JAPANGEN 51:
Japanese Business Culture (JAPANGEN 251)
Japanese group dynamics in industrial and corporate structures, negotiating styles, decision making, and crisis management. Strategies for managing intercultural differences.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
JAPANGEN 60:
Asian Art and Culture (ARTHIST 2)
The religious and philosophical ideas and social attitudes of India, China, and Japan and how they are expressed in architecture, painting, woodblock prints, sculpture, and in such forms as garden design and urban planning.
Last offered: Winter 2010
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II
JAPANGEN 75N:
Around the World in Seventeen Syllables: Haiku in Japan, the U.S., and the Digital World
Preference to freshmen. Origins of the haiku form in Japan, its place in the discourse of Orientalism during the 19th and early 20th centuries in the West, its appropriation by U.S.devotees of Zen and the beat poets after WW II, and its current transformation into a global form through the Internet.
Last offered: Autumn 2009
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
JAPANGEN 79:
Japanese Ghosts: The Supernatural in Japanese Art and Entertainment (JAPANGEN 179)
The complex meanings of ghosts in Japanese culture. Representations of the supernatural in images, drama, oral narratives, prose, film, comics and animation at different moments in Japanese history.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom
JAPANGEN 92:
Traditional East Asian Culture: Japan
Required for Chinese and Japanese majors. Introduction to Japanese culture in historical context. Previous topics include:shifting paradigms of gender relations and performance, ancient mythology, court poetry and romance, medieval war tales, and the theaters of Noh, Bunraku, and Kabuki.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II
JAPANGEN 121:
Translating Japan, Translating the West (JAPANGEN 221)
Translation lies at the heart of all intercultural exchange. This course introduces students to the specific ways in which translation has shaped the image of Japan in the West, the image of the West in Japan, and Japan's self-image in the modern period. What texts and concepts were translated by each side, how, and to what effect? No prior knowledge of Japanese language necessary.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
JAPANGEN 137:
Classical Japanese Literature in Translation (JAPANGEN 237)
Prose, poetry, and drama from the 10th-19th centuries. Historical, intellectual, and cultural context. Works vary each year. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
JAPANGEN 138:
Survey of Modern Japanese Literature in Translation (JAPANGEN 238)
Required for Japanese majors. Japanese literature since 1868. Authors include Futabatei Shimei, Higuchi Ichiyo, Natsume Soseki, and Yoshimoto Banana.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II
JAPANGEN 148:
Modern Japanese Narratives: Literature and Film (JAPANGEN 248)
Central issues in modern Japanese visual and written narrative. Focus is on competing views of modernity, war, and crises of individual and collective identity and responsibility. Directors and authors include Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, Ozu, Ogai, Akutagawa, Tanizaki, Abe, and Oe.
Last offered: Winter 2010
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP
JAPANGEN 179:
Japanese Ghosts: The Supernatural in Japanese Art and Entertainment (JAPANGEN 79)
The complex meanings of ghosts in Japanese culture. Representations of the supernatural in images, drama, oral narratives, prose, film, comics and animation at different moments in Japanese history.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom
JAPANGEN 185:
Arts of War and Peace: Late Medieval and Early Modern Japan, 1500-1868 (ARTHIST 187, ARTHIST 387)
Narratives of conflict, pacification, orthodoxy, nostalgia, and novelty through visual culture during the change of episteme from late medieval to early modern, 16th through early 19th centuries. The rhetorical messages of castles, teahouses, gardens, ceramics, paintings, and prints; the influence of Dutch and Chinese visuality; transformation in the roles of art and artist; tensions between the old and the new leading to the modernization of Japan.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom
JAPANGEN 187:
Romance, Desire, and Sexuality in Modern Japanese Literature (JAPANGEN 287)
Constructions of romance, desire, and sexuality such as sexual connoisseurship, love suicide, and nanshoku in Edo Japan. How these paradigms are reconfigured by modern writers. Readings: Saikaku, Chikamatsu, Ichiyo, Soseki, Tanizaki, and Mishima.
Last offered: Spring 2010
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
JAPANGEN 198:
Senior Colloquium in Japanese Studies (KORGEN 198)
Research, write, and present capstone essay or honors thesis.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1
JAPANGEN 200:
Directed Reading in Asian Languages
For Japanese literature. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (Staff)
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-12
JAPANGEN 201:
Teaching Japanese Humanities
Prepares graduate students to teach humanities at the undergraduate level. Topics include syllabus development and course design, techniques for generating discussion, effective grading practices, and issues particular to the subject matter.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
JAPANGEN 221:
Translating Japan, Translating the West (JAPANGEN 121)
Translation lies at the heart of all intercultural exchange. This course introduces students to the specific ways in which translation has shaped the image of Japan in the West, the image of the West in Japan, and Japan's self-image in the modern period. What texts and concepts were translated by each side, how, and to what effect? No prior knowledge of Japanese language necessary.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
JAPANGEN 237:
Classical Japanese Literature in Translation (JAPANGEN 137)
Prose, poetry, and drama from the 10th-19th centuries. Historical, intellectual, and cultural context. Works vary each year. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
JAPANGEN 238:
Survey of Modern Japanese Literature in Translation (JAPANGEN 138)
Required for Japanese majors. Japanese literature since 1868. Authors include Futabatei Shimei, Higuchi Ichiyo, Natsume Soseki, and Yoshimoto Banana.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
JAPANGEN 248:
Modern Japanese Narratives: Literature and Film (JAPANGEN 148)
Central issues in modern Japanese visual and written narrative. Focus is on competing views of modernity, war, and crises of individual and collective identity and responsibility. Directors and authors include Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, Ozu, Ogai, Akutagawa, Tanizaki, Abe, and Oe.
Last offered: Winter 2010
| Units: 3-5
JAPANGEN 287:
Romance, Desire, and Sexuality in Modern Japanese Literature (JAPANGEN 187)
Constructions of romance, desire, and sexuality such as sexual connoisseurship, love suicide, and nanshoku in Edo Japan. How these paradigms are reconfigured by modern writers. Readings: Saikaku, Chikamatsu, Ichiyo, Soseki, Tanizaki, and Mishima.
Last offered: Spring 2010
| Units: 4
JAPANGEN 287A:
The Japanese Tea Ceremony: The History, Aesthetics, and Politics Behind a National Pastime (ARTHIST 287A)
The tea ceremony, a premodern multimedia phenomenon, integrates architecture, garden design, ceramics, painting, calligraphy, and treasured objects into a choreographed ritual wherein host, objects, and guests perform roles on a tiny stage. Aesthetic, philosophical, and political dimensions. The evolution of tea taste including its inception in Zen monasteries, use for social control during the 16th century, the development of a class of tea connoisseurs, and 20th-century manipulation by the emerging industrialist class.
Last offered: Spring 2010
| Units: 5
JAPANGEN 84:
Aristocrats, Warriors, Sex Workers, and Barbarians: Lived Life in Early Modern Japanese Painting
Changes marking the transition from medieval to early modern Japanese society that generated a revolution in visual culture, as exemplified in subjects deemed fit for representation; how commoners joined elites in pictorializing their world, catalyzed by interactions with the Dutch.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
JAPANGEN 141:
Japanese Performance Traditions (JAPANGEN 241)
Major paradigms of gender in Japanese performance traditions from ancient to modern times, covering Noh, Kabuki, Bunraku, and Takarazuka.
| Units: 3-4
JAPANGEN 149:
Screening Japan: Issues in Crosscultural Interpretation (JAPANGEN 249)
Is the cinematic language of moving images universal? How have cultural differences, political interests, and genre expectations affected the ways in which Japanese cinema makes meaning across national borders? Sources include the works of major Japanese directors and seminal works of Japanese film criticism, theory, and scholarship in English. No Japanese language skills required.
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
JAPANGEN 160:
Early Modern Japan: The Floating World of Chikamatsu (JAPANGEN 260)
Early modern Japan as dramatized in the puppet theater of Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725), Japan's leading dramatist, who depicted militarization, commercialization, and urbanization in the Tokugawa period (1603-1868). Emperors, shogun, daimyo, samurai, merchants, monks, geisha, and masterless ronin in his bunraku plays as denizens of a floating world. Themes of loyalty, love, heroism, suicide, and renunciation in the early modern world. In English.
| Units: 4
JAPANGEN 186:
Theme and Style in Japanese Art (ARTHIST 186)
Monuments in traditional Japanese architecture, sculpture, garden design, painting, prints, and pots, through the 19th century. Chronological framework emphasizes the role of these objects play in visualizing the ideals of the society they represent.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
JAPANGEN 220:
The Situation of the Artist in Traditional Japan (ARTHIST 485)
Topics may include: workshop production such as that of the Kano and Tosa families; the meaning of the signature on objects including ceramics and tea wares; the folk arts movement; craft guilds; ghost painters in China; individualism versus product standardization; and the role of lineage. How works of art were commissioned; institutions supporting artists; how makers purveyed their goods; how artists were recognized by society; the relationship between patrons¿ desires and artists¿ modes of production.
| Units: 5
JAPANGEN 241:
Japanese Performance Traditions (JAPANGEN 141)
Major paradigms of gender in Japanese performance traditions from ancient to modern times, covering Noh, Kabuki, Bunraku, and Takarazuka.
| Units: 3-4
JAPANGEN 249:
Screening Japan: Issues in Crosscultural Interpretation (JAPANGEN 149)
Is the cinematic language of moving images universal? How have cultural differences, political interests, and genre expectations affected the ways in which Japanese cinema makes meaning across national borders? Sources include the works of major Japanese directors and seminal works of Japanese film criticism, theory, and scholarship in English. No Japanese language skills required.
| Units: 3-4
JAPANGEN 251:
Japanese Business Culture (JAPANGEN 51)
Japanese group dynamics in industrial and corporate structures, negotiating styles, decision making, and crisis management. Strategies for managing intercultural differences.
| Units: 3-5
JAPANGEN 260:
Early Modern Japan: The Floating World of Chikamatsu (JAPANGEN 160)
Early modern Japan as dramatized in the puppet theater of Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725), Japan's leading dramatist, who depicted militarization, commercialization, and urbanization in the Tokugawa period (1603-1868). Emperors, shogun, daimyo, samurai, merchants, monks, geisha, and masterless ronin in his bunraku plays as denizens of a floating world. Themes of loyalty, love, heroism, suicide, and renunciation in the early modern world. In English.
| Units: 4
