{"id":79,"date":"2006-01-23T08:40:15","date_gmt":"2006-01-23T13:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/?p=79"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:41:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:41:14","slug":"asia-on-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2006\/01\/asia-on-the-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia on the move"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we have been posting syllabi and asking for comments I thought I would do something radical and post one for a class that I will not be teaching until next Fall, in hopes of getting comments in time to do something about them.<\/p>\n

The class is ASIA 200<\/a> the intro class for our Asian Studies minors. This will be the first time it has been taught, so I am not really sure how it will work out. We introduced it in part because Latin American Studies and Pan-African Studies have intro classes, but we don\u2019t, and we figure that it will bring the students together. 1<\/sup><\/p>\n

The class is supposed to introduce as many parts of Asia as possible, and as many disciplinary approaches as possible. I organized it around a general theme of travel. The theme, of course, does not really matter, it\u2019s just something to hang the course on. A lot of this is stuff that I am not really all that familiar with. What I wanted to do was find a range of interesting teachable things. I am really looking forward to the class, since one of the frustrations of this job is that I often read or see interesting things, but then I have no venue to teach about them. Now, with a bit of creativity, I do. Any advice about any of these topics, other better ways to do things, better sources etc. is very welcome. <\/p>\n

___________________
\n1<\/sup> I suppose it is worth explaining what the point of the class is. Like many places we have an interdisciplinary Asian Studies program that has almost no budget and no \u201creal\u201d faculty, in the sense of people who are hired to teach Asian Studies. Instead we have a group of people who have been hired by various departments to teach about Asia, and the University gave us a huge pile of money (Well, it would be a pretty big pile if you traded it in for pennies) to set up an interdisciplinary minor. As a result our course list consists of anything about Asia that any department thinks is worth teaching for some reason, rather than a group of classes that are supposed to go together somehow. This means that there is not much structure to the minor, and this class is supposed to help provide that. A lot of our students also don\u2019t realize how broad this field is, and we are supposed to expose them to a lot of stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we have been posting syllabi and asking for comments I thought I would do something radical and post one for a class that I will not be teaching until next Fall, in hopes of getting comments in time to do something about them. The class is ASIA 200 the intro class for our Asian…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[165,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-1h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5094,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/5094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}