CAPS 4030 - Making Sense of China: The Capstone Seminar

(crosslisted) ASIAN 4435, GOVT 4037
(ALC-AS, GLC-AS) (CA-AG, LA-AG) (CU-UGR)

Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

A. Carlson.

This course serves as a survey of major issues within Chinese politics and foreign policy and constitutes the capstone seminar for CAPS students. It is intended to give students an opportunity to explore aspects related to Chinese politics, economics, and society that they may have touched upon in other China-focused courses at Cornell, but have not been able to examine as fully, and with the degree of care, that they would like. In this regard, the substance of the course will be developed through an iterative process between the instructor and the seminar participants. We will spend the first part of the course doing a series of recent influential readings on contemporary China and developing initial research projects. The second half of the class will be organized around student led presentations of research projects (accompanied by relevant academic, media, and policy readings).