JAPAN PODCAST SERIES FOR TEACHERS

Meet UW East Asia Resource Center Japan summer institute professor Marie Anchordoguy via podcast. Each week for five weeks, Professor Marie Anchordoguy will talk about Japan in the world as a preview of some of the topics she will be discussing in the UW summer course for pre-service and in-service teachers, Perspectives on East Asia for Teachers: Contemporary Japan (SISEA 490 and EDC&I 495), June 22–July 22, 2009.

Podcast series:

Week 1:  Why Do We Need to Know about Japan?

Week 2:  Japan's Model of Industrial Development

Week 3:  Japan's National Identity

Week 4:  The U.S. Occupation of Japan

Week 5:  Japan's Economic Crisis in the 1990s & Its Impact on Society

For more information about the summer course or to download an application, please visit http://jsis.washington.edu/earc/summerinstitutes.shtml or call the EARC with questions (206) 543-1921.