OVERSEAS STUDIES IN Kyoto

Major religious traditions of Japan. Topics include: relation between religion and culture; ancient Japanese religion and Shinto; Buddhist schools of Heian Japan; Zen Buddhism as it flourished in the Kamakura period; Confucianism, as originally conceived in ancient China and as transmitted to Japan in the Edo period in its neo-Confucian form; characteristic modern practices. Field trips to religious centers to observe current religious practices. GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom

4-5 units, Spr (Ludvik, C)

OSPKYOTO 19K. Second-Year Japanese Language, Culture, and Communication B

5 units, Spr (Staff, 1)

OSPKYOTO 21. Research Project

Independent research projects on aspects of Japanese culture, society, or public policy. Students interested in developing the project as a web page should take a home campus class on creating web pages or have equivalent experience.

2-3 units, Spr (Staff)

OSPKYOTO 24. Japan in Contemporary International Affairs

Japanese foreign affairs since the end of the cold war. Evolution of the U.S.-Japan alliance, the rise of China, transformation of the security environment, and historical, strategic, geopolitical, economic, and cultural factors in Japan's new assertiveness in foreign relations. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom

5 units, Spr (Horvat, A)

OSPKYOTO 33. Digital Systems II

The design of processor-based digital systems. Instruction sets, addressing modes, data types. Assembly language programming, low-level data structures, introduction to operating systems and compilers. Processor microarchitecture, microprogramming, pipelining. Memory systems and caches. Input/output, interrupts, buses and DMA. System design implementation alternatives, software/hardware tradeoffs. Labs involve the design of processor subsystems and processor-based embedded systems. Prerequisite: 108A, CS 106B.

3-4 units, Spr (Kozyrakis, C)

OSPKYOTO 40K. Introductory Electronics

GER:DB-EngrAppSci

5 units, Spr (Wong, S)

OSPKYOTO 55. Urban Dreams and Nightmares

International fiction from the 20s to the 90s with focus on the metropolis and urban life. Modern cities, urban crowds, and the innovative modes of cognition, perception, and behavior they trigger as literary theme. New techniques to describe the multiplicity of big cities and the transformation of self and community they required. Multicultural patchwork and global connectedness of large cities. Authors include Woolf, Dos Passos, Doblin, Kawabata, Robbe-Grillet, Lispector, Yamashita, Haruki Murakami, and Ryu Murakam. GER:DB-Hum

5 units, Spr (Heise, U)

OSPKYOTO 56. Technology, Ecology, and the Imagination of the future

Scientific and literary visions of the future from the 60s to the present. How visions of the future shape present-day attitudes and policies, and where scientific extrapolations and literary story lines converge or collide. Techniques from literary and cultural analysis to study stories and images about technology and the environment, emphasizing narrative theory, theories of metaphor, and risk theory. Media include Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, and the computer game SimCity. GER:DB-SocSci

5 units, Spr (Heise, U)

OSPKYOTO 129K. Third-Year Japanese Language, Culture, and Communication B

5 units, Spr (Staff, 1)

OSPKYOTO 211K. Upper Advanced Japanese

5 units, Spr (Staff, 1)

OSPKYOTO 215X. The Political Economy of Japan

Institutions and processes in the political organization of economic activity in modern Japan. The interaction of public and private sector institutions in the growth of Japan's postwar economy. The organization and workings of key economic ministries and agencies of the government, private sector business groupings, government interaction, and public policy making. The transformation of Japanese industrial policy from the rapid growth of heavy and chemical industries to the promotion of high technology and communications industries. The international, political, and economic ramifications of the structure and importance of Japanese capitalism. GER:DB-SocSci

4-5 units, Spr (Hayashi, T)

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Stanford Bulletin, Archive 2008-09

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