Class Schedule Listing - 2017 Summer I (May 12, 2024) |
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| Exploring Japanese Popular Music - 7039 - ASST 3000 - 811 | ||||||||||||||
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CL: MSP 3590 (811). Notes: An extra media fee of 8,800 yen is required. Repeatable for credit across different topics (consult with the AAC for details). Topical Section Description: From today's AKB-48 and Hatsune Miku, back through Shonen Knife and the "Johnny's", past Hibari Misora and Kyu Sakamoto, all the way back to Gagaku (court music) and Matsuri Bayashi (festival music), Japanese popular music has long held a place of curiosity and fascination among many in the West. In this course, students and instructor will together evaluate the historical evolution of popular music styles in Japan, engage with current aesthetic trends, analyze Japan as a market for Western pop music, and examine the positioning of Japanese music for export to the West. We will meet and hear from Japanese music industry professionals, engage in weekly comparative analyses of the pop charts in Japan and the US, experience the "indie" scene in the "live houses" of Koenji and Shimokitazawa; visit the Takio Museum, attend a Tsugaru Shamisen performance and lecture, analyze the use of traditional Japanese instruments in contemporary idioms in both Japan and the West, visit the Yamaha corporation for a demonstration and discussion of their Vocaloid software, the key technology underlying the "virtual diva" Hatsune Miku, evaluate the efforts of Sony to export their idol group Perfume to the West, and more.
Visit the Bookstore site to view course materials Associated Term: 2017 Summer I Registration Dates: Mar 29, 2017 to Jun 02, 2017 Registration Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Japan Campus Base Lecture Schedule Type Classroom In-Person Instructional Method Credit Hours: 3.000 Seats Available: 30 View Catalog Entry and Course Description
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| Anime in Japanese Popular Culture - 7060 - ASST 3000 - 812 | ||||||||||||||
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Notes: An extra media fee of 8,800 yen is required. Field trips are mandatory in this class. Extended class (screening) time is also required. Topical Section Description: The rich and varied world of Japanese anime (animation) represents some of the most important cultural production in postwar Japan, and an increasingly important part of global popular culture. This course offers a thematic study of anime as Japanese pop cultural texts, adopting an interdisciplinary approach. In each class, a new genre, theme or creator of anime will be examined to give a valuable insight into key aspects of Japanese culture. Episodes of TV anime and clips from animated films will be screened and discussed. Rotating groups of students will be expected to facilitate discussion. Taking advantage of our location in Tokyo, fieldtrips will be organized for students to experience anime culture. Students will conduct independent research projects on anime and write a final paper.
Visit the Bookstore site to view course materials Associated Term: 2017 Summer I Registration Dates: Mar 29, 2017 to Jun 02, 2017 Registration Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Japan Campus Base Lecture Schedule Type Classroom In-Person Instructional Method Credit Hours: 3.000 Seats Available: 8 View Catalog Entry and Course Description
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| Korean Politics - 7420 - ASST 3000 - 813 | ||||||||||||||
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CL: Pol Sci 3520 (811). Notes: Repeatable for credit across different topics (consult with the AAC for details). Topical Section Description: This course is about the government and politics in South Korea. We will first take a look at the historical processes from the liberation and division of the Korean peninsula to the democratization and economic development of the South Korea and nuclear and economic challenges of North Korea. We will then survey the political institutions and groups that shape politics and policy making in South Korea. We will analyze how mechanisms of delegation, representation, and accountability work, and what authorities and constraints decision makers possess and face. We will also analyze the politics and political economy of policy reforms by focusing on several areas of policy making. Lastly, we will look at the current state and prospects of Japan-Korea relations with a special attention to the ways in which history and present-day political institutions shape the incentives and thus, behaviors of the major decision makers in each of the respective countries.
Visit the Bookstore site to view course materials Associated Term: 2017 Summer I Registration Dates: Mar 29, 2017 to Jun 02, 2017 Registration Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Japan Campus Base Lecture Schedule Type Classroom In-Person Instructional Method Credit Hours: 3.000 Seats Available: 36 View Catalog Entry and Course Description
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| Japanese Graphic Design History - 7564 - ASST 3000 - 814 | ||||||||||||||
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CL: Art Hist 2800 (811). Notes: An extra media fee of 4,400 yen is required. Field trips are mandatory in this class. Repeatable for credit across different topics (consult with the AAC for details). Students must contact the AAC if they wish to concurrently register for more than one section of Asian Studies 3000 in the same semester. Topical Section Description: A survey topic course examining the development of graphic design and the emergence of Modernism in the Japanese context. This class will examine the development of commercial art to graphic design utilizing a variety of readings of history, theory and criticism, lectures, video content, examinations of historical physical ephemera, and in-class discussions. The course will provide students with a working understanding of Japanese graphic design history across typography. Students will participate in field trips that will supplement their developing understanding of history by seeing how past aesthetics influence the contemporary moment, as well as examining historical design work. The course is designed to enhance students’ visual vocabularies, as well as examine methodological underpinnings of design, the development of visual styles of form-making, typography, the emergence of modernism in Japan, and to provide a sense of contemporary aesthetics as an accretive culmination of cultural development. Students will examine the roles that graphic designers have played in history, as well as examining notions of design authorship, exploring design writing, giving brief presentations on historical Japanese designers based on personal research, and being introduced to foreign designers and socioeconomic forces which helped to mold Japanese design as a sector of cultural production.
Visit the Bookstore site to view course materials Associated Term: 2017 Summer I Registration Dates: Mar 29, 2017 to Jun 02, 2017 Registration Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Japan Campus Base Lecture Schedule Type Classroom In-Person Instructional Method Credit Hours: 4.000 Seats Available: 36 View Catalog Entry and Course Description
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| The Cold War in Asia - 7847 - ASST 3000 - 815 | ||||||||||||||
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Topical Section Description: While the Cold War began in Europe, it was in Asia that it first turned “hot.” Moreover, several factors—especially decolonization, race, and the rise of nationalism—made the Cold War even more complex in Asia compared to Europe. This class will examine the changing nature of the Cold War in Asia from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s. We will pay special attention to the influence of ideologies, economics, perceptions of geopolitical realities, domestic politics, and culture on the policies and actions of key regional players such as the People’s Republic of China, Japan, and Vietnam, as well as the United States, the Soviet Union, and various European powers. The fact that divisions caused by the Cold War in Asia continue to shape the region—note the armistice separating the two Koreas—will also be considered. Students will be introduced to various interpretive frameworks developed by scholars to understand the actions of both state actors and nonstate actors. Analysis of a variety of primary sources will be central to this course. Since this is a writing intensive class, students will have the opportunity to become an expert in a particular aspect of Cold War Asia by selecting a significant topic that interests them and writing a research paper. This key element of the class will be divided into a four step process: proposal, primary source outline, first draft, and final draft.
Visit the Bookstore site to view course materials Associated Term: 2017 Summer I Registration Dates: Mar 29, 2017 to Jun 02, 2017 Registration Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Special Approval: Major Coordinator - JPN ONLY Japan Campus Base Lecture Schedule Type Classroom In-Person Instructional Method Credit Hours: 3.000 Seats Available: -1 View Catalog Entry and Course Description
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