Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Class Schedule Changed-2

This is Shoji. Please read through this post.

As you know, our class schedule was changed coz we didn't have time for Kyushu region presentation last week. (I'm sorry, Kyushu people.)
I tried to reschedule the rest of the semester.
I'll put the new schedule below. What do you think about this schedule?
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1/10
Introduction
Distribution of presentation-topics
*Sign up for the Japanese Culture Blog

1/17
School Closed due to Snow

1/24
Japanese Film Festival “Sanjuro” @ COED 010, 5pm

1/31
Presentations: Geography (Hokkaido, Tohoku, Kanto, Chubu region)
Origami (Paper folding)

2/7
Guest Lecture-1
Presentations: Geography (Kinki, Chugoku, Shikoku region)

2/14
Guest Lecture-2
Presentations: Geography (Kyushu region)
Calligraphy

2/21
Guest Lecture-3
1st Test: Geography-A

2/28
1st Test: Geography-B
History (Jomon Period, Yayoi Period, Kofun Period, Asuka Period, Nara Period, Heian Period, Kamakura Period, Muromachi Period)

3/6
Spring Break

3/13
2nd Test: History, Calligraphy
*1st Comparative Paper Due

3/20
History (Azuchi-Momoyama Period, Edo Period)
Tea Ceremony, Traditional Performing Arts (Noh, Kabuki, Bunraku), or Flower Arrangement

3/27
Japanese Film Festival “Umizaru: The Sea Monkey” @ (some good room), 5pm

4/3
3rd Test: History, Traditional Performing Arts
*2nd Comparative Paper Due

4/10
History (Meiji Period, Taisho Period, Showa Period, Heisei Period)

4/17
4th test; History

4/24
Final Presentations-1

5/7
Final Presentations-2

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The main changes are:
1. I divided the first test on geography into two different test (Geography test-A covers northern 4 regions, and test-B covers southern 4 regions) because your presentation covered a lot of information (*I thank you for your good presentations). I thought it might be too much to cover for one test...isn't it?
2. I divided the final presentations into 2 days (at the end of the semester). Just because it took so long last semester when I did this in one day, and some people left before all presentations ended. I felt sorry for the presenters who went last.

Anyway, I'll ask what you think about this new schedule at class tomorrow.


PS: Please try not to sleep in the guest lecture tomorrow.

1 comment:

Savanna said...

I like the changes you made. They seem reasonable.