EAST ASIAN STUDIES 205 –
Spring 2008
EAST ASIAN RESEARCH AND
BIBLIOGRAPHIC METHODS
Tuesdays and Thursdays,
11:45 a.m.-1:05 p.m. in Humanities 128
Instructors:
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Office:
Humanities 210 Office
Hours: Tuesday 10:00-11:30 a.m.; Thursday 1:30-3:00 p.m.; and by appointment Phone: 442-5316 e-mail:
deblasi@albany.edu |
Office:
Humanities 243 Office
Hours: T Th 1:30-2:30 and by appt. Phone:
442-4119 e-mail:
fessler@albany.edu |
Course
Description:
This course will cover research and
bibliographic methods in East Asian Studies.
Students will learn how to navigate library catalogs and the internet
with specific emphasis on East Asian databases and resources. Students will
also learn how to use East Asian reference materials, such as character
dictionaries. Students will have a choice of which language--Japanese, Korean
or Chinese--they will focus on for the written and practical assignments. This
course has a strict prerequisite of at least one year of an East
Asian language (Mandarin, Japanese, or Korean).
Students who do not have this prerequisite are not qualified or
prepared for the course.
This
course fulfills the “New” General Education requirement of “Information
Literacy”
1.
General Education courses offer introductions to the central topics of
disciplines and interdisciplinary fields.
2.
General Education courses offer explicit rather than tacit
understandings of the procedures, practices, methodology and fundamental
assumptions of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields.
3.
General Education courses recognize multiple perspectives on the
subject matter.
4.
General Education courses emphasize active learning in an engaged
environment that enables students to be producers as well as consumers of
knowledge.
5.
General Education courses promote critical inquiry into the
assumptions, goals, and methods of various fields of academic study; they aim
to develop the interpretive, analytic, and evaluative competencies
characteristic of critical thinking.
Approved courses introduce students
to various ways in which information is organized and structured and to the
process of finding, using, producing, and distributing information in a variety
of media formats, including traditional print as well as computer databases.
Students acquire experience with resources available on the Internet and learn
to evaluate the quality of information, to use information ethically and
professionally, and to adjust to rapidly changing technology tools. Students
must complete this requirement within the freshman or sophomore year.
Courses that satisfy the Information
Literacy requirement will have three characteristics:
1) Classroom activities on finding, evaluating,
citing, and using information in print and electronic sources from the
University Libraries, World Wide Web, and other sources. Courses should address
questions concerning the ethical use of information, copyrights, and other
related issues that promote critical reflection.
2) Assignments, course work, or tutorials that
make extensive use of the University Libraries, World Wide Web, and other
information sources. Assignments should include finding, evaluating, and citing
information sources.
3) At least one research
project that requires students to find, evaluate, cite, and use information
presented in diverse formats from multiple sources and to integrate this
information within a single textual, visual, or digital document.
Required
Texts:
1)
Students should choose the appropriate dictionary, depending on their language
of choice. Dictionaries will be
discussed on the first day of class; students will be given two weeks in which
to acquire an appropriate dictionary.
2)
Depending on the area of the student’s interest, he/she will be required to buy
the following:
Research in Japanese Sources:
a Guide by
Herschel Webb and Marleigh Ryan
with additional material
by James Hoare.
[Lee, Ki-baik
(1984). A New History of Korea is recommended]
3)
Students also need one of the
following:
A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and
Dissertations
(Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) by Kate L. Turabian
MLA Handbook for Writers of
Research Papers by Joseph Gibaldi
4)
Students must have an active e-mail account, from which they can send and
receive attachments. They also must have
a valid student ID that allows them to access UAlbany
library materials. An ID invalidated
because of unpaid fines, etc. is NOT an excuse for late/incomplete work. It is also recommended that students bring a
CD-RW disk or flash memory drive with them to class on the days that involve
computer use.
5)
A CD-ROM of A Sino-Western Calendar for Two Thousand Years. This will be provided at cost by the
instructors (not the bookstore), probably about $1.00.
6)
This course uses two important internet resources:
Testing
and Grading:
Attendance
will be taken regularly; students are expected to attend class unless
extenuating circumstances prevent it.
Students are also expected to be active participants in this class. Class format will be largely hands-on
activities aimed at developing good research skills. There will be weekly
in-class assignments and/or homework.
Late assignments will receive a penalty.
The capstone project for this class will be an annotated bibliography. There will be a mid-term exam. Grading is as follows:
Attendance/participation: 20%
Homework: 25%
Midterm: 25%
Annotated Bibliography: 30%
This
syllabus is a contract. The
instructor(s) agree to teach the topics listed below, and to grade you on the
criteria listed above. The instructor(s)
consider a grade of "Incomplete" to be for emergencies (death in the
family, extreme illness, etc.), not for students who fail to plan ahead.
The instructor(s) do not curve grades
or give extra credit assignments. The grading scale is as follows: 93-100%=A;
90-92%=A-; 87-89%=B+; 83-86%=B; 80-82%=B-; 77-79%=C+; 73-76%=C; 70-72%=C-;
67-69%=D+; 63-66%=D; 60-62%=D-; 0-59%=E.
If
you want to check on your performance at any point in the semester, feel free
to come to the instructor(s) office(s) and we'll run through the numbers. If there are extenuating circumstances that
you anticipate will unduly affect your grade, it is your responsibility to
speak with the instructor(s) IN ADVANCE.
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Topic |
Reading (do
before class) |
Homework (due
on that day) /Notes |
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January |
24 |
Th |
Course
Introduction; Dictionaries,
required texts, etc. |
None |
None |
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29 |
Tu |
Navigating the
University Library Physically |
Take the Virtual
Tour at http://library.albany.edu/usered/tour/index.html and read the International
Students’ Guide to the Libraries |
Class will meet in
Humanities 128, then proceed to the main library. DO NOT BE LATE! |
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31 |
Th |
Navigating the
University Library Electronically |
Read the Introduction to
Minerva |
None |
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February |
5 |
Tu |
Word Processing |
Read Word
Processing basics and Inputting
symbols and CJK characters |
Homework:
Finding things in the library |
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7 |
Th |
EAS databases and
online resources (JSTOR; BAS; Project Muse) |
Take
Library Tutorial on Finding Scholarly Articles; Read about JSTOR,
Project Muse and BAS |
Homework:
Word Processing in CJK |
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12 |
Tu |
EAS databases and
online resources (NACSIS; OCLC) |
Homework:
Electronic databases on East Asia |
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14 |
Th |
Radicals |
►All: Read “Radicals
of Chinese Characters” ►Chinese:
Read “How
to Use a Chinese Dictionary” and “The 214 Kangxi Radicals” ►Japanese:
Read Nelson’s pp. 1002-1013 “How to Determine the Radical…” and “Kanji
Radicals” ►Korean:
Review Radicals |
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19 |
Tu |
WINTER BREAK |
NONE |
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21 |
Th |
Electronic and Online
Dictionaries |
NONE |
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26 |
Tu |
Romanization |
►Read “Romanization
of CJK Languages” ►Browse Course
material on romanization |
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28 |
Th |
Simplification |
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March |
4 |
Tu |
Calligraphy |
Review packet
on calligraphy and fonts Korean: Pratt
& Rutt: “Hangul (all)” (pp. 158-162) |
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6 |
Th |
Development and
History of Dictionaries |
►Chinese,
Japanese & Korean (all): Manual, pp. 17-93, esp, pp. 60ff on dicts. (J.
and K.: see ERES for this reading) |
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11 |
Tu |
Morohashi’s Dictionary |
No dictionary
homework—Morohashi’s will be incorporated in
the midterm, though! |
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13 |
Th |
Citation |
Read packet on citing from the MLA
Style Guide |
MIDTERM EXAMINATION due at BEGINNING of class. Bring your
citation text to class on this day! |
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18 |
Tu |
Annotated
Bibliographies |
Read packet on
writing an annotated bibliography |
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20 |
Th |
Structuring a
paper (putting everything together) |
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25 |
Tu |
SPRING BREAK |
NONE |
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27 |
Th |
SPRING BREAK |
NONE |
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April |
1 |
Tu |
Chronology;
telling time |
►Chinese: Manual, pp. 10-14; 170-219 ►Japanese: Companion,
pp. 113-127; 399-414 ►Korean: Pratt
& Rutt, “Kapcha
Characters” and “Kapcha Year Numbers” (pp.
199-203); “Twenty-Four Solar Terms”; “Hours of the Day”; ►All: look Dates in
Chinese History and A
Practical Guide to Chinese date conversion |
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3 |
Th |
Eras |
►Chinese: Manual, pp. 10-14; 170-219 ►Japanese: Companion
pp. 113-127 ►Korean: New
History, pp. 387-394 (ERES);
chart in Pratt & Rutt on p. xx |
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8 |
Tu |
Units of
Measure/Statistics |
All: CJK Cardinal/Ordinal systems ►China: Manual,
pp. 220-253 ►Japan: Research
in Japanese Sources, Ch. 3 ►Korea: TBA |
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10 |
Th |
Biographical
Resources |
►Chinese: Manual,
pp. 94-130 ►Japanese:
Ch. 4 of Research in Japanese Sources ►Korean:
Pratt & Rutt: “Surnames”; “Names (all)” (pp.
307-309) |
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15 |
Tu |
Historical
Resources—Ranks |
►Chinese: Manual,
pp. 530-531 ►Japanese: Companion,
pp. 443-478 ►Korean: A
New History of |
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17 |
Th |
Historical
Resources: |
All: Course
materials on Historical Research ►Chinese: Manual,
skim sections II-V. Course
materials on Chinese History ►Japanese: Research in Japanese Sources, ch. 8 |
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22 |
Tu |
Historical
Resources: |
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24 |
Th |
Literature
Resources |
►Chinese: Manual,
pp. 593-600 ►Japanese: Companion,
skim pts. 3-6 ►Korean:
Review UHBibliography |
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29 |
Tu |
Geographical
Resources |
►All: Course Materials on
Geography ►Chinese: Manual,
pp. 131-169 ►Japanese: Companion,
pp. 415-442; Ch. 5 of Research in Japanese Sources ►Korean:
Review UHBibliography on Geography |
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May |
1 |
Th |
Religion/Philosophy
Resources |
►Chinese: Manual,
pp. 567-592 ►Japanese: Companion,
pp. 368-397 ►Korean:
Pratt & Rutt, “Religions, New”; “Confucianism”;
“Buddhism”; “Shamanism”; “Protestants” |
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6 |
Tu |
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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE |
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