Undergraduate courses in Japanese General

(Same as JAPANGEN 251.) Japanese group dynamics in industrial and corporate structures, negotiating styles, decision making, and crisis management. Strategies for managing intercultural differences.

3-5 units, not given this year

JAPANGEN 71N. Language and Gender in Japan: Myths and Reality

(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Ideology and practice of gender in the Japanese society as reflected in and created by stylistic choices in the Japanese language. Past and present speech styles of women and men, speech situations, age, class, identities of the individual speakers and their relationships with others. How belief and reality are refracted through mass media and fictional representations. Comparisons with similar phenomena in other cultures. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-Gender

4 units, Spr (Matsumoto, Y)

JAPANGEN 73N. Japanese Ghosts: The Supernatural in Japanese Art and Entertainment, 1750-2000

Preference to freshmen. History of Japanese ghost plays, tales, images, and films from the early modern period to contemporary popular culture. GER:DB-Hum

4 units, not given this year

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. GER:DB-Hum

3-4 units, not given this year

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. GER:DB-Hum

4 units, not given this year

JAPANGEN 87. Arts of War and Peace: Late Medieval and Early Modern Japan, 1500-1868

(Same as 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. GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom

4 units, Win (Takeuchi, M)

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. GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom

5 units, Aut (Takeuchi, M)

JAPANGEN 120. Imperial Japan Between East and West: Cultural History of Japanese Imperialism

From the mid 19th century to the present. The emergence of modern Japanese culture and identity in the context of Western aggression and Japan's overseas expansion in Asia. Topics include representations of colonial others in literature and popular culture, construction of national and imperial identity between Asia and the West, and the postwar legacy of Japanese imperialism. Sources include novels, essays, popular culture, film, comics, and woodblock prints.

4 units, Win (Haag, A)

JAPANGEN 138. Survey of Modern Japanese Literature in Translation

(Same as JAPANGEN 238.) Required for Japanese majors. Japanese literature since 1868. Authors include Futabatei Shimei, Higuchi Ichiyo, Natsume Soseki, and Yoshimoto Banana. GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom, WIM

2-4 units, Spr (Reichert, J)

JAPANGEN 149. Screening Japan: Issues in Crosscultural Interpretation

(Same as 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. GER:DB-Hum

3-4 units, not given this year

JAPANGEN 160. Early Modern Japan: The Floating World of Chikamatsu

(Same as 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.

4 units, Spr (Cook, A)

JAPANGEN 249. Screening Japan: Issues in Crosscultural Interpretation

(Same as 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. GER:DB-Hum

3-4 units, not given this year

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Undergraduate courses in Japanese General