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Class number:
3219
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Title: Japanese Culture |
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Department: Language and Culture Studies |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Lecture |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: Yes |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 19 |
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Current enrollment: 8 |
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Available seats: 11 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 23, 2026 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM, LSC - 136 |
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Instructor(s): Izumi, Katsuya |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities and Global Requirements |
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Note: 6 seats reserved for first-year students across JAPN/FILM/LACS. |
Course Description:
In this course, students will engage critically with the Japanese culture.
Through animation films directed by Miyazaki Hayao, Kon Satoshi,
and others, and modern Japanese short stories, we will examine the
ideas of "basic" and perhaps "typical" Japanese cultural aspects and
elements, as defined in Roger J. Davies and Osamu Ikeno's The
Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture.
Students are expected to think about these aspects and elements,
watching animation films and reading short stories. Most importantly,
however, students are required to analyze the Japanese works from a
critical perspective and to write "argumentative essays" on them. By
close-reading the texts (both films and literary works), students will
develop sensitivities toward what flows underneath cultural
representations The coursework includes multiple drafts of term papers. |