Registration Open for 5 NCTA Online Courses and Book Groups

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Registration is now open for five NCTA Online Courses and Book Groups from the Program for Teaching East Asia at the University of Colorado, Winter-Spring 2016. These courses and book groups are open to secondary teachers nationwide. Registration opens December 1, 2015 and closes January 4, 2016 or when each course is full. View the list below for more details:

NCTA Book Group: Reading the Mao Years: Stories by Feng Jicai and Liao Yiwu, January 10 - March 19, 2016.
Feng Jicai and Liao Yiwu are internationally recognized for their writing on the Mao years. This book group will examine compelling stories by these authors that portray or recall the Mao period. Participants receive a readings packet and completion award. Click here for more information.

NCTA National Online Seminar: Teaching about Pre-Modern Japan, January 10 - March 19, 2016.
This 20-hour course provides an introduction to Japan’s pre-modern era—the Heian period of 'peace and calm' (794-1185 CE) and the medieval period of warfare (1185-1600 CE). Participants receive a readings packet and completion award. Click here for more information.

NCTA Book Group: Becoming Modern: Early 20th Century Japan in Literature, January 16 - March 18, 2016.
This book group will consider short stories and memoir that capture the decades leading up to the Pacific War. Materials and completion award provided. Click here for more information.

NCTA National Online Seminar: Teaching about China’s Political System, January 25–May 2, 2016.
Co-developed by political scientists with expertise on China in consultation with AP Comparative Government teachers, this 25-hour NCTA seminar addresses instructional objectives of the AP Comparative Government course and provides essential background to all teachers who cover contemporary China in their courses. Materials and completion award provided. Click here for more information.

NCTA National Online Seminar: Korea in the Modern World, January 28 – April 13, 2016.
In this 20-hour course, participating teachers will examine primary and secondary sources to consider global themes of imperialism and independence, political-economic and nationalist ideologies, and globalization related to the development of the Koreas, 1895 to the present. Materials and completion award provided. Click here for more information.