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: JK21005

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.

Pain Culture and Pain Literature

Course Type: Seminar
Study Focus: KBR
Term: Fall

Teacher: MINAMIDANI Yoshimi

Course Code: JK16002

Through the reading of Joanna Bourke’s The Story of pain: from Prayer to Painkillers (2014) and stories about painful experiences,

Philosophy of Science in Japanese Context: Introduction to Philosophy of Social Science

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

Teacher: ISEDA Tetsuji

Course Code: JK12001

The aim of this special lecture is to introduce philosophy of social sciences.

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: JK15003

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.