Teacher: Che Singh KOCHHAR-GEORGE
Course Code: JK38005
The course aims to enhance students’ understanding of immigration and refugee policies in Asia.
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Issues in Environmental History: Nature, Knowledge, Place, and Surroundings
Teacher: Kjell ERICSON
Course Code: JK45001
When we conjure up “the environment” in our mind’s eye, what do we see?
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Teacher: WIRTZ, Fernando Gustavo
Course Code: JK54001
How does culture influence our ethical ideas? How can we think of an ethics suitable for our multi-/trans-cultural societies? What obligations do we have toward the Other and toward others?
Japan’s early diplomacy during the last decade of the Tokugawa Shogunate
Teacher: SANO Mayuko
Course Code: JK38003
This course aims to explore Japanese diplomacy during the last decade of the Tokugawa Shogunate, through in-depth readings of documents (such as memoirs, diaries, and diplomatic correspondences) written by people who worked on the ground during that time.
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Teacher: WIRTZ, Fernando Gustavo
Course Code: JK40003
In this course, we will explore some of the most important intellectual debates that took place in Japan between 1930 and 1945, situating them within their broader transcultural and global contexts.
Philosophy of Myth, Politics and Emotions
Teacher: WIRTZ, Fernando Gustavo
Course Code: JK41003
This course explores the theoretical role of myth in the construction of political subjectivity. In other words, how are political subjects—such as organizations, classes, or parties—constituted through affective and emotional imagery?
Play, Advanced: Transcultural Game Studies 102
Teacher: Björn-Ole KAMM
Course Code: JK50001
This practice-oriented and interactive seminar seeks to establish an understanding of theories of transculturality, interactivity, immersion, and user agency and various angles of valuable methodology for the study of games and gaming.
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Teacher: YUKAWA Shikiko
Course Code: JK37002
The aim of this course is to seek and discuss Japanese values, ideas and attitudes toward certain universal themes, such as love, death, human nature and aesthetic beauty through a close reading of selected representative works of classical Japanese literature.
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Teacher: KAWAI Junko
Course Code: JK38004
This course will examine various approaches and topics in the study of Japanese education, culture and society through reading sociological works on Japan.
Transcultural Problem Solving
Teacher: Somdev VASUDEVA
Course Code: JK37005
This class is intended as a venue for students to explore transcultural methods to solve problems encountered in their research projects.
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