HIST285

East Asian Civilization II

A survey of the historical development of modern Asia since 1700. Primarily concerned with the efforts of East Asians to preserve their traditional cultures in the face of Western expansion in the 18th and 19th centuries, and their attempts to survive as nations in the 20th century.

Spring 2026

Melinda Baldwin

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Emily Matson

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Spring 2025

Deokhyo Choi

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Past Semesters

Yujie Li

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Zhongtian Han

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Average rating: 5.00

Huiying Chen

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James Gao

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Average rating: 4.00

Charles Lilley

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Dewen Zhang

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Include P/F semesters During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 2.99 between 542 students*

A-: 21.77%

A: 17.16%

A+: 2.21%

B-: 8.86%

B: 12.73%

B+: 16.05%

C-: 2.03%

C: 2.4%

C+: 4.8%

D-: 0.18%

D: 1.85%

D+: 0.37%

F: 2.77%

W: 5.35%

other: 1.48%

* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.