International Christian University

This course explores key concepts and theories in media, communication, and cultural studies to connect them to matters of cultural politics and power. It focuses on language and how it is used to represent the world we live in. The course covers semiotics, discourse, power/knowledge, speech act theory, performativity, and queer theory. Using these theoretical/methodological perspectives, it critically examines media representations of gender, sexuality, race, and nation.  

This course prepares students to participate in university lectures taught in Japanese. Students will learn how to write academic reports in Japanese and acquire the basics of academic writing required in university courses through report-writing activities on their chosen topics. They also learn how to make formal presentations. The target level is CEFR B2.2. Prerequisite: “J6:Japanese” or equivalent. Two class hours/week. 

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Create coherent, cohesive, and clear texts when writing essays and reports.
• Acquire basics of academic writing skills.
• Acquire basics of academic presentation skills.

This course introduces students to the life and work of one of the most significant poets in English literature, W. B. Yeats (1865-1939). It also explores Yeats’ influence on modern and contemporary British and Irish poetry. The first half of the course focuses on Yeats’ development as a poet from his early to late years. The second half of the course studies the work of British and Irish poets who have been influenced by Yeats’ writing. These poets include: Louis MacNeice (1907-1963), Seamus Heaney (1939-2014), Derek Mahon (1941- ), Paul Muldoon (1951- ), Peter McDonald (1962- ), and others. 
 
Students will have the opportunity to practice writing their own formal poems and participate in peer review of classmates’ work in several poetry workshops. 

This course introduces intercultural communication. It reviews core theories and research in intercultural communication and examines various issues that arise when encountering differences with others, fostering an understanding of the opportunities and challenges involved in intercultural communication. 

This course aims to develop students' understanding of short fiction writing. More specifically, the course focuses on the core concepts of fiction writing such as theme and plot. In addition, students produce a piece of fiction using original characters and viewpoints. The course goal is to develop students' ability to express their ideas through creative use of language.  

This course is open to ELA students who have completed their freshman ELA requirements and non-native English-speaking JLP track students who wish to further develop their English language skills. 

This course focuses on the basic knowledge of biological phenomena and the principles underlying the life of all living organisms. It covers basic concepts of microbiology, plant biology and animal biology. 

This course uses film to examine the cultural translation of famous stories in different times and cultural settings by looking at how shifts in the narrative, images, dialogue, and translation foreground different ideas. The course looks at the expression of cultural translation in movies and the flow of translation; particularly, how a single story changes as times and cultures change. 
 
Why do some stories travel internationally, while others seem less inclined to relocate? What cultural differences are revealed--and what challenges arise--in the process of translating culturally specific texts for new audiences? How does this traffic of ideas, images, narratives and media affect the ways we understand and relate to each other across cultures? 
 
Through the medium of film, this course introduces students to two important aspects of cultural translation: 1) cultural translation as “a way for minority subjects to claim a degree of agency within a majority culture” (Hodgson, 2018), and 2) cultural translation as a process of “negotiating cultural differences” (Bachmann-Medick, 2006) that involves adapting or rewriting texts to foreground issues relevant to their new audiences (see Bahrawi 2016). 
 
Through a series of case studies ranging from Italian adaptations of Japanese Westerns to Disney fairy tales and the gothic excesses of Toho Studios' vampire films, students will discover the extent to which cultural contexts and formal demands affect the translation of a variety of film elements: from images and dialogue to tropes and narratives.

This class provides a forum for students to discuss issues of education, development, and globalization. Seminars will be held with various development organizations. The colloquium theme will vary and include such topics as globalization of Asian models of educational development, democratization and education, etc.

This course consists of two parts: 1) analysis of compositional methods and musical languages of historical masterpieces, and 2) practical training in harmony and counterpoint. At the end of the course, students are encouraged to compose a musical piece in any style using any compositional technique. Prerequisites: completion of the Basic Study of Music II or equivalent knowledge and skills.  

This course covers processing principles of data types other than text format that are used to create multimedia contents like three dimensional solid body with various tools for the multimedia. 

The course covers the following topics:

• 3DCG
• Stereoscopic 3D
• 360degree video
• Virtual Reality
• Augmented Reality