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HIS 227 and PSC 227
POWER AND AUTHORITY IN
NONWESTERN SOCIETIES


WHAT'S NEW on the WEB SITE

The items listed below have recently been altered in some significant way or have been added to the site.

  • NOTE IMPORTANT CHANGE: The final assignment in the course, Assignment 4, has been changed.  Please print the new version.
  • It is no longer in two parts.  The homework due on April 25 will no longer count as 50% of the paper grade.  It will be evaluated as one of the homework assignments for this section of the course.  This is due to the fact that Dr Charlick found that the assignment was too difficult for many of the students and did not want to penalize them on the final paper. 
  • The newly formulated essay question for assignment four is found at this link: POWER and AUTHORITY: PAPER FOUR
  • A second day of  introductory material on the practice of medicine among the Hausa has been added to the third section of the course schedule with subsequent adjustments in the scheduling of the fourth part of the course (including the due date for Essay Three, now listed as Wednesday, April 2, 2003). (Sunday, March 16, 2003)
  • Essay Assignment Three on Anne Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down has been uploaded to the course web site. (Tuesday, March 11, 2003)

  • Changes in the course schedule involving the final two units have been made: "Looking at the Impact of 'Power' and 'Authority' on the Practice of Medicine" now begins Friday, March 21, 2003 while "Power, Authority and Identity in Hausa Culture" starts Monday, March 31, 2003. (Tuesday, March 11, 2003)

  • The final three assignments for March 5th, 7th and 17th as well as a revamped Masami Teraoka web assignment page have been added to the web site. (Tuesday, March 4, 2003)

  • Essay Assignment Two (due Wednesday, March 19, 2003) has been uploaded to the course web site. (Sunday, March 2, 2003)

  • Class assignments through the end of February and into early March have been added to the web site. (Tuesday, February 13, 2003)

  • To accomodate the recent disruption in the instructors' access to appropriate classroom technology, an online version of some of the material scheduled to be discussed in class has been reformatted so that it can be accessed over the Internet. A web version of "Some Moonviewing Poetry" and the accompanying written assignment for Wednesday, February 19, 2003, have therefore been uploaded to the course web site for your perusal. (Tuesday, February 13, 2003)

  • A reference to a newly-discovered web article, Keith Giles' '"Nut in the Shell: Manga Nation" (from the Slush Factory web site) has been added to the course schedule for Friday, February 14, 2003. (Friday, Febraury 7, 2003)

  • Assignments have been added to the course material being covered as outlined in the portion of the course schedule dealing with "POWER" AND "AUTHORITY" AS A CULTURAL CONSTRUCT IN JAPAN through Monday, February 17, 2003. (Monday, February 3, 2003)

  • The DUE DATE for Essay Assignment One has been changed from Wednesday, February 5, 2003 to Monday, February 10, 2003. In connection with that change, a new assignment for Wednesday, February 5, 2003 has been added to the course schedule for that date. (Monday, February 3, 2003)

  • An extended explanation of the use of GET OUT OF HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT FREE coupons has been uploaded to the web site. (Monday, February 3, 2003)

  • A revised version of the reading "Chapter One: Introduction" from T. Fujitani's Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pagentry in Modern Japan, pp. 1 - 18, will be available on Electronic Reserve by late on the afternoon of Monday, February 3, 2003.

    NOTE: Late Assignment Seven submissions will be accepted until 1:30 p.m. on Friday, February 7, 2003; coupons submitted on Friday, January 31, 2003 will be returned for later use to those students who originally submitted them on that date because of the problems being experienced with printing out the day’s reading assignment.

    (Monday, February 3, 2003)

  • Essay Assignment One has been uploaded to the web site. Be sure to look at the ESSAY EVALUATION STANDARDS and STYLE SHEET links associated with the assignment. Also note that this assignment is significantly different from that assigned in 2000 (which some students have inadvertently downloaded from the earlier course web site). (Friday, January 31, 2003)

  • set of homework evaluation standards has been placed on the web site to guide your assignment preparation tasks. (Wednesday, January 22, 2003)

  • An updated and revised version of the course style sheet (based on that issued by the Department of History) has been uploaded to the web site. (Wednesday, January 22, 2003)

  • An incorrect link to the Department of History Style Sheet on the ASSIGNMENT web page has been corrected. (Tuesday, January 14, 2003)

  • A change has been made in the slide show to be viewed for Wednesday, January 22, 2003. The original link to the Niger / Hausa slides has been replaced by one to the Third World Slide Show. (Tuesday, January 14, 2003)

  • A set of ASSUMPTIONS AND EXPECTATIONS has been added to the SYLLABUS; be sure to review these and then contact Dr. Makela by email indicating your acceptance of these conditions. (Tuesday, January 14, 2003)
This site has been prepared by Lee A. Makela (l.makela@csuohio.edu) and Robert Charlick (r.charlick@csuohio.edu) for the use of students enrolled in HIS 227 and PSC 227, Power and Authority in Nonwestern Societies, at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, during the Spring Semester of the 2002 - 2003 Academic Year; please contact them with any comments. 
last revised: April 27, 2003