Harvard Course on Japanese History (Online)

This course may be of interest to your group members -- Linda Cross

Harvard Course in Japanese History Offered Online

CAMBRIDGE, MA-The Harvard Extension School is offering a 16-week
online Japanese history course -- Japan: Tradition and Transformation
-- taught by Harvard Associate Professor of Japanese History Mikael
Adolphson. The course allows anyone in the world to virtually
experience learning in a Harvard classroom. Classes begin February 1.

From the emergence of a court-centered state 1500 years ago to a
warrior-dominated society centuries later, Japan's premodern past
fascinates people around the world. The people, institutions, and ideas
behind these traditions are the focus of the first half of the course.

The course then turns to Japan's modern era, which presents one of the
more striking transformations in world history. The invention of new
traditions are examined as one crucial aspect of the tumultuous changes
that occurred from the mid-1880s through the present and explore how
people in Japan have dealt with the dilemmas of modernity that
challenge us all.

The recorded lectures are from the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
course Historical Studies A-14. Visit www.extension.harvard.edu for
complete details.

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