HISTORY OF JAPANESE  CULTURE AND INSTITUTIONS:  HISTORY 256
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Textbooks:  
Shirokauer, Conrad, A Brief History of Japanese Civilization, Harcourt College Publishers, ISBN 0-07-505-568-2, latest edition, paperback
Stanley-Baker, Joan, Japanese Art, Thames and Hudson, latest edition, paperbac

Week 

Reading Assignment

Submittals
Lecture Topic

First Week
January 12, 2009
Study Guide 1
 

 Schirokauer, 
Chapter 1
Early Japan
Neolithic Civilization

Introduction

 

 

Second Week
January 19, 2009
 

Study Guide 2

No Class
Inauguration

 

 		 Schirokauer,
Chapter 1
Stanley-Baker, Chapters 1-2

Shinto Legends and Beliefs

The Yamato State

Library Assignment
Use this to search for a topic for your Research Paper or Book Review
and oral PowerPoint Presentation
 

Third Week
January 26, 2009


 Schirokauer, 
Chapter 2
Stanley-Baker, Chapter 3

The Impact of Continental Civilization
The Chinese Background
The Nara Period
Modification of the Chinese Pattern


Turn in Library
Assignment
Library topic should relate to your Research Paper or Book Review and Oral PowerPoint Presentation

Fourth Week
February 2, 2009

Study Guide 3


 Schirokauer,
Chapter 3
Stanley-Baker, Chapter 4

Aristocrats, Monks, and Samurai
The Heian Period
The Fujiwara
The Warriors

  

Fifth Week

February 9, 2009

 

 


 Schirokauer,
Chapter 3
Stanley-Baker, Chapter 4

Rule by "Cloistered Emperors"
Life of the Heian Aristocracy
Religion
Literature
Visual Arts

 Turn in topic for required paper with a partial bibliography.

 

Sixth Week

February 16, 2009

Study Guide 4

Schirokauer,
Chapter 4
Stanley-Baker, Chapter 5

The Kamakura Period
The Hojo Regents
Mongol Invasion
Religion 

 

 


Seventh Week

February 23, 2009

Study Guide 5

 

 Schirokauer,
Chapter 5

The Ashikaga Shogunate
Kemmu Resortation
Continental Culture
No Drama
Rise of the Daimyo 
Chapter 5

The Early Tokugawa
 

Eighth Week
March 2, 2009

Study Guide 6

Schirokauer,
Chapter 6

The Formation of the New Order
Oda Nobunaga
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
The Tokugawa Political Consolidation
The Coming of the Europeans

 

First Examination
March 2, 2009

First Field Project
due March 2, 2009

Tokugawa Foreign Policy

 

Ninth Week

March 16, 2009
 



Tokugawa Study Guide


 

 

Schirokauer, 
Chapter 7
Stanley-Baker, Chapter 6

The Tokugawa Shogunate
Bakufu-Han Relations
Genroku Urban Culture
Tokugawa Confucianism

  First Oral PowerPoint Presentation
15 Minutes

 
Tenth Week

March 23, 2009



 Schirokauer, 
Chapter 7
Art and Literature of the Tokugawa
Dutch Learning

T

Nineteenth Century Japan

End of the Shogunate

The Meiji
 

Eleventh Week

 

March 30, 2009

Study Guide 8


 

 Schirokauer,
Chapters 8

Japan in the Modern World
The Meiji
Reforms


Dismantling Feudalism

New York Study Trip

 

March 28, 2009 (Saturday), One-day trip to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Participants will board bus in front of Bisdorf Building at 7:00 a.m.;  leave New York at 9:30 p.m. from  Lincoln Center, arrive back at the Alexandria Campus at approximately 2:45 a.m  The cost is $65.00  For additional information, telephone 703-845-6357.


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Twelfth Week

April 6, 2009

Study Guide 9

 

 		 Schirokauer,
Chapter 9
Stanley-Baker, Chapter 7

The Meiji Constitution
Conservatism and Nationalism
Education

 

 

Second Field Project Due
April 6, 2009

World War I
 

Japan in the 1920s


 


Thirteenth Week

April 13, 2009

Study Guide 10

 

 

 Schirokauer,
Chapter 10
Stanley-Baker, Chapter
The Limits of Success (1895-1931)
Late Meiji
The Taisho Period 
 

 

 

American Occupation of Japan

 

 


Fourteenth Week

April 20, 2009

Study Guide 11

 

 Schirokauer,
Chapter 11
Militarism and War

 


Fifteenth Week
April 27, 2009

 

Study Guide 12

 

 Schirokauer,
Chapter 12
Contemporary Japan		  

Sixteenth Week
May 4, 2009

 

  

Final Evaluation Activity
 

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