Wm. Theodore de Bary papers, 1934-2017, bulk 1960-2005

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Series VI: Teaching/Course Materials, 1959-2016

Series VI consists of teaching materials, grades and repots, and correspondences from courses in the Core Curriculum and on general East Asian Humanities. Sub-Series VI.1 includes materials on the Faculty Transcultural Workshop/Colloquium Workshop, Nobility and Civility workshops, Nature and Human Nature, and Classics for an Emerging World. Sub-Series VI.2 gathers materials from courses such as East Asian Humanities: Major Works, Oriental Civilizations (East Asian Civilizations), Introduction to Chinese Thought, Introduction to Japanese Thought, Sung-Ming Thought Seminars, etc. Organized by course title and chronologically, the materials provide great insights on the evolution of the course contents. Sub-Series VI.3 includes miscellaneous course and grading files. Sub-Series VI.4 gathers proposals and manuscripts from students, mostly at the PhD level. Additional exchanges with students may be identified in departmental files and in Series V: Correspondence.


Sub-Series VI.1: Core Corriculum



Box 100 Folder 1 Comission on the Core Curriculum, minutes & proposals, 1988 Spring


Box 100 Folder 2-3 Comission on the Core Curriculum, minutes & proposals, 1988 Fall



Box 99 Folder 13 Workshop on the Teaching of East Asian Civilization, 1998


Faculty Transcultural Workshop/Colloquium Workshop

Multicultural Approach to the Core Curriculum


Box 99 Folder 14 Candidates, 2002-2003


Box 99 Folder 15 2003


Box 99 Folder 16 2002-2005



Box 101 Folder 1 2001, 2004-2005


Box 101 Folder 2 Financial Correspondence, 2004


Box 101 Folder 3 Correspondence with Michael Rosenthal, 2000


Box 101 Folder 4 Future Workshops, 2005


Andrew Mellon Foundation Grant


Box 101 Folder 5 2001-2004


Box 101 Folder 6 2004

Grant for Workshops for a Multicultural Approach to the Core Curriculum



Box 100 Folder 4 Report, 2002-2005



Box 101 Folder 7 2004-2005



Box 100 Folder 5 2006


Box 100 Folder 6 2007


Box 100 Folder 7 undated


Nobility and Civility I, 2002 May 28-June 13

James V. Mirollo Workshop



Box 102 Folder 1-3 Complete course binder


Grades, Syllabi, Class Correspondence



Box 100 Folder 8 2001-2002



Box 101 Folder 8 2002



Box 100 Folder 9 2002-2003



Box 102 Folder 4 2003 Fall


Box 102 Folder 5 2004 Fall



Box 101 Folder 9 2005 Spring


Box 101 Folder 10 2006 Fall



Box 102 Folder 6 2012-2015


Box 102 Folder 7 2015-2016


Nobility and Civility II, 2002-2004

James V. Mirollo Workshop



Box 103 Folder 1 Syllabi and references, 2002-2004


Box 103 Folder 2 Aquinas


Box 103 Folder 3 Dante


Box 103 Folder 4 Chrétien de Troyes, 2003-2004


Box 103 Folder 5 Macchiavelli


Box 103 Folder 6 Montaigne


Box 103 Folder 7 al-Suhrawardi


Box 103 Folder 8 Maimonides


Box 103 Folder 9 Klausner


Box 103 Folder 10 Ibn Tufayl


Box 103 Folder 11 Averroes


Box 103 Folder 12 Golden Light Sutra


Box 103 Folder 13 Visakhadatta


Box 103 Folder 14 Somadeva Bhatta


Box 103 Folder 15 Sukracarya


Box 103 Folder 16 Tokugawa


Box 103 Folder 17 Confucianism in Early Edo


Box 103 Folder 18 Kaibara Ekken


Box 103 Folder 19 Yamaga Soko


Box 103 Folder 20 Muro Kyuso



Box 101 Folder 11 Correspondence and Notes, 2002-2003


Grades, Syllabi, Class Correspondence



Box 103 Folder 21-22 2002-2003


Box 103 Folder 23 2004 Spring


Box 103 Folder 24 Course Evaluation, 2004 Spring



Box 104 Folder 1 2005 Fall


Box 104 Folder 2 2006


Box 104 Folder 4 2007


Box 104 Folder 5 2007 Spring


Box 104 Folder 6 2015-2016


Nobility and Civility III: Modern Period, 2004 May 24-June 11

James V. Mirollo Workshop


Box 104 Folder 7 Workshop schedule, Smith, Kant, Emerson, Tocqueville, Trollope


Box 104 Folder 8 Kierkegaard, Whitman, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Nietzsche, Durkheim, Weber



Box 105 Folder 1 Gokalp, Al-e-Ahmad, Tagore, Gandhi, Aurobindo/Iqbal, Nehru, Yukichi, Seishisai, Sakuma Shozan


Box 105 Folder 2 Yokoi Shonan, Tokutomi Ichiro, Nakamura, Sakuzo/Heigo


Box 105 Folder 3-4 Complete course binder



Box 101 Folder 12-13 Correspondence and Notes, 2001-2004


Grades, Syllabi, Class Correspondence



Box 105 Folder 5 2003 Spring


Box 105 Folder 6 2004-2005



Box 106 Folder 1 2005 Spring


Nobility and Civility IV, 2005 May 23-June 10


Box 106 Folder 2 Course planning and assessment


Nobility and Civility Reference Binders


Box 106 Folder 3-4 Far East Book 3


Box 106 Folder 5-6 India Book 2B



Box 107 Folder 1 Islam


Box 107 Folder 2 Medieval and Modern Japan, 2002 Fall

All materials from Sources of Japanese Tradition II


Box 107 Folder 3-5 Middle East Book 2A



Box 108 Folder 1-3 West Book 1A


Box 108 Folder 4-5 West Book 1B, Part I



Box 109 Folder 1-2 West Book 1B, Part II


Box 109 Folder 3 Nobility and Civility Student Papers, 2016


Human Nature and the Natural World, 2006 May 22-June 2

Nature and Human Nature I


Box 109 Folder 4-5 Complete course binder


Nature and Human Nature II, 2007 May 21-June 1



Box 107 Folder 6 Workshop schedule


Box 107 Folder 7 Prospectus, Vico, Pope, Kokinshu



Box 109 Folder 6 Woolf, Chekov, Coetzee, Huxley


Box 109 Folder 7 Maritain, Ekken, Sontoku, Kakuzo, Liang Shum-ming, Mou Zongsan, Indigenous Traditions



Box 110 Folder 1 Yasar Kamal, Tagore, Gandhi, Ruskin


Classics for an Emerging World: Classics from the Middle East & India, 2009 January 12-16


Box 110 Folder 2 Conference schedule

Includes binder tabs


Box 110 Folder 3 Qur'an


Box 110 Folder 4 Al-Hariri


Box 110 Folder 5 Al-Ghazali


Box 110 Folder 6 Ibn Khaldun


Box 110 Folder 7 Attar


Box 110 Folder 8 Ferdowsi


Box 110 Folder 9 Ramayana


Box 110 Folder 10 Upanishads


Box 110 Folder 11 Dhammapada


Box 110 Folder 12 Vimalakirti


Box 110 Folder 13 Lotus


Box 110 Folder 14 Mahabharata


Box 110 Folder 15 Shakuntala


Box 110 Folder 16 Tagore


Box 110 Folder 17 Gandhi


Box 110 Folder 18 Iqbal



Box 111 Folder 1-3 Complete course binder


Sub-Series VI.2: East Asia


Introduction to Chinese Thought



Box 101 Folder 14 1962-1971



Box 110 Folder 19 1963-1970

G6028y


Box 110 Folder 20 1964-1973



Box 112 Folder 1 1964-1969


Box 112 Folder 2 1965-1967



Box 111 Folder 4 1965-1988



Box 112 Folder 3 1968-1974



Box 111 Folder 5 Exams and Papers, 1970-1987


Box 111 Folder 6-7 1972-1988



Box 112 Folder 4-6 1979-2002

W4027-4028, G4027x



Box 111 Folder 8 Vocabulary list

G6028y


East Asian Humanities: Major Works of Chinese Philosophy, Religion, and Liteature/Thought

Introduction to Chinese Thought



Box 112 Folder 7 1988-1993

V4028y, G4028y


Box 112 Folder 8 1993-1997

W4027x, W4028y


Box 112 Folder 9 2002

W4028y



Box 113 Folder 1 2004-2007

W4027x


Box 113 Folder 2 2008

W4028y


Introduction to Japanese Thought


Box 113 Folder 3 1962-1969

G6028y



Box 114 Folder 1 1964-1972

G6027x



Box 113 Folder 4-6 1965-1988



Box 114 Folder 2 1970-1972

G6027x


Box 114 Folder 3 Slides Lists, undated


Box 114 Folder 4 Characters List

G6028y


East Asian Humanities: Major Works of Japanese Philosophy, Religion, and Liteature/Thought



Box 113 Folder 7 1970-1997

W4028x, W4030y, G4028y



Box 115 Folder 1-2 1980-2001

4027x, 4028y



Box 113 Folder 8 1989-1991

G4027x, G4028y


Box 113 Folder 9 1991, 1999-2000

4027x, G4028y



Box 115 Folder 3-4 1996-2008

W4029x



Box 114 Folder 5 1998-1999

4029y



Box 115 Folder 5 1999, 2002

4030y


Box 115 Folder 6 1999, 2004-2005

W4029x, W4030y


Box 115 Folder 7 2000

W4029x


Box 115 Folder 8 2008

W4029x


Oriental Humanities/Asian Humanities



Box 114 Folder 6-8 Student Papers, 1961-1970



Box 116 Folder 1 1964-1965

V3399x


Box 116 Folder 2 1965-1968

V3400y



Box 115 Folder 9 Religion, notes, 1965, 1974



Box 116 Folder 3 Oriental Studies, 1975

V3509y


Box 116 Folder 4 Oriental Studies-Religion, 1979-1990

V3399x, W4399x, W4400y



Box 115 Folder 10 1980-1996


Box 115 Folder 11 1980-1997

V3399x; Oriental Humanities



Box 117 Folder 1 Grades, 1980-1988


Box 117 Folder 2 1979-2001

V3399x, V3400y



Box 183 Folder 9 1990-1993

V3399x, V3400y, W4399x



Box 117 Folder 3 1992

V3399x



Box 116 Folder 5 2001-2004



Box 117 Folder 4 2006 Fall

W4029x, v3399x


Box 117 Folder 5 2006-2007

V3400y


Box 117 Folder 6 2007

W4030y


Box 117 Folder 7 2016

V3400y


Box 117 Folder 8 Seating Charts, undated


Box 117 Folder 9 Geneaological Charts, undated


Box 117 Folder 10 Rosters and Grades, micellaneous, 1994-2007


Ming Thought Seminar



Box 118 Folder 1-4 1960-1975



Box 116 Folder 6 1966

G9040y



Box 117 Folder 11 1967-1970

G9039x


Box 117 Folder 12 Neo-Confucianism, 1974


Box 117 Folder 13 1980-1981

G9804y


Box 117 Folder 14 1978-1980

G9803x


Sung Thought Seminar/Colloquium


Box 117 Folder 15 1981

9801


Box 117 Folder 16 1979-1980



Box 118 Folder 5-6 Sung-Yuan-Ming Bibliography and Notes, undated


Oriental Civilizations: East Asia



Box 116 Folder 7-8 1962-1964

V3355x



Box 118 Folder 7 1963-1968

W3356y, V3356y



Box 116 Folder 9 1964-1969

V3356y


Box 116 Folder 10 1965

V3356y


Box 116 Folder 11 1968

V3355x



Box 119 Folder 1 1980


Box 119 Folder 2-3 1981-1983

V3002y


Box 119 Folder 4-5 1986-1990


Box 119 Folder 6 1990-1994

V3002x


Box 119 Folder 7 Oriental Civilizations: Middle East, 1979-1980


Neo-Confucianism Colloquium


Box 119 Folder 8 1983

G9803x


Box 119 Folder 9 1984

G9803x


Box 119 Folder 10 1980-1998


Box 119 Folder 11-12 Bibliography, undated



Box 120 Folder 1 Major Cultures & Contemporary Civilization, 2006-2007


Major Topics in East Asian Civilizations/Asian Civilizations-East Asia


Box 120 Folder 2 1981-2005

v2002


Box 120 Folder 3-4 1982-2004


Box 120 Folder 5 2000


Box 120 Folder 6 2002

v2002x


Box 120 Folder 7 2006 Fall

v2002x


Box 120 Folder 8 2007

v2002



Box 116 Folder 12 Contemporary Civilization, 2010-2011

C1101, C1001x


Box 116 Folder 13 Contemporary Civilization 02: Japan, undated


Sub-Series VI.3: Other Course Materials


Box 116 Folder 14 Chinese Bibliography, 1964

G9008y



Box 120 Folder 9 Fall 1967, 1967


Box 120 Folder 10 Class Rosters, 1999-2002



Box 121 Folder 1 Fall 2005, 2005


Box 121 Folder 2 Spring 2006, 2004-2006


Box 121 Folder 3 Fall 2006 Grades and Class Schedule, 2006-2007



Box 116 Folder 15 Introduction to Japanese Society, Hiroshi Ishida, 1989-1990


Box 116 Folder 16 Tradition and Transformation in East Asian Civilization, Harvard University, 1986


Box 116 Folder 17 Asian Civilizations syllabi, 1995-1996



Box 122 Folder 1 Miscellaneous grades, 1974-1977


Box 122 Folder 2 Miscellaneous syllabi & articles, 1991-2015


Box 122 Folder 3 Miscellaneous syllabi, 1994-1998


Box 122 Folder 4 Miscellaneous syllabi & correspondence, 2006-2011


Sub-Series VI.4: Student Thesis Proposals and Dissertations

Arranged alphabetically


Box 122 Folder 5 Benard, Elisabeth, undated


Box 122 Folder 6 Borrell, Ari, 1985-1986


Box 122 Folder 7 Chu, Margaret, 1988


Box 122 Folder 8 Chu, Ron-Guey, 1986


Box 122 Folder 9 Cohen, Elissa, 1987


Box 122 Folder 10 Creemers, Wilhelmus H.M., 1963-1965


Box 122 Folder 11 Dardess, John, 1967


Box 122 Folder 12 DeBuse, Raymond, 1967


Box 122 Folder 13 Dilworth, David, 1968-1969


Box 122 Folder 14 Dimberg, Ronald, 1971-1972


Box 122 Folder 15 Gans, Ron, undated


Box 122 Folder 16 Gimello, Robert M., 1969-1971


Box 122 Folder 17 Greenblatt, Kristin, 1971-1972


Box 122 Folder 18 Guarino, Marie, 1982-1992


Box 122 Folder 19 Haddow, M., undated


Box 122 Folder 20 Howard, Richard, 1971


Box 122 Folder 21 Kassel, Marleen, 1986


Box 122 Folder 22 Keightley, David N., 1967-1968


Box 122 Folder 23 Kelly, Edward Thomas, 1971


Box 122 Folder 24 Kline, Carol, 1967-1970


Box 122 Folder 25 Lee, Frederick R., 1970



Box 123 Folder 1 Mahony, Robert Joseph, 1984-1986


Box 123 Folder 2 Mills, Harriet, 1961


Box 123 Folder 3 Munro, Donald, 1959-1964



Box 121 Folder 4 Reese, John, 1987-1990



Box 123 Folder 4 Roberts, Moss P., 1964-1970


Box 123 Folder 5 Sawada, Janine, 1987


Box 123 Folder 6 Shearson, Julia, 1986-1987


Box 123 Folder 7 Sommer, Deborah, 1979-1986


Box 123 Folder 8 Taylor, Rodney Leon, 1971


Box 123 Folder 9 Tien, Hsien-chin, undated


Box 123 Folder 10 Tsay Heng-ting, 1987


Box 123 Folder 11 Tucker, John, undated


Box 123 Folder 12 Tucker, Mary Evelyn, 1982


Box 123 Folder 13 Tyler, Royall, 1968



Box 121 Folder 5 Verellen, Franciscus, undated



Box 123 Folder 14 Watt, Paul, 1985-1986


Box 123 Folder 15 Weisfogel, Jaret, 1992


Box 123 Folder 16 Woo, Ann-Ping Chin, 1981


Box 123 Folder 17 Wu, Silas Hsiu-liang, 1966


Box 123 Folder 18 Wycoff, William A., 1968


Box 123 Folder 19 Yu, Christine, undated


Box 123 Folder 20 Zarrow, Peter Gue, 1984-1985