This course offers an opportunity for students to examine contemporary issues of Southeast Asia, and to pursue a research or topic of their specific interest. The course will focus on students' selected interests and take on an interdisciplinary approach.
Some highly relevant topics in today's world could include ASEAN regionalism; education as soft power, ethnicity and religion in multicultural and multireligious Southeast Asia; Japan/China and Southeast Asia in the 21st Century; media, technology, and society; climate change and energy transitions; external powers and regional security.