will be available on an ad hoc basis (usually PSEAS brown bag lectures
or films), and there may be extra credit opportunities on each quiz based on
stories on Southeast Asia culled from the
New York Times. On quizzes, the extra credit will go directly into your
quiz score. For other extra credit, you will receive up to 2 points per extra
credit, depending on how well it is done, up to 10 points. After you have
reached 10 points, any further extra credit will be worth one point maximum, up
to 15 points. These points will be added in to one of your three final grade
scores (quiz average, final exam, term paper) as raw percentage points,
wherever they are needed most, so there is the potential to raise one of your
totals by 1-1/2 grades. Extra credit assignments will have a deadline of two
weeks from when they are announced or take place.
The map quiz: All students must pass the map quiz in order to pass the course.
The map quiz is not graded and will not count toward your final grade, but a
passing score of twelve out of fifteen is required to pass the course. You will not pass the course unless you
pass the map quiz. The map quiz will be offered once in class during the
semester. If you do not pass the map quiz then, you may take it out of class,
as many times as is necessary to pass, by appointment with the teaching
assistant. It is recommended that students study the map and pass the quiz the
first time it is offered as a working knowledge of Southeast Asian geography
will help students throughout the course.
Incompletes and withdrawals: Incompletes
will be given out only in the cases of incapacitating illness, and only if the
student is passing the course. This is university policy, please do not ask
me for an incomplete if you haven’t been coming to class and are failing. You
are able to withdraw from the course if you are not doing well, with a deadline
set by the university (see below). If this deadline passes, please do not ask
me to sign a restricted withdrawal form for you. This is your responsibility!
General Responsibility: You are responsible for attending
class, completing assignments and taking exams. If you feel as though you
cannot complete the requirements of the class in a satisfactory manner, it is
your responsibility to withdraw in a timely manner. Failure to do so will
result in a failing grade. Please accept this responsibility as yours, do not
blame me if you are not passing, and do not come to me at the end of the
semester asking for me to pass you or give you an incomplete if you do not
deserve it.
University deadlines:
April 1 (in person), April 3 (on-line): Course withdrawal deadlines
May 3: Restricted complete withdrawal deadline. This is the last day students
can withdraw from the university, i.e. from all classes simultaneously, with
marks of “W” (but only if certified as passing by the instructor).
PAPER ASSIGNMENT: 240 SOUTHEAST ASIA
Each student will write one 6-8 page term paper on a
topic of his or her choice. It is suggested, but not required, that students
choose a topic that reflects the academic discipline under which they have
enrolled, e.g. history, political science, anthropology, religious studies,
geography, or humanities. Consult the instructor for ideas, if necessary.
General:
In your papers, make use of any class readings that are helpful plus at least three outside sources (academic
books or articles). Search for additional sources on your own (see below);
when in doubt, however, consult with the instructor. The final paper should
include a bibliography, and footnotes where appropriate; when citing sources
(including the internet) please make sure that they are complete and in Turabian style (i.e. author, title, date, source). Use the footnote and bibliography forms described
in Kate Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations,
Dates:
Class #4, January 27: “Reconnaissance”
Each student must submit a (typewritten) page on January 27 with descriptions
of three books found (by foot!) in the library. This will not be graded but
must be done and will be checked off when completed. In order to introduce
students to the Southeast Asian sections of the library, I ask that students go
to the library and find a book from the general Southeast Asian section (the DS
section, not the Southeast Asian
language section) and two others from different sections (i.e. from the
political science section with a Southeast Asian subject). Browse the sections
and look for titles you find interesting or think would make a good paper
topic. Write a complete citation using Turabian
bibliographical style (you will use Turabian every
step of the way!), and a short (2-3 sentence) description of why you thought
the book was interesting. Describe the cover of the book so I know that you
didn’t just do this via the library’s web page. Come to class prepared to give
a brief description of one or more of your books and why you thought it was
interesting.
Class #7, February 8: Paper topic
Each student must submit a (typewritten) paper topic
proposal on February 8. The proposal can be as short as two or three sentences,
but should give a clear and focused description of the topic. Each topic must
be approved by the instructor. There are some topics that are not allowed, e.g.
the My Lai massacre, the “Death March” of
Class #14, March 3: Bibliography and refinement of paper topic
Each student will submit a (typewritten) bibliography
(using Turabian style) and a refined paper topic.
Each student, at this point, should have a clear idea of the thesis of his or
her paper and be able to articulate the thrust of his or her argument, based on
at least preliminary research into the subject.
Class #23, April 8: Last chance for drafts
Each student has the opportunity (before April 8) to
turn in a draft of his or her paper to the instructor for evaluation. The
instructor will make comments and corrections and return the paper to the
student. Students should only turn in a draft that is complete and reads as a paper; this exercise is designed to polish
the student’s paper. The draft will not be graded.
Class #25, April 14: Paper due.
Grading:
One hundred points are possible for the paper. Ten points will be given for
having the correct formalities (footnotes and bibliography in Turabian). Twenty points will be given for correct usage
(grammar, spelling, word choice and usage, sentence structure). Seventy points
will be awarded for content (facts, analysis, content).
Only the final paper will be assigned a grade, but a late submission of any of
the preliminary assignments (recon, paper topic, refined paper topic) will
result in the deduction of two points from the paper’s final grade. Late
assignments will only be accepted one week after their due date. Failure to
submit any of the preliminary assignments will result in the deduction of five
points (per item) from your final grade. For every class period that the paper
is late, a further five points will be deducted.