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| Ashigaru | Mar 16 2015, 06:07 PM Post #1 |
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Wakasa no kami
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I've become a big fan of online learning after spending the past year taking Duolingo's Spanish course and studying HTML/CSS and JavaScript at Khan Academy and Codecademy. On a lark I decided to go through the largest MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) sites and see what was available in terms of Japanese history-related material. I haven't taken any of them yet, so I can't vouch for their content or quality, but maybe other members will find the following helpful. MIT Open Courseware Intro to Japanese Culture Japan in the Age of the Samurai: History and Film edX Visualizing Japan (1850s-1930s): Westernization, Protest, Modernity Visualizing Postwar Tokyo, Part 1 Visualizing Postwar Tokyo, Part 2 Webcast.Berkeley Introduction to Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture Introduction to Modern Japanese Literature and Culture History of the Culture of Tea in China and Japan Khan Academy Japanese Art Asian Art Museum - Japan Although they're trickier to link to, the iTunes University app is a good source of both additional courses and mirrors of the above ones, so if you have an iDevice I'd recommend checking there as well. If there are any readers out there with advice about other courses, I'd be interested to see it. |
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Meditate upon exile, torture, wars, diseases, shipwreck, so that you may not be a novice to any misfortune. - Seneca | |
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| Ashigaru | Mar 17 2015, 02:13 PM Post #2 |
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Here's a nicely-presented 14-minute intro to the Heian Period: Japan in the Heian Period and Cultural History: Crash Course World History 227. It appears to be sourced from The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan by Ivan Morris. |
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Meditate upon exile, torture, wars, diseases, shipwreck, so that you may not be a novice to any misfortune. - Seneca | |
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| faust | Apr 14 2016, 03:46 AM Post #3 |
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Thanks for sharing this ! I've enjoyed the course on Japanese art at the Khan Academy.
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