Joint Degree Master in Transcultural Studies | Term: Fall

East Asian Origins: Ancient History and Material Culture

Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: KBR, VMC
Term: Fall

Teacher: YOSHII Hideo, SHIMOGAKI Hitoshi, Erika Angela FORTE
Course Code: JK41002

Global Neorealism

Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: VMC
Term: Fall

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.

Heidi in Japan

Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: KBR
Term: Fall

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.

Historical Seminar: Animals and Borders

Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: KBR, SEG
Term: Fall

Teacher: Kjell ERICSON

Course Code: JK40002

This seminar introduces students to issues related to the historical study of animals.

International Development Assistance Policy

Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: SEG
Term: Fall

Teacher: KOBAYASHI Mai

Course Code: JK38006

This semi-intensive course provides students with a diverse overview of Japan’s international development assistance policy and practice of the Japanese government, business actors, and civil society organizations based on actual cases.

Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian Cinema: Frames of Identity and Alterity

Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: VMC
Term: Fall

Teacher: Orna RAVIV
Course Code: JK46001

This course examines Israeli cinema and Israeli-Palestinian through philosophical and aesthetical lenses, exploring the intersection of film and philosophical concepts.

Issues in Environmental History: Nature, Knowledge, Place, and Surroundings

Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: SEG, KBR
Term: Fall

Teacher: Kjell ERICSON
Course Code: JK45001

When we conjure up “the environment” in our mind’s eye, what do we see?

Japan’s early diplomacy during the last decade of the Tokugawa Shogunate

Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: SEG
Term: Fall

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.