Japanese General (JAPANGEN)

These courses are open to all undergraduate and graduate students, are taught in English, and do not require a knowledge of an Asian language.

JAPANGEN 51/251. Japanese Business Culture—(Graduate students register for 251.) Japanese group dynamics in industrial and corporate structures, negotiating styles, decision making, and crisis management. Strategies for managing intercultural differences.
2-5 units, Win (Dasher, R)

JAPANGEN 66. Modern Japanese Women Writers—1868 to the present. Tropes and images of women including wise mothers, schoolgirls, ghosts, and dominatrices. How these writers defined femininity and the female body. Writers include Higuchi Ichiyo, Kurahashi Yumiko, Uno Chiyo, and Tamura Toshiko. In English.
3-4 units, Win (Nakamura, M)

JAPANGEN 67/267. Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory—(Graduate students register for 267.) Feminist theory to understand the origins, methodologies and trajectory of masculinity studies. Feminist writings that severed masculinity from men to reveal the constructed nature of male power and social, political, and sexual inequality. The history of masculinity studies, hegemonic and marginalized masculinities, notion of gender performativity, and mythopoetic and profeminist men’s movements, and feminist critiques. Constructions of masculinity intersecting with race, sexuality, nationalism, and colonialism.
GER:EC-Gender
4 units, Spr (Mason, M)

JAPANGEN 73N. Japanese Ghosts: The Supernatural in Japanese Art and Entertainment, 1750-2000—Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. History of Japanese ghost plays, tales, images, and films from the early modern period to con-temporary popular culture.
GER:DB-Hum
4 units, Aut (Reichert, J)

JAPANGEN 86. Theme and Style in Japanese Art—(Same as ART¬HIST 186/386) Monuments of traditional Japanese architecture, sculpture, garden design, painting, and pots. Chronological framework representing the intersection of art and society from proto-historic times through the early 19th century.
GER:DB-Hum
4 units, Win (Takeuchi, M)

JAPANGEN 87. Arts of War and Peace: Late Medieval and Early Modern Japan, 1500-1868—(Same as ARTHIST 187/387) Narra-tives of conflict, pacification, orthodoxy, nostalgia, and novelty viewed through visual culture during the change of episteme from medieval to premodern, the 16th through early 19th centuries. The rhetorical messages of castles, teahouses, gardens, ceramics, paintings, and prints; the influence of Dutch and Chinese visuality; transformation in the roles of art and artist; tensions between the old and the new leading to the modernization of Japan.
GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom
4 units, Spr (Takeuchi, M)

JAPANGEN 92. Traditional East Asian Civilization: Japan—Required for Chinese and Japanese majors. Introduction to Japanese culture in historical context. Focus is on shifting paradigms of gender relations and performance. Topics include ancient mythology, court poetry and romance, medieval war tales, and the theaters of Noh, Bunraku, and Kabuki.
GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom
5 units, Win (Levy, I)

JAPANGEN 115/215. History of Japanese Popular Culture—(Graduate students register for 215.) Current and historical trends in Japanese popular culture focusing on puppet plays, woodblock prints, detective novels, theatrical reviews, comic books, and animated films. How individual cultural products operate in conjunction with contemporaneous networks of social, technological, economic, and political signification.
GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom
4 units, not given this year (Reichert, J)

JAPANGEN 137/237. Classical Japanese Literature in Translation—(Graduate students register for 237.) Prose, poetry, and drama from the 10th-19th centuries. Historical, intellectual, and cultural context. Works vary each year. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.
GER:DB-Hum
4 units, Aut (Carter, S)

JAPANGEN 138/238. Survey of Modern Japanese Literature in Translation—(Graduate students register for 238.) Required for Japanese majors. Japanese literature since 1868. Authors include Futabatei Shimei, Higuchi Ichiyo, Natsume Soseki, and Yoshimoto Banana.
GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom, WIM
2-4 units, Spr (Reichert, J)

JAPANGEN 148/248. Modern Japanese Narratives: Literature and Film—(Graduate students register for 248.) Central issues in modern Japanese visual and written narrative. Focus is on competing views of modernity, war, and crises of individual and collective identity and responsibility. Directors and authors include Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, Ozu, Ogai, Akutagawa, Tanizaki, Abe, and Oe.
GER:EC-GlobalCom
2-5 units, not given this year (Levy, I)

JAPANGEN 149/249. Screening Japan: Issues in Crosscultural Interpretation—(Graduate students register for 249.) Is the cinematic language of moving images universal? How have cultural differences, political interests, and genre expectations affected the ways in which Japanese cinema makes meaning across national borders? Sources include the works of major Japanese directors and seminal works of Japanese film criticism, theory, and scholarship in English. No Japanese language skills required.
GER:DB-Hum
3-4 units, Aut (Levy, I)

JAPANGEN 200. Directed Reading in Asian Languages—For Japanese literature. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (Staff)
1-12 units, Aut, Win, Spr, Sum (Staff)

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