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2001-2002 Seminar

Overview and Goals

Study Abroad applications for past and current participants will be out shortly. Please email any new or updated email address to Monica.

The seminar, offered through the University of Florida's Asian Studies Program will consists of eight Saturday sessions through the 2001-2002 school year. The sessions will discuss East Asian history, geography, literature, and culture with colleagues and Asian specialists.

Syllabus

October 20

Guest Speaker:
Dr. Roberta Martin, National Consortium for Teaching about Asia

Topics:
Geography, Language, and East Asia in World History

Readings:
Murphey, Chapters 1-3 / Ebrey, Chapters 6-8

November 10

Guest Speaker:
Dr. Mario Poceski, University of Florida

Topics:
The Foundation of the Chinese Empire: the Qin and the Han Buddhism In east Asia

Readings:
Murphey, Chapters 4-5 / Ebrey, Chapters 11-12, 14-15, 17-18, 22

December 1

Topics:
The Tang Empire in east Asian and World History
The legacy of the "Silk Road" and the cultural and religious developments across Asia

Early Japan
Guest Speakers:
Dr. Richard Foltz, Religion, University of Florida
Dr. Yumiko Hulvey, African & Asian Language and Literature, University of Florida

Readings:
Murphey, chapter 5, 10-11
Ebrey, chapters 25-26, 30-31
Keene, 63-224

January 26

Topics:
China and the World: the Song, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties
Chinese Literati
Chinese Economy and Society in World Historical Perspective

Speaker:
Dr. Cynthia Chennault, University of Florida

Readings:
Murphy:6-7
Ebrey, Chapters 32-33, 35, 38, 41, 47, 49, 55-56

Assignment:
Please choose one excerpt from a document that you find useful in your teaching. Discuss why you have found this to be helpful and how you have used it for your classroom teaching.

February 23

Topics:
Tokugawa Japan: political and social organization
Japanese culture and society

Speaker:
Steve Heine, Director of Asian Studies, FIU

Readings:
Murphrey, chp. 13
Keene, Tokugawa Period, page 335-442

March 23

Topics:
East Asia in the era of rising Western dominance
Interpreting the "opening" of China and Japan

Readings:
Murphey, chapters 8, 12, 14, 17
Ebrey, chapters 59, 68, 70, 73-75, 77

April 20

Topics:
Towards Modern Japan: The Meiji Restoration and its aftermath
Japanese colonialism: Korea and Taiwan
Twentieth-century Japanese political and popular culture

Guest Speaker:
Dr. Joseph Murphy, University of Florida

Readings:
Murphy, chapters 15, 18, 21
Minear, Part 2. Coping with Affluence
Kim, Lost Names

National Consortium for Teaching about Asia

Participants

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