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Course Code etc
Academic Year 2024
College University-wide Liberal Arts Courses (Comprehensive Courses)
Course Code FB513
Theme・Subtitle Work and Lifecourse in Contemporary Japan
Class Format Face to face (all classes are face-to-face)
Class Format (Supplementary Items) Lecture, Discussion, Fieldwork
Campus Seminar
Campus Ikebukuro
Semester Spring Semester
DayPeriod・Room Mon.4・A202
Credit 2
Course Number CMP2231
Language English
Class Registration Method Exceptional Lottery Registration(定員:20人/ Capacity:20)
Grade (Year) Required 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。
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Text Code FB513

【Course Objectives】

This course explores Japanese working life through literature and fieldwork. By investigating various career trajectories in today's Japan that are not as visible or are often overlooked in the mainstream discourse, we try to understand the diversity that exists in Japanese society as well as the most recent changes that are taking place in Japan (and in the world).

【Course Contents】

In this course, we try to capture -- by going beyond clichés and stereotypes -- what it is like to work and live in contemporary Japanese society.

Through work, a person tries not only to survive everyday life but also to establish his/her self-worth and a sense of identity. We will examine the politics and economy of an individual's life as s/he negotiates with the external world in the arena called ‘work.'

We will first read texts that help us understand: (1) the significance of work in human lives; (2) ethnographic accounts of the working life in Japan. As we grasp the functions of ‘work,' students will start looking for two individuals to interview.

For these interviews, students can either work alone or be paired up with other student(s); Necessary arrangements will be made according to the different levels of their language and cultural expertise.

Students are to analyze these individuals' narratives about work in the current socio-cultural and historical contexts of Japan. The results of their research will be shared in class as well as written up as a final report.

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