Joint Degree Master in Transcultural Studies | Study Focus: Visual, Media and Material Culture (VMC)

Learning the Power of Observation: How and Why I Make “Observational” Documentaries

Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: VMC
Term: Spring

Teacher: SOUDA Kazuhiro

Course Code: JK11002

In this intensive course, I will explain how and why I take my particular approach to documentary filmmaking, covering all phases of filmmaking from filming to editing to marketing.

Play, Advanced: Transcultural Game Studies 102

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

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.

Play, Transcultural: Interdisciplinary Game Studies 101

Course Type: Seminar
Study Focus: VMC
Term: Spring

Teacher: Björn-Ole KAMM
Course Code: JK33001

The focus of this practice-oriented and interactive seminar lies on theoretical concepts and analytical techniques useful to engage transculturality in the cross-disciplinary research field of game studies.

Transcultural Cinema Forum 2025

Course Type: Seminar
Study Focus: VMC
Term: Spring

Teacher: Mitsuyo WADA-MARCIANO

Course Code: JK36001

The Transcultural Cinema Forum in 2025 will consider what “cinema” means: the cinema, born at the end of the 19th century and regarded as the king of entertainment throughout the 20th century, is undergoing a major transformation in its form with the advent of the Internet in the 21st century. The purpose of this course is to reconsider the question “What Is cinema?” from the perspective of the year 2025.

VTuber文化から考える情報社会

Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: VMC
Term: Spring

Teacher: OKAMOTO Takeshi, KITA Chigusa, MATSUNAGA Shinji

Course Code: JK11007

VTuberは、「メディア」「コンテンツ」「コミュニケーション」が連綿と紡いできた文化的、社会的、産業的な蓄積の結節点にいる存在である。

Weekly Writing Practicum

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.

アニメ聖地巡礼・ゾンビ・VTuberを研究することから見える社会

Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: VMC
Term: Fall

Teacher: OKAMOTO Takeshi

Course Code: JK39004

「社会学」とはなんでしょうか。授業担当者は「社会学者」と形容されることもありますが、博士号は「観光学」で取得しています。

ゲーム研究入門

Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: VMC
Term: Spring

Teacher: Akito INOUE

Course Code: JK11004

「ゲーム」とはなんだろうか。「ゲーム」という概念は「物語」「自由」などと同様に人文学的にも社会科学的にも重要な概念であるにもかかわらず、近年に至るまで「ゲーム」に関わる研究はあまり精緻な議論が進まず、多くの人が興味を持ちながらもホイジンガやカイヨワを参照するところから、議論が更新されない状況が長年続いてきた。