Essay Questions: Answer ONLY ONE question to the best of your abilities. Your essay should be concise and coherent. It should demonstrate a familiarity with the readings, films, and lectures, and an ability to analyze and synthesize them in the course of articulating a cogent answer. Your essay should be typed, properly cited, double-spaced, and 5-pages long. (Use MLA or Chicago Manual for citations.) Late examinations may be accepted but will be penalized a full grade point per day. Your essay will be graded based on i) clarity of analysis, ii) germane use of examples, and iii) thoughtfulness of comments. Make sure you edit your essay before submission.

1. “While the blatantly racist orientalism of the high colonial period has softened, more subtle orientalist ideologies endure in contemporary politics.” What does this statement mean? Write a well-organized essay using concrete examples from the readings (both primary and secondary sources), films, and documentary.

2. Congratulations! You have been selected to give a public lecture on North Korea. The audience will tend to subscribe to the US media’s portrayal of North Korea and its leaders as lacking rationality. Write a well-organized lecture outlining the evolution of North Korean diplomacy since the 1950s that gives a historically informed interpretation of the country and its foreign relations. Make sure to use concrete examples from the readings.

Academic Honesty
Academic dishonesty will be treated as an extremely serious matter, with serious consequences that can range from receiving no credit for assignments/tests to expulsion. It is never permissible to turn in any work that has been copied from another student or copied from a source (including Internet) without properly acknowledging the source.