JAPN 308: Japanese Pop-Culture
This course explores post WWII Japanese music, literature, artistic media, and hi-tech products. Investigates social themes ranging from post-holocaust Japanese hedonism to childhood fantasies by looking at Manga comic books, Anime animated movies, and popular music from Enka to J-Pop to Karaoke, as well as fashion and style, popular technology, consumerism, and environmental issues. Explores the evolution of pop culture and its impact on society. Taught in English. (Credit/No Credit Available)
This course was completed in Fall 2014 and it meets the fourth MLO. This course contributes to the fulfillment of the MLO by helping me better understand the Japanese culture in showing me how its pop culture has a big impact all over Japan. Some work that I completed in this learning experience/course that illustrates my development in this area are mini-quizzes, a midterm, essays, and presentations. Every week, we had to read two articles/chapters. From these, the teacher would choose one (usually the one that we had to read on Thursday) and we would have five minutes to write anything (facts, statistics, etc.) about the article that we read. There were also some short essays that we had to do (movies response, the subject of kawaii, otaku, etc.). I did two presentations: one was in groups (Akihabara: manga) and the other was by themselves (media bootleggers and fansubbers) which one also had to write a ten page paper on the chosen subject. Some understandings that I gained from this course that is a significant contribution for my major is that I got a better understanding of a secondary culture which is required for my ILP and MLO. It also helped me be more prepared in what to expect when I (hopefully) go to Japan for the JET program. Some areas that I wish to develop further are to be able to learn more about Japan's history so that I could better understand the Ukiyo-e's that were shown in class. I intend to further explore this learning experience by applying what I now know (e.g. kami) to, for example, movies that I have seen from Japan (e.g. Princess Mononoke, Kiki's Delivery Service) to better understand their content.
This course was completed in Fall 2014 and it meets the fourth MLO. This course contributes to the fulfillment of the MLO by helping me better understand the Japanese culture in showing me how its pop culture has a big impact all over Japan. Some work that I completed in this learning experience/course that illustrates my development in this area are mini-quizzes, a midterm, essays, and presentations. Every week, we had to read two articles/chapters. From these, the teacher would choose one (usually the one that we had to read on Thursday) and we would have five minutes to write anything (facts, statistics, etc.) about the article that we read. There were also some short essays that we had to do (movies response, the subject of kawaii, otaku, etc.). I did two presentations: one was in groups (Akihabara: manga) and the other was by themselves (media bootleggers and fansubbers) which one also had to write a ten page paper on the chosen subject. Some understandings that I gained from this course that is a significant contribution for my major is that I got a better understanding of a secondary culture which is required for my ILP and MLO. It also helped me be more prepared in what to expect when I (hopefully) go to Japan for the JET program. Some areas that I wish to develop further are to be able to learn more about Japan's history so that I could better understand the Ukiyo-e's that were shown in class. I intend to further explore this learning experience by applying what I now know (e.g. kami) to, for example, movies that I have seen from Japan (e.g. Princess Mononoke, Kiki's Delivery Service) to better understand their content.
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