Tale of Two Cultures: Reflection on Universal Issues

Tale of Two Cultures: Reflection on Universal Issues

Date: 22 October, 2009 (Thursday)
Speakers:
Prof. Lynne Y. Nakano (Chairperson, Department of Japanese Studies, CUHK) and
Prof. Kenneth R. Valpey (Visiting Scholar, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, CUHK)

Teaching departments are now welcome to put up proposals for the introduction/revision/withdrawal of UGE courses to be implemented in 2010-11 through the Course Proposal and Inventory System (GECPI). Our office will organise a series of seminars which will provide ideas and inspirations to you if you are planning to write course proposals.

About the Speaker

Prof. Lynne Y. Nakano and Prof. Kenneth R. Valpey both teach GE courses which expose students a specific culture and society. In this seminar, they will share their valuable experience teaching these courses. Specifically, they will show us how they lead students to address more universal issues through discussion and analysis of a particular culture.

Prof. Lynne Y. Nakano taught the GE course UGC223G ‘Japanese Culture and Society’. In 2007-08, she received the Exemplary Teaching Award in General Education. She is currently the Chairperson and Associate Professor of Department of Japanese Studies.

Prof. Kenneth R. Valpey teaches two GE courses in this term: UGC230P ‘Tradition and Modernity in India’ and UGD232P ‘Love in Indian Culture’. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Centre for Hindu Studies of Oxford University. Since 2007, he continues to teach at Department of Cultural and Religious Studies each Autumn semester as a Visiting Scholar.

Presentation of Dr. Lynne Y. Nakano (login required)
Presentation of Dr. Kenneth R. Valpey (login required)