Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Early Chinese Art (Amy McNair)

Course information

 * University: University of Kansas
 * Course title: Early Chinese Art
 * Professor name: Amy McNair
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 * Lecture Assistant: Amanda Martin
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 * Wikipedia Online Ambassador: Piotr Konieczny
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 * Course start date: 08/20/12
 * Assignment due date: final project due 11/26/12, presentations given 12/03/12 - 12/05/12

Course description
This upper-division and graduate-level survey will examine the material culture of China from the Neolithic period through the Han dynasty (ca. 5000 BCE-200 CE), including ceramics, jade implements, ritual bronze vessels, sculpture, painting and calligraphy. Through some of the spectacular archeological finds of recent years, we will explore the functions and meanings of art objects in early political and social systems, as well as beliefs about the afterlife, ancestor worship, shamanism, the search for immortality, and Confucianism. We will also consider differences in interpretation of archeological evidence between western scholars and Chinese archeologists.

Wikipedia assignment
Students will be editing already existing articles on Chinese bronzes. The purpose, skills and outcomes of this project: Create a tangible, useful product. Students will work in groups of 2-3 with clearly defined divisions of labor. They will learn how to collaborate in groups, as well as how to write in a specific genre – the “encyclopedia entry.” There is a total of 200 points possible for this project and it is 40% of total class grade. The articles available include: Ding (鼎) Ding (vessel) • Dui (敦) Dui (vessel) • Gu (觚) Gu (vessel) • Guang (觥) Guang (vessel) • Gui (簋) Gui (vessel) • Hu (壺) Hu (vessel) • Jia (斝) Jia (vessel) • Jue (爵) Jue (vessel) • Yi (匜) Yi (vessel) • You (卣) You (vessel) • Zun (尊) Zun

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