JAPN 215 - Cool Japan Today
This course examines contemporary media culture and products as a conceptual lens to focus on Japanese pop culture and soft power in the 21st Century. Manga, Anime, Cinema, literature, performance art, music, and fine arts will all be surveyed with an eye to understanding what exactly is cool and different about Japanese creative work and whether these kinds of cultural exports could become the foundation of a new post-industrial Japanese economy. Taught in English.
This was a very interesting class where I learned different aspects of Japanese traditional and pop culture. Even though, I lived in Japan for many years, I did not know about many things that I learned in this class. In these aspects included ukiyo-e, manga and anime, the Japanese period, gueisha, religion, robot and others. This course helped me to fulfill MLO2 and MLO4. In this course, I had to read a lot, and we had quiz at least once a week. In addition, we had few essays and couple of presentation in Power Point. In class, we usually worked in group which helped me in many circumstances that I was not familiar with. This course make us think and analyze about the topics (watch a video and write about it) and many topics we compared with our own culture.
This class also helped me to better understand another class (upper) that I was taking (JAPN 305) because some of the topic was related to other class. Below is some of the work I did in this class.
This class also helped me to better understand another class (upper) that I was taking (JAPN 305) because some of the topic was related to other class. Below is some of the work I did in this class.
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eaasy_1_japanese_art.doc | |
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eaasy_2_otaku_and_akihabara.doc | |
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