East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Students travel back in time to 19 th-century Japan, assuming the roles of advisors to the Tokugawa shogunate. They must synthesize primary readings on social and political unrest to propose reforms that could prevent the regime from collapsing...

Students prepared for this assignment by reading the week’s reading assignment about the Chinese philosopher Xunzi in the class textbook. This lesson is inspired by Oprah Winfrey's Lifeclass TV show. The instructor acted as Oprah Winfrey, introducing a...

This activity helps students read texts, analyze them, and present the information into a diagram. Goals: Enable students to closely and quickly analyze texts. Introduction/Background: Students were given texts to read in class. Each of the texts was of a...

In this activity, students discuss three religious traditions of medieval China to consolidate knowledge and bring out the similarities and contrasts. Before the class, students have already studied the three religions. In a class of 5 - 6 students, three...