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This archived information is dated to the 2008-09 academic year only and may no longer be current.

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Graduate courses in Japanese General

Primarily for graduate students; undergraduates may enroll with consent of instructor.

JAPANGEN 200. Directed Reading in Asian Languages

For Japanese literature. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

1-12 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff), Sum (Staff)

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.

1 unit, Aut (Takeuchi, M)

JAPANGEN 220. The Situation of the Artist in Traditional Japan

(Same as 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.

5 units, not given this year

JAPANGEN 238. Survey of Modern Japanese Literature in Translation

(Same as JAPANGEN 138.) Required for Japanese majors. Japanese literature since 1868. Authors include Futabatei Shimei, Higuchi Ichiyo, Natsume Soseki, and Yoshimoto Banana.

2-4 units, Spr (Reichert, J)

JAPANGEN 251. Japanese Business Culture

(Same as JAPANGEN 51.) 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 260. Early Modern Japan: The Floating World of Chikamatsu

(Same as 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.

4 units, Spr (Cook, A)

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