Lee A. Makela's TEACHING ABOUT EAST ASIA LINKS page

CURRENT
COURSE WEB SITES

HIS 195,
INTRODUCTION TO EAST ASIAN HISTORY

SPRING SEMESTER 2009

TEACHING ABOUT EAST ASIA

garden screen, Bizen, Okayama (1999)
Among all the Internet web-based projects with which I have been involved since 1995, I am proudest of an ongoing project that continues to evolve, an annotated listing of those web locations that have something to teach about Japanese history and/or culture -- I call the web site "Teaching (and Learning) About Japan".

In August 1999 the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) selected this project as one of the thirty best educational web sites for 1999. As a result the site is now listed among the NEH EDSITEment "Best of the Humanities" web sites recommended to educators throughout cyberspace!

Among the various links found on "...About Japan" are several tied to another project I also am involved with, the on-going development of a visual literacy exercise and an associated set of on-line visual resources for the study of Japanese culture and history.

Beginning with the Fall Quarter 1997 I have worked to place my basic course materials online. The following lists the various course web sites that have resulted (most recent course offerings listed first):

HIS 272H, Cultural Interactions: Japan (Spring Semester 2008)
HIS 372 / 572, The History of Early Modern Japan (Spring Semester 2008)
HIS 374 / 574, Revolutionary Movements in Modern China (Spring Semester 2007)
HIS 371 / 571, The History of Japan (Spring Semester 2007)
HIS 272H, Cultural Interactions: Japan (Spring Semester 2006)
HIS 372, The Hisory of Early Modern Japan (Spring Semester 2006)
HIS 371, The History of Japan (Fall Semester 2005)
HIS 373, Contemporary Japan in Historical Perspective (Fall Semester 2005)
HIS 370, Summer Workshop for Teachers (Summer Semester 2005)
HIS 227, Power and Authority in Nonwestern Societies (Spring Semester 2005)
HIS 372, The Hisory of Early Modern Japan (Spring Semester 2005)
HIS 371 / 571, The History of Japan (Fall Semester 2004)
HIS 374 / 574, Revolutionary Movements in Modern China (Fall Semester 2004)
HIS 370, Summer Workshop for Teachers (Summer Semester 2004)
HIS 373 / 573, Contemporary Japan in Historical Perspective (Spring Semester 2004)
HIS 374 / 574, Revolutionary Movements in Modern China (Spring Semester 2004)
HIS 227, Power and Authority in Nonwestern Socities (Spring Semester 2003)
HIS 372 / 572, The History of Early Modern Japan (Fall Semester 2002)
HIS 373 / 573, Contemporary Japan in Historical Perspective (Fall Semester 2002)
HIS 370 / 570, Summer Workshop for Teachers (Summer 2002)
The Freeman Seminar: Teaching About East Asia ( Spring Semester 2002)
HIS 373 / 573, Contemporary Japan in Historical Perspective ( Spring Semester 2002)
HIS 371/ 571, The History of Japan (Fall Semester 2001)
HIS 374 / 574, Revolutionary Movements in Modern China (Fall Semester 2001)
HIS 370 / 570, Summer Workshop -- World History for Teachers (Summer 2001)
HIS 374 / 574, Revolutionary Movements in Modern China (Spring Semester 2001)
HIS 227, Power and Authority in Nonwestern Societies (Fall Semester 2000)
HIS 372 / 572, The History of Early Modern Japan (Fall Semester 2000)
HIS 393 / 593, Summer Workshop -- Nonwestern History for Teachers (Summer 2000)
The Freeman Seminar: Teaching About China and Japan (Spring Semester 2000)
HIS 373 / 573, Contemporary Japan in Historical Perspective (Spring Semester 2000)
HIS 374 / 574, Revolutionary Movements in Modern China (Spring Semester 2000)
HIS 372 / 572, The History of Early Modern Japan (Fall Semester 1999)
HIS 393 / 593, Workshop for Teachers (Summer 1999)
HIS 373 / 573, Contemporary Japan in Historical Perspective (Spring Semester 1999)
HIS 393 / 593, Power and Authority in Nonwestern Society (Fall Semester 1998)
HIS 371 / 571, The History of Japan (Fall Semester 1998)
HIS 374 / 574, Revolutionary Movements in Modern China (Fall Semester 1998)
HIS 393 / 593, Workshop for Teachers (Summer 1998)
HIS 273, Contemporary Japan in Historical Perspective (Spring Quarter 1998)
HIS 372 / 572, Revolutionary Movements in Modern China (Winter Quarter 1998)
PSC 227, Power and Authority in Nonwestern Societies (Fall Quarter 1997)

temple lantern, Asakusa, Tokyo (1999)

My developing expertise in this general area of instructional web site design has led to a workshop for faculty and staff at the University devoted to placing course materials on the web; the workshop, of course, has its own web site -- the approach might work just as well as a self-directed tutorial if you are interested in trying it out.

The Shiga Project, 1996 Edition, is a project created by students at the Japan Center for Michigan Universities in Hikone, Japan, where I spent the Fall Semester of 1996 as Interim Resident Director and Visiting Scholar. The pages are designed to introduce selected aspects of Japanese culture to a non-Japanese audience using examples and illustrations drawn from life in Shiga Prefecture; this collaborative effort honors the people of Shiga who, since 1989, have made JCMU such a special place to study about Japan, its civilization and its citizens.

Last updated by Lee A. Makela( l.makela@csuohio.edu ) on January 15, 2009
as part of an ongoing project begun in February 1995.