Updated: Wed 8/21/02

ASAN324: Chado: The Way of Tea Practicum

This is a course in which students learn and understand chado (way of tea) by practicing it, based on the three basic ideas that Oiemoto (the Grand Tea Master) advocates: the way, learning, practice. The outline of Japanese culture that chado provides will be included into the practice. This course will provide hands-on experience to the students in order to understand harmony, respect, purity, and tranquility, those ideas that chado regards most important through learning Japanese art, etiquette, language, and history. The first semester will cover the roles of the host and the guest for usucha temae (thin tea ceremony).

Class Hours

W 1:30-4:00 PM; Jaku'an Tea Hut, East-West Center garden
Credits: 1

CRN: 61537 (through UHM Pae); G0075 (through Outreach College)

Instructor: Tea Master Yoshibumi (Soshi) Ogawa

For more information, contact CJS (956-2665) or Urasenke Foundation of Hawaii (923-3059).

EALL360: Literary Traditions of East Asia
"Alternative Voices in East Asia: Literature at the Margins"

A Writing Intensive course, EALL 360 is designed to introduce students to writings outside of what is regularly encountered in survey courses in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean literature. The focus will be on writing by and about people who have been considered marginal, due to their ethnic origins, social classes, gender, or sexual preferences, and the like.

Mostly dealing with modern/contemporary writers of these three East Asian countries, the course will examine the question of who defines what is "marginal" in these cultures, how these writings relate to such definitions, and what alternative voices they represent.

Students will be encouraged to explore how the power of national traditions, mainstream cultural values, racial/ethnic perceptions, gender relations, and sexual orientations are expressed in various literary pieces from each of these countries. In the end, the course aims to help students relate their study to significant issues rising in their own societies and cultures.

Some of the topics to be covered include:

• Minority peoples (Tibetan, Miao, Manchu) in China
• Chinese gay and lesbian voices
• The Burakumin (Outcast) community in Japan
• Okinawan voices in Japan
• Gender and traditional culture in Korea
• Korean writers and war memories
• Women writers in China, Japan, and Korea

Requirements
No prerequisites
No knowledge of Chinese, Japanese, or Korean language is required.
Class Hours
TR 10:30-11:45 AM; Moore 104
Instructors
Professor Ming-Bao Yue (Chinese): mingbao@hawaii.edu
Professor Joel Cohn (Japanese): cohn@hawaii.edu
Mr. Gabriel Sylvian (Korean): gabsylv@aol.com

ECON614: Economic Development of Japan. Tuesday, Thursday, 1:30-2:45 PM. Instructor: Dr. Therea Greaney. Analysis of growth from Meiji period to present. Problems of population change, capital information, income distribution, industrial structure. Prerequisite: ECON610 or consent.

GEOGRAPHY OF JAPAN - NIHON CHIRI
in English or Japanese

Geography 352: Geography of Japan
Section 1 in English: MWF 10:30-11:20 CRN45409
Section 2 in Japanese: MWF 11:30-12:20 CRN49264
Both sections taught by Prof. Yukiko Numata Bedford.

Section 1 will be the regular course in English as the medium of instruction. This is a wonderful opportunity to study with a Japanese geographer visiting from Kyoto.

Section 2 will be the same course using Japanese as the medium of instruction. Prof. Bedford will speak Japanese. Readings and discussion will be in Japanese. Students may refer to English materials for reinforcement. Exams will be in Japanese. Students may write some parts of exams in either language. Students taking this course need 400-level Japanese or better. This section is a wonderful way to practice and expand Japanese skills in the setting of a course. Students can prepare to study in Japan or maintain Japanese proficiency. This class is an opportunity for "Language Across the Curriculum," supported by the University of Hawai'i National Resource Center for East Asia.

Prof. Yukiko Numata Bedford completed her PhD in Geography at the University of Michigan. She was a faculty member at Wayne State University before returning to teach in Japan. She is Professor Emeritus at Osaka Institute of Technology and Setsunan University. She will visit UH from Kyoto during Fall Semester 2002.

Geography of Japan will survey social and environmental aspects of places across the Japanese archipelago, including -

• Japan's island setting and climates
  
• Population trends and distribution
  
• Cultural landscapes
  
• Economic development
  
• City spaces
  
• Industrial growth
  
• Regional development
  
• Rural patterns
  
• Environmental change
  
• New places in Japan in 2002

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