COURSE REQUIREMENTS:   

REGULAR CLASS ATTENDANCE, PARTICIPATION IN DISCUSSION and ON -TIME SUBMISSION OF ASSIGNMENTS ARE BASIC COURSE REQUIREMENTS as is the completion of the reading assigned in the accompanying class schedule.    

Assigned reading for the course includes Karl Taro Greenfeld's Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan's Next Generation; Stephen Addiss' How to Look at Japanese Art; Nelly Delay's The Art and Culture of Japan; and the collection of articles and excerpts on file in the Cleveland State University library accessible through Electronic Reserve. Recommendations for Internet web materials are also listed in the course schedule for your consideration.  

In addition the class will be asked to complete a writing skills assessment survey and two research assignments:  

• an interpretive essay discussing - in two parts (descriptive and analytical) -- an aspect of contemporary Japanese life in historical perspective;
   
• a project (including a written personality profile and a series of public opinion survey questions) requiring each student to assume a contemporary Japanese personality appropriate to a pair of role-playing exercises concluding the course of study.