Santa Cruz,
CA,
United States
Type
Public
Degrees offered
Bachelor's Degree
The Asia and Pacific concentrationwhich encompasses East, South, and Central Asia along with the Pacific and the Indian Oceanoffers students the opportunity to explore gender, class, race, and ethnicity through the examination of premodern and modern empires and nations, their borders and peripheries, and their flows of people, materials, and ideas. Major topics of focus include the early modern and modern eras, Western and Japanese imperialisms, labor and other major social movements, socialist transformations, and cultural, intellectual, and science history.