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East Asia Since 1800 (September 16 - December 19, 2024)
Session(s) date
Join our 10-week online seminar to explore East Asia’s history and cultures from the Neolithic era to 1800. The course covers demographic shifts, economic and technological changes, cultural exchanges, and the impact of wars and revolutions. It also examines the modern dynamics of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan, along with their influence on global trends and evolving ties with the United States.
Topics include:
- demographic change and the role of geography and the natural environment
- economic, social, cultural and technological developments within East Asia
- exchanges within and beyond East Asia
- challenges from within and from the West
- war, revolution and nation-making
- China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, North and South Korea, and Japan today
- the region's influence on and responses to global trends
- evolving ties with the United States
Content
- readings
- pre-recorded video presentations
- online forum participation
- weekly live online Zoom discussion
Benefits (Must complete seminar requirements)
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Resources and materials
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Session 1 to 10 = 6 USC Rossier School of Education Continuing Education Units (processing fee $210 covered by the US-China Institute)
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Session 1 to Session 5 = 3 CEU credits
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Session 6 to Session 10 = 3 CEU credits
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Session 1 to 10 = 2 LAUSD Salary Point
- Session 1 to Session 5 = 1 salary point
- Session 6 to Session 10 = 1 salary point
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Certificate of completion
Lecturers
Clayton Dube, USC: As director of the USC U.S.-China Institute from 2006–24, Clayton Dube oversaw a variety of research, training and outreach initiatives. Dube first lived and taught in China in 1982-85. A historian, he examined how economic and political change in China since 1900 affected the lives of ordinary people. He’s gone on to focus on how Americans and Chinese see each other and how governments work to influence those views. He’s currently focused on 1) the promise and limits of U.S.-China economic, scientific and cultural collaboration and 2) strengthening teaching about China and the rest of East Asia through the USCI’s professional development programs.
Elyssa Faison, University of Oklahoma: Professor Faison’s first book, Managing Women: Disciplining Labor in Modern Japan, was published by the University of California Press in 2007. She is co-editor with Dr. Ruth Barraclough (Australian National University) of Sexing Class: Gender and Labor in Korea and Japan, which was published by Routledge in 2009. She teaches courses on East Asian and Japanese history, and in 2012 was the recipient of the Regents’ Award for Superior Teaching. She is currently working on two book-length projects. The first is titled Atomic Memories: Legacies of the Cold War in Japan and the United States. The second is a social and political history of twentieth century Japan in the form of a biography of the socialist feminist Yamakawa Kikue (1890-1980).
Susan H. Kamei, USC: Susan H. Kamei is Managing Director of the Spatial Sciences Institute housed in the University of Southern California Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences (USC Dornsife). She directs the Institute’s strategic initiatives and its daily administration, including external relations and the development and operations of the Institute’s undergraduate and graduate academic programs.
Rylan Sekiguchi, Stanford SPICE: Rylan Sekiguchi is Manager of Curriculum and Instructional Design at the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE). Prior to joining SPICE in 2005, he worked as a teacher at Revolution Prep in San Francisco. Rylan’s professional interests lie in curriculum design, global education, education technology, student motivation and learning, and mindset science. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Symbolic Systems at Stanford University.
Jennifer Jung-Kim, UCLA: Jennifer Jung-Kim received her Ph.D. in Korean History from UCLA. She currently teaches courses on the history and cultures of Korea and East Asia in the UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, the International and Area Studies program, the Honors Collegium program, and is affiliated with the Food Studies program. She was selected for the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2021. She is also actively involved in promoting K-12 education on Asia and is an advocate of active learning through Reacting to the Past pedagogy.
Online Synchronous Seminar Schedule (8 Mondays + 2 Saturdays)
Reading assignments and pre-recorded lectures for each week will be available in an online forum and are to be completed prior to the discussion sessions. Access and log-in information will be provided upon acceptance into the course. Please refer to the Seminar Requirements Document for details on assignments and course completion.
How to apply - Submit your application below. Please add uschina@usc.edu to your address book so the email does not end up in the spam folder.
This program is sponsored by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia.
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