NCTA Special Topics Course:
Reinventing Japan, 1945 - 1989
Full Course Dates: October 3 - October 31, 2024
Online with Both Synchronous and Asynchronous Components
Course Breakdown
Asynchronous Discussion Forums: October 3 - October 31, 2024
Live Webinar Sessions: October 10, 17, 24, 2024
Live Webinar Times: 6:30pm - 7:45pm (Eastern Time)
- Occupied (1945-52)
- Renewal and Resurgence (1952-1972)
- Boom (1972-89).
Each module will begin with a live 75-minute webinar followed by a week of asynchronous discussion on classroom resources and applications. The program runs October 3 - October 31, 2024, with an introductory week, three one-week modules, and three required webinars. Required webinars are:
- October 10, 6:30-7:45pm Eastern Time
- October 17, 6:30-7:45pm Eastern Time
- October 24, 6:30-7:45pm Eastern Time
Educators may elect to write an optional completion paper focusing on classroom implementation of the course content, due November 9.
This special topics course is open to all U.S. educators, with special priority given to secondary history and social studies teachers from NCTA University of Pittsburgh's 11 State Region of Alabama, Delaware, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia
All participants receive an advance text ( Japan Since 1954 (Key Issues in Asian Studies) by Paul E. Dunscomb) as well as access to resource packets and lessons within the course online platform. The course provides 16 hours of PD for fulfilling all requirements; educators completing the optional paper will receive a $100 stipend in addition to the 16 hours.
For all educators, we can provide and send you with a Certificate of Completion.
Pennsylvania teachers who complete the workshop will receive Act 48 hours in addition to the Certificate of Completion.
This short course has reached its capacity and is now closed to new applicants.
Learn more about the Instructors for this Special Topics Course
Lynn Parisi is a national consultant and course instructor for NCTA. She retired in 2023 as the founding Director of the University of Colorado Program for Teaching East Asia and one of the five founding directors of NCTA. At TEA and NCTA, Lynn served as lead instructor on professional development courses for teachers ranging from one-day workshops to full online NCTA courses and summer study tours. She is the author of numerous curriculum publications including award-winning units on Japan and China through the MIT Visualizing Cultures project. Prior to TEA and NCTA, Lynn was a high-school history teacher and spent 18 months teaching English in Japan and Taiwan.
Ethan Segal is Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Japan Council at Michigan State University. He completed his graduate training at Stanford University and the University of Tokyo and is the author of Coins, Trade, and the State: Economic Growth in Early Medieval Japan as well as a variety of articles and book chapters. Prof. Segal has won several teaching awards at MSU and has been speaking for NCTA workshops since 2004.