Joint Degree Master in Transcultural Studies
Kyoto University | Graduate School of Letters
Teacher: Ida DURETTO
Course Code: JK39002
Italian neorealism (1945-1952) was a crucial movement in film history, marking an aware move away from mainstream Hollywood filmmaking and focusing on realistic characters and stories.
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Teacher: KAWASHIMA Takashi
Course Code: JK41001
In this class, we will discuss the story of “Heidi” (1880/81) by Johanna Spyri from the perspective of comparative literature.
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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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Teacher: Kjell ERICSON
Course Code: JK45001
When we conjure up “the environment” in our mind’s eye, what do we see?
Continue reading “Issues in Environmental History: Nature, Knowledge, Place, and Surroundings”
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?
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.
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?
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.