NEW COURSE OFFERING

ASIA1850 - Japan, North America and the World

Days/Times:

TR 18:00 - 19:15 (September through October)
TR 17:00 - 18:15 (November through December)

Location: B-716 (University Hall)

Instructors: Dr. Yasuharu Ishizawa (President of Gakushuin Women's College, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan) and Dr. Ian MacLachlan, Geography Department)

Course Description: This innovative course uses live videoconferencing technology to bring together instructors and students from Gakushuin Women’s College in Tokyo and from the University of Lethbridge, to engage in interactive lectures and discussion in real time!

In our Tuesday classes, Dr. Ishizawa will lecture on Japan and Japanese relations with America, East Asia, and the world. Thursday lectures will be given by Dr. MacLachlan on the economic and political geography of Canada and the Pacific Rim from the nineteenth-century to the present.

Topics will include cultural exchange, diplomatic relations, migration, demographic aging, international trade and multinational investment; dependence on commodity imports and exports, and the national security challenges posed by terrorism, maritime border disputes and environmental degradation.

For more information please contact Dr. Ian MacLachlan at 403-329-2076 or maclachlan@uleth.ca.