International Christian University

This course introduces students to Film Studies from a historical and a thematic perspective covering the 19th to the 21st century. It also intends to explore the relationship between Film and other media such as painting, photography, and/or social media). The course also introduces the various ways one can analyze a feature movie and/or a documentary.

This course is designed to introduce students to the systematic study of international political economy (IPE). It attempts to address major IPE theoretical approaches and issues within the field such as trade, finance, and capital movement. 

This is a foundation course in the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies. In this course, the general frameworks, basic concepts, and historical backgrounds of gender studies are examined. The course describes and discusses gender research and analyses in various disciplines in order for students to obtain the basic analytical power in dealing with gender analysis in interdisciplinary fields. The course enhances students' understanding of how GSS develops in a respective field, what the current issues are, and what the future development might be, and helps them grasp the importance of the perspectives of gender, which is interdisciplinary. The course gives students an important tool to think deeply about the way the new "knowledge" opened up by the GSS should be and encourages them to transform the "knowledge" into actions, or activism in a broad sense.

This course focuses on British poetry written in traditional forms from 1770 - 1850, as well as some modern and contemporary poetry. It introduces the major writers of the Romantic period: William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Gordon (Lord Byron), Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, and John Keats.  Works from other Romantic period authors including Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Thomas De Quincey, and Jane Austen will also be covered. 

Students will be expected to read poetry from the British Romantic period and show their understanding of the text and contexts by writing their own translations/imitations. The course covers traditional English poetic forms such as quatrains, the sonnet, the Spenserian stanza, ottava rima, the English ode, and others. 

Officially, there are no prerequisites for this course; however, History of English Literature I (LIT106) (Anglo-Saxon - 1800) and History of English Literature II (LIT107) (1800 - Contemporary) are *strongly* recommended. GEH024 World of English Literature ('Lyric to Lyrics') is also recommended for a basic understanding of English poetic form. (For visiting students, the course requires some background knowledge of English poetry and the Romantic period, for example a 100-level survey literature course.) In the past, students who have not taken LIT106 and LIT107 first sometimes struggled with LIT226. 

Why are social media platforms such as YouTube and Instagram popular globally? How have these platforms increasingly become part of the material basis of our daily experiences, and what are the consequences of such developments? This course introduces key theories and research in media studies. It examines a range of issues concerning the changing media landscape in which we live in at the local and global levels. Special emphasis is placed on the implications of social media for contemporary society; the emergence and consequence of celebrity culture, and the reinvention and reposition of “traditional” media in post-network context. 

Sociologists are interested in the systematic study of social life and social transformation. This includes various topics of analysis that include socialization; culture; race and ethnicity; sex and gender; marriage and family; religion; deviance; inequality, and globalization. The course introduces the fundamentals of sociology, including research topics, issues, theories, and methodologies. Beyond the core sociological concepts, this course encourages a better understanding of our world; what it means to be a member of society and being tolerant of our differences.