Course Description

You will write one eight to ten-page paper (double-spaced, 12-point font) analyzing themes in course materials and connection to outside materials.

I’ll attach the abstract but i want a narrow focus on subject of topic. We’re specifying looking at malaria in the course, in southeast Asia. Please refer to class readings and topics occisonal throughout.

Course Description

Description

In this course, we approach science, medicine, conservation, development, and statecraft in Southeast Asia as experiments in world-making. Case studies illuminate theoretical concepts, a country or region, inter-Asian and global connections, and a current topic in global health, environmental sciences, or development. Southeast Asia’s particular histories of colonization, decolonization, environmental change, and biomedical innovation make it a unique and important place to study experiments past, present, and future.

The case study on malaria drug resistance in Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar considers political and geographic histories of borders and anthropological studies of drugs to understand the emergence of resistance and new global health experiments with village-based malaria elimination. The case study on conservation projects in Malaysia and Indonesia explores how species are known through science, and what it is to living together with nonhuman animals

The course provides the opportunity for students studying Khmer, Thai, Burmese, and Vietnamese to connect language learning with historical and contemporary issues in countries where those languages are majority. This could involve emphasizing the importance of local terms for concepts and conditions that do not translate smoothly into English. In coordination with language instructors, you may submit coursework in the language you are studying (or already know, by virtue of being a native speaker). These details need to be agreed upon me before the end of Week Two