Course schedule (S20)

Readings and what to prepare for every class, as well as links to slides: click on the week!

  • Week 15: Wrapping up
  • OPTIONAL Week 14: Story of the Stone
  • Week 13: Monkey!
  • Week 12: Dragons, and a bit of medicine
  • Week 11: Mountains
  • Week 10: Foxes
  • Week 9: Regrouping and restarting
  • Week 8: Buddhist hell
  • Week 7: Early China retrospective; Pressbooks and Open Education Resources
  • Week 6: First Emperor’s Tomb and Terra Cotta Warriors; Chu Culture
  • Week 5: “Masters of the Strange”; and Information Literacy in the Library
  • Week 4: Five Phases and yin-yang; Afterlife, ancestors, and ghosts (before Buddhism)
  • Week 3: Oracle bones; and Classic of Mountains and Seas
  • Week 2: Common beliefs, then and now
  • Week 1: Introductions and setting up sites