Wallace's Premodern Japanese Literature & Culture Pages
— John R Wallace, Univ. of Calif. Berkeley —
Also at Humanities Commons: https://hcommons.org/members/johnrobertwallace/
Some of my classes are podcast and can be found online.
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Office — while I have an office Dwinelle Hall, Rm 5110, on the Cal campus, I am off-campus now, connecting via Zoom
Notice on accommodations
I saw an email about student accommodations after I composed and posted my syllabi. There is a new website that collects together resources for teachers and students around accommodation requests and needs. It is called Academic Accommodations Hub. I am pasting in here the recommended paragraph from that new website. I agree with all of the below.
Communicating with students regarding reasonable accommodation requests
Students are often hesitant to request accommodations. You can help by assuring them that reasonable academic accommodations are their right and exist in order for them to have a fair chance at academic success. Encourage students to request academic accommodations through the campus offices that exist for this purpose, and are staffed by professionals.
You can make it easier for students by including a link to this website on your syllabus and by using some or all of the following talking points when you go over your syllabus in class.
- "Seeking accommodations is your right and an act of strength, not weakness. Seeking helping is a smart and courageous thing to do - for yourself and for those who care about you."
- "In providing the accommodations, I won't ask and don't need to know the details of what might be affecting you. That's why we have offices that you can go to who will request the accommodation on your behalf."
- "In the event I suspect you need additional support, I may express my reasons for concern and remind you of the resources available."
- "I'm a Responsible Employee, so if you share with me that you or another person has experienced sexual harassment/violence, I need to share that information with OPHD, our campus Title IX office. Confidential resources are listed on this web page."
Spring 2021
About my Spring 2021 courses (early information)
Below are statements (some in print form, others in video (or just the audio of the video) for students who are not familiar with my approach to classes and which should be viewed before they commit to taking a course with me.
- "Engagement" and attendance
- Where the information for this course will be
- Calculating grades (video version)
- Calculating grades (audio version)
- Getting into the course (video version)
- Getting into the course (audio version)
- Is this course a good match for you? (video version)
- Is this course a good match for you? (audio version)
Wellness and stress | Course syllabus | bCourse access | Session Detail— what to prepare, what we will do
When links are available the buttons will turn blue or green.
EALANG 109
"Tea"
JAPAN 173
"Short Narratives"
Policies, rules and standards for all my courses
Course standards with direct impact on final grades
How grades are calculated, etc.
Expectations and formal requirements for essays and other written assignments
Web pages on this site for specific courses
Japanese Lit & Culture Course dictionary ("Mini-Dictionary")
A course dictionary of terms and the concepts they represent that are used frequently in my course instructions and grading rubrics that the student needs to understand in order to score well.
Ōe Kenzaburō Reading Companion Web Page by Wallace
Titles, people, places, and terms in premodern and modern Japanese literature.
Film modules for EA105 "Interpreting Love Narratives (ILN)"
2046 | 3-Iron | Chunhyang | Dolls | Farewell my Concubine (currently no support page) | House of Flying Daggers | Norwegian Wood | Three Times | Tokyo Sonata (currently no support page) | Tony Takitani (currently no support page)
COVID-19 links
Links to WHO, CDC and the independent COVID Tracking Project:
- ProPublica (July 21, 2020) "How to Understand COVID-19 Numbers"
- The COVID Tracking Project ("The COVID Tracking Project collects and publishes the most complete testing data available for US states and territories.")
- WHO (World Health Organization)
- CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention — Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
Campus and local web sites:
- University Health Services - Confirmed cases
- University Health Services
- Berkeley News — Coronavirus information
- City of Berkeley, Public Health page
- Berkeleyside
- Pre-Health Covid-19 Resources (Career Center)
- COVID-19 Impact on Admissions—Joint Statement from the Admissions Deans of California Medical Schools
Articles I found informative:
- Washington Post / Health (March 14): Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve” (simple, clear, very informative animation)
- California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance (March 17): COVID-19 RESOURCES FOR UNDOCUMENTED CALIFORNIANS
- TED—Playlist: The Fight Against Viruses
- The Lanclet (March 20): Rational use of face masks in the COVID-19 pandemic
- A Stanford University research team created an interactive model to help evaluate various possible interventions for COVID-19 spread: Potential Long-Term Intervention Strategies for COVID-19
- M | Elemental+ (March 20), a clear explanation of what distancing means in terms of "social chains" and disease transmission dynamics: Hold the line.
- BBC (April 22) The reason Zoom calls drain your energy
- International Journal of Environmental Health Research 15:3 (2005) Occurrence of bacteria and biochemical markers on public surfaces
Statistics global to regional:
- Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE (opens global map)
- Humanistics GIS Lab at the University of Washington (opens U.S. map)
- Berkeleyside (March 30) What Bay Area COVID-19 stats can you get? It depends on where you live (Bay Area statistics, by county)
- City of Berkeley – Public Health – COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
- Santa Clara County Public Health - Coronavirus (COVID-19) Data Dashboard
- Alameda County COVID-19 Dashboard
- Contra Costa Health Services – Dashboard
- San Francisco Department of Health – San Francisco COVID-19 Data Tracker
- San Mateo County Health – SAN MATEO COUNTY COVID-19 DATA
Request recommendation letter support
Books and such
More or less permanent pages
These panels lead to pages on the imperial poetry collection Selection of Poems Old and New (Kokin waka shū), The Tale of Genji and Heian culture, and The Tale of Heike. Each of these was developed for lecture series at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco or for classes at UC-Berkeley but have been modified over time. They are intended for a general audience. The code supporting them is quite old.
