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I was able to convince students to form a reference group in this class, and I know they met to discuss this class. However, I do not find an report attached here. Nonetheless, the students did meet with me and offered some feedback. In particular they were concerned that the amount of reading for this course was too heavy. I responded that I am writing a textbook for this course that should greatly reduce the number of pages and diversity of readings the students have to do, but that this would take some time. I also noted that I had, and would continue to look for ways to consolidate the amount of readings for this course.

By the end of the course students should understand the regional international politics of East Asia, and the centrality of this region in global politics. Specifically, they should understand the Sino-Centric Tributary system of international relations, how this was replaced by the Westphalian system of international relations as a result of the onslaught of western imperialism in the 19th century, the rise of imperial Japan and Asian nationalism in response, East Asia under bipolarity during the Cold War and how the rise of China and Japan undermined that bipolarity, the emergence of unipolarity after the Cold War, and the rise of China as a peer competitor of the US since 2008. he course also included review sessions that reviewed methodology for paper writing (e.g. hypothesis construction, using sources and avoiding plagiarism), and showed DVDs, including movies from the region, that highlighted key aspects of the material covered in class to make it more accessible to students. Teaching consisted of weekly lectures plus many review sessions.

Students were enthusiastic and asked more detailed and frequent questions than I had ever encountered in this class before. Some classes were carried over Zoom due to students being in quarantine one week and a rise of Covid cases toward the end of the semester. Otherwise classes were held in a large lecture hall with reduced capacity. The environment in the lecture hall was excellent, given the great student enthusiasm.

Students must submit an 8 page paper that addresses a topic specified by the instructor. Students who pass this exercise are qualified to sit for the final exam, which is the sole determinant of the final exam. The final exam was changed a bit due to the pandemic as it had to become a take home exam. the number of IDs students were required to answer was increased from 2 to 5 and students no longer could pick and chose their answers. They still had to answer one essay question as per previous years, but this year they were not given a choice of topics, as they were only given only one question that all students had to answer. This new test format produced a good range of answers in terms of content and quality, so I think this test format was successful.

NTNU:TIA:REST

Institutt for sosiologi og statsvitenskap

Department of Sociology and Political Science

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Engelsk

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Vurderingsform: 3 timers skriftlig eksamen. 

Forkunnskapskrav

Faglig innhold

Kurset fokuserer hovedsakelig på østasiatisk politikk og samfunn i tiden etter den kalde krigen, fremveksten av tekno-økonomisk dynamikk i Øst-Asia, den asiatiske finanskrisen i 1997-1998, fremveksten av regionale multilaterale institusjoner, Øst-Asia under unipolaritet og krigen mot terrorisme, fremveksten av Kina og dets komplekse forhold til Japan og USA og de østasiatiske landenes forhold til Europa. 

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Læringsformer og aktiviteter

Forelesning 2 timer per uke i hele semesteret og veiledning av semesteroppgave. I emnet skal det leveres en semesteroppgave. Det vil bli presentert en liste over temaer for semesteroppgaven. Lengde på semesteroppgaven: 3000 ord (8 sider tekst). Undervisningen gis på engelsk. 

Læringsutbytte

Kunnskapsmål - studenten skal:
-kjenne til politiske, økonomiske og samfunnsmessige trekk ved land i Øst-Asia i nyere tid
-kjenne til forholdet mellom stater innad i Øst-Asia, da særlig Kina og Japan, og mer generelt om forholdet mellom de østasiatiske statene og USA/ Europa.
Ferdighetsmål - studenten skal kunne:
-anvende teori til å belyse aktuelle problemstillinger innen østasiatisk politikk og samfunn og forholdet mellom landene og/ eller USA og Europa. 
-utvise selvstendighet i utarbeidelsen av en semesteroppgave som oppfyller kriteriene til vitenskapelig skriving.

Godkjent semesteroppgave

Øst-Asia: Internasjonal politikk

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