Joint Degree Master in Transcultural Studies
Kyoto University | Graduate School of Letters
This study focus explores issues of Society, Economy and Governance from an explicitly transcultural and historical perspective.
Teacher: Björn-Ole KAMM
Course Code: JK50001
With the example practice-as-network often abridged as role-playing games, this course introduces students to a (trans-) cultural studies approach of practices, actors and processes.
Continue reading “Actors, Processes, and Networks: Studying (Sub-) Cultural Practices”
Teacher: Björn-Ole KAMM
Course Code: JK50001
This practice-oriented and interactive seminar seeks to establish an understanding of theories of transculturality, interactivity, immersion, and user agency and various angles of valuable methodology for the study of games and gaming.
Continue reading “Advanced Transcultural Game Studies”
Teacher: Katharina RODE-KAYA
Course Code: JK11003
In this intensive seminar, we will approach the art and politics Japanese Meiji era (1868-1912), and navigate their complexity through separate case studies that are often transcultural in nature.
Continue reading “Aesthetics, Materiality, and Politics: An Intensive Introduction to Meiji Art”
Teacher: KODAMA Satoshi
Course Code: JK49001
This course introduces students to bioethics as an interdisciplinary field of study that looks into ethical, legal, and social implications of life sciences and health care.
Continue reading “An Introduction to Bioethics”
Teacher: Björn-Ole KAMM
Course Code: JK53001
This course engages with game design as a tool for transcultural learning and making research experienceable.
Continue reading “Game Design for Transcultural Learning”
Teacher: Che Singh KOCHHAR-GEORGE
Course Code: JK38005
The course aims to enhance students’ understanding of immigration and refugee policies in Asia.
Continue reading “Immigration and Refugee Policy in Asia”
Course Type: Lecture & Seminar (Tutorium)
Study Focus: Foundations, KBR, SEG, VMC
Term: Spring
Teachers: ASATO Wako, Björn-Ole KAMM, Somdev VASUDEVA, Mitsuyo WADA-MARCIANO
Course Code: JK01001 (JK02001)
Foundational lecture series that introduces students to diverse disciplinary approaches enabling them to frame their own studies of transcultural phenomena and perspectives.
Continue reading “Introduction to Transcultural Studies”
Teacher: Kjell ERICSON
Course Code: JK45001
When we conjure up “the environment” in our mind’s eye, what do we see?
Continue reading “Issues in Environmental History: Nature, Knowledge, Place, and Surroundings”
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?
Teacher: SANO Mayuko
Course Code: JK38003
This course aims to explore Japanese diplomacy during the last decade of the Tokugawa Shogunate, through in-depth readings of documents (such as memoirs, diaries, and diplomatic correspondences) written by people who worked on the ground during that time.
Continue reading “Japan’s early diplomacy during the last decade of the Tokugawa Shogunate”