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Joint Degree Master in Transcultural Studies

Joint Degree Master in Transcultural Studies

Kyoto University | Graduate School of Letters

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Study Focus: Knowledge, Belief and Religion (KBR)

This study focus examines circulations of knowledge, beliefs and associated religious practices across political, cultural, social and linguistic boundaries in and between Asia and Europe.

Issues in Environmental History: Nature, Knowledge, Place, and Surroundings

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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?

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Scripts, Languages and Buddhist Scriptures

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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:

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Selected Readings in Classical Japanese Literature

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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.

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Transcultural Problem Solving

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Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: KBR
Term: Fall

Teacher: Somdev VASUDEVA
Course Code: JK37005

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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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.

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Ways of Thinking Gender

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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.

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Weekly Writing Practicum

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

Teacher: Kjell ERICSON

Course Code: JK43001

This course will introduce graduate students to different approaches to the craft of historical writing in English.

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