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...Panda reminds you to silence your cell phone, and the previews start. But instead of the new Saw flick, a trailer for Culture and Belief 11: “Medicine and the Body in East Asia and in Europe,” plays across the screen, narrated by Shigehisa Kuriyama, a professor of East Asian studies. As the name implies, the class is a historical comparison of the body and medicine in East Asia and Europe, and its approach is anything but traditional. Kuriyama jettisons the traditional required term paper in favor of newer pedagogical measures—making movies...
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...
...Kuriyama also said he hopes to assign students to podcast their thoughts on the course reading and make video presentations using iMovie...
...think it’ll be a lot of fun,” Kuriyama said. “My hope is to get some of the best [podcasts] that are really original contributions up to the public domain so that people have the opportunity to make their contributions to world scholarship,” he said...
...Both Kuriyama and Buell said that they did not find it difficult to transition their courses into the new curriculum...