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HIST 388 - Pacific Isles Since 1600

The islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia from earliest Euro-American contacts to the present. Emphasis on early cultural encounters and their effects on island peoples, the changing aims and perceptions of outsiders (explorers, missionaries, colonizers, authors, artists, and seekers of paradise), postcolonialism, and the contemporary issues facing island peoples. Emphasis on the Pacific as mythic realm and troubled reality.

Credits: 3