JAPN 302: History of Japan
Course Description:
This course further develops advanced Japanese proficiency through an understanding of Japanese history as a dynamic, interrelated system and employs a variety of processes to identify, analyze and evaluate cultural themes, values and ideas. Students will demonstrate ability to accurately comprehend ideas across a range of historical content. Taught in Japanese. (Credit/No Credit Available) (Prereq: JAPN 202 or JAPN 300)
Reflective Narrative:
This course helped me to fulfill my MLO 2 culture requirement. We learned about Japanese history from the Asuka period to the end of the Showa period. We learned about different aspects in Japanese history that attributed to the culture that exists today. We learned about the arts and poetry of the Heian period. The Japanese sense of impermanence shown in the Hojouki was another section that we studied.
In this course we had review questions for each section of the textbook that we read. Each week we did these opinion based questions on what we thought about certain aspects of the aspects of Japanese history that we read about and discussed. This aided in teaching us how to elaborate our opinions and thoughts in Japanese. It helped improve critical thinking skills. It also taught us important aspects of Japanese history, while causing us to think actively about it. When we got to the mid-term we wrote our own haiku to go over what we had learned when we went over poetry in history. Then for the final I gave a presentation on how loanwords have been changing in Japan through history, and where they came from.
I was given an opportunity to not only learn about Japanese history, but also to be able to discuss what I learned while giving my own opinions on the matter. This made the class a lot more interactive, and allowed me to retain more of the information and get a better grasp of Japanese history and culture.
I would like to learn more about history really. This course had such a broad timeline that we were never really able to focus on one aspect for more than about one class section. I would love to learn more about the warring period or the sengoku jidai.
I suppose I’d have to do individual research. I would like to get books on the topics that interest me when I go to Japan.
This course further develops advanced Japanese proficiency through an understanding of Japanese history as a dynamic, interrelated system and employs a variety of processes to identify, analyze and evaluate cultural themes, values and ideas. Students will demonstrate ability to accurately comprehend ideas across a range of historical content. Taught in Japanese. (Credit/No Credit Available) (Prereq: JAPN 202 or JAPN 300)
Reflective Narrative:
This course helped me to fulfill my MLO 2 culture requirement. We learned about Japanese history from the Asuka period to the end of the Showa period. We learned about different aspects in Japanese history that attributed to the culture that exists today. We learned about the arts and poetry of the Heian period. The Japanese sense of impermanence shown in the Hojouki was another section that we studied.
In this course we had review questions for each section of the textbook that we read. Each week we did these opinion based questions on what we thought about certain aspects of the aspects of Japanese history that we read about and discussed. This aided in teaching us how to elaborate our opinions and thoughts in Japanese. It helped improve critical thinking skills. It also taught us important aspects of Japanese history, while causing us to think actively about it. When we got to the mid-term we wrote our own haiku to go over what we had learned when we went over poetry in history. Then for the final I gave a presentation on how loanwords have been changing in Japan through history, and where they came from.
I was given an opportunity to not only learn about Japanese history, but also to be able to discuss what I learned while giving my own opinions on the matter. This made the class a lot more interactive, and allowed me to retain more of the information and get a better grasp of Japanese history and culture.
I would like to learn more about history really. This course had such a broad timeline that we were never really able to focus on one aspect for more than about one class section. I would love to learn more about the warring period or the sengoku jidai.
I suppose I’d have to do individual research. I would like to get books on the topics that interest me when I go to Japan.