What
are these things for?
These
"Visions" are designed to engage your thinking about visual documents
of Japan's cultural history. Your abilities to notice details, draw
meaningful connections among sources, and interpret visual items historically
will be honed as you examine the examples represented in each of the
three units. While interesting in and of themselves, they are not presented
here for merely passive enjoyment (although I hope you enjoy them);
you will be prompted to actively produce meaning(s) from them by considering
them in the context of in-class materials, discussions, and short write-ups
that you will email to me .
How
do you do them?
Each
of the three Engaging Visions introduces visual artifacts related to
particular themes within each unit of the course. In general, you should
begin viewing the Vision at the onset of each unit, and re-view it as
you progress with the lectures and readings for that unit and as you
begin thinking about the write-up that is linked to it. Specific guidelines,
all rather self-explanatory, are accessible by clicking on the desired
Vision from the following menu. |
