Joint Degree Master in Transcultural Studies | Module: Focus 1

２０世紀日本技術社会史ーマイクロコンピュータと日本社会

Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: SEG
Term: Spring

Teacher: Till KNAUDT

Course Code: JK10003

特殊講義の目的は、社会、政治、テクノロジーが相互に関連していることを学生に紹介することである。特に、社会変革のために技術がどのように考案されたか、また、政治思想や社会がどのように技術を構築したかに焦点を当てる。

Cinema and Media Studies Seminar: Women and Documentary in East Asia and Documentary Writing

Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: VMC
Term: Spring

Teacher: Suhyon KIM

Course Code: JK11005

In this graduate seminar, we will learn about various women documentaries and writings from the 1990s to present.

Comparative Development Studies B

Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: SEG
Term: Spring

Teacher: HISANO Shuji

Course Code: JK51001

【This course is an international collaborative course】

This course will be instructed by Dr. Stephanie Hobbis (Assistant Professor, Sociology of Development and Change Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands) and Geoffrey Hobbis (Assistant Professor, Knowledge, Technology and Innovation, Wageningen University).

Feminist Theory

Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: KBR
Term: Spring

Teacher: Justine LE FLOC’H

Course Code: JK09002

The objective of this seminar is to read and discuss some classical feminist texts of the 20th century (Beauvoir, Crenshaw, Depreciado, Gilligan, hooks, Lordre, Sedgwick, Shiva, Spivak, Ueno, etc.).

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.

Millennial Zeitgeist & Auteurs of Korean Cinema

Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: VMC
Term: Spring

Teacher: CHOI, Jung Bong

Course Code: JK11006

Im Kwontaek, Park Chanwook, Hong Sangsoo, Kim Kiduk, Lee Changdong, and Bong Junho. These are most outstanding and internationally acclaimed directors of South Korea at the dawn of 21st century.

Philosophy of Science in Japanese Context: Advanced Introduction to Philosophy of 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 the participants into the field of philosophy of science using a recent textbook, Recipes For Science.

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:

Welfare Regime and Cross-Border Migration in Asia: labor, marriage and evacuation

Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: SEG
Term: Spring

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.