History 450 - JYW Seminar in History
Spring
2018
03
4.00
Garrett Washington
TU TH 2:30PM 3:45PM
UMass Amherst
52608
This seminar trains students in historical research techniques and the writing of history, and fulfills the University's Junior Writing requirement. See the History Department course description guide for various sectional sub-titles and descriptions.
Open to Seniors & Juniors only. Race, Religion, & Nation/E. Asia: What roles has religion played in defining national and racial identity in East Asia? Come examine the arrival, development, and impacts of
religions and religious institutions in the formation of ideas about race in East Asia. Our topics will range from the European Society of Jesus in the 16th and 17th centuries to American and German missionaries
in the 19th century East Asia to colonized Korea?s experience with Japanese Shinto, Japanese Protestantism, and American Protestantism to China?s Muslim minority. We will use excerpts from historical textbooks,
diaries, newspapers, journals, magazines, scholarly articles and novels to examine the racial contours and the intellectual and cultural repercussions of these cross-cultural encounters. The course is
specifically designed to equip students with the tools necessary to prepare and execute a short research-based history paper. Must not have taken 593RR
religions and religious institutions in the formation of ideas about race in East Asia. Our topics will range from the European Society of Jesus in the 16th and 17th centuries to American and German missionaries
in the 19th century East Asia to colonized Korea?s experience with Japanese Shinto, Japanese Protestantism, and American Protestantism to China?s Muslim minority. We will use excerpts from historical textbooks,
diaries, newspapers, journals, magazines, scholarly articles and novels to examine the racial contours and the intellectual and cultural repercussions of these cross-cultural encounters. The course is
specifically designed to equip students with the tools necessary to prepare and execute a short research-based history paper. Must not have taken 593RR