Note: Not offered in fall term 2022 due to sabbatical.
With the example practice-as-network often abridged as role-playing games, this course introduces students to a (trans-) cultural studies approach of practices, actors and processes.
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This course aims to develop the academic skills of students specializing in the humanities, and assist them in furthering their participation in research with an international audience. It will focus on reading, writing and discussion/ presentation in English.
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This course introduces students to bioethics as an interdisciplinary field of study that looks into ethical, legal, and social implications of life sciences and health care.
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This course introduces useful and essential skills of academic research to new students in the Joint Degree in Transcultural Studies program.
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Teacher: KANNO Yūka
Course Code: JK14001
This course engages major debates in feminist and queer film theory and criticism.
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With the spread of manga and anime around the world, many have adopted the Japanese term ‘otaku’ to identify fans of such media. This course questions , however, the naturalization of ‘otaku’ by examining the historical contingency of the term.
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Note: Not offered in fall term 2022 due to sabbatical.
The focus of this interactive seminar lies on theoretical concepts and analytical techniques useful to study transcultural phenomena such as nation-branding from a perspective of cultural ordering and power relations.
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In this lecture, we will study multiple traditions of documentary film.
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This course aims to provide students with the overview of economic and business history from global perspectives.
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In this lecture, students will learn about the theory and practice of various qualitative research methods, such as participant observation, which is based on the separation of researcher and participant, and action research, which is not based on the separation of researcher/subject.
Continue reading “Fieldwork and Qualitative Research of Japanese Society”