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Nasser says that prior to taking the graduate-level equivalent of Kuriyama??s Culture and Belief 11 class, he had made a few short films, but did not have any real experience to speak of. Nonetheless, he found himself thrilled by his newfound cinematic ambitions. “It’s not that hard, which is wonderful. You get perfectionist and obsessive about certain things,” he says. “You can really lose yourself...
Last fall, Wenxin “Vincent” Xu ’09 flipped through the CUE guide looking for classes with the highest ratings, and Kuriyama??s class, then East Asian Studies 17, got a 5.0. Xu praised Kuriyama??s sometimes “quirky” style of teaching for making lectures much more interesting. “He’ll show a picture of a tree and he won’t show anything else for a minute and that will be something related to the concept of chi in East...
Unlike a traditional Core class, Kuriyama??s assignments focus on communication and technology, rather than writing papers. For Xu’s final project, he chose to make an film about the history of tai chi. “If it’s not a way of hurting people and not a way of meditating, how do we define what’s tai chi?” Xu said. “How many ways do you see different manifestations of the tai chi symbol?” He said the process got him thinking about...
...neatly into one disciplinary framework and thus it’s the kind of thing that might not have worked well in the Core.” She said that the General Education program has been criticized for recycling Core classes, but that classes like Kuriyama??s are “hidden gems.” “We asked him, ‘Can you scale this course up, is it going to work?” Kenen said. “One of the challenges with Gen Ed is getting faculty to do new things...
...Kuriyama??s adapted course will incorporate some unconventional approaches. For example, Kuriyama is planning on assigning problem sets, even though it is a humanities course...