Transfer Student Courses in Japanese This page was created at 7:16 PM on Mon, Jan 21, 2002. Winter Academic Term, 2002 (January 7 - April 26) Open courses in Japanese (*Not real-time Information. Review the "Data current as of: " statement at the bottom of hyperlinked page) Wolverine Access Subject listing for JAPANESE Winter Academic Term '02 Time Schedule for Japanese. JAPANESE 120 / ASIAN 120. Understanding Japan: A Multidisciplinary Introduction. Culture Courses/Literature Courses Section 001. Instructor(s): David Rosenfeld (dmrosen@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (Excl). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This team-taught course is an introduction to the study of Japan through multiple disciplines, taking advantage of Michigan's remarkable breadth of internationally recognized Japan scholars. The course aims to introduce key terms and concepts used in Japanese studies, exploring some of the approaches and methodologies used in the humanities and the social sciences. A literature specialist might talk about the issues of "tradition" or of the "subject" as they have developed in Japanese literary studies; a historian might address "modernity" or "gender"; a political scientist or an economist might address issues of the "nation-state" or "development." Students should emerge from the course familiar with fundamental issues in the study of Japan and equipped to make choices about furthering their academic and career interests. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. JAPANESE 302(402) / ASIAN 302. Rewriting Identities in Modern Japan. Culture Courses/Literature Courses Section 001. Instructor(s): Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen (qmz@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This introductory course to modern Japanese fiction examines how novels and short stories written after 1868 engage the issue of national, cultural, and social identities. The inquiry in the course will simultaneously move in two directions: We will examine how fiction written in an age of national print-capitalism participates in the work of building a shared understanding of a nation and its people. But we will also see how the same fiction can spotlight divisions of gender, sexual orientation, class, generation, and region. Using the fiction written by some of the best known of Japanese writers – Mori Ogai, Natsume Soseki, Kawabata Yasunari, Mishima Yukio, and Oe Kenzaburo – the course will pursue its inquiries on both formal and thematic levels. Attention will be paid to how different narrative genres and techniques either erase or emphasize social differences. How do Japanese novels help to construct what Benedict Anderson would call the "imagined community" of the nation? By what process does Japanese become a "national print language" appropriate for fictional writing? How is the Japanese "self" narrated into being? How are competing visions of what is "modern" and "traditional" addressed in the search for identity? How does fiction, written by male and female writers, address the selfhood of Japanese men and women? These are the questions that we will ask as we traverse the contested terrain of Japanese identities. No prior knowledge of Japanese language or literature is required. All readings will be in English translation. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. JAPANESE 551. Classical Japanese Prose. Culture Courses/Literature Courses in Japanese Section 001 – Heian Tales of Love. Instructor(s): E Ramirez-Christensen Prerequisites & Distribution: AsianLan 434 (or Japanese 542). (3). (Excl). May be repeated for credit with permission of instructor. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course provides training in the reading and interpretation of prose texts from the Heian period (794-1185), which saw the development of a native tradition (as distinct from Sino-Japanese) based on hiragana and waka poetic language particularly in the works of women court writers. Genres include monogatari (narratives), nikki (diaries), and the so-called hybrid types, uta nikki (poetic journals) and uta monogatari (poem-tales). The seminar will analyze the work from the perspectives of modern narratology, feminist theory, and cultural studies. Reading text will vary each term. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. This page was created at 7:16 PM on Mon, Jan 21, 2002. 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