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”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: 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: 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”Teacher: Milos DEBNAR
Course Code: JK38007
This course aims to introduce key issues related to contemporary migration to Japan and integration of migrants.
Continue reading “Migration and integration in contemporary Japan”Teacher: ISEDA Tetsuji
Course Code: JK12001
The aim of this special lecture is to introduce the participants into the field of philosophy of science using a recent textbook, Recipes For Science.
Continue reading “Philosophy of Science in Japanese Context: Advanced Introduction to Philosophy of Science”Teacher: ASATO Wako
Course Code: JK32001
This class will cover social research methods, mainly qualitative research. In view of the relaxed restrictions on movement under COVID-19, we are also planning to conduct fieldwork.
Continue reading “Qualitative Research and Community Fieldwork in Kyoto”In this seminar, students will be introduced to major debates in queer film theory and criticism while exploring critical concepts in fields such as feminist and queer aesthetics and politics, realism, autobiography, cinematic modernism, and New Queer Cinema.
Continue reading “Queer Film Theory and Criticism”Teacher: KAWAI Junko
Course Code: JK38004
This course will examine various approaches and topics in the study of Japanese education, culture and society through reading sociological works on Japan.
Teacher: Kjell ERICSON
Course Code: JK35001
This seminar-style course introduces students to recent approaches to the transnational study of Japanese history.
Continue reading “Transnational Japanese History Seminar: Migration, Labor, and Environment”This course will introduce graduate students to different approaches to the craft of historical writing in English.
Continue reading “Weekly Writing Practicum”Teacher: ASATO Wako
Course Code: JK10006
This course will discuss how welfare regimes intertwine with migration regimes in the process of rapid economic development and demographic change in Asian countries.
Continue reading “Welfare Regime and Cross-Border Migration in Asia: labor, marriage and evacuation”