Dear educators,

We are excited about the upcoming year’s seminar sessions and the opportunity to introduce the Chinese and Japanese cultures to teachers in our state. This programming is sponsored by the University of Oklahoma East Asia Institute, and funded by the Freeman Foundation as part of the National Consortium for Teaching Asia (NCTA) at Columbia University. As a multi-year initiative to encourage and facilitate teaching and learning about East Asia in elementary and secondary schools nationwide, and to help our community to develop a deeper understanding of these wonderful cultures.

China Seminar Overview: China: Moving into the Light - This course is a look into Chinese culture, its philosophies, history, and politics. We will also look at how China's political past effects the modern life in China and its' people.

Japan Seminar Overview: Samurai Culture: The Samurai existed for hundreds of years where they developed a moral code (Bushido or way of the warrior) that influenced Japanese culture for generations.

Where: All face-to-face workshops will be held at OU Schusterman in Tulsa, OK. 74135. Main Building, Room 1D28

When: All 5 China face-to-face workshops will be from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm in October and November (Oct. 27th, Nov. 3rd, Nov. 10th, Nov. 17th, and Dec. 1st).Both Japan workshops will be from 9:30 am - 1:30 pm (Jan. 12th and Jan. 19th)

Registration: China Face-to-Face sessions -Enroll at http://ou.edu/cas/eai/ncta-programs Japan Face-to-Face sessions - Enroll at http://ou.edu/cas/eai/ncta-programs

Benefits:

• $75.00 stipend (China) - 5 sessions• $25.00 (Japan) - 2 sessions• 30 hours of professional development credit• Presenters who are noted experts in their field• Access to the online resources at http://afe.easia.columbia.edu• Refreshments and lunch provided• Aligned with Oklahoma Academic Standards

Expectations:

• Participate in all 7 face-to-face sessions (Attend 5 to receive stipend).• Create 4 lesson plans based on presenter’s topics.

EAI/NCTA Sessions:

Session 1 Title: Confucianism and Buddhism Oct. 27th

Presenter: Dr. Jessica Stowell – Retired Director of East Asia Institute at OU

http://www.ou.edu/cas/eai/contact-us/director-biographies

Session 2 Title: Communist Party and China Politics Nov. 3rd

Presenter: Dr. Li Xiaobing - Professor of History at UCO

http://sites.uco.edu/la/history-geography/faculty/li.asp

Session 3 Title: Capital Punishment Nov. 10th

Presenter: Dr. Thomas Buoye - Associate Professor of History at TU

http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~thomas-buoye/

Session 4 Title: Taoism Nov. 17th

Presenter: Mr. Rex Burnett – Director of the East Asia Institute at OU

http://www.ou.edu/cas/eai/contact-us/director-biographies

Session 5 Title: Tang Dynasty Poetry Dec 1st

Presenter: Dr. Jonathan Stalling, Associate Professor of English at OU

http://www.ou.edu/cas/english/about/faculty/j-stalling

Session 6 Title: Samurai in Japan Jan. 12th

Presenter: Dr. Elyssa Faison – Associate Professor of Japanese History

http://elyssafaison.oucreate.com//Welcome.html

Session 7. Title: Contemporary Japan Jan. 19th

Presenter: Dr. Elyssa Faison – Associate Professor of Japanese History

http://elyssafaison.oucreate.com//Welcome.html

East Asia Institute at OU (EAI).

The Goal of the East Asia Institute is to assist teachers in making East Asia an integral and permanent part of their curriculum. We promote Chinese, Japanese, South Korean, and Vietnamese cultures in every school in Oklahoma. We provide opportunities for students to participate in events and educational activities that will increase their knowledge and appreciation of East Asian cultures.

The East Asia Institute is housed at the University of Oklahoma Schusterman Center in Tulsa, OK. EAI works in conjunction with the Confucius Institute at OU-Norman and the National Consortium for Teaching About Asia (NCTA).

EAI Director J. Rex Burnett Program Assistant Megan Gaspar

College of Arts and Sciences (CAS)

The State's preeminent comprehensive research institution of higher education is the University of Oklahoma; the College of Arts and Sciences is the intellectual core of the University. As the largest and most diverse unit within the University, the College of Arts and Sciences educates students through undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the humanities, the social sciences, the sciences and through its professional schools and interdisciplinary programs.

In accomplishing its broad mission, the College has two primary purposes: 1) to foster scholarly inquiry and the generation of knowledge, and to see that knowledge generated in the course of research and instruction is made available to enhance the quality of life in our society; and 2) to help students attain an understanding of the complex world in which we live: its physical and biological structure; its political, economic and social institutions; its intellectual and spiritual inheritance; and its philosophy and literature.

Dean of CAS Dr. David Wrobel

All sessions will be in Room 1D28. Please park on the east side of the campus and enter in through the south entrance of the main building.