What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.
Every lecture the course claims to run gets a dated page and a teaching-team
reference. A course decides how many lectures it needs; one of them carries a
real deck. related: connects lectures to the sessions and assessments they
feed.
- Framing
- Building the notation
- Historical reception
Signs That Move
Framing the course's central question before any Chinese-specific content arrives
One Splits into Two
Taiji and the yin-yang line, kept close to the documented sequence
Doubling the Line
Bigrams and the logic of combination
Eight from Three
Constructing the Bagua and meeting the Shuogua zhuan
Opposites and Neighbors
Structural relationships among the trigrams, before any arrangement
An Inner Order
The Xiantian arrangement, sourced to Shao Yong rather than legend
An Outer Order
The Houtian arrangement and correlative cosmology
Lines That Move
Hexagrams and changing lines — the course's pivot week
From Diagram to Text
The Zhouyi's layered composition and its contested dating
One Symbol, Two Histories
Zhou Dunyi's Taijitu and the later swirling symbol
Crossing Worlds
Leibniz, Bouvet, and the documented exchange behind a popular story
Reading Symbols Critically
Capstone — evaluating claims and transferring the toolkit