Japanese Culture Courses
01:565:350
- Course Code: 01:565:350
- Course Title: Japanese Film
- Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
- Credits: 3
01:565:350 Japanese Film
Description: Japanese film in its cultural and historic contexts and as a Japanese art form. Viewing and analysis of films by Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, Ozu, and others.
Number of Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Semesters Offered: Fall
Topics: Major cinematic representations of pre-WWII and post-WWII Japan. Issues of modernity and westernization, nostalgia for the past, and negotiations between progress and tradition.
Expected Work: Response papers, Final paper
Exams: None
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01:565:360
- Course Code: 01:565:360
- Course Title: Japanese Women Writers
- Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
- Credits: 3
01:565:360 Japanese Women Writers
Description: Fiction and poetry by Japanese women from the ninth century to the present. Focus on women’s early role in inventing and shaping literary genres, and the reemergence of a feminine tradition in the 20th century.
Number of Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Semesters Offered: Irregular
Topics: Varies
01:565:370
- Course Code: 01:565:370
- Course Title: Community and Difference in Japanese Literature and Film
- Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
- Credits: 3
01:565:370 Community and Difference in Japanese Literature and Film
Description: Charting and analyzing 20th Century filmic and literary portrayals of what is “foreign” and “Japanese.” Racialism, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender in the Japanese arts.
Number of Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Semesters Offered: Irregular
Topics: Varies
01:565:460
- Course Code: 01:565:460
- Course Title: Seminar on Japanese Film
- Credits: 3
01:565:460 Seminar on Japanese Film
Description: Major directors, development of Japanese film genres, Japanese film studies in English-language scholarship, relation between film and national identity.
Number of Credits: 3
Prerequisites: 01:565:350 or permission of instructor
Semesters Offered: Irregular
Topics: Varies
01:565:475
- Course Code: 01:565:475
- Course Title: Tale of Genji as World Literature
- Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
- Credits: 3
01:565:475 Tale of Genji as World Literature
Description: The Tale of Genji in the context of world literature as court romance, psychological novel, and feminist text. Extensive readings from critical literature in English and discussion of issues of translation.
Number of Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
Semesters Offered: Irregular
Topics: Varies
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