First Project

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Project #1 - Due 02/10-02/12

 

 

1:45 Class

 

02/10

02/12

 

Name: Caroline Dougherty

Topic: Shinsengumi

 

Name: Lauren Dubuke

Topic: Shotokan Karate

Name: Matthew Metcalf

Topic: Akira Toriyama's Legacy

Name: Jason Fountain

Topic: undecided

 

Name:Jordan Maxwell

Topic: Interpretation of Wabi Sabi

 

Name:Chris Hampson

Topic: Individual and the Environment

Name:Sarah Durgin

Topic: Host Clubs

Name:Stanley Williams

Topic: Sapporo Snow Festival

Name:David Howard

Topic: Japanese Steel

Name: Jason Gum

Topic: Stories without words
   

 

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3:10 Class

 

02/10

 

02/12

Name: Aja Julian

Topic: Shintaro Kago

 

Name: Nicholas Gray

Topic: Kozure Okami

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Name:Ryan Deal

Topic: Irezumi

 

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Name:Erica Layton

Topic: Awa-odori

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Name: Zach Maye

Topic: Shintoism

 

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Name: Drew Perkins

Topic: Modern Robotics

 

Assignment:

 

Choose one of these three options:

- Write a 3-4 page paper

 

- Make a Wiki page (and present it to the class)

- make sure there isn't a page with the same information already

- DO NOT just cut and paste text from another website - plagiarism laws are in effect

- YOU MUST link to your page from somewhere else on the sight

 

- Make a piece of art (and present it to class

- it can be any format, any media, any length, but the presentation should be 10-15 min.

 

Grading:

 

You will be graded on several aspects of your project

  • Mechanics (grammar, execution, etc...)
  • Thesis (does the project/paper have a point?)
  • Relevance to our class (topic in relation of the individual to his/her society)
  • Originality
  • Connectivity - if doing a webpage, link the page from at least three spots in the rest of the wiki; if doing a paper, send it to me in electronic form as well as paper; if doing an art project, take pictures and add to the art page.

 

History

  • Discuss about how Japanese feudal practices contributed to making it a society based on groups (i.e. insiders)
  • Talk about social classes in Japan and how they affected the individual/society relationship.
  • Choose any of the big three Uniters of Japan (Oda Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu) and do a report describing how their methods of warring/ruling affected the individual's relationship to the group.

 

Wabi Sabi

  • The Iemoto system (in more detail) and how it relates to the self's relationship with society.
  • Choose any artist (Japanese or not) and explain how their work can be considered Wabi-Sabi and why
  • Choose any piece of art you know about (or any piece of art you've done, a picture you've taken, etc...) and explain why it fits into the Wabi-Sabi philosophy
  • Do a photo collection of Wabi-Sabi Photos (and post them on the wiki)

 

Manga

  • Choose any Manga artist and discuss how his/her work comments on self/society
  • Choose any Manga and discuss how it comments on the loyalty to oneself vs. loyalty to the group
  • Choose any Manga genre (work comics, samurai comics, etc...) and discuss how its conventions and characteristics reflect the tension between the individual and the group.
  • Choose any topic mentioned in the book Manga!Manga! that interests you and isn't fully explored already and do a short project on it.
  • Make a manga

 

 

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