| Jonathan Dresner Office: Russ Hall 406F Office Hours: MWF 11-1; TuTh 9-11 235-4315 |
Administrative Deadlines and Instructional Holidays are in Italics
Assignments and Tests are in Bold
Readings are by chapter and should be done before class on the assigned day.
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Date |
Topic/Event |
| 1/18 (Tu) | First Day of Class |
| 1/20 (Th) | Gordon, Introduction email student information form to instructor |
| 1/25 (Tu) | Gordon 1, “The Tokugawa Polity” Geography Quiz |
| 1/25 | Last day for full fee refund Last day to add new classes Last day for late online enrollment |
| 1/27 (Th) | Gordon 2, “Social and Economic Transformations” |
| 1/28 | Final day for dropping course without grade report |
| 2/1 (Tu) | Snow Day |
| 2/3 (Th) | Snow Day: Tegrity Lecture on Pop Culture of Tokugawa |
| 2/8 (Tu) | Gordon 3, “The Intellectual World of the Late Tokugawa” Gordon 4, “The Overthrow of the Tokugawa” |
| 2/10 (Th) | Gordon 5, “The Samurai Revolution” |
| 2/15 (Tu) | Gordon 6, “Participation and Protest” Meiji Constitution MIT’s Visualizing Cultures unit: “Throwing Off Asia I: Woodblock Prints of Meiji Westernization” |
| 2/17 (Th) | Gordon 8, “Empire and Domestic Order” Gordon 10, “Democracy and Empire between the World Wars” |
| 2/22 (Tu) | Gordon 7, “Social, Economic and Cultural Transformations” Gordon 9, “Economy and Society” |
| 2/24 (Th) | Gordon 11, “The Depression Crisis and Responses” Book Selection Due |
| 3/1 (Tu) | Gordon 12, “Japan in Wartime” Slides: Japanese Imperialism in Maps and Charts |
| 3/3 (Th) | Gordon 13, “Occupied Japan: New Departures and Durable Structures” 1947 Constitution |
| 3/8 (Tu) | Gordon 14, “Economic and Social Transformations” Gordon 15, “Political Struggles and Settlements of the High-Growth Era” |
| 3/10 (Th) | Gordon 16, “Global Power in a Polarized world: Japan in the 1980s” Gordon 17, “Beyond the Postwar Era” |
| 3/15 (Tu) | First Book Review Due/Presentations |
| 3/15 | D/F Grades Due Noon |
| 3/17 (Th) | Midterm: Take-home Essay Due. In-class test |
| 3/21-25 | Spring Break |
| 3/29 (Tu) | Discussion of readings, schedule, assignments. Handout Chushingura guide. |
| 3/31 (Th) | Chushingura. |
| 4/4 | Summer/Fall Early Enrollment Begins |
| 4/5 (Tu) | Bernstein, Recreating Japanese Women, Part One |
| 4/7 (Th) | Fukuzawa, I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII |
| 4/8 | Final day for dropping course unless withdraw from school |
| 4/12 (Tu) | Fukuzawa, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV |
| 4/14 (Th) | Bernstein, Recreating Japanese Women, Part Two |
| 4/19 (Tu) | Japan at War, Parts One and Two |
| 4/21 (Th) | Japan at War, Parts Three and Five |
| 4/26 (Tu) | Japan at War, Parts Four and Six |
| 4/28 (Th) | Re-Imaging Japanese Women, chaps 1-6 |
| 5/3 (Tu) | Re-Imaging Japanese Women, chaps 7-13 |
| 5/5 (Th) | Second Book Review Due/Presentations |
| 5/5 | Last day to withdraw from university |
| 5/10 | Final Exam, 11-12:50 |
Grade Distribution
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