EASIA 100RIntroduction to East Asia

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• EASIA 100R was a fully asynchronous online course with no live lectures or Zoom meetings. All content was delivered through weekly modules that included readings, videos, and structured material focused on East Asian societies, including China (mainland and offshore), Japan, Korea (North and South), and Mongolia. Topics covered history, geography, political systems, governance, population, culture, religion, and past empires and regimes.
  The content itself was engaging and useful if you’re interested in world history, politics, and geography. The information provided is foundational and important for understanding East Asia on a global scale. The course assessments were heavily…

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• simple just a few tests you really have to keep up with going through the lectures its a lot of material sometimes.

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• This course honestly kinda sucked. I took it online. Although it may have been kinda useful in the sense that you got to learn about Asian history, there wasn't many ways of delivering content. There were a TON of readings, and the quizzes were based off of them. I had to write 3 Asian movie reviews which were the best part about the course.

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• Basically just an overview of the major countries in East Asia: China, Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia (which was treated as one country in this course). My prof was Chinese, so he spent the most time talking about China, though I don't know if that's actually because he was Chinese, or if China just has more history to talk about. In any case, we spent 4 weeks on China, 2 weeks each on Korea and Japan, then 1 week on Southeast Asia. We covered culture and history and stuff like that. I feel like I learned a few things, and the assignments/quizzes were not that hard. You just have to attend class, since the quizzes test material learned on the same day. Midterm and final can be studied off of…

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• I took the online version. It was pretty easy and I highly recommend it as a language breadth requirement, especially as a person who struggles with learning new languages, as this course requires no actual "new language learning" as such, and is only focused on the history and geopolitics of different South Asian countries.
  The professor's modules were pretty well written, and as long as you read them well, the tests and assignments are pretty easy. We learn about different countries in Asia- China, Japan and Korea, and at the end of each module we had to watch an assigned movie about each country and write an essay on it based on what you learned in the module.
  The test timings were a…

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