UNSW Handbook Course - Ancient to Modern Japan: Age of the Sword

Ancient to Modern Japan: Age of the Sword - HIST2076


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: School of History
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: 36 units of credit
	Offered: To be advised
	Fee Band: 1

Description

A thematic treatment of Japanese history to just after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, this course covers a variety of cultural and political topics. We discuss the religions, values and ideologies of medieval and later ruling classes (civil aristocrats and samurai), and also look at folk religion, peasant protest, and aspects of popular culture. Students are encouraged to reflect upon issues of historiography such as: how the Japanese past has been constructed by scholars and to what ends; how our interpretations of the past are in large part the products of our present.

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