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Sessions |
Topic |
Reading
Assignment |
Suggested Project and
Other Activities
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First
Session
January 11, 2012
Study Guide One |
The Ainu
The Japanese Tea Ceremony
SappuKu
The Tea
Ceremeony
Japanese Cinema |
Schirokauer,
Chapter 1
Introductions
Early Japan
Neolithic Civilization
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Review the
Course Requirements on Blackboard
Complete
"Introduction on Blackboard"
Library Assignment
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Second Session
January 18, 2012
Study Guide Two |
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Schirokauer,
Chapter 1
Stanley-Baker, Chapters 1-2
Shinto Legends and Beliefs
The Yamato State
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Your library assignment should be used to begin your search
for a topic for your research paper or a book for the book review
Library Assignment
100 points |
Third
Session
January 25, 20012
Study Guide Three |
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Schirokauer,
Chapter 2
Stanley-Baker, Chapter 3
The Impact of Continental Civilization
The Chinese Background
The Nara Period
Modification of the Chinese Patter
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Library
Assignment should be copied into Word and sent to me
as an attachment by email by January 27, 2012
Friday of the Third Week |
Fourth
Session
February 1, 2012 2011Study Guide Four
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Schirokauer,
Chapter 3
Stanley-Baker, Chapter 4
Aristocrats, Monks, and Samurai
The Heian Period
The Fujiwara
The Warriors
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Fifth Session
February 8, 2012
Study Guide Five
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Schirokauer,
Chapter 3-4
Stanley-Baker, Chapter 4
Rule by "Cloistered Emperors"
Life of the Heian Aristocracy
Religion
Literature
Visual Arts
The Kamakura Period
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First
Examination The Exam will
cover the chapters on Early and Medieval Japan
Chapter 1 through page 78; Study Guides 1 through 4
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Sixth Session
February 15, 2012
Study Guide Six
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Schirokauer,
Chapter 4
Stanley-Baker, Chapter 5
The Hojo Regents
Mongol Invasion
Religion
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Seventh Session
February 22, 2012
Study Guide Seven
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Schirokauer,
Chapter 5
Stanley-Baker, Chapter 5
The Ashikaga Shogunate
Kemmu Resortation
Continental Culture
No Drama
Rise of the Daimyo
Chapter 6 |
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Eighth Session
February 29, 2012
Study Guide Eight
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Schirokauer,
Chapter 6
Stanley-Baker, Chapter 6
The Formation of the New Order
Oda Nobunaga
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
The Tokugawa Political Consolidation
The Coming of the Europeans
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Ninth
Session
March 15, 2012
Study Guide Nine
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Schirokauer,
Chapter 7
Stanley-Baker, Chapter 6
The Tokugawa Shogunate
Bakufu-Han Relations
Genroku Urban Culture
Tokugawa Confucianism
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Last Day for
First Museum Project,
March 15, 2012
The Museum
Project must be copied into Word and sent to your instructor
as an email attachment
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Tenth Session
March 22, 2012
Study Guide Ten
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Decline of the Tokugawa
End of the Shogunate
Americans in
Japan
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Schirokauer,
Chapter 7
Art and Literature of the Tokugawa
Dutch Learning
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Second
Examination will taken in the classroom on March 22, 2011
The test will cover Chapters 5 through 10 and Study Guides 6 through 10
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Eleventh
SessionMarch 29, 2011
Study Guide
Eleven
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Meiji
Reform
Meiji Foreign Policy |
Schirokauer,
Chapters 8
Stanley-Baker, Chapter 7
Japan in the Modern World
The Meiji
Reforms
Dismantling Feudalism
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Twelfth Session
April 4, 2011
Study Guide
Twelve |
World War I |
Schirokauer,
Chapter 9
Stanley-Baker, Chapter 7
The Meiji Constitution
Conservatism and Nationalism
Education
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Research
Paper or Book Report must be sent by email on or before
April 4,
2012
Papers will be
penalized after
that date |
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Thirteenth Session
April 11, 2012
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Japan
on the Road to Disaster |
Schirokauer,
Chapter 10
Stanley-Baker, Chapter
The Limits of Success (1895-1931)
Late Meiji
The Taisho Period
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Fourteenth Session
April 18, 2012
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Japanese Disaster |
Schirokauer,
Chapter 11
Militarism and War |
Second Museum
Project Due by
April 18,
2012 |
Fifteenth Session
April 25, 2012
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Occupation
of Japan |
Schirokauer,
Chapter 12
Contemporary Japan |
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Sixteenth Session
Final Exam Week |
Final Exam Schedule |
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Chapters 11-12;
Study Guides11-12 |
