Culture of Japan２

科目名	Culture of Japan２
教員名	Hiroshi　Aoyagi（青柳　寛）
単位数	2	学年	1～4	開講区分	文理学部
科目群	総合教育科目
学期	後期	履修区分	選択

授業テーマ	This course will introduce students to the anthropology of Japanese popular culture (hereafter JPC). Students will delve into social mechanisms, cultural practices, and historical processes that set the stage for conspicuous social phenomena that make up JPC. Questions to be investigated include: how JPC and relevant trends emerge, spread, and become parts of Japanese national competence. Case studies may include courtesanship, kabuki acting, manga, anime, J-Pop and J-Hip musical genres, pop idolatry, Takarazuka revue, otaku syndrome, the Cawaii phenomena, and Cool Japan.
授業のねらい・到達目標	THIS COURSE IS OPEN TO JAPANESE STUDENTS who wish to experience the atmosphere of equivalent coursework in Western universities, and thereby motivate themselves toward developing their communicative skills in academic English! この科目は欧米大学の同等科目の雰囲気を味わい、英語で考え、表現する力を少しでも養いたい日本人学生のための「体験学習の場」です！ ※このシラバスは英文での紹介になります。以下の項目を含めてシラバスの内容をよく解読し、不明な点があればショッピングウィーク（クラス開講時の登録変更可能期間）に担当教員に遠慮なく問い質し、納得の上で履修してください。 1) To experience coursework- and classroom-atmosphere in American and English universities 2) To enhance students' understanding of JPC 3) To acquire skills in sociocultural research 4) To brush up one's communicative skills in English language
授業の方法	1) A series of lectures to enhance listening skills 2) Discussions to enhance argumentative skills 3) Referential assignments to enhance skills in reading and meaningful comprehension 4) Presentations to enhance expressive skills
履修条件	No specific background in social science is required in advance, but students must be willing to learn in and from the class. Personal efforts and achievements are highly evaluated -let alone attentiveness!
事前学修・事後学修，授業計画コメント	Group project will be given after a series of lectures. Students should be ready to work outside of the class as well. Project workshops will be provided in order to get a good sense of how to integrate what one learned through different approaches of subject acquisition in class.

授業計画
1	Introduction to the Course: Ethnographic Approach to JPC
2	Japan, Inc. and the "Bright New World": Understanding the National Matrix of Postwar Japan
3	TAKARAZUKA Troupe and Gender Role-Modeling
4	Pop Icons of Past and Present
5	Semiotics and Cultural Strategies of J-Fashion
6	J-Pop Music and Japanese Cosmology
7	Ethnographic Workshop 1. Setting the Stage
8	TAKUMI Craftship and the Legacy of Japanese-Style Cultural Production
9	Manga, Anime and Animation (1): Historical Lineage
10	Manga, Anime and Animation (2): The Life and Works of Yasuo Ohtsuka
11	Research Project Workshop 2. Ethnographic Research Methods
12	The Fantastic World of O-Edo: The Dawn of Japanese Consumer Culture
13	Meiji Transformation and the Westernization of Japanese Lifestyle
14	Student Presentations
15	Student Presentations

その他
教科書	A course packet will be assigned in class.
参考書	Will be assigned in accordance with students' needs. interests, and/or research designs.
成績評価の方法及び基準	平常点(20%)、レポート(30%)、授業内テスト(20%)、授業参画度(30%) Will emphasize the level of students' personal efforts and achievements.
オフィスアワー	Before/after the class-hour