#4 - STUDY HISTORY WHERE IT HAPPENED


Most history courses at UCR do their best to transport you to other times and places where history happened. In this course, half of the ten scheduled history lectures are "walking lectures". They take place at the sites where the history happened: the streets of Hue for the Tet Offensive, a mountain valley town for a study on war and postwar life in the highlands, pagodas where Zen travelers stayed in the 18th century, etc. Have a chance to read historic sources and then compare them to the real thing.


Read about a trip with a famous VN ecologist to a former US Special Forces 
base in the mountain village A Luoi.


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