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Browse featured courses offered in Fall 2023:Introduction to Champa and Khmer History
This course offers an introduction to Champa and Cambodian history. As Vietnam, Cambodia and Champa histories are inextricably linked, this course seeks to give students an overview of the history, kingship, society of the two Hindu-Buddhist kingdoms of Champa and Cambodia. It will also highlights their major political, social and religious changes. This introduction to […]
Digital Humanities in Vietnam Studies Contexts I (in collaboration with VinUni)
An interdisciplinary field, Digital Humanities (hereafter DH) has world-widely shown its effectiveness and efficiency of the cooperation between the humanities (and social sciences) and computer science, opening new possibilities for innovate research based on big-data. In Vietnam, several intriguing projects founded on DH applications have been carried out by Vietnamese museums, cultural heritage preservation offices, […]
The Challenge of Change: Civil Society and Social Movements in Vietnam
This course provides an overview of theoretical and empirical research on social movements contextualized in Vietnam. It seeks to examine different theoretical perspectives on social movements and meanwhile exposes students to empirical studies of movements across the world, in both democratic and non-democratic states, with an emphasis on Vietnam. The key questions we will examine […]
The Legacy of the War in Retrospect I (in collaboration with University of Utah)
Wars are dramatic, transformational events, locally and on the global geopolitical stage. They create violence and upheaval that end, and upend, the lives of combatants and noncombatants alike. They displace refugees, send soldiers into harm’s way, traumatize soldiers and civilians. Wars redirect massive resources toward military mobilization and weaponry. They create camaraderie with allies and […]
What Movies Show and Don’t Show: Film Adaptations in Asian Contexts
Adaptation studies from literature to cinema have many apparent changes in the context of postmodernism. Based on the complexity of the theories such as intertextuality, translation studies, cultural studies, deconstruction, and reception theory, adaptation studies allow audiences to consider the film adaptations as independent films with respective creativities of filmmakers by their cinematic language. Because […]
Developing Vietnam (in collaboration with Dartmouth College)
The connected course “Developing Vietnam” is unique in many aspects. It is the first undergraduate seminar course ever taught at Fulbright University Vietnam. More importantly, it is a connected course that involves several different kinds of connections. These include: • Connections between two universities: Fulbright and Dartmouth • Connections between Fulbright students and Dartmouth students […]
Contending Theories of International Relations: A Comprehensive View of Vietnam and the World
This course brings together International Relations theory and real-world Vietnamese foreign policy decisions and outcomes. The primary goal is to give students conceptual and critical tools to understand and analyze how theories of international relations, Vietnamese foreign policy outcomes, and current political events fit together. The course pays attention to the application of international relations […]
Sources for Vietnamese and Southeast Asian History
This course features a survey of Vietnamese and Southeast historical traditions. Students will be introduced to Southeast Asian approaches to not only recording but also dealing with the past to orient people of the present. Lectures will feature the main mediums used to reconstruct history in Vietnam and in Southeast Asia such as stone and […]
Introduction to Visual Studies
Images function as both a practical artistic medium (in advertisements for example) but also as something to be aesthetically enjoyed. They can also serve as a medium for social change as images can spread awareness about important issues and, in the digital age, reach huge numbers of people regardless of the language they speak. To […]
Video and Film Production
This video and film production course will introduce students to the basic elements of recording and combining image and sound using various kinds of digital equipment. We will also explore important technical and theoretical concepts associated with the moving image, such as editing, dialectic, representation, and protest. We will cover basic narrative structure and script […]
Introduction to Film History and Theory
How do movies “work” on us as spectators and how do they engage with the societies and historial moments in which they are produced? To begin to answer this question, this course provides an introduction to the basics of film studies, including film history and film theory. Particular attention will be paid to international film […]
Dance and Performance Production
This course will introduce students to both the theoretical and practical fundamentals of dance, and the ways in which dance performances are produced. In addition, we will study selected topics in the history of dance, both in its local and international aspects, and the impact of dance within Vietnam and beyond in the 21st century. […]
