Module: Introduction to Transcultural Studies

Basic Research Skills (Tutorium)

Course Type: Seminar (Tutorium)
Study Focus: Foundations
Term: Spring

Teacher: Björn-Ole KAMM
Course Code: JK06001

This course introduces useful and essential skills for academic research to new JDTS students.

Introduction to Indian Aesthetics

Course Type: Seminar
Study Focus: KBR
Term: Spring

Teacher: Somdev VASUDEVA
Course Code: JK31001

This course is designed as a general introduction to the theory and practice of Indian aesthetics.

Introduction to Transcultural Studies

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.

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.

Qualitative Research and Community Fieldwork in Kyoto

Course Type: Seminar
Study Focus: SEG
Term: Spring

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.

Queer Cinema Forum 2024

Course Type: Seminar
Study Focus: VMC
Term: Spring

Teacher: Mitsuyo WADA-MARCIANO

Course Code: JK36001

The 2024 Transcultural Cinema Forum will focus on queer cinema and examine the boundaries that create many of the dichotomies depicted in cinema, such as heterosexual/homosexual, gay/lesbian, male/female, normal/abnormal, common sense/uncommon sense, Japan/other regions.