Thailand

This course investigates significant events that shaped American society and formed the United States from the colonial period to the end of the Vietnam War. The course covers the impact of the colonial legacy on the American self-government and development of a democratic society, the American Revolution and Republican ideology, the Industrial Revolution and Sectionalism, the Civil War and the end of slavery, the rise of Big Business and Corporatism, the World Wars and American Society, the United States and world revolutions, the decline of the American Empire. 

This course covers the general principles of private international law, conflict of laws and private cases with international elements. The main contents are in civil and commercial matters, including those concerning procedural aspects, based on the Thai legal system.  

Prerequisite: Public International Law

This course provides an overview of excise taxes and custom taxes, personal income tax, and corporate income tax. Topics include value-added taxes, specific business taxes revenue stamp, land and building tax, and other related taxes collected by government agencies. The course discusses the societal responsibility of individuals and businesses in relation to taxation, and emphasis is placed upon taxation in relation to doing business in Thailand. 

This course covers general concepts about auditing, auditing standards, major components of assurance services and audit profession, Code of Ethics for auditors, audit quality management, audit planning, errors and fraud, assessment of audit risks and related audit strategies, materiality, tests of financial reporting controls, audit sampling, tests of control and substantive tests of major cycles and accounts, critical applications of a questioning mindset and evaluations of reasonable alternatives to reach well-reasoned conclusions and to form an opinion in the auditor's report. Prerequisite: Intermediate Accounting 1 and 2.

This course examines an aspect of Thai social life often overlooked although central to the everyday practical lives and visual experiences of Thais. The Buddha image presiding over the Vihara, or Ubosot of a temple, almost always has a name and a story connected to it. The belief and ritual practices surrounding the image make it a practically central component of the life of a Buddhist community.  

And yet such images have scarcely excited much interest beyond the descriptive art historical approach. This selected topic explores the Buddha Images of Thailand and evaluates the power that these images have over what it means to be a member of a community, of what it means to be Thai and what it means to exert power, how they connect the faithful not only with a Buddhist past in northern India but with histories of local communities and great kingdoms alike.  

Above all, Buddha Images of Thailand offers another way to view the landscape of Thailand as sacred geography or Buddhascape. Although an art historical approach is utilized, this course foregrounds and examines the social and political aspects of the image, placing it in its wider historical context.