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: KODAMA Satoshi
Course Code: JK22001
This course introduces students to bioethics as an interdisciplinary field of study that looks into ethical, legal, and social implications of life sciences and health care.
Continue reading “An Introduction to Bioethics”
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 Shuji, HISANO Ai
Course Code: JK17003
This course examines the political, economic, social, and cultural aspects of consumption broadly conceived.
Continue reading “Critical Consumption Studies”
Teacher: Björn-Ole KAMM
Course Code: JK21002
This course deals with leisure and play as matters of concern for politicians and many other actors in and outside Japan.
Continue reading “Decisions, Orderings, and the Nation: Japan at Play”
Digital games are widely recognized as a global culture. However, the term global remains vague in most discussions, to say the least.
Continue reading “Digital games in a transcultural perspective”
Course Type: Lecture
Study Focus: KBR, VMC
Term: Fall
Teacher: YOSHII Hideo, SHIMOGAKI Hitoshi, Erika Angela FORTE
Course Code: JK23001