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Course Code etc
Academic Year 2025
College University-wide Liberal Arts Courses (Comprehensive Courses)
Course Code FB539
Theme・Subtitle Transnational and Transcultural Japan
Class Format Face to face (all classes are face-to-face)
Class Format (Supplementary Items)
Campus Lecture
Campus Ikebukuro
Semester Spring Semester
DayPeriod・Room Tue.5
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Credits 2
Course Number CMP2231
Language English
Class Registration Method Exceptional Lottery Registration
Assigned Year 配当年次は開講学部のR Guideに掲載している科目表で確認してください。
Prerequisite Regulations
Acceptance of Other Colleges
Course Cancellation 〇(履修中止可/ Eligible for cancellation)
Online Classes Subject to 60-Credit Upper Limit
Relationship with Degree Policy 各授業科目は、学部・研究科の定める学位授与方針(DP)や教育課程編成の方針(CP)に基づき、カリキュラム上に配置されています。詳細はカリキュラム・マップで確認することができます。
Notes

【Course Objectives】

1. Question monolithic and homogenous understandings of Japan by examining the transnational and transcultural trajectories of Japanese culture from a cross-border social sciences perspective.
2. Develop critical thinking and academic English reading skills, and engage in cross-cultural debates and collaboration.
3. Undertake a semester-long research project that will culminate in a written report.

【Course Contents】

This course explores the transcultural and transnational elements of Japan from a cross-border social sciences perspective. By looking at the stories of people at the margins of Japanese society, such as immigrants, mixed-heritage people, and ethnic minorities, we will historize and deconstruct the myth of Japan as a homogenous society by shifting the focus to the processes of mobility, migration, cultural diffusion, and hybridity.

This course is taught in English and is designed to help students develop critical thinking, reading, discussion, and research skills. Each class will focus on a topic, exposing students to a range of sociological themes and concepts and their applications in the study of Japan. Students will take part in a cross-cultural exploration of ideas and works by Japanese and non-Japanese scholars through in-class lectures, group discussions, homework readings, and other activities, including a semester-long research project and collaboration.

Japanese Items

【授業計画 / Course Schedule】

1 Syllabus Overview and Introductions
2 Imagining Japan
3 Japan before Meiji
4 Making the Nation: Westernization, internal colonization, and the search for Japaneseness
5 Multiethnic and Multicultural Japan: Japanese Others
6 Multiethnic and Multicultural Japan: Others in Japan
7 Transnational Japan: the Japanese abroad
8 To be or not to be Japanese: multiethnic and multicultural identities
9 Research project and collaboration I
10 Research project and collaboration II
11 Research project and collaboration III
12 Research project and collaboration IV
13 Beyond Japaneseness: hybrid and transcultural Japan
14 Wrap-up: lessons for and from Japan

【活用される授業方法 / Teaching Methods Used】

板書 /Writing on the Board
スライド(パワーポイント等)の使用 /Slides (PowerPoint, etc.)
上記以外の視聴覚教材の使用 /Audiovisual Materials Other than Those Listed Above
個人発表 /Individual Presentations
グループ発表 /Group Presentations
ディスカッション・ディベート /Discussion/Debate
実技・実習・実験 /Practicum/Experiments/Practical Training
学内の教室外施設の利用 /Use of On-Campus Facilities Outside the Classroom
校外実習・フィールドワーク /Field Work
上記いずれも用いない予定 /None of the above

補足事項 (Supplementary Items)
Research project and collaboration

【授業時間外(予習・復習等)の学修 / Study Required Outside of Class】

Students are expected to actively prepare for and engage in class discussions by completing weekly homework readings and other assignments and revising the slides after each class. Throughout the semester, students are expected to work on their research projects and engage in collaborative work that will culminate in an annotated critical bibliography.

Students are expected to dedicate at least 2 hours of preparation before each class, and at least one hour of post-class study per week for reviewing class slides. For the final research project, students should expect to dedicate at least 25 hours of outside-of-class work.

【成績評価方法・基準 / Evaluation】

種類 (Kind)割合 (%)基準 (Criteria)
平常点 (In-class Points)100 Attendance and Participation(20%)
Homework and in-class assignments(20%)
Research project and collaborative work(30%)
Final report(30%)
備考 (Notes)

【テキスト / Textbooks】

なし/None

【参考文献 / Readings】

No著者名 (Author/Editor)書籍名 (Title)出版社 (Publisher)出版年 (Date)ISBN/ISSN
1 WILLIS, David Blake; MURPHY-SHIGEMATSU, Stephen (ed.) Transcultural Japan: At the borderlands of race, gender, and identity Routledge 2008 0415394341
2 LIE, John Multiethnic Japan Harvard UniversityPress 2004 9780674013582
3 SURAK, Kristin Making Tea, Making Japan: Cultural Nationalism in Practice Stanford University Press 2012 0804778671
4 DE CARVALHO, Daniela Migrants and Identity in Japan and Brazil: the Nikkeijin Routledge 2003 9781138879249
5 BEFU, Harumi Hegemony of Homogeneity: An Anthropological Analysisof Nihonjinron Trans Pacific Press 2001 1876843055
その他 (Others)
Additional reading assignments will be announced in class and made available online.

【履修にあたって求められる能力 / Abilities Required to Take the Course】

【学生が準備すべき機器等 / Equipment, etc., that Students Should Prepare】

【その他 / Others】

【注意事項 / Notice】

・F科目中級(外国語による総合系科目)
・他に特別外国人学生が履修
・この授業は英語で実施する
・履修者はTOEIC®L&R 550点相当以上の英語力を有することが望ましい
・2016年度以降入学者:多彩な学び
・2015年度以前入学者:主題別A