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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...
...PAPERLESS CLASS...
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...
When Xu took the class, it was tiny, with only 12 students enrolled. This year, there are at least 60 undergraduates, a trend that Kenen and Kuriyama hope will continue. “It’s a really great example of a cross disciplinary class,” said Kenen. “It doesn’t fit 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...
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