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ASH 2270: Southeast Asian History Dr. William Cummings Spring 2011 Office Hours: M 4:30 – 6:00 in SOC 210 MW 3:05 – 4:20 tel: 974-1087 CPR 115 email: wcummings@usf.edu

Course Description

This course examines the origins and development of Southeast Asian history over the past two millennia. Southeast Asia is comprised of Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, the Philippines, and (most recently) East Timor. This course focuses in particular on the connections between cultural factors and social and political developments. From this perspective, the predominant theme in Southeast Asian history is the transformation of small communities into modern states and the factors that facilitated this process.

Tomb of Shaykh Yusuf in Makassar, Indonesia in the 1920s. Image courtesy of KITLV.

Course Objectives and Outcomes

Here are the course objectives: students completing this course will 1) understand the historical dynamics that facilitated the growth of Southeast Asian states; 2) understand how cultural, social, political, and economic factors combine to produce distinctive cultural regions and

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values; 3) understand that history is a dynamic process marked by causation; 4) develop critical thinking abilities such as comparison, evaluation, and analysis. Here are the anticipated learning outcomes: students completing this course will be able to 1) identify major figures, events, and developments in Southeast Asian history; 2) summarize the forces that have shaped the main trends in Southeast Asian history; 3) compare the historical trajectories of mainland and island states and civilizations; 4) analyze textual, material, and other forms of historical evidence; 5) evaluate arguments that historians have offered to explain the course of Southeast Asian history.

Required Readings

You will need to purchase the following two books, listed in order of use, available at the USF book store and other locations:

1. Mary Somers Heidhues. Southeast Asia: A Concise History. London: Thames & Hudson, 2000.

2. Anthony Reid. Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce 1450-1680. Volume 1: The Land Below the Winds. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.

Course Outline

This course is designed as a blended class, which means that it combines traditional face-to-face class meetings with online tutorials and assignments. Generally, each week of the course comprises a unit that has four elements: (1) a reading quiz that you complete online; (2) a face-to-face film, discussion, and assignment session each Monday in class; (3) a virtual lecture that is available in the Lectures section of Blackboard beginning immediately after Monday’s class – note that all online activities are marked in italics and all regular classroom activities marked in regular type below; (4) a discussion board for questions about the virtual lecture that is available after Monday’s class and that you should participate in after you have completed the virtual lecture. Please be aware that the schedule is subject to change. All changes will be announced in class. Week 1 – Course Introduction Assignment 1. Jan 10 What is Southeast Asia, Anyway? 2. Jan 12 Blackboard virtual introductions Week 2 – Southeast Asian Culture Assignment 3. Jan 17 [MLK Day – no class] 4. Jan 19 “The Goddess and the Computer” Week 3 – A Southeast Asian Voyage Assignment 5. Jan 24 “Spice Island Saga” Quiz #1 on Heidhues

Introduction and ch. 1 & 2 6. Jan 26 virtual lecture 1: The Land Below the Winds Discussion Board 1

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Week 4 – Island Empires Assignment 7. Jan 31 Analyzing Historical Evidence Geography quiz in class 8. Feb 2 virtual lecture 2: Sriviyaja Discussion Board 2 Week 5 – Mainland Empires Assignment 9. Feb 7 “Dance of the Warriors” Quiz #2 on Reid ch. 1 10. Feb 9 virtual lecture 3: Angkor Discussion Board 3 Week 6 – The Mainland After Angkor Assignment 11. Feb 14 “East of Krakatoa” Quiz #3 on Reid ch. 2 12. Feb 16 virtual lecture 4: Nam Viet Discussion Board 4 Week 7 – The Island World After Srivijaya Assignment 13. Feb 21 “Dream Wanderers of Borneo” Quiz #4 on Reid ch. 3 14. Feb 23 virtual lecture 5: Majapahit & Mataram Discussion Board 5 Week 8 – Major Themes in Southeast Asian History Assignment 15. Feb 28 [no class] Quiz #5 on Reid ch. 4 16. Mar 2 virtual lecture 6: World Religions in Southeast

Asia Discussion Board 6

Week 9 – Europeans and Colonialism Assignment 17. Mar 7 “Islam: Empire of Faith” Quiz #6 on Reid ch. 5 and

Heidhues ch. 3 18. Mar 9 virtual lecture 7: Colonial Philippines

** Spring Break ** Week 10 – Southeast Asians and colonialism Assignment 19. Mar 21 Colonialism in SE Asia: Terms and Concepts Quiz #7 on Heidhues ch. 4 20. Mar 23 virtual lecture 8: Siam Discussion Board 7 Week 11 – Creating Colonial Regimes Assignment 21. Mar 28 “Indochine” & Colonialism part I 22. Mar 30 virtual lecture 9: Making the Dutch East Indies Discussion Board 8 Week 12 – Confronting Colonial Rule Assignment 23. Apr 4 “Indochine” & Colonialism part II Quiz #8 on Heidhues ch. 5 24. Apr 6 virtual lecture 10: WWII and the Japanese

Occupation Discussion Board 9

Week 13 – Nation Building and Revolution Assignment 25. Apr 11 “Indochine” & Colonialism part III Quiz #9 on Heidhues ch. 6 26. Apr 13 virtual lecture 11: Modern Indonesia Discussion Board 10 Week 14 – Modern Southeast Asia Assignment

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27. Apr 18 Tsunamis, Terrorism, and Other Challenges Quiz #10 on Heidhues ch. 7 28. Apr 20 virtual lecture 12: Terrorist Networks in

Southeast Asia Discussion Board 11

Week 15 – Review and Papers Assignment 29. Apr 25 21st-Century Southeast Asia 30. Apr 27 Final Paper Questions? Final papers due by Friday

April 29th at 5 PM!

Grading

Your grade in this course will come from the following assignments:

Geography Quiz 20 points Online Quizzes Discussion Board Participation

10 @ 10 points each 30 points

Final Paper 50 points

Total = 200 points All quizzes must be completed online by the beginning of class. No make-up exams or quizzes will be offered. Final grades will be determined using a +/- point scale in which (for example) 89-87 is a B+, 86-83 is a B, 82-80 is a B-, et cetera.

Assignments

Geography Quiz – It is always a good idea to know where things are, especially when discussing the history of a region with which very few students are familiar. Your Geography Quiz will ask you to correctly locate fifteen to twenty items selected from the list below. Some of the items can be found in maps in Heidhues’ Southeast Asia: A Concise History and in Reid’s Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce. Other items will require you to locate maps online or in the library. A modern political map of Southeast Asia is available in the Maps section of Blackboard, as are two historical maps from the Cambridge History of Southeast Asia vol 1. You will also find a blank map there for you to make study maps. It is a good idea to make copies of the blank map provided and use multiple maps instead of trying to cram every item on a single map. To help you master the basics of Southeast Asian historical geography, there is a series of map exercises online in the Maps section of Blackboard. 1 boundaries of the ten countries that comprise Southeast Asia: Burma, Thailand, Cambodia,

Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, Philippines. 2 capital cities of the ten countries that comprise Southeast Asia listed above. 3 boundary of Timor, which has recently become the eleventh nation in the region. 4 non-capital cities: Ho Chi Minh City, Chiang Mai, Mandalay, Surabaya, Yogyakarta

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5 rivers: Irrawaddy, Salween, Chao Phraya, Mekong 6 islands: Sumatra, Java, Bali, Borneo, Sulawesi, Mindanao, Luzon 7 seas and waterways: South China Sea, Java Sea, Gulf of Thailand, Banda Sea, Indian Ocean,

Sunda Strait, Makassar Strait, Straits of Melaka, Tonle Sap 8 centers of the following historical kingdoms: Srivijaya, Angkor, Sukhothai, Ayudhya, Pagan,

Mataram, Melaka, Aceh Online Quizzes – There are 10 reading quizzes during this semester, each worth 10 points. Each quiz will be available in the Exams section of Blackboard from noon Thursday until noon Monday on a given week. The quizzes will be multiple choice and can be taken online at any time during this 4 day window. You can only take them once. Once you begin a quiz you have 15 minutes to finish; for each minute or portion thereof that you take over 15 minutes 1 point will be deducted from your final score. Questions are generated randomly from pools of questions and appear in random order. Each quiz will have 10 questions. Students who do not take the quiz online will not be able to make it up, so it is absolutely vital that you give yourself plenty of time to get to a reliable computer (labs on campus are best) during the allotted time. Each quiz covers assigned reading and has two purposes: 1) to ensure that students have read the material and know the main points of the reading; 2) to provide the foundation for class discussion and activities each Monday. Discussion Board Participation – There are 11 sets of discussion boards during the semester. The prompts typically ask you to integrate or think about connections between the material viewed and discussed in class on Monday, the virtual lecture, and the assigned reading. This is the main place where you demonstrate your analytical skills, so it is critical. You will receive a final, holistic grade on your overall participation at the end of the semester, and it will be calculated according to the following rubric:

30 points = Made at least 1 substantive post and 1 substantive response every week 25 points = Made at least 1 substantive post and 1 substantive response most weeks 20 points = Made at least 1 substantive post or 1 substantive response every week 15 points = Made at least 1 substantive post or 1 substantive response most weeks 0 points = Failed to contribute consistently in a substantive way to weekly discussions

So what is a “substantive” post or response? This is subjective, but a post that “has substance” is a meaningful effort to answer a question, contribute to a discussion, add commentary, or present a thoughtful response to another post. A post “without substance” is one that is off-topic, not based on the material, or is simply a comment of the “I agree” sort. What is the goal of the discussion boards? Obviously the main answer is that it is to help you better understand the material and to prepare you to do better on quizzes and exams. But a second goal is to get you to engage each other in (asynchronous) conversation about the course content. This means that I am primarily going to monitor the discussions rather than be a main contributor. Students need to ask and answer each other’s questions and engage in back-and-forth dialogue with each other. Don’t expect me to respond all the time! Students who do this, as the rubric above indicates, will receive the best grades.

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When do I need to post each week? Your substantive post must be posted by Saturday at midnight EST. All postings each week must be complete by Sunday at midnight EST. Final Paper – Your main synthetic assignment in this course is a 5-7 page paper (Times New Roman 12 point font, 1” margins on all sides, double-spaced, no title page or bibliography) that responds the following prompt: Which of following processes has had the greatest impact on Southeast Asian history: Indianization, conversion to world religions, or colonialism? This paper is due on Friday of the last week of class. It should be based entirely on the videos, virtual lectures, discussion boards, readings, and class discussions. You may not use any outside sources for your paper (in other words, no Wikipedia, no cutting-and-pasting from websites, etc). The paper is to be based entirely on the material from this course. Your paper will be graded on how well it does the following:

• Creates a clear argument with accompanying thesis statement • Supports this thesis statement with appropriate and relevant evidence • Gives key historical examples that illustrate your argument • Compares how Reid, Heidhues, Cummings, and possibly other scholars from class

videos assess the historical impact of these three processes We will discuss the paper toward the end of the semester in class once you have some familiarity with the material, so don’t panic! Your paper will be submitted online through Blackboard to a plagiarism detection service. Any student who commits plagiarism will receive a grade of F or FF for the course (see the statement on Academic Dishonesty below). You have been warned!

Course Policies

Blackboard – This course relies heavily on Blackboard. Except for the geography quiz, all quizzes will be on Blackboard. The Virtual Lectures also run in Blackboard. Finally, I will periodically send out important information and reminders via email. You are responsible for checking your email regularly. Blackboard automatically sends email to your official USF email account, and this is the account that will be used in this course. Student Responsibilities – Students are expected to be on time for each class meeting, to come to class fully prepared and with the assigned reading finished, and to help ensure that the classroom is a friendly, courteous, and collegial learning environment. Any student who fails to meet these standards can be penalized 5 points at the instructor's discretion for each instance. Selling lectures and lecture notes is forbidden. Attendance – Attendance is mandatory in a blended course of this nature. Roll will be taken frequently, and any student not present when roll is taken will be marked absent. Your final grade will be lowered 5 points for every absence after the first. There are no excused absences. I do not require notes or explanations for missed classes. You are all adults, so please choose wisely! Furthermore, neither arriving late nor leaving class early is permitted.

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Cell Phones, Beepers, & Pagers – Turn them off or put them on silent mode. Period. If you forget and your cell phone rings during class, turn it off. Do not answer it under any circumstances!! Laptop Computers & PDAs – Because they are a distraction to others and because of the tendency to play games, check email, and so forth, these cannot be used in class. Academic Dishonesty – Be very careful that you do not commit any form of academic dishonesty. You are responsible for knowing what this entails! See the current USF Undergraduate Catalog for more details about this serious offence. Any student discovered to have committed academic dishonesty will automatically receive either an F or a FF (a grade which indicates failure due to academic dishonesty and which cannot be removed from your record) for the course. You may find it helpful to view the following plagiarism tutorial: http://www.cte.usf.edu/plagiarism/plagindex.html. Any questions about plagiarism can also be addressed to me! Disabilities – The Student Disability Services Office coordinates auxiliary learning aid and other assistance to eligible students with disabilities. Students in need of academic accommodations for a disability may consult with the office of Services for Students with Disabilities to arrange appropriate accommodations. Students are required to give reasonable notice (5 working days) prior to requesting an accommodation. The office is located in SVC 1133; their website with other contact information is http://www.sds.usf.edu/.