This course invites us to reflect upon the multiplicity of environments and environmental thinking around the world, at a moment defined by global-scale environmental crises and human impacts.
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Through the reading of Joanna Bourke’s The Story of pain: from Prayer to Painkillers (2014) and stories about painful experiences,
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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:
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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. We will use well-known English translations of the Manyoshu, Taketori Monogatari, Ise Monogatari and Tsurezuregusa, among other works, as our texts.
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Peter Winch (1926 – 1997) was one of the most important British philosophers of the post-War period.
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This course explores Modern East Asian History from transcultural perspectives.
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This class is intended as a venue for students to explore transcultural methods to solve problems encountered in their research projects.
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This course will introduce graduate students to different approaches to the craft of historical writing in English.
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