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2013/14 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

EAST3706 The Making of Modern Southeast Asia

20 creditsClass Size: 40

Module manager: Dr Ian Caldwell
Email: i.caldwell@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2013/14

This module is approved as an Elective

Module summary

Module Convenor: Dr Ian Caldwell - i.a.caldwell@leeds.ac.uk Charts the transformation of autonomous states c.1800 to colonial societies c.1900 and in the mid-20th century to independent states through the lives of ten individuals, both Asian and European. For further details see Department of East Asian Studies website

Objectives

On completion of this module, students should be able to:

- Appreciate the important division between pre-modern and modern Southeast Asia and the impact that the Industrial Revolution and European colonization has had on this part of the world.
- Be able to evaluate and explain in detail the impact on Southeast Asian countries of Western expansion and control, and the indigenous responses.
- Understand the way in which modern Southeast Asian nations, deriving from nineteenth century colonial states, differ from states derived from indigenous ideas of power and space.
- Have a sound grasp of how modern states correlate to ethnic and cultural division on the mainland and in the archipelago.
- Understand how pre-modern patron-client relations underlie much of the nepotism and corruption prevalent in Southeast Asian societies.
- Demonstrate in written and spoken registers a detailed understanding of how European powers (and later the United States of America) were able to dominate this region after c.1800, following three hundred years of trade and engagement with Southeast Asia.

Skills outcomes
- Communication skills in an oral and written form
- Time management skills
- The ability to work independently and in a group
- The ability to gather, extract and present information
- The ability to present a reasoned and complex argument.

Syllabus

This module examines the origins of modern Southeast Asia as a consequence of the intrusion of Western powers into Southeast Asian political and cultural spheres after c.1780. It views the process of political change from autonomous states to colonial societies through the lives of individuals, both colonists and colonized, set against the backdrop of the age in which each lived. It shows how European powers sought to restructure Southeast Asian societies with the aim of providing Western industry with raw materials and serving as markets for manufactured goods, and how this led to the extension of European power into the region. It is argued that this was achieved as much by the superior conceptual and organizational abilities of the colonizing powers as by force of arms. The resulting social and economic change is viewed through the media of histories, memoirs, biography and literature.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lecture	10	1.00	10.00
Seminar	10	1.00	10.00
Private study hours			180.00
Total Contact hours			20.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Private study

Preparation for lectures and seminars, additional reading, preparation and writing of essays, exam preparation, self-study exercise.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Seminar participation and presentation
Contribution to weekly tutorial
Mid-term essay (assessed)

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
In-course Assessment	Seminar participation	10.00
Essay	1 x 2,500 word essay due in at the end of week 8	30.00
In-course Assessment	Tutorial participation	10.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		50.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Exams

Exam type	Exam duration	% of formal assessment
Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc)	2 hr 00 mins	50.00
Total percentage (Assessment Exams)		50.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 19/03/2014

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