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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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Module: Focus 1 – Foundations

This module builds upon the qualifications the students have acquired through the introductory module.

A transcultural introduction to knowledge, belief, and religion

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Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: KBR
Term: Spring

Teacher: Patrick Stanley Dannis, MCCARTNEY
Course Code: JK09003

This course takes a transcultural approach to explore the Humanities and ways of understanding our worlds and our places in them.

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Cinematic Imaginations: Feminist and Queer Film Criticism

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

Teacher: KANNO Yūka

Course Code: JK14001

This course engages major debates in feminist and queer film theory and criticism.

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Morality, Culture and Relativism

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Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: VMC
Term: Spring

Teacher: Michael CAMPBELL

Course Code: JK09002

In this course we will consider issues around the understanding and evaluation of other cultures.

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

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

Teacher: ISEDA Tetsuji

Course Code: JK12001

The aim of this special lecture is to introduce the participants into the field of philosophy of science through lectures focusing on classic and basic papers in the field.

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Russo-Japanese Cultural Dialogue Through Images

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

Teacher: Anastasia FEDOROVA

Course Code: JK14002

This course explores the rich history of cultural encounters between Japan and Russia, starting in the Edo period and leading to the two countries’ latest attempts at co-producing animated films.

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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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Transcultural Dialogues in Modern Japanese Architecture

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Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: VMC
Term: Spring

Teacher: Lauri KITSNIK

Course Code: JK11003

What is modern Japanese architecture and when did it begin? How were ideas coming from abroad domesticated and further expanded?

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Transcultural Rural Gender Studies

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Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: SEG
Term: Spring

Teacher: IWASHIMA Fumi

Course Code: JK10002

This seminar centers on three points for considering the difference between rural and urban from gender perspectives.

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What Is Transcultural History?

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Course Type: Seminar
Study Focus: SEG
Term: Spring

Teacher: Kjell ERICSON

Course Code: JK10001

This course allows students to examine the methods, assumptions, and findings of recent historical work that can be variously classified as “global,” “transnational,” and “transcultural.”

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