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HIS 272H,
CULTURAL INTERACTIONS: JAPAN

WHAT'S NEW
The items listed below have recently been altered in some significant way or have been added to the site:
  • The DAY assigned for the essay on Madame Sadayakki has been changed to reflect the correct DATE already listed on the ASSIGNMENTS page.. (Saturday, March 8, 2008)
  • A discrepency in the date listed for the Short Oral Presentations on the CLASS SCHEUDLE, ASSIGNMENT and ORAL PRESENTATION pages has been corrected and rescheduled for Thursday, February 28, 2008. (Wednesday, February 20, 2008)
  • The course schedule has been modified to incorporate the cancelation of classes on the day of the OBAMA - CLINTON DEBATE to be held on the Cleveland State University campus Tuesday, February 26, 2008. (Monday, February 18, 2008)
  • Please excuse the ongoing problems with identifying the actual due date for Journal Assignment One (which is Thursday, January 24, 2008). Various dates, most of them incorrect, appear at different locations throughout the course web site, some of them dating back to 2006. I hope I have found and corrected all these errors at this point (particularly those in the Assignment list and on the Journal Assignment page)! Let me know if you encounter others. In the future, assume that the dates listed in the Course Schedule are correct, whatever dates and details other pages might provide. (Saturday, January 19, 2008)
  • I inadvertently reversed the class session topics for Thursday, January 17, 2008 and Tuesday, January 22, 2008; please complete Journal Assignment One and the associated reading and viewing aspects of that assignment by next Tuesday when we will turn our attention to "Provoking Topics of Interest". This Thursday instead we will examine some of the terms, concepts and categories of meaning we will encounter frequently over the semester ahead. (Wednesday, January 16, 2008)
  • The link to the interview with Yoshikazu Takaya in the reading assignment associated with Journal Assignment One (due Tuesday, January 22, 2008) has been fixed, as has the wording for the general assignment itself as it appears in the Course Scheudle.(Friday, January 18, 2008).
This site has been prepared by Lee A. Makela for the use of students at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, who are enrolled in the Honors Program course, HIS 272H, Cultural Interactions: Japan during the Spring Semester of the 2007 - 2008 Academic Year; please contact him with any comments by email at l.makela@csuohio.edu.  
 last revised: February 20, 2008