All participants must complete each of the five components below. Completion of each component for each participant should take no more than five hours. Please read the specific instructions for each component that are found under the name of the faculty member responsible for the component. Each lesson gives you the opportunity to answer one required question and one of two optional questions. In other words, you will answer two questions from two lessons in each component.

Lucien Ellington
Component 1. East Asian History and Contemporary Affairs
Choose any two of the following lessons below and follow the specific instructions found in each lesson.

• Lesson One: Inventions and Ideas - China
• Lesson Two: Early Modern Japan
• Lesson Three: Contemporary East Asia

Ronnie Littlejohn
Component 2. Philosophy and Religion
Choose any two of the following lessons below and follow the specific instructions found in each lesson.

• Lesson One: Confucianism in East Asia
• Lesson Two: The Migration of Buddhism in East Asia
• Lesson Three: China Encounters Religions of the West
  

Ron Kalafsky
Component 3. East Asian Geography

• Lesson One: Japan’s Demographic Challenges and Human Capital Issues
• Lesson Two: Japan’s Physical Geography, Population, and Land Use
• Lesson Three: Three Gorges Dam: Its Goals, Benefits, and Impacts

Corinne Dale: Component 4. East Asian Literature

• Lesson One: Tang Dynasty Poetry: The Golden Age of Chinese Poetry Readings
• Lesson Two: Vernacular Narrative (Ming Dynasty)
• Lesson Three: Twentieth-Century Short Fiction

Suzanne Wright: Component 5. East Asian Art

• Lesson One: Northern Song Landscape Painting and its Philosophical Underpinnings
• Lesson Two: Japanese Narrative Handscrolls
• Lesson Three: Chinese Funerary Artifacts

October 3, 2009 Final Online Workshop

1: Japan's Geography: Cultural Landscapes, Parts 1 and 2

2: Two Classic Genres of Japanese Literature

3: Garden Design as Art in China

4: Japan’s Schools