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Mission Statement

  • To encourage professional development as Japanese teachers through the exchange of teaching ideas, techniques and experiences.
  • To provide mutual support among teachers of Japanese in Indiana.
  • To encourage the study of Japanese and the development of well-articulated programs of instruction.
  • And through these efforts to promote global awareness and appreciation of all cultures.

Last Update: 5/15/2008

 

 

                                                           

Japanese 590/490

Modern Japan in Japanese Literature—and in the Classroom:

A Graduate Seminar (For Undergraduate 490)

 

Dr. Guohe Zheng

 

Course:               Graduate seminar in Summer II (July), 2009

Credit Hours:     3 credit hours

Participants:       Secondary school teachers who need professional development or re-licensing. Regular BSU students.

 

Thematic Topic: Modern Japan in Japanese Literature

Modern Japanese literature has often been presented as aesthetic, exotic, and hard for average Americans to relate to. This seminar will approach it in an entirely different way. As the instructor will demonstrate, it is a reflection of Japan’s modernization in which the United States has played a major role.

Requirements:    Other than the readings/videos from a course list below, which includes books and videos, the participants will do two things: A) write 2 short reports on any of the readings or videos; B) develop practical materials ready for use in your own classrooms applying the materials covered. (There will be 3 on-campus sessions, tentatively on M-W, July 13-15. It will be 9-4 at NQ 135. Please let me know if you cannot attend some of the sessions. Undergraduate students do part A) only, but need to write 4 papers.)

Time for signup:            Beginning from February 11, 2009. Please visit BSU Admissions Office website at http://cms.bsu.edu/AdmissionsLanding.aspx the Course Reference Number is 26626.

Inquiries:            Please direct all your inquiries to Dr. Guohe Zheng at (765) 285-1361.

     Email: gzheng@bsu.edu

 

List of reading and videos: All books are available at Amazon.com. Japanese titles are available at Kinokuniya Bookstores 212-765-7766.  Used books are quite cheap and you can start reading in June.

1.      On Familiar Terms: A Journey across Cultures, by Donald Keene (1994)

2.      The Last Shogun, by Shiba Ryotaro, translated by Juliet Carpenter (1998)

3.      The Man Who Saved Kabuki, by Shiro Okamoto, translated by Samuel L. Leiter (2003) (You may choose to read the original—「歌舞伎を救った男」岡本嗣郎　著—or both, but it is not required.)

4.      War without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War, by John Dower (1986)

5.      Videos to be viewed:

-“Grave of the Fireflies” (In Japanese with English subtitles, 1988)

- “Tokyo Story“ (In Japanese with English subtitle, 1953)

- Byakkotai “The White Tiger Units” (in Japanese, aired in Japan in Feb. 2007)