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Remember you can use the Pad for all your anonymous questions and concerns
Last year, I organized a pub-quiz review for the final day of class. We won’t do it this year, but you can test your knowledge looking through last year’s questions. Send me your score sheet if you want to know how well you did!
I would like you to write one final reflection, which you can either post on your blog (category HST267), or share as a google doc (if you feel it’s too personal for public consumption). I have two prompts for you. Choose one, and write about 300 words, more if you feel you have more to say. Please submit with all other assignments by May 4. Consider this a brief task filed under “Thoughtful participation in the learning commons”
- Option 1. What did you learn in this course, in terms of “History of Japan”? Try to go beyond a simple list of things, and think about big trends, long-term developments; what surprised you; what will stick with you; what will you share with others? What do you think everybody should know about the history of Japan before 1868?
- Option 2: This course fulfills a HDGE (DE, “Human Difference and Global Engagement) GAR. How did this course help to “broaden and deepen [your] understanding of human difference and to develop the intellectual and civic skills students require for participation in an increasingly diverse and interconnected world?” (The official description in the course catalog of the DE requirement).
Schedule: April 27-April 30
- Monday: Optional reflection on the materials from week 14 (e.g. if you are still short of the 11 reflections listed in the syllabus)
- Tuesday: Zoom 1pm: (pink link on Canvas Homepage): stop by for conversation with your peers about the assignments, I’ll be fielding questions!
- Thursday: Zoom 1pm: (pink link on Canvas Homepage): please try to be there! We’ll look back on the course, and figure out together how to make this a better course.
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- What are the top 3 texts you think everybody should read? [Look through the Primary Source Analysis 2 list A and B]
- Which texts can you live without? I plan to make some cuts but need your input.
- What was missing? Do you have tips for finding materials about that topic?
- Should we keep this textbook (Varley), find a different one, or just get rid of the textbook altogether?
- IDEA course evaluation
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- And that’s it! I will be available for consultation on your assignments until May 4, when everything is due.
What do you need to submit?
- 11 weekly reflections, as specified in the syllabus, on your blog in category HST267.
- 2 Primary Source Analyses as shared Google Docs (See instructions for first one, and second one. Note the list of available materials is different! PSA 2 needs to include some material from the second half of the semester.)
- 1 encyclopedia article as a blog post in category HST267
- OPTIONAL: 1 Response Paper as a shared Google Doc
- 1 final reflection on what you learned in this course, either on your blog in category HST267 or as a shared Google Doc.
All work due by May 4, 11.59pm. Extensions available via email request; Incomplete grades available via email request. (Incomplete = you get more time to finish your assignments due to circumstances beyond your control, for instance a pandemic 🤷♀️. You will get a letter grade after submitting your work, and this semester you can that change to P/F.)
Last day to withdraw from courses: April 30!
