Hi all,
Please excuse cross-posting, but I want to share a really special
opportunity for 10th-12th grade students interested in historical research,
contemporary Japan, or International Relations.
Applications will be open August 14-October 02, 2017, for the *Reischauer
Scholars Program.* This online, college-level history and IR course for
high school students, is sponsored by the Stanford Program on International
and Cross-Cultural Education and the Freeman Spogli Institute for
International Studies. The course is an application-based scholarship that
includes all materials, though it does carry a student services fee that
includes an official transcript.
The program runs Feb-June each year. A cohort of 25-30 students from around
the US will meet 10 times online, have weekly readings and lectures from
Stanford professors and other subject-matter experts, and participate in
online discussion groups, while studying Japan and Japanese-US relations.
They collaborate with a similar cohort of Japanese HS students, who are
studying the US and Japanese-US relations.
*Finally, all students write a 10-15 page research paper on the topic of
their choice--an important experience to have in high school, as we heard
at this year's conference from Courtney Lewis. I particularly appreciated
that the students are expected to make and support a scholarly argument,
and are supported in developing that argument. Each year, three papers are
selected and the authors present them at a conference at Stanford. *
Some of this year's topics included:
*Nippon Kaigi and Constructing a Nationalist Government
*Godzilla: A Modern Environmentalist Analysis of the Monstrous Oxymoron
*Cross-Cultural Education: An Uncommon Path to Immigration Reform and
Economic Prosperity in Japan
*The Ramen Noodle: Ramen as an Important Culinary Piece in Modern Japan
*Keeping It Weird: Fostering US-Japan Relations Through Portland-Themed
Business
*The Changing Role of Japanese Women in their Kitchen: Parallels between
the Food and the Economy
*The Fallen Eagle of the Orient: How the Zero Fighter Aircraft Reflected
Japan's Philosophy during Word War Two
...so you can see areas of interest very widely. I personally know several
students who have gone through this program and found it truly valuable, so
I hope to really get the word out.
If you want to know more, please look here:
http://spice.fsi.stanford.edu/fellowships/reischauer_scholars_program
If you have additional questions, please feel free to ask me--I have
students from whom I can request answers.
Best,
Tasha
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Tasha Bergson-Michelson
Instructional and Programming Librarian
1310 Bryant St.
Palo Alto, CA 94301
(650) 470-7766
tbergsonmichelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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