Course Schedule Fall 21

  • Week 1 (Aug. 30 – Sept. 5): Getting to know each other, and setting up the course
  • Week 2 (Sept. 6 – Sept. 12): Refining course policies and basic toolkit of Chinese history
  • Week 3 (Sept. 13 – Sept. 19): Prep for the library visit and projects are getting REAL(er)
  • Week 4 (Sept. 20 – Sept. 26): References the easy way and Early China (really early)
  • Week 5 (Sept. 27 – Oct. 3): Eastern Zhou dynasty/Spring and Autumn and Warring States thought, and project Lab time
  • Week 6 (Oct. 4 – Oct. 10): project Lab time and Thu: time for showing off too!
  • Week 7 (Oct. 11 – Oct. 17): Project peer feedback; Powerful women in the early Empire
  • Week 8 (Oct. 18 – Oct. 24): First Emperor’s Tomb/Terra Cotta Warriors and Project Lab Time
  • Week 9 (Oct. 25 – 31): Buddhism comes to China
  • Week 10 (Nov. 1 – Nov. 7): Tang China
  • Week 11 (Nov. 8 – Nov. 14): Nov. Song dynasty
  • Week 12 (Nov. 15– Nov. 21): Liao/Jin dynasties
  • Week 13 (Nov. 22 – Nov. 28): And then the Mongols came…
  • Week 14 (Nov. 29 – Dec. 5): Ming China: showing off, first Europeans
  • Week 15 (Dec. 6 – Dec. 10): Qing: Return of the Jurchen, and some more Europeans
  • Finals week (Dec. 13 – Dec. 18)