EA105 Spring 2012 Overall Course Schedule / Outline
This outline gives the course's structure on a single page. It also provides direct links to each class session. Topics, assignments, and notes are on individual pages. Individual pages undergo revision during the term so they should not be downloaded. This page is less likely to change; however, you should not bookmark it. Rather, you should bookmark the Announcements Page and navigate here from there, to insure that you are informed of important class information.
ORIENTATION: These early sessions set out the direction of the course:
Session 01—Wed, Jan 18: Course introduction • QuickThink exercise 01
Session 02—Fri, Jan 20: “High” and “low” love (course boundaries) • Interpretation issues
FRAMEWORKS: These sessions discuss Chinese cosmology, Confucianism, Buddhism and Christianity and the type of context they create for interpreting the experience of "love". This segment of the class ends with a midterm on these:
Session 03—Mon, Jan 23: East Asian Frameworks: Chinese cosmology and love, Confucianism and love
PREMODERN TEXTS: These sessions consider "love" in premodern Japanese, Chinese and Korean texts. The Korean segment also includes a bridge into viewing films. This segment of the class ends with a midterm on the premodern texts:
Session 10—Wed, Feb 8: Discussion of assigned Japanese premodern texts, 2
Session 11—Fri, Feb 10: Discussion of assigned Japanese premodern texts, 3
Session 12—Mon, Feb 13: Discussion of assigned Chinese premodern texts, 1 • Assigned Readings, Quiz — AMQ02
Session 13—Wed, Feb 15: Discussion of assigned Chinese premodern texts, 2
Session 14—Fri, Feb 17: Discussion of assigned Chinese premodern texts, 3
No class Mon, Feb 20
PREMODERN TEXTS / FILMS transition: We read the third of our countries premodern text in conjunction with a film based on that text. This gives us a transition space in the course as we shift from the analysis of narratives that are premodern and written in literary prose and those that are modern and delivered through cinema.
Session 18—Wed, Feb 29: Midterm 02 (Premodern readings analysis)
FILMS: This final segment of the class views and discussions films from China, Japan and Korea and ends with a midterm where interpretive method and class content is applied to short films screened at the time of the test. This segment of the class, in other words, is the application of concepts. Our film discussions should be your guide to the approach of your JES as well as how to perform well on the important, final midterm:
Session 19—Fri, March 2: Chinese (Beijing) film: House of Flying Daggers (screening and discussion), First of five sessions • Film Info Quiz — AMQ03
Session 20—Mon, March 5: Chinese (Beijing) film: House of Flying Daggers (screening and discussion), Second of five sessions
Session 21—Wed, March 7: Chinese (Beijing) film: House of Flying Daggers (screening and discussion), Third of five sessions
Session 22—Fri, March 9: Chinese (Beijing) film: House of Flying Daggers (screening and discussion), Fourth of five sessions
Session 23—Mon, March 12: Chinese (Beijing) film: House of Flying Daggers general discussion, Fifth of five sessions
Session 24—Wed, March 14: Chinese (Hong Kong) film: 2046 (34 minutes screening, then discussion), First of five sessions • Film Info Quiz — AMQ04
Session 25—Fri, March 16: Chinese (Hong Kong) film: 2046 (screening then discussion), Second of five sessions
Session 26—Mon, March 19: Chinese (Hong Kong) film: 2046 (screening then discussion), Third of five sessions
Session 27—Wed, March 21: Chinese (Hong Kong) film: 2046 (screening then discussion), Fourth of five sessions
Session 28—Fri, March 23: 2046 general discussion, Fifth of five sessions
No classes on Mon March 26, Wed March 28, or Fri March 30
Session 29—Mon, April 2: Japanese (Tokyo) film: Dolls (screening), First of four sessions • Film Info Quiz — AMQ05
Session 32—Mon, April 9: Dolls general discussion, Fourth of four sessions
Session 33—Wed, April 11: Chinese (Taipei) film: Three Times, First Story, 1962 (screening), First of four sessions • Film Info Quiz — AMQ06
Session 36—Wed, April 18: Three Times general discussion, Fourth of four sessions
Session 37—Fri, April 20: Korean (Seoul) film: 3-Iron (screening then discussion), First of three sessions • Film Info Quiz — AMQ07
Session 40—Fri, April 27: Midterm 03 (Interpretation of short films) • Last Day
RRR Week:
I am in the room for the three regular meeting times during RRR week. I assign teams to a specific session; they are welcome to come in at that time but this is optional. However, since you must meet face-to-face for the final segment of the JES, many students find it convenient to use that period as a start or finish point for their face-to-face meeting since they can ask me questions on the spot, then hit the submission button.
Final Exam Period:
This class does not have a final exam.