Literature of Japanese History (483-0-20)

Instructors

Laura E Hein
847/491-3408
Harris Hall - Room 325

Meeting Info

University Hall 118: Mon 2:00PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

This graduate readings course aligns and coordinates individualized reading lists for each student on modern Japanese history. Students read the equivalent of one book each week and wrote short papers summarizing and analyzing their reading, which are distributed in advance. In class we discuss each of the books and, increasingly as the quarter progressed, the relationship of each new book to previous work. This course should prepare students for major/minor field exams and year-long research papers.

Learning Objectives

Introduce students to best work in their field, teach how to effectively extract significance--both argument and empirical information-- from readings, how to relate to existing knowledge, how to express that cogently

Evaluation Method

weekly papers and informed participation in class