Japanese (JAPAN)
JAPAN 1 Elementary Modern Japanese--Intensive 10 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 15 hours of Lecture and 5 hours of Laboratory per week for 10 weeks.
This course is the equivalent of 1A-1B offered in the regular academic year.
JAPAN 1A Elementary Japanese 5 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1A is prerequisite to 1B.
In this course, students will develop basic communication skills in Japanese and an understanding of Japanese society and culture. Students will learn vocabulary and grammar structures that will enable them to talk about themselves, their studies, their family and friends, the weather, and many other topics. Students will learn how to read and write in Japanese from the onset, learning approximately 150 (Chinese characters) by the end of each semester.
Students will receive no credit for 1A-1B after taking 1.
JAPAN 1AL Supplementary Work in Listening--Elementary 1 Unit
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Designed to supplement 1A-1B, respectively, in order to facilitate students' listening proficiency. 1AL will cover a variety of listening strategies. 1BL is a continuation of 1AL where students will apply these strategies in listening activities.
JAPAN 1AS Supplementary Work in Kanji 1 Unit
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1AS is prerequisite to 1BS.
A course designed to be taken concurrently with 1A or 1B to help students improve overall kanji performance. The course will make the kanji learning process easier by providing exercises and background information about the relationships between characters and how they function.
JAPAN 1B Elementary Japanese 5 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1A is prerequisite to 1B.
In this course, students will develop basic communication skills in Japanese and an understanding of Japanese society and culture. Students will learn vocabulary and grammar structures that will enable them to talk about themselves, their studies, their family and friends, the weather, and many other topics. Students will learn how to read and write in Japanese from the onset, learning approximately 150 (Chinese characters) by the end of each semester.
Students will receive no credit for 1A-1B after taking 1.
JAPAN 1BL Supplementary Work in Listening--Elementary 1 Unit
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Designed to supplement 1A-1B, respectively, in order to facilitate students' listening proficiency. 1AL will cover a variety of listening strategies. 1BL is a continuation of 1AL where students will apply these strategies in listening activities.
JAPAN 1BS Supplementary Work in Kanji 1 Unit
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1AS.
A course designed to be taken concurrently with 1A or 1B to help students improve overall kanji performance. The course will make the kanji learning process easier by providing exercises and background information about the relationships between characters and how they function.
JAPAN 7A Introduction to Pre-Modern Japanese Literature and Culture 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
This course provides an overview of Japanese literature and cultural history, from the seventh to the 18th century. 7A will begin with Japan's early myth-history, , and its first extant poetry anthology, , which show the first stages of transition from a preliterate, communal society to a highly developed courtly culture. Readings from noblewomen's diaries, poetry anthologies, and a selection of chapters from the classical Japanese literary masterpiece , offer a window into that courtly culture as its height of refinement. We will examine the intermingling traces of oral culture and high literary art in popular tales from the Kamakura period and explore the early representations of samurai heroism in military chronicles and medieval noh drama. After considering the development of linked verse in late medieval times, we will read several types of vernacular literature that emerged in the urban culture of the early modern Edo period, including the poetic diaries of the haiku poet Basho. This course does not assume or require any previous exposure to or course work in Japanese literature, history, or language.
Students will receive no credit for 7A after taking 182A. Students can remove a deficient grade in 182A by taking 7A.
JAPAN 7B Introduction to Modern Japanese Literature and Culture 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
An introduction to Japanese literature in translation in a two-semester sequence. 7B provides a survey of important works of 19th- and 20th-century Japanese fiction, poetry, and cultural criticism. The course will explore the manner in which writers responded to the challenges of industrialization, internationalization, and war. Topics include the shifting notions of tradition and modernity, the impact of Westernization on the constructions of the self and gender, writers and the wartime state, literature of the atomic bomb, and postmodern fantasies and aesthetics. All readings are in English translation. Techniques of critical reading and writing will be introduced as an integral part of the course.
Students will receive no credit for 7B after taking 182B. Students can remove a deficient grade in 182B by taking 7B.
JAPAN 10 Intermediate Modern Japanese--Intensive 10 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 15 hours of Lecture and 5 hours of Laboratory per week for 10 weeks.
Prerequisites: Japan 1 or 1B.
This course is the equivalent of 10A-10B offered in the regular academic year.
JAPAN 10A Intermediate Japanese 5 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1B; 10A is prerequisite to 10B.
In this course, students will learn how to integrate the basic structures and vocabulary that they acquired in their first year so they can communicate and comprehend reading materials. They will study new structures and vocabulary needed to enhance their language skills. While aural/oral skills are continuously emphasized, an increased amount of reading and writing will also be required. Each course will introduce approximately 150 new .
Students will receive no credit for 10A-10B after taking 10.
JAPAN 10AG Supplementary Work in Grammar - Intermediate 1 Unit
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
These supplementary courses are designed for students who are concurrently enrolled in 10A and 10B to enable their acquisition of a better understanding of Japanese grammar in general and clause linkage in particular.
JAPAN 10AS Supplementary Work in Kanji--Intermediate 1 Unit
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 10AS is prerequisite to 10BS.
These supplementary courses are designed for students who are concurrently enrolled in 10A and 10B to acquire a better understanding of writing system and to improve overall performance.
JAPAN 10B Intermediate Japanese 5 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1B; 10A is prerequisite to 10B.
In this course, students will learn how to integrate the basic structures and vocabulary that they acquired in their first year so they can communicate and comprehend reading materials. They will study new structures and vocabulary needed to enhance their language skills. While aural/oral skills are continuously emphasized, an increased amount of reading and writing will also be required. Each course will introduce approximately 150 new .
JAPAN 10BG Supplementary Work in Grammar - Intermediate 1 Unit
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
These supplementary courses are designed for students who are concurrently enrolled in 10A and 10B to enable their acquisition of a better understanding of Japanese grammar in general and clause linkage in particular.
JAPAN 10BS Supplementary Work in Kanji--Intermediate 1 Unit
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
These supplementary courses are designed for students who are concurrently enrolled in 10A and 10B to acquire a better understanding of writing system and to improve overall performance.
JAPAN 10X Intermediate Japanese for Heritage Learners 5 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
This course is designed specifically for heritage learners who possess high fluency in casual spoken Japanese but little reading and writing abilities. It introduces formal speech styles, reinforces grammatical accuracy, and improves reading and writing competencies through materials derived from various textual genres. Students will acquire the amounts of vocabulary, grammar, and kanji equivalent to those of 10A-10B.
Students will receive no credit for 10X after taking 10B.
JAPAN 24 Freshman Seminar 1 Unit
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 1 hour of seminar per week for 15 weeks or 2 hours of seminar per week for 8 weeks.
The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Freshman seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
JAPAN 98 Directed Group Study for Lower Division Students 1 - 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Lower division standing, 3.5 GPA.
Small group instruction in topics not covered by regularly scheduled courses.
Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
JAPAN 99 Independent Study for Lower Division Students 1 - 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Lower division standing, 3.5 GPA.
Independent study in topics not covered by regularly scheduled courses.
Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
JAPAN 100 Advanced Modern Japanese Intensive 10 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 15 hours of Lecture and 5 hours of Laboratory per week for 10 weeks.
Prerequisites: Japan 10 or 10B.
This course is the equivalent of 100A-100B offered in the regular academic year.
JAPAN 100A Advanced Japanese 5 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 10B; 100A is prerequisite to 100B.
This course aims to develop further context-specific skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. It concentrates on enabling students to use acquired grammar and vocabulary with more confidence. Course materials include the textbook, supplemented by newspaper and magazine articles and short stories to provide insight into Japanese culture and society.
Students will receive no credit for 100A-100B after taking 100.
JAPAN 100B Advanced Japanese 5 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 10B; 100A is prerequisite to 100B.
This course aims to develop further context-specific skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. It concentrates on enabling students to use acquired grammar and vocabulary with more confidence. Course materials include the textbook, supplemented by newspaper and magazine articles and short stories to provide insight into Japanese culture and society.
Students will receive no credit for 100A-100B after taking 100.
JAPAN 100S Japanese for Sinologists 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing; 10B and Chinese 100B or equivalents.
Students will be trained to read, analyze, and translate modern Japanese scholarship on Chinese subjects. A major purpose of the course is to prepare students to take reading examinations in Japanese. The areas of scholarship to be covered are: politics, popular culture and religion, sociology and history as well as areas suggested by students who are actively engaged in research projects. Two readings in each area will be assigned, one by the instructor and the second by a student participant.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
JAPAN 100X Advanced Japanese for Heritage Learners 5 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 10X.
This course helps heritage learners of Japanese who have completed 10X to develop further their linguistic and cultural competencies. More sophisticated linguistic forms are introduced and reinforced while dealing with various socio-cultural topics. Close reading knowledge and skills, formal and informal registers, and different genres of Japanese reading and writing are practiced. The materials covered are equivalent to those of 100A-100B.
Students will receive no credit for 100X after taking 100B.
JAPAN 101 Fourth-Year Readings: Social Sciences 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100B or consent of instructor.
This course provides further development of reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills to enable students to express their points of view and construct argumentative discourse. Readings include Japanese newspapers, magazines, and a selection of Japanese literature as sources of discussions. Students learn various writing styles and in-depth aspects of Japanese culture.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
JAPAN 102 Fourth-year Readings: Japanese Culture 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100B or consent of instructor.
This course provides further development of reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills to enable students to express their points of view and construct argumentative discourse. Students read a variety of Japanese texts as sources for discussions to deepen their understanding of Japanese society and people.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
JAPAN 103 Fourth-Year Readings: Japanese Literature 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100B or consent of instructor.
This course provides further development of reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills to enable students to express their points of view and construct argumentative discourse. In addition to Japanese literature, readings include newspaper articles and other texts as sources of discussions in order to become familiar with various writing styles and learn more aspects of Japanese society.
JAPAN 104 Fourth-Year Readings: Japanese History 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisites: 100B or consent of instructor.
This course provides further development of reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills to enable students to express their points of view and construct argumentative discourse. Students read a variety of texts on Japanese history as sources for discussions to deepen their understanding of Japanese society and people.
JAPAN 111 Fifth-Year Japanese A 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 102 or equivalent; basic knowledge of, and information retrieval skills related to, the Internet.
This course is designed for students who have studied Japanese for at least four years (540 hours). It aims to develop further their reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills so that they can utilize Japanese materials for research and job-related purposes, to present orally the results of their researches, and/or to pursue college-level courses taught in Japanese. Although much of class time will be devoted to reading- and writing-oriented activities, students are expected to participate actively in oral presentations, discussions, and debates in class.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
JAPAN 112 Fifth-Year Japanese B 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 102 or equivalent; basic knowledge of, and information retrieval skills related to, the Internet.
This course is designed for students who have studied Japanese for at least four years (540 hours). It aims to develop further their reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills with special emphasis on essay and research paper writing on topics relevant to the student's major or intended career. Part of this written work will become the material on which the student will give an end-of-the-term oral presentation. Students are expected to fully prepare for and dynamically participate in the discussions and debates that occur in class.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
JAPAN C115/BUDDSTD C115 Japanese Buddhism 4 Units
Department: Japanese; Group in Buddhist Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
A critical survey of the main themes in the history of Japanese Buddhism as they are treated in modern scholarship. The course covers the transmission of Buddhism from China and Korea to Japan; the subsequent evolution in Japan of the Tendai, Shingon, Pure Land, Nichiren, and Zen schools of Buddhism; the organization and function of Buddhist institutions (monastic and lay) in Japanese society; the interaction between Buddhism and other modes of religious belief and practice prevalent in Japan, notably those that go under the headings of "Shinto" and "folk religion."
JAPAN 120 Introduction to Classical Japanese 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 10B.
An introduction to classical Japanese, defined as the native language of the ninth to the 14th centuries. The course initially emphasizes the acquisition of the basics of classical Japanese grammar. Thereafter students apply that grammar to the reading and translation of select classical texts, followed by extensive discussion of literary, historical, and religious contexts and aspects of translation theory.
JAPAN 130 Classical Japanese Poetry 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 120.
An introduction to the critical analysis and translation of traditional Japanese poetry, a genre that reaches from early declarative work redolent of an even earlier oral tradition to medieval and Early Modern verses evoking exquisitely differentiated emotional states via complex rhetoric and literary allusion. Topics may include the poetry of the , , and poetic anthologies, linked verse (), and the of Basho and other Early modern poets.
JAPAN 132 Pre-Modern Japanese Diary (Nikki) Literature 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 120.
The tradition of Japanese self-reflective literature, composed by both men and women, is long and rich. Topics for this course include highly personal memoirs by court women and poetic travel diaries.
JAPAN 140 Heian Prose 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 120.
The course focuses on select masterpieces from the Japanese narrative tradition, including Murasaki Shikibu's and Sei Shonagon's .
JAPAN C141/BUDDSTD C141 Introductory Readings in Japanese Buddhist Texts 4 Units
Department: Japanese; Group in Buddhist Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisites: Japanese 120. One semester of classical Japanese. Prior background in Buddhist history and thought is helpful, but not required.
This course is an introduction to the study of medieval Buddhist literature written in Classical Japanese in its wabun (aka bungo) and kanbun forms (including kakikudashi). The class will read samples from a variety of genres, including material written in China that are read in an idiosyncratic way in Japan. Reading materials will include Chinese translations of Sanskrit and Central Asian Buddhist scriptures, scriptural commentaries written in China and Korea, Japanese subcommentaries on influential Chinese and Korean commentaries, philosophical treatises, hagiography, apologetics, histories, doctrinal letters, preaching texts, and setsuwa literature. This course is intended for students who already have some facility in literary Japanese.
This course is intended for students who already have some facility in literary Chinese. Instructor: Blum
JAPAN 144 Edo Literature 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 120.
Critical reading and translation of important literary texts from the Edo period, including poetic diaries, merchant fiction, and drama.
JAPAN 146 Japanese Historical Documents 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 120.
Writings in the Japanese vernacular constitute only a limited part of the total pre-modern Japanese written corpus. Until the 20th century, the preferred medium for most historical texts and male diaries was Sino-Japanese (). Familiarity with the grammar of this extraordinarily rich tradition is therefore essential for all students of pre-modern Japanese disciplines.
JAPAN 155 Modern Japanese Literature 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100B (may be taken concurrently).
This course is an introduction to Japanese modernism through the reading and discussion of representative short stories, poetry, and criticism of the Taisho and early Showa periods. We will examine the aesthetic bases of modernist writing and confront the challenge posed by their use of poetic language. The question of literary form and the relationship between poetry and prose in the works will receive special attention.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
JAPAN 159 Contemporary Japanese Literature 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100B (may be taken concurrently).
This course examines the historical production and reception of key Japanese literary and film texts; how issues of gender, ethnicity, social roles, and national identity specific to each text address changing economic and social conditions in postwar Japan.
JAPAN 160 Introduction to Japanese Linguistics: Grammar 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 10B.
This course deals with issues of the structure of the Japanese language and how they have been treated in the field of linguistics. It focuses on phonetics/phonology, morphology, writing systems, dialects, lexicon, and syntax/semantics. Students are required to have intermediate knowledge of Japanese. No previous linguistics training is required.
Instructor: Hasegawa
JAPAN 161 Introduction to Japanese Linguistics: Usage 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 10B.
This course deals with issues of the usage of the Japanese language and how they have been treated in the field of linguistics. It concentrates on pragmatics, speech varieties (politeness, gender, written vs. spoken), topic management, historical changes, and genetic origins. Students are required to have intermediate knowledge of Japanese. No previous linguistics training is required.
Instructor: Hasegawa
JAPAN 163 Translation: Theory and Practice 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 1 1/2-hours lectures per week.
Prerequisites: Japanese 100B or equivalent.
An overview of the concepts of theoretical and contrastive linguistics which form the basis for translation between Japanese and English. By means of translating selected texts, students will acquire abilities to
recognize common problems, apply methods for finding solutions, and evaluate accuracy and communicative effectiveness of translation.
Instructor: Hasegawa
JAPAN 170 Classical Japanese Literature in Translation 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
This course surveys Japanese poetry and/or prose written predominantly in or before the Helan Period (794-1185). Topics will vary.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
JAPAN 173 Modern Japanese Literature in Translation 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
This course surveys modern Japanese fiction and poetry in the first half of the 20th century. Topics will vary.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
JAPAN C175/ANTHRO C125A Archaeology of East Asia 4 Units
Department: Japanese; Anthropology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology in China, Japan, and Korea.
JAPAN C176/ANTHRO C125B Archaeology and Japanese Identities 4 Units
Department: Japanese; Anthropology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Course explores stereotypical images of traditional Japanese culture and people through archaeological analysis. Particular emphasis will be placed on changing lifeways of past residents of the Japanese islands, including commoners, samurai, and nobles. Consideration will be given to the implications of these archaeological studies for our understanding of Japanese identities.
JAPAN 180 Ghosts and the Modern Literary Imagination 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
The course examines the complex meanings of the ghost in modern Japanese literature and culture. Tracing the representations of the supernatural in drama, fiction, ethnography, and the visual arts, we explore how ghosts provide the basis for remarkable flights of imaginative speculation and literary experimentation. Topics include: storytelling and the loss of cultural identity, horror and its conversion into aesthetic pleasure, fantasy, and the transformation of the commonplace. We will consider historical, visual, anthropological, and literary approaches to the supernatural and raise cultural and philosophical questions crucial to an understanding of the figure and its role in the greater transformation of modern Japan (18th century to the present).
JAPAN 181 Mediating Disaster: Fukushima, Before and After 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week. 8 hours of lecture per week for 6 weeks.
The course considers the different literary, social and ethical formations that arise or are destroyed in disaster. It explores how Japanese literature and media, before and after 3:11, attempt to translate the un-representable, and in so doing, to create a new type of literacy about 1) trauma and the temporality of disaster, 2) precarity, community and the public sphere and 3) sustainability and ecological scale. The course will pay particular attention to a range of works that explicitly or obliquely reframe iconic or popular representations of disasters in cinema, literature and other media, taking into account of the readiness with which certain cultural forms lend themselves to vistas of disaster.
JAPAN 185 Introduction to Japanese Cinema 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
This course will offer a survey of Japanese cinema from its earliest days to contemporary anime (animated film). Providing the basic tools for analyzing film language, the course begins by analyzing the interactions between early Japanese film and early Hollywood. We then consider the development of Japanese film, discussing style and structures of connotation, figurative meaning and political critique, the uses of the historical past and ideology, and the roles of youth culture and views of the family. We consider the (sometimes anomalous) place of important individual directors, with a special emphasis on 1960s New Wave cinema and experimental film. We also discuss current critical debates about broader trends in Japanese film and culture, as they illuminate the construction and ruptures in notions of Japanese identity.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
JAPAN 188 Japanese Visual Culture: Introduction to Anime 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of film viewing/discussion per week. 6 hours of lecture and 3.5 hours of film viewing/discussion per week for 8 weeks.
This course is an introduction to Japanese animation, or anime, from its earliest forms (in relationship to manga) to recent digital culture, art, and games. We will analyze and study mainly animated feature films and read the critical work they inspired. We will address such issues as cultural memory and apocalyptic imagination, robots and the post-human, cities, nature, and the transnational; gender, shojo, and the aesthetics of "cute," as well as consider specific issues in the theoretical understanding of anime within technology and media theory.
Instructor: O'Neill
JAPAN 189 Topics in Japanese Film 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 2 to 3 hours of discussion (viewing )per week. 8 hours of lecture and 4 to 6 hours of discussion (viewing) per week for 6 weeks.
Selected topics in the study of Japanese film.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
JAPAN H195A Honors Course 2 - 5 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Senior honors standing in East Asian Languages, 3.5 GPA in major, 3.3 overall.
Directed independent study and preparation of senior honors thesis. Limited to senior honors candidates in East Asian Languages (for description of Honors Program, see Index).
JAPAN H195B Honors Course 2 - 5 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade. This is part two of a year long series course. Upon completion, the final grade will be applied to both parts of the series.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Senior honors standing in East Asian Languages, 3.5 major GPA, 3.3 overall.
Directed independent study and preparation of senior honors thesis. Limited to senior honors candidates in East Asian Languages (for description of Honors Program, see Index).
Formerly known as Oriental Languages H195A-H195B.
JAPAN 198 Directed Group Study 1 - 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Small group instruction in topics not covered by regularly scheduled courses.
Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
JAPAN 199 Independent Study 1 - 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Independent study in topics not covered by regularly scheduled courses.
Enrollment is restricted; see the Introduction to Courses and Curricula section of this catalog.
JAPAN C225/BUDDSTD C225 Readings in Japanese Buddhist Texts 2 or 4 Units
Department: Japanese; Group in Buddhist Studies
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: unit(s):3 hours of seminar per week; 4 unit(s):3 hours of seminar per week.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
This seminar serves as an introduction to a broad range of Japanese Buddhist literature belonging to different historical periods and genres, including liturgical texts; monastic records, rules, and ritual manuals; doctrinal treatises; biographies of monks; and histories of Buddhism in Japan. Students are required to do all the readings in the original languages, which are classical Chinese (Kanbun) and classical Japanese. It will also serve as a tools and methods course, covering basic reference works and secondary scholarship in the field of Japanese Buddhism. The content of the course will be adjusted from semester to semester to accommodate the needs and interests of the students.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
JAPAN 230 Seminar in Classical Japanese Poetry 2 or 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Two semesters of classical Japanese.
Topics run from Japan's earliest extant anthology of vernacular literature () to late-medieval linked-verse () and Edo .
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
JAPAN C231/HISTORY C231 Japanese Studies: Past, Present... and Future? 2 Units
Department: Japanese; History
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 hour of seminar per week.
Offers an overview of the history and current state of the field in Japanese studies, with faculty presentations, selected readings, and orientation sessions with East Asian Library staff to acquaint participants with relevant resources for research. Requirements will include completion of course readings and preparation of a research prospectus.
JAPAN 232 Japanese Bibliography 2 or 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Reading ability in modern Japanese; classical Japanese helpful but not required.
An introduction to research tools for Japanese studies. The course gives primary consideration to literary sources but also presents an overview of basic texts and web sites dealing with bibliographical citation, lexicography, history, religion, fine arts, geography, personal names, biographies, genealogies, and calendrical calculation. Internet access is required.
JAPAN 234 Seminar in Classical Japanese Drama 2 or 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Two semesters of classical Japanese.
Topics include , , and early puppet theatre.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
JAPAN 240 Seminar in Classical Japanese Texts 2 or 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Two semesters of classical Japanese.
Topics may include or other prose works in the classical corpus.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
JAPAN 255 Seminar in Prewar Japanese Literature 2 or 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
Reading and critical evaluation of selected texts in prewar (roughly the 1860s though the 1940s) Japanese literature and literary and cultural criticism. Texts change with each offering of the course.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
JAPAN 259 Seminar in Postwar Japanese Literature 2 or 4 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and permission of instructor.
Reading and critical evaluation of selected texts in postwar (roughly the 1940s through the present) Japanese literature and literary and cultural criticism. Texts change with each offering of the course.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
JAPAN 298 Directed Study for Graduate Students 1 - 8 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Special tutorial or seminar on selected topics not covered by available courses or seminars.
JAPAN 299 Thesis Preparation and Related Research 1 - 8 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Consent of thesis supervisor and graduate adviser.
JAPAN 601 Individual Study for Master's Students 1 - 8 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Graduate examination preparation
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Consent of graduate adviser.
Individual study for the comprehensive or language requirements in consultation with the graduate adviser. Units may not be used to meet either unit or residence requirements for a master's degree.
JAPAN 602 Individual Study for Doctoral Students 1 - 8 Units
Department: Japanese
Course level: Graduate examination preparation
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: Hours to be arranged.
Individual study in consultation with the major field adviser, intended to provide an opportunity for qualified students to prepare for various examinations required of candidates for the Ph.D.
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