Joint Degree Master in Transcultural Studies
Kyoto University | Graduate School of Letters
The research modules build on the theoretical, methodological, and regional competences acquired in the first year of study and allows for further specialization in line with the individual study goals of the students in preparation for their master’s thesis.
Teacher: Somdev VASUDEVA
Course Code: JK16001
This class has a twofold aim. [1.] It introduces the main authors, scriptures, commentaries, and exegetical works describing the practices and theories of systems of Tantric yoga.
Teacher: Björn-Ole KAMM
Course Code: JK26001
With the example practice-as-network often abridged as role-playing games, this course introduces students to a (trans-) cultural studies approach of practices, actors and processes.
Continue reading “Actors, Processes, and Networks: Studying (Sub-) Cultural Practices”
Teacher: OCHIAI Emiko
Course Code: JK17002
To date, the research work of Asian scholars on their respective societies has typically been relayed to other areas of Asia through European and North American academic circuits.
Teacher: HAYASE Atsushi
Course Code: JK24002
This Book Reading and Discussion course explores various aspects of Japanese thoughts and culture by reading Japanese Classics in English translation and discussing them in English.
Continue reading “Book Reading and Discussion on Japanese Thoughts and Culture: Japanese Traditional Drama, Two Plays by Chikamatsu Monzaemon”
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:
I. Silk Road in and between Asia and Europe;
II. Buddhist Art as Cultural Entanglement;
III. Manuscript Cultures as Transformative Creativity.
Teacher: HISANO Shuji
Course Code: JK17007
This course consists of two different, but mutually intersecting sessions.
Continue reading “Comparative Development Studies: Situating Sustainability within Development”
Teacher: KAIDA Daisuke
Course Code: JK15001
This course explores various aspects of contemporary Japanese philosophy (Post-World War II Japanese philosophy) by reading Japanese primary sources in English translation, and discussing them in English.
Teacher: HISANO Ai, HISANO Shuji
Course Code: JK17003
This course examines the political, economic, social, and cultural aspects of consumption broadly coneived.
Continue reading “Critical Consumption Studies”
Teacher: Björn-Ole KAMM
Course Code: JK21002
The focus of this interactive seminar lies on theoretical concepts and analytical techniques useful to study transcultural phenomena such as nation-branding from a perspective of cultural ordering and power relations.
Continue reading “Decisions, Orderings, and the Nation: Japan at Play”
Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: KBR, VMC
Term: Fall
Teacher: YOSHII Hideo, SHIMOGAKI Hitoshi, TOMII Makoto, NAIKI Satoshi
Course Code: JK23001