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

Issues in Ethics

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

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?

Japanese Intellectuals in the Wartime Period: Politics, Technology and Gender

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

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.

Philosophy of Myth, Politics and Emotions

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

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?

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.