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• HISTORICAL STUDIES – HIS2B SEMESTER TWO.
• LECTURER – DR. J.N. KLEE.
• CONSULTATION TIMES – MONDAY AND
THURSDAY 10:00 – 13:00.
• STUDY GUIDE, TUTORIAL GUIDE AND
BLACKBOARD
• - READ THE GUIDES.
• - ALWAYS READ BLACKBOARD – OPEN LINK ON
EAST ASIAN HISTORY THEN GO TO ‘CONTENT’
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2. • TUTORIALS:
• - TUTORIALS IN THE SEMINAR ROOM AND
OTHER VENUES. STARTS ON 30TH OF JULY.
• - READ GUIDE – FOUR TUTORIALS THIS
SEMESTER – DATES GIVEN.
• - WORK PREPAIRED FOR TUTORIALS MUST
BE HANDED TO TUTOR AFTER TUTORIAL
SESSION.
• - TUTORIALS – 25% SEMESTER MARK.
3. • - ASSESSMENTS:
• - TEST – FRIDAY 13TH OF AUGUST – 10%.
• - ASSIGNMENT – DATE AND NATURE WILL BE
MADE KNOWN – 15%.
• CLASS ATTENDANCE AND ASSESSMENTS.
• ATTEND ALL YOUR CLASSES DO AL YOUR
ASSESSMENTS.
• NO SICK TESTS?
• TEST AND ASSIGNMENT WILL BE DONE ON
BLACKBOARD. INFO WILL BE GIVEN.
4. • HISTORICAL FOCUS FOR THIS TERM IS –
• EAST ASIA: FROM THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
TO THE AGE OF WESTERNIZATION.
• - 3 THEMES:
• 1. LATE MING AND QING DYNASTIES.
• 2. THE HERMIT KINGDOM.
• 3. INDUSTRIALIZATION – CHINA.
• 4. NINETEENTH-CENTURY OPENING OF KOREA.
• 5. REPUBLICAN REVOLUTION IN CHINA.
5. • - THIS HISTORICAL FOCUS IS NEW.
• - STUDENTS MUST READ ALL THE INDICATED
PAGES IN THE PRESCRIBED BOOK.
• - PRESCRIBED BOOK IS:
• CHARLES HOLCOMBE, A HISTORY OF EAST
ASIA: FROM THE ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION TO
THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.
• - COPIES OF RELEVANT PAGES WILL BE MADE
AVAILABLE ON BLACKBOARD. SOME IMPORTANT
BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE IN LIBRARY – SEE GUIDE.
6. • WHY DO WE STUDY THIS SECTION?
• - TO GET A BROADER VIEW OF GLOBAL
INTERACTION BETWEEN NATIONS?
• - TO UNDERSTAND ASIAN SOCIETIES?
• - TO UNDERSTAND THEIR SOCIAL, CULTURAL,
ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL INTERACTION AND
DEVELOPMENT?
• - TO UNDERSTAND INTER-NATIONAL
INFLUANCES?
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8. • LECTURE CONTENT FOR FRIDAY:
• THEME 1 – SEE STUDY GUIDE.
• HOLCOMBY – PP. 160-188. ( ON BLACKBOARD)
