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HUMA 1845: Buddhism and Asian Cultures
HUMA 1845: Buddhism and Asian Cultures
Semester: year-long
Semester: year-long
Offered: 2023-2024
Offered: 2023-2024
HUMA 1846: South Asian Arts and Cultures
HUMA 1846: South Asian Arts and Cultures
Semester: year-long
Semester: year-long
Offered: 2021-2022
Offered: 2021-2022
Political Theory
Political Theory
Semester: Spring
Institution: Yangon University
Semester: Spring
Institution: Yangon University
Offered: 2019
Course Description: This course introduces major debates about nationalism, identity, and political power, with a focus on postcolonial contexts and Burma/Myanmar. Through readings by Anderson, Chatterjee, Kymlicka, Shohat, and others, students explore how nations are imagined, how colonial legacies shape politics, and how states manage diversity and conflict. Key themes include citizenship, legitimacy, democracy, multiculturalism, and the ethics of belonging. The course equips students with core conceptual tools to critically analyze modern states and the politics of identity.
Offered: 2019
Course Description: This course introduces major debates about nationalism, identity, and political power, with a focus on postcolonial contexts and Burma/Myanmar. Through readings by Anderson, Chatterjee, Kymlicka, Shohat, and others, students explore how nations are imagined, how colonial legacies shape politics, and how states manage diversity and conflict. Key themes include citizenship, legitimacy, democracy, multiculturalism, and the ethics of belonging. The course equips students with core conceptual tools to critically analyze modern states and the politics of identity.
Contemporary Political Thoughts
Contemporary Political Thoughts
Semester: Spring
Institution: Yangon University
Semester: Spring
Institution: Yangon University
Offered: 2019
Course Descriptions: The aim of this course is to introduce contemporary political philosophy or in other words how a political system ought to operate. Focusing on important concepts in political philosophy such as political legitimacy, political obligation, justice and democracy, the course will try to raise important questions such as when and how political institutions have authority or legitimacy to obey, abide by, or follow by people; what is justice in a society; what is a fair redistribution; if equality is an important political value; how political institutions can be justified; how democracy has fulfilled or not the aforementioned values; how modern political systems accommodate diversity and identity, etc. The ultimate goal of the course is to provide students with theoretical musculature to think further about politics.
Offered: 2019
Course Descriptions: The aim of this course is to introduce contemporary political philosophy or in other words how a political system ought to operate. Focusing on important concepts in political philosophy such as political legitimacy, political obligation, justice and democracy, the course will try to raise important questions such as when and how political institutions have authority or legitimacy to obey, abide by, or follow by people; what is justice in a society; what is a fair redistribution; if equality is an important political value; how political institutions can be justified; how democracy has fulfilled or not the aforementioned values; how modern political systems accommodate diversity and identity, etc. The ultimate goal of the course is to provide students with theoretical musculature to think further about politics.
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