Undergraduate Course: Japan: Politics, Culture and Social Change 1868-1952 (HIST10049)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course explores the political, social and cultural changes that occurred in Japan from 1868, when the old feudal order began to be dismantled and replaced by a centralized state, to the American occupation of Japan following its defeat in World War Two. |
| Course description |
This one semester option course explores the political, social and cultural changes that occurred in Japan from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the end of the American occupation in 1952. It particularly focuses on such issues as the evolution and nature of popular protest, the status of 'minorities', the formation of national and cultural identities, Japanese 'fascism', and the impact of the American occupation after World War Two.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | A pass or passes in 40 credits of first level historical courses or equivalent and a pass or passes in 40 credits of second level historical courses or equivalent.
Students should only be enrolled on this course with approval from the History Honours Programme Administrator.
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Visiting students must have 3 History courses at grade B or above. We will only consider University/College level courses. Enrolments for this course are managed by the CAHSS Visiting Student Office, in line with the quotas allocated by the department. All enquiries to enrol must be made through the CAHSS Visiting Student Office. It is not appropriate for students to contact the department directly to request additional spaces.
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| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- A general understanding of key events and processes in modern Japanese history.
- Insight into new scholarship and historiographical debate focusing on such key issues as the evolution and nature of popular protest, discourses of cultural and national identities, the significance of constitutional and political change, the origins of modern Japanese feminism, the nature of the Japanese wartime state, and the ambivalent impact of the American occupation after World War Two.
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Reading List
M. Jansen, "The Meiji Restoration", in The Cambridge History of Japan vol. 5 (Cambridge, 1989).
M. Jansen, G. Rozman (eds), Japan In Transition: From Tokugawa to Meiji (Princeton, 1986).
D.Stegewerns (ed.), Nationalism and Internationalism in Imperial Japan (London, 2003).
E. Ohnuki-Tierney, Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms and Nationalisms (Chicago, 2002). |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Japan |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Christopher Harding
Tel: (0131 6)50 9960
Email: Christopher.Harding@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Katherine Shaw
Tel: (0131 6)50 8349
Email: K.Shaw@ed.ac.uk |
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