Course Description

This course seeks to place the founding of history of ICU in the context of modern Japanese history.The course will trace the history of Christian higher education from the Meiji period and focus on the experience of ICU from its founding in the immediate postwar period to the present day.

ICU献学の理念とその歴史について近代日本社会の歩みの中でとらえる。明治以来のキリスト教の高等教育の歴史に始まり、冷戦時代に創設されたICUの現在までの経験を考察する。

Apr 13 Lecture01　Introduction: ICU and Modern Japan

Bibliography

Fukuzawa, Encouragement of Learning, Chapter 15 (On Selective Doubt) 

Related Links

MEXT website: http://www.mext.go.jp/english/minister/

Japan’s Fundamental Law Of Education (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_Law_of_Education

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 10, 1948): http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml

Imperial Rescript on Education (1890): http://www.danzan.com/HTML/ESSAYS/meiji.html

Fukuzawa Yukichi (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuzawa_Yukichi

Fukuzawa Yukichi, An Encouragement of Learning (Book 1) 1872: http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/primary-sources/136

Apr 16 Lecture02　Instead of class:  Campus Tour (including visit to ICU Archives)

Apr 20 Lecture03　Nishima Jo and the Founding of Doshisha Response Paper 1 due

Apr 23 Lecture04　Uchimura Kanzo and Christian Pacifism

Apr 27 Lecture05　Missionaries and Higher Education in Modernizing Japan Response Paper 2 due

Apr 30 Lecture06　 ICU Dedication Day, April 29, 1952

May 07 Lecture07　Yuasa Hachiro: His Early Life (Postcard cataloguing Project)

May 11 Lecture08　Christian Education in Wartime Japan

May 14 Lecture09　Nakajima Aircraft Mitaka Kenkyujo

May 16 Lecture10　Founding of ICU in Occupied Japan Response Paper 3 due

May 21 Lecture11　Yuasa Hachiro and the University for Tomorrow

May 25 Lecture12　Fighting for Democracy: ICU and the Security Treaty Crisis in 1960 (C-week)

Related Links

About the Ampo Demonstrations (Wikipedia in Japanese):  https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%89%E4%BF%9D%E9%97%98%E4%BA%89

About the Ampo Demonstrations (Ted Bestor) in English: http://www.willamette.edu/~rloftus/ampo.html

Ampo 1960: Days of Rage and Grief (MIT Visualizing Cultures): https://moodle.icu.ac.jp/27/mod/url/view.php?id=6641

Ampo Riots (Youtube) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggLGEFr-ZPk

Pacific Century, Japan Inc. Part 1 (10 min) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUi_6_z-6Gc

May 28 Lecture13　Memories: Special Guest Speaker 1960s:

Guest Speaker : Dr. Yasuyuki Owada

60th Anniversary Project

Instructor : OWADA, Yasuyuki 大和田康之

Professor Emeritus, Redlands University and Member of the ICU’s First Graduating Class

May 30 Lecture14　1960s Student Unrest (documents)

Jun 01 Lecture15　1960s:  Cataloguing Project

Jun 04 Lecture16　Student Unrest in the 1960s (Response Paper 4 due)

Jun 08 Lecture17　Focus on Faculty: Donald Worth (Science education at ICU)

Jun 11 Lecture18　ICU and Liberal Arts Education in Japan

Jun 15 Lecture19　Student Reports on ICU History Research Project