Postgraduate Course: Key Topics in Japanese Society and Culture (ASST11077)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Asian Studies |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course will familiarise students with key concepts and topics in Japanese society and culture and function as a systematic introduction to the more specialized option courses. These take up one session or part of a session and develop the subject in greater depth.
After a brief introduction into the general subject of the programme that situates the current state of Japanese society, its culture and the study thereof in a global context, the course moves on to key developments that constituted the Japanese nation and the state as a historical background for the study of its society and culture. The second part of the course is devoted to key concepts and issues in Japanese society, whereas the third part introduces key areas or topical highlights of Japanese culture. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Central | Seminar | Room S37, 7 George Square | 2-11 | 16:10 - 18:00 | | | | |
| First Class |
Week 2, Monday, 16:10 - 18:00, Zone: Central. Room S37, 7 George Square, Monday 24th September 2012 |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Students who have completed this course successfully will have:
¿ Acquired an overview of the key areas and concepts of Japanese society and culture;
¿ Developed an understanding of the historical background of social and cultural phenomena:
¿ Gained insight into the conditionality and mutual impact of social and cultural phenomena:
¿ Understood the global context of Japanese social and cultural phenomena and the impact of Japanese culture production globally
2. Students who have completed this course successfully will be able to:
¿ Discuss key areas and concepts of Japanese society and culture with competence and analytical skill
¿ Critically assess sources and documents related to Japanese social and cultural phenomena.
¿ Present detailed, supported arguments both in oral and written form
¿ Quickly locate, utilise and critique relevant literature
¿ Use knowledge acquired from the course to appraise news media and popular discourses on Japanese society and culture |
Assessment Information
| One 4000 word essay (100%) |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
1 Introduction: Japanese society and culture in a globalizing world: convergence and resistance (Zachmann)
2 Constituting Japan I: A Chinese model and the Bakufu alternative (Astley)
3 Constituting Japan II: Ancient past, democratic future (Astley)
4 The concept of freedom and individuality in Japanese state and society (Zachmann)
5 Education, subjectivity and resistance in contemporary Japanese society (Perkins)
6 Traditional performing arts, contemporary culture and the international scene (Parker)
7 Revisiting classical Japan through new media (Matsumoto-Sturt)
8 Terror, theatre and setting society to rights: a case study of Iwasaki Masahiro¿s A Country Far From Here (Parker)
9 Media mix as a convergence of Japanese popular culture (Matsumoto-Sturt)
10 Japan¿s pop culture and globalisation (Perkins) |
| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Sugimoto, Y., 2010, An introduction to Japanese Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hendry, J., 2003, Understanding Japanese Society. 3rd ed., London: Routledge.
Sugimoto, Y., ed., 2009, The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.
Martinez, D. P., ed., 1998, The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global Cultures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Totman, C., 2005, A History of Japan. 2nd ed., Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publ.
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| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords | KTJSC |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Urs Matthias Zachmann
Tel: (0131 6)50 4225
Email: U.Zachmann@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Sarah Harvey
Tel: (0131 6)51 1822
Email: Sarah.Harvey@ed.ac.uk |
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