Countdown to Class
I just checked the course listing today, and there's the class, with my name listed as the instructor. So far, twelve students are signed up for the class out of a possible class size of thirty. I checked out the other courses, and it seems that twelve is a good draw for a 9:00 a.m. class.
dadandgirl, fmh said you couldn't get into the class. Try again if you're still interested, because there's no wait list.
Since there are only thirty allowed for the class, I will be able to have discussions on the primary resources, hopefully. I need to get some discussion questions together and find some supplemental reading material. I'm not sure I'll need the latter yet, but I want to identify some if I decide a particular area is just not very fleshed out. Of course, the earlier we go, the thinner the body of material.
Right now, I'm working on a lecture about the Tang dynasty (618 - 907 CE). So the list of finished lecture skeletons and finished lectures pending once over with additional sources are:
Pre-History (Neolithic to Shang "dynasty")
Classical Age (Zhou Dynasty to Warring States Period)
Confucianism
Taoism
Legalism
Imperial Unification - Qin Dynasty
Han Dynasty
Buddhism
Sui Dynasty
Women in Imperial China
Rise of Nomadic Empire - part I
Once I have finished the Tang dynasty, which I've pushed together with the Sui dynasty for one lecture, I need to go back and work on some of the earlier lectures to firm them up.
The one irritating thing? Somehow, half of my Qin Dynasty lecture went poof! So I get to destroy the house of Qin all over again.
I had more to say, but I don't feel like writing anymore. I'll plunge in again later.
dadandgirl, fmh said you couldn't get into the class. Try again if you're still interested, because there's no wait list.
Since there are only thirty allowed for the class, I will be able to have discussions on the primary resources, hopefully. I need to get some discussion questions together and find some supplemental reading material. I'm not sure I'll need the latter yet, but I want to identify some if I decide a particular area is just not very fleshed out. Of course, the earlier we go, the thinner the body of material.
Right now, I'm working on a lecture about the Tang dynasty (618 - 907 CE). So the list of finished lecture skeletons and finished lectures pending once over with additional sources are:
Pre-History (Neolithic to Shang "dynasty")
Classical Age (Zhou Dynasty to Warring States Period)
Confucianism
Taoism
Legalism
Imperial Unification - Qin Dynasty
Han Dynasty
Buddhism
Sui Dynasty
Women in Imperial China
Rise of Nomadic Empire - part I
Once I have finished the Tang dynasty, which I've pushed together with the Sui dynasty for one lecture, I need to go back and work on some of the earlier lectures to firm them up.
The one irritating thing? Somehow, half of my Qin Dynasty lecture went poof! So I get to destroy the house of Qin all over again.
I had more to say, but I don't feel like writing anymore. I'll plunge in again later.