Japanese

The democratization of media technology in contemporary society has transformed the way one perceives and records the world. Mobile devices have made it possible to record images and videos of everyday life anywhere and anytime, and one now has means to edit these images and produce them into secondary texts. This course focuses on "place," and while setting up a specific place as a field, it tackles documentary as a method of preserving the history, culture and memory of that place. 

This advanced Japanese course develops Japanese skills in an academic setting. Students are split into groups to engage in activities, discussion, and group work concerning the selected topic. The goal of the class is to help students to acquire academic language skills required in a variety of educational settings. The program offers various theme courses and students may take multiple sections.  

This course focuses on critical analysis of media messages and impacts of various media including TV, music videos, newspapers, advertisements, websites, and social media on children and youth. It empowers the class to explore, understand, analyze and control the effects of mass and digital media on young people and oneself.

This course reviews various academic perspectives on development, including the relationship between development and education. The course explores the history of how education has been perceived and changed its position in the various paradigms of international development; the meaning of each perspective, and their empirical evidence. The first half of the course discusses the definition of development; theories, and empirical evidence of the relationship between development and education, while the latter half focuses on various challenges in development and education.

This basic Japanese course teaches more grammar patterns. A different theme concerning Japanese culture and society is chosen for each course and students are split into groups to engage in activities, discussion, and group work concerning the selected topic. The class aims to widen students' perspectives and deepen their knowledge regarding various issues related to Japan and Japanese society. The program offers various theme courses and students may take multiple sections. 

This course offers advanced studies in the history of the English language. Utilizing knowledge in philology and modern linguistics, particularly in historical linguistics and sociolinguistics, it explores various topics and analyzes data that show major developments from Old English to Present-Day English.

This course provides a deeper understanding of the meaning of human behavior and considers human nature and social life as revealed by recent development in the behavioral and humanistic science. It examines perception, motivation, and stress which underlie human behavior.

Korean II is for students who have completed Korean I. In this course, students will learn advanced verb endings, classifiers, and different verbal modifiers. Each lesson is divided into four sections: (1) Basic Dialogue (2) Explaining Vocabulary (3) Learning Grammar Patterns and Spoken/Written Practice Questions, and (4) Utilization which focuses on application of grammar patterns and the dialogues.

This course traces the history of film from its birth to the present day, clarifying the characteristics of film as an "old yet new" medium by comparing it with the "old" media that existed before and the "new" media that have emerged since. It considers the changes that have occurred in the form of film exhibitions that have accompanied the development of film-related media technologies. 

This course explains and deepens discussion of issues surrounding historical research from a cultural anthropological perspective. Each class focuses on a specific topic, exploring possible approaches to that topic from the perspective, theory, and methodology of cultural anthropology, as well as the challenges that may arise. The material covered focuses on the Oceanian island world, an area in which the instructor has been involved in field research.