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This course provides an introduction to Japanese culture, history and geography, art forms, literature, philosophy, customs & traditions, as well as economy and politics. After a broad historical overview beginning in prehistory, this course focuses on the Tokugawa period as the bedrock for understanding modern Japanese society as a mass society. Taught in English.
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In JAPN 305 we looked at a variety of topics about Japan, ranging from its long history to tourism in the modern day. It was an overview of everything one might want to know about Japan, touching on various topics but not delving too deep into each. Our instructor provided us with various reading material relating to the various topics discussed in class and quizzed us each week as an assessment of what we have learned from the reading. The two final assessments were a test and presentation (in course work section below). This course satisfied two of my Major Learning Outcomes for Japanese.
One Major Learning Outcome that this class satisfies is MLO 2: Japanese Culture. For this class I learned about various topics relating to older Japanese culture, as well as current pop-culture. We touched on various topics such as the topography of the four main islands, traditional cultural practices like the tea ceremony, and even about some of the local naive populations such as the Ainu people of Hokkaido. This class, as well as JAPN 213, sparked an interest in the religions of Japan, which I would like to learn more about in future classes. Another Major Leaning Outcome was MLO 4: Research and Technology. This outcome was fulfilled primarily during the final presentation, which required a group to research and create a presentation on a proposed tourist guide for someone visiting Japan for the first time. My group focused on older Japanese history and had the tourists visiting the Knato, Kansai and Shikoku regions of Japan to learn about culture related to samurai, ninja, Mt Fuji, geisha, and the Shinto religion. |
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