This course is aimed to develop your skills to read academic articles written in Japanese, including classical Japanese.
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Selected Readings in Classical Japanese Literature
Teacher: YUKAWA Shikiko
Course Code: JK15003
The aim of this course is to seek and discuss Japanese values, ideas and attitudes toward certain universal themes, such as love, death, human nature and aesthetic beauty through a close reading of selected representative works of classical Japanese literature. We will use well-known English translations of the Manyoshu, Taketori Monogatari, Ise Monogatari and Tsurezuregusa, among other works, as our texts.
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Teacher: KAWAI Junko
Course Code: JK17006
This course will examine various approaches and topics in the study of Japanese education, culture and society through reading sociological works on Japan.
The Memory of the Second World War in Asia and Europe
Teacher: Takuma MELBER, Mitsuyo WADA-MARCIANO
Course Code: JK25001
This course will focus on the culture(s) of memory, the remembrance and commemoration of World War II I in a comparative global perspective by focusing on the Asia-Pacific region and Europe in particular.
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Teacher: Mitsuyo WADA-MARCIANO
Course Code: JK19002
This course examines contemporary East Asian cinemas’ transnational current at various levels of industry, genre, filmic style, and global commodification.
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Teacher: Nicolas Pierre TAJAN
Course Code: JK21004
Psychology and psychiatry have often been criticized for not considering cultural dimensions of mental distress. This course introduces transcultural psychiatry, a discipline that carefully questions taken-forgranted ways of organizing knowledge related to mental distress with respect to cultural differences.
Transnational Japanese History Seminar: Migration, Labor, and Environment
Teacher: Kjell ERICSON
Course Code: JK21005
This seminar-style course introduces students to recent approaches to the transnational study of Japanese history.
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This course will introduce graduate students to different approaches to the craft of historical writing in English.
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Teacher: ASATO Wako
Course Code: JK17001
This course will discuss how welfare regimes intertwine with migration regimes in the process of rapid economic development and demographic change in Asian countries.
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