JOURNAL
ASSIGNMENT SIX
PART A:
In the end, does history matter? Analyze how this course ties together into a coherent record of evolutionary change in Japan over time and the ways in which that record communicates something of value and importance worth knowing, even for American college students! Discuss as well personal insights into ways in which earlier Japanese history maintains a hold on the ways in which the Japanese themselves view and interpret the present.
PART B:
As the last entry in your journal, review your journal entries to this point, note the interests you initially identified, reflect on how this course helped satisfy those interests (and others that emerged as the course proceeded) and discuss how you yourself might go about maintaining or expanding these particular interests in the future.
Evaluate the educational worth of the entire journal exercise: Was the assignment series worth completing? Why/why not? Were the instructions and expectations for the assignments clear? What insights into the educational experience did you gain as a result of completing the assignment? In what ways would you modify future such assignments?
How have your perceptions of the subject matter covered in the course changed? Has your level of interest in Japanese civilization and culture changed? If so, how?