| SES # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to the course | |
| Module 1: Black Ships and Samurai | ||
| 2 | BS & S I: Opening of Japan, beginning of Westernization; Japanese history up to Perry | |
| 3 | BS & S II: How did the Japanese visualize the Americans, and the Americans, the Japanese? | Assignment 1 out |
| 4 | Facing East, facing West I | Assignment 1 due |
| 5 | Transition: After Perry: Historical overview of the transition from Perry to Russo-Japanese War | |
| 6 | Group activity | |
| Module 2: Social Protest in Imperial Japan: The Hibiya Riot of 1905 | ||
| 7 | Social protest and the media | Assignment 2 out |
| 8 | Imperial democracy | Assignment 2 due |
| Module 3: Transition from Hibiya to Shiseido | ||
| 9 | From Hibiya to Shiseido—Shiseido: consumer culture, cosmopolitanism | |
| 10 | Shiseido & modernity | |
| 11 | Conclusion of "Visualizing Japan" on edX | Revision of Assignment 2 due |
| 12 | Making of "Visualizing Japan" on edX | Assignment 3 out |
| 13 | Student presentations on the Shiseido assignment | Assignment 3 due |
| 14 | Student presentations (cont.) | |
| 15 | Visualization and history | |
| Module 4: Visualizing Postwar Tokyo - UTokyo MOOC | ||
| 16 | Occupation and Americanism | |
| 17 | Occupation and Americanism (cont.) | |
| 18 | Imperial gaze and royal wedding | |
| 19 | Special guest lecture 1 | |
| 20 | Special guest lecture 2 | |
| 21 | Imperial gaze and royal wedding (cont.) | |
| 22 | Group project preparation | |
| 23 | Presenting your play about the occupation; also individual consultations on your final project | |
| 24 | "Four Facets of Contemporary Japanese Architecture" — UTokyo MOOC | |
| 25 | Individual consultation for the final paper | |
| 26 | Student presentation | |
| 27 | Student presentation (cont.) | Final paper due |