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Class number:
3271
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Title: The Silk Road |
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Department: First Year Sem & Colloq |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: Yes |
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Grading Basis: Graded |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 15 |
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Current enrollment: 15 |
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Available seats: 0 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 5, 2023 |
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End date: Thursday, December 21, 2023 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM, SH - N128 |
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Instructor(s): Hussain, Shafqat |
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Prerequisite(s): Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class. |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets FirstYr Seminar Requirement |
Course Description:
This course will examine the history and cultures of the Silk Road, a trade route stretching from China to Europe. For more than two thousand years, the Silk Road acted as a zone of cultural transmission and long-distance interaction between merchants, soldiers, pilgrims, and nomads of the Mediterranean and Asian regions. We will read about the early efforts by the Chinese Han dynasty to control the trade route, Marco Polo’s visit to the court of Kublai Khan, and political intrigue and machination between Russia, Britain and China during the “Great Game” in the nineteenth century. We will take an ethnographic and historical approach to the “region” by looking at cultural strategies of various ethnic communities who have thrived and perished on the Silk Road. |