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East Asia: China and Japan<\/strong><\/p>\n

An introduction to the classical order in China and Japan followed by a consideration of the impact of Western intervention and internal change from the 18th century to the present.\u00a0 Special emphasis on the interaction between China and Japan in this period.<\/p>\n

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Japanese Society and Culture<\/strong><\/p>\n

This course is an introduction to contemporary Japanese society. The course examines what everyday life is like in Japan from anthropological and historical perspectives. It explores such major social institutions as families, gender, communities, workplaces, and belief systems. The course focuses as well on the ways in which modernization has affected these institutions and the identities of Japanese people.<\/p>\n

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Asian Urban Ecology<\/strong><\/p>\n

Asian cities are among the most economically productive in the world, and also number some of the most polluted and environmentally challenged urban centers on the planet.\u00a0 Further complicating this picture is the fact that many Asian cities are also on the cutting edge of policies associated with \u201cecological modernization,\u201d the effort to balance and manage competing economic and environmental interests and values.\u00a0 This course will examine a range of Asian cities, including, for example, Beijing, Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Seoul, and a range of issues like resource management, urban sprawl and congestion, environmental protection, green space and urban design, biodiversity and environmental justice with a view to better understanding the evolving interdependence among political, economic, social and natural systems in urban Asia.<\/p>\n

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Environmental Degradation of the Yellow River, China<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Yellow River, central to the rise of the Chinese civilization, is the most turbid river in the modern world; however, its water was clear 1000 years ago.\u00a0 What has happened to this river?\u00a0 This interdisciplinary introductory-level course focuses on the environmental degradation of the Yellow River beginning 5000 years ago.\u00a0 This course is aimed at both science and non-science students alike.\u00a0 There are no prerequisites.\u00a0 Topics covered will include the climate change in the Yellow River drainage basin, the impacts of deforestation and human reclamation on the Yellow River and its significance to fluvial and sediment discharge, the frequent river course shifts and their relationship to environmental degradation and human activities, the fluvial and sediment budget and sedimentation in the lower reaches and offshore area, and the socio-economic impacts of the historical river course shifts and their significance to regional sustainability development.<\/p>\n

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East Asia: China and Japan An introduction to the classical order in China and Japan followed by a consideration of the impact of Western intervention and internal change from the 18th century to the present.\u00a0 Special emphasis on the interaction between China and Japan in this period.   Japanese Society and Culture This course is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1278,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-related-courses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japaneseprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japaneseprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japaneseprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japaneseprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japaneseprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japaneseprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japaneseprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japaneseprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/japaneseprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}