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This course surveys the broad history of Japan from the Meiji Restoration until the postwar period. It examines the transformation of Japan from a predominantly agricultural semi-feudal society to an industrialized nation state and regional power in East Asia. Focusing on key topics, this course explores the emergence of the Japanese nation state within an increasingly globalized society, in a time period marked by imperialism, technological innovation, and economic growth. It highlights the transformation of Japanese society from embracing the institutional, technological, and cultural changes in conjunction with Western modernity, while building its own national traditions drawing on premodern legacies. By the end of the course, the class is expected to possess a deeper understanding of the key social, economic, intellectual, and global changes that have shaped Japan over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 

In this course, students are introduced to a range of practices from across the disciplines that are taught on the Media Production BA. Centered around a series of lectures from staff practitioners, students are introduced to the different approaches employed, whether by digital artists, designers, filmmakers, art-activists, or practice-research academics. Insights are given into multifaceted processes, how to find inspiration, explore themes and turn interests into final work and how to take action. The lectures are complemented by a number of seminars and smaller group sessions where students widen the scope of enquiry, to look at specific examples of contemporary media practice, identifying modes and methods. 

This course offers a study of the principles and techniques of statistical graphics and data visualization. It discusses how to select and create effective visual representations for univariate, bivariate, and multivariate data. Topics include: graphical perception; the grammar of statistical graphs; exploratory data analysis; advanced data exploration such as maps and network charts; practical applications in statistics. 

This course introduces risk management while further developing statistics at general education/foundation course levels, utilizing computers for risk calculation and risk minimization. 

This course examines how people around the world are engaging with, and having their lives mediated by, digital technologies. Ethnographies of digital activities have revealed how the constraints and affordances of various platforms are potentiating distinct modes of relationality, communication and experience. At the same time, anthropological research complicates simplistic metanarratives of "the digital" by revealing the use and experience of digital devices to be powerfully shaped by cultural, historical, infrastructural and political-economic context, amongst other factors. By attending to these various insights, the course enables students to develop conceptual frameworks that they can use not only to understand diverse ethnographic case materials, but also to inform their responses to pressing political and ethical questions surrounding "the digital," and to shape future engagements with digital technologies in their personal and professional lives.

The course examines the relationship between film and literature, focusing on narrative structure, genre, and adaptation. Using key films such as The Birth of a Nation, Citizen Kane, and works by Alfred Hitchcock, it explores concepts of film syntax and the role of the auteur. Literary and cinematic genres like melodrama and the Western are studied through texts such as The Ox-Bow Incident. The course also analyzes major adaptations, including The Turn of the Screw, Much Ado About Nothing, and Atonement, highlighting the dialogue between literary and cinematic storytelling.

This course offers a study of Anglo-American writer-critics from the transition between the 19th and 20th centuries. It focuses on the critical ideas of Matthew Arnold, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot, though attention is also be paid to New Criticism.

This course explores how culture influences management and organizational practices in international contexts. It discusses cultural dimensions, global mobility, ethical challenges, and research paradigms in cross-cultural studies. Students gain skills to analyze cultural differences, manage diverse teams effectively, and understand the impact of culture on human resources and leadership practices. 

Pre-requisites: Human Resource Management. 

This course engages in active learning of the theory, research, and practice of designing, developing, and evaluating online learning environments, including distance education and blended learning approaches The discussions and explorations in class includes both sychronous and asynchronous online learning environments. The course covers issues related to current trends in online learning; teaching and learning in an online environment; online learning communities, and designing participatory online courses. 

This course examines gender studies within the field of media including how gender shapes representation, identity, and power through film, visual culture, and digital media. Topics include: gender as social construction, performance, and technology; representations of violence; the impact of new media, social networks, and AI on gender identities and narratives.