Joint Degree Master in Transcultural Studies | Term: Spring

Qualitative Research and Community Fieldwork in and around Kyoto

Course Type: Seminar
Study Focus: SEG
Term: Spring

Teacher: ASATO Wako
Course Code: JK32001

This class will cover social research methods, mainly qualitative research. In view of the relaxed restrictions on movement under COVID-19, we are also planning to conduct fieldwork.

Scripts, Languages and Buddhist Scriptures

Course Type: Seminar
Study Focus: KBR
Term: Spring

Teacher: Tao PAN

Course Code: JK09001

This course is designed for the study foci “Knowledge, Belief and Religion” (KBR) and “Visual, Media and Material Cultures” (VMC) and consists of the following three parts:

Transcultural Cinema Forum 2025

Course Type: Seminar
Study Focus: VMC
Term: Spring

Teacher: Mitsuyo WADA-MARCIANO

Course Code: JK36001

The Transcultural Cinema Forum in 2025 will consider what “cinema” means: the cinema, born at the end of the 19th century and regarded as the king of entertainment throughout the 20th century, is undergoing a major transformation in its form with the advent of the Internet in the 21st century. The purpose of this course is to reconsider the question “What Is cinema?” from the perspective of the year 2025.

Transformative Experience

Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: KBR
Term: Spring

Teacher: Campbell, Michael

Course Code: JK09004

Significant life events often have a transformative character, being such that a person emerges from them changed in far-reaching ways.

VTuber文化から考える情報社会

Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: VMC
Term: Spring

Teacher: OKAMOTO Takeshi, KITA Chigusa, MATSUNAGA Shinji

Course Code: JK11007

VTuberは、「メディア」「コンテンツ」「コミュニケーション」が連綿と紡いできた文化的、社会的、産業的な蓄積の結節点にいる存在である。

Ways of Thinking Gender

Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: KBR
Term: Spring

Teacher: Fernando Gustavo WIRTZ

Course Code: JK09003

This course aims to offer students a first approach to fundamental texts of the Western Gender Theory.

What Is Transcultural History?

Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: SEG
Term: Spring

Teacher: Kjell ERICSON

Course Code: JK10001

Although national borders typically structure academic research, historical change extends beyond individual nation-states.

ゲーム研究入門

Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: VMC
Term: Spring

Teacher: Akito INOUE

Course Code: JK11004

「ゲーム」とはなんだろうか。「ゲーム」という概念は「物語」「自由」などと同様に人文学的にも社会科学的にも重要な概念であるにもかかわらず、近年に至るまで「ゲーム」に関わる研究はあまり精緻な議論が進まず、多くの人が興味を持ちながらもホイジンガやカイヨワを参照するところから、議論が更新されない状況が長年続いてきた。