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Special Topics in Asian Studies I: Studying Globalization in China, India, and Russia - 52052 - ASST 2000 - 001 | ||||||||||||||
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Visit the Bookstore site to view course materials Associated Term: 2022 Fall Registration Dates: Apr 04, 2022 to Aug 26, 2022 Registration Levels: Graduate, NonDegree Continuing Undergrad, Undergraduate Main Campus Base Lecture Schedule Type Classroom In-Person Instructional Method Credit Hours: 3.000 Seats Available: 5 View Catalog Entry and Course Description
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Risk Culture: The Politics of Pandemics, Natural Disasters and Nuclear Energy - 49856 - ASST 2000 - 801 | ||||||||||||||
CL: SOC 2130 (801). Topical Course Description: As a global viral pandemic is transforming the world, the ways in which cultures institutionalize what constitutes acceptable parameters of risk has become increasingly evident. The COVID-19 pandemic is a transformative crisis, but it is only one instance of a larger process of how we calibrate perceived threat and attempt to impose a sense of normalcy in an increasingly precarious world. In Japan this was especially evident in the Tohoku disasters of 2011, when the largest earthquake ever recorded in Japan, a tsunami that took almost 20,000 lives and 3 nuclear reactors in meltdown in the Fukushima nuclear crisis grew to become the most expensive conjoined disasters in world history. This course examines major disasters such as the Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and Fukushima nuclear accidents, global climate change and its associated effects (the Katrina Hurricane in New Orleans, flooding, wildfires, impact on vulnerable populations) and episodic but impactful disasters such as the Challenger Space Shuttle Explosion and the British Petroleum Deep Water Horizon oil spill as case studies to illustrate how risk is socially constructed and politically contended, and makes its way through public policy into institutional structures to profoundly affect our lives.
Visit the Bookstore site to view course materials Associated Term: 2022 Fall Registration Dates: Apr 03, 2022 to Sep 01, 2022 Registration Levels: Graduate, NonDegree Continuing Undergrad, Undergraduate Japan Campus Base Lecture Schedule Type Classroom In-Person Instructional Method Credit Hours: 3.000 Seats Available: 23 View Catalog Entry and Course Description |
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Photography Theories and Practices: Photographic Culture in Japan and the US (Joint Class with SWU) - 50365 - ASST 2000 - 802 | ||||||||||||||
Notes: Permission of instructor required. This is a Joint Class with Showa Women's University and is taught in English. An extra program fee of 4,500 yen is required. Field trips are mandatory in this class. Topical Course Description: This course aims at acquiring basic theories and practices of photographic media through understanding the historical transformation of photographic culture and technologies in Japan and US, as well as the significance of recent photographic trends. This course is a joint course with Japanese (Showa Women’s) University. Segments of the course will be used for group work. Some parts of the course will cover the practical ability of photography such as shooting and editing photos on a smartphone and/or a computer. Additional goals of this course will be to develop communication skills, as such, a portion of class is reserved to help you build vocabulary. This will give you the tools needed to discuss culture through understanding the similarities and differences between Japanese and American photographic culture.
Visit the Bookstore site to view course materials Associated Term: 2022 Fall Registration Dates: Apr 03, 2022 to Sep 01, 2022 Registration Levels: Graduate, NonDegree Continuing Undergrad, Undergraduate Special Approval: Permission of Instructor Japan Campus Base Lecture Schedule Type Classroom In-Person Instructional Method Credit Hours: 3.000 Seats Available: 11 View Catalog Entry and Course Description |
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