HIS
272H,
CULTURAL INTERACTIONS: JAPAN
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE
Thursday,
January 20, 2011:
INSTRUCTIONAL
AND LEARNING STYLE PREFERENCE QUESTIONNAIRE DUE
Tuesday,
January 25, 2011:
READING
ASSIGNMENT / INITIATING JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT ONE DUE
THE IMPACT OF CHINESE AND KOREAN INFLUENCES ON THE FORMATION OF TRADITIONAL JAPANESE CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
Thursday,
January 27, 2011:
AN
INTRODUCTION TO JAPAN WEB ASSIGNMENT DUE
ASSESSMENT
CONTRACT DUE
JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT ONE DUE
SUGGESTED READING: Varley, H. Paul. Japanese Culture. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press (4th edition), 2000.
Tuesday,
February 1, 2011:
THE
NATIVE TRADITION WEB ASSIGNMENT DUE
SUGGESTED READING: Benn, Charles, editor. China's Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty. Oxford University Press USA, 2004 and Jungmann, Burglind. Painters as Envoys : Korean Inspiration in Eighteenth-Century Japanese Nanga. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.
Tuesday,
February 8, 2011:
REQUIRED READING:
Tyler, Royall, translator. "The
Twilight Beauty (Yugao)", Chapter Four in Murasaki Shikibu, The
Tale of Genji (Penguin Books, 2003), pages 53 - 81.
Thursday,
February 10, 2011:
THE
RULE OF TASTE WEB ASSIGNMENT DUE
Tuesday,
February 15, 2011:
THE
WAY OF THE WARRIOR WEB ASSIGNMENT DUE
WESTERN INFLUENCES AT WORK IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY TRANSFORMATION OF JAPANESE CIVILIZATION AND CULTURE
Thursday, February 17, 2011:
JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE
RESEARCH ESSAY ONE DUE
Tuesday, February 22, 2011:
SUGGESTED WEB RESOURCE: BLACK
SHIPS AND SAMURAI: COMMODORE PERRY AND THE OPENING OF JAPAN (1853 - 1854)
Thursday, February 24, 2011:
SUGGESTED READING: Sansom, George. The Western
World and Japan, a Study in the Interaction of European and Asiatic Cultures.
New York: Random House, 1949
Thursday,
March 3, 2011
REQUIRED
Beef in the Making of Modern Japan" in Cross Sectionsi
(Volume V: 2009), pages 41 - 87.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011:
SHORT ORAL PRESENTATIONS
JAPONISME IN THE WEST AS AN EXPRESSION OF ORIENTALISM
Thursday,
March 10, 2011:
JOURNAL
ASSIGNMENT THREE DUE
RESEARCH ESSAY TWO DUE
Thursday,
March 24, 2011:
GROUP
DISCUSSION ONE
BOOK ESSAY ONE DUE
REQUIRED READING: Downer. Lesley. Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Bewitched the West. New York: Gothan Books, 2004.
Thursday,
March 31, 2011:
PANEL
PRESENTATIONS ONE
THE JAPANESE IMPERIALIST QUEST FOR EMPIRE AND ITS AFTERMATH -- THE OCCUPATION YEARS (1945 – 1952) -- AS OPPOSING INSTANCES OF WESTERN INFLUENCES AT WORK IN MODERN JAPANESE HISTORY
Tuesday,
April 5, 2011:
JOURNAL
ASSIGNMENT FOUR DUE
RESEARCH ESSAY THREE DUE
Thursday,
April 7, 2011:
PANEL
PRESENTATION TWO
THE “SOFT POWER” INFLUENCE OF CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE POPULAR CULTURE ON THE WORLD SCENE: RECONCILING THE UNIQUE AND THE GLOBAL
Thursday,
April 14, 2011:
JOUNAL
ASSIGNMENT FIVE DUE
REQUIRED READING: Nye, Joseph. Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics. New York: Public Affairs, 2004.*
SUGGESTED READING:
Craig, Timothy. Japan Pop!: Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture. New York: M.E.Sharpe, 2000.
Iwabuchi Koichi. Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism. Duke University Press, 2002.
Martinez, Dolores (editor). The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture : Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global Cultures (Contemporary Japanese Society). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Thursday,
April 28, 2011:
SMALL
GROUP DISCUSSION
Tuesday,
May 3, 2011:
BOOK
ESSAY TWO DUE
Thursday,
May 12, 2011:
ALTERNATIVE
/ EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENT DUE