Pacific & Asian History courses

The College of Asian & the Pacific offers a suite of courses in Asian and Pacific History covering developments in a wide range of these societies from early times to the recent past. These courses provides student with grounding in the course of history in a variety of Asian and Pacific societies and provide an empirical basis for the comparative analysis of historical and contemporary developments in the Asia-Pacific region and the rest of the world. The programme trains students in techniques of source criticism and document analysis, instructs them in the marshalling of evidence for the development of analysis and argument, develops their skills in narrative analysis and in applying social science theory to past societies that differ greatly from the western context in which most such theories were developed. The programme assists them to analyse the social and cultural uses to which history-writing and historical memory are put and develops an understanding of the historical traditions of Asian and Pacific societies.