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3.00 Credits
This course is a continuation of First-Year Japanese 101-102, further developing the four skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing. The same general methodology will be used. Upon completing the course, students will have been introduced to most of the major structural patterns of contemporary Japanese and will be able to read simple expository prose. This is an EDI course. Throughout the course we will address issues of how cultural difference inform and are informed by different linguistic contexts and practices.
Prerequisite:
Japanese 101-102 or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
This course is a continuation of First-Year Japanese 101-102, further developing the four skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing. The same general methodology will be used. Upon completing the course, students will have been introduced to most of the major structural patterns of contemporary Japanese and will be able to read simple expository prose. This is an EDI course. Throughout the course we will address issues of how cultural difference inform and are informed by different linguistic contexts and practices.
Prerequisite:
JAPN 201 or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to the history, literature, and artistic culture of premodern Japan, from the time of the first recorded histories in the 800s through the abolition of the samurai class in the late 1800s. We will focus on the politics and aesthetic culture of the ruling elites in each period, from the heyday of the imperial court through the rise and eventual decline of the samurai warrior and the growth of Edo (Tokyo), with its new mode of early modern government and new forms of literature, theater, and art. Team taught by faculty from History and Comparative Literature, the course will examine historical texts alongside works drawn from literature, visual culture, and performing arts, and will ask students to consider how these different kinds of texts can shed light on one another. What is the difference between reading history and reading literature, or is it even meaningful to distinguish the two? By critically engaging in various kinds of textual analysis, this EDI course not only considers the relationship between politics, culture, and society in premodern Japan but also explores how we can attempt to know and understand different times and places. Primary texts will include court diaries, war tales, and fiction; laws and edicts; essays and autobiographies; noh, kabuki, and puppet theater; and tea ceremony, visual art, and architecture. Students should register under the prefix specific to the Division in which they want to receive credit.
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Open to all
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an opportunity to gain an understanding of the nature of human language and its patterns. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to analyze speech sounds (phonetics and phonology), word and sentence structures (morphology and syntax) and meaning (semantics) using simple data from English and other languages like Japanese and Chinese, and to apply analytical thinking to various linguistic phenomena including historical change and contextual variation.
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No previous knowledge of linguistics or of particular foreign languages is required; open to all
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3.00 Credits
This course explores ways in which various types of concepts, including sensory experience, emotion and interpersonal awareness, are encoded differently across languages. The course centers around the two core areas of linguistics, semantics (study of meaning) and pragmatics (study of meaning in context and use), and discusses selected articles and book chapters, incorporating other related fields such as cognitive linguistics and sociolinguistics. Other core areas, phonetics/phonology (study of speech sounds) and morphology/syntax (study of word/sentence formation), will be briefly introduced. Lectures will primarily focus on two typologically-distant languages, English and Japanese, for comparison, and some reading materials and assignments involve data from various languages. No previous knowledge of linguistics or of a particular foreign language is required.
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Open to all
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3.00 Credits
From the endemic warfare of the medieval era to the atomic bombing and the violent explosion of technology in the last century, the end of the world is an idea which has occupied a central place in almost every generation of Japanese literature. Paradoxically, the spectacle of destruction has given birth to some of the most beautiful, most moving, and most powerfully thrilling literature in the Japanese tradition. Texts may be drawn from medieval war narratives like The Tale of the Heike; World War II fiction and films by Ibuse Masuji, Imamura Shohei, and Ichikawa Kon; fantasy and science fiction novels by Abe Kobo, Murakami Haruki and Murakami Ryu; and apocalyptic comics and animation by Oshii Mamoru, Otomo Katsuhiro, and others. The class and the readings are in English; no familiarity with Japanese language or culture is required.
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Open to all
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of traditional Japanese painting, sculpture, architecture, woodblock prints, and decorative arts. Special attention will be paid to the developments in artistic style and subject matter in the contexts of contemporary cultural phenomena. Through visual analysis students learn the aesthetic, religious, and political ideals and cultural meanings conveyed in the works of art. This course offers students a solid grasp of the social, cultural, and art histories of Japan, and how Japan's foreign relations influenced the development of its artistic trends. Course highlights include the transmission of Buddhism and its art to Japan; the relationship between words and images; Zen Buddhism and its art (dry gardens; temples; and tea ceremony related art forms) in the samurai culture; the sex industry and kabuki theater, their art, and censorship; and the affinities between Japanese woodblock prints and Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a continuation of Japanese 201, 202. Students will, further develop the four skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing, while consolidating the foundations built in Elementary and Intermediate Japanese. . The same general methodology will be used. In this course, students begin to emphasize vocabulary building through the study of situationally oriented materials stressing communicative competence. The reading of expository prose in both semi-authentic and authentic materials of intermediate difficulty will also receive some extensive attention. This is an EDI course. In addition to involving immersion in a classroom Japanese environment, much of our focus will be on the ways that various cultural issues are perceived and addressed differently (and, in many instances, in similar ways) in Japan and the US.
Prerequisite:
Japanese 202 or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
This course is a continuation of Japanese 201, 202. Students will, further develop the four skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing, while consolidating the foundations built in Elementary and Intermediate Japanese. . The same general methodology will be used. In this course, students begin to emphasize vocabulary building through the study of situationally oriented materials stressing communicative competence. The reading of expository prose in both semi-authentic and authentic materials of intermediate difficulty will also receive some extensive attention. This is an EDI course. In addition to involving immersion in a classroom Japanese environment, much of our focus will be on the ways that various cultural issues are perceived and addressed differently (and, in many instances, in similar ways) in Japan and the US.
Prerequisite:
Japanese 301 or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
An unabating tension between conflict and cooperation has been an undercurrent of U.S.-Japan relations in the past 150 years, at times erupting into clashes reaching the scale of world war and at times allowing for measured collaboration. We will explore the U.S.-Japan relationship from the perspectives of both countries with a focus on how culture, domestic concerns, economic and political aims, international contexts, and race have helped shape its course and nature. This course will fulfill the requirements of the Exploring Diversity Initiative by examining not just the diplomatic relationship between the U.S. and Japan, but also how various types of interactions have influenced the dynamics of power between these two countries and have shaped the ways in which each country has understood and portrayed the other. Topics will include early U.S.-Japan encounters; the rise of both countries as imperial powers; the road to, and experience of, World War II; the politics and social history of the postwar American occupation of Japan; the U.S.-Japan security alliance; trade relations; and popular culture. Contemporary topics will also be discussed.
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Open to first-year students with instructors permission
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