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Aug 31, 2024
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College Catalog 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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HIST 378 - War Crimes and Memory in East AsiaCross-Listed as ASIA 378 This course’s main goal is to introduce evidence of the major crimes and atrocities during World War II in East Asia such as the Nanjing Massacre, biochemical warfare (Unit 731), the military sexual slavery (“comfort women”) system, the forced labor system, and inhumane treatment of POWs. The course will also help students understand the contemporary geo-political and socio-economic forces that affect how East Asians and Westerners collectively remember and reconstruct World War II. Meets global and/or comparative history requirement. Offered occasionally. (4 Credits)
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