Joint Degree Master in Transcultural Studies | Study Focus: Knowledge, Belief and Religion (KBR)

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?

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:

Selected Readings in Classical Japanese Literature

Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: KBR
Term: Fall

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.