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Visualizing Japan (1850s-1930s): Westernization, Protest, Modernity
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 6 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
- Methodologies to "visualize" Japanese history between the 1850s and 1930s
- An understanding of Westernization, social protest, modernity in Japanese history through digital imagery
- Strategies for learning--and teaching--history through visual sources
Prerequisite
Instructors
John W. Dower
Professor Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andrew Gordon
The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History
Harvard University
Shigeru Miyagawa
Professor of Linguistics and Kochi-Majiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gennifer Weisenfeld
Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Duke University
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