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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Visualizing Japan (1850s- 1930s): Westernization, Protest, Modernity

Massachusetts Institute of Technology via MITx Online

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An MITx/HarvardX collaboration, this course explores Japan's transition into the modern world through the historical visual record.

Syllabus

  • Methodologies to "visualize" Japanese history between the 1850s and 1930s
  • An understanding of Westernization, social protest, and modernity in Japanese history through the visual record of these events
  • Strategies for learning—and teaching—history through visual sources

Taught by

John W. Dower, Shigeru Miyagawa, Andrew Gordon, and Gennifer Weisenfeld

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