UCSB 2009-2010 Catalog Course Search
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| JAPAN 1 - First-Year Japanese I |
| (5) Narahara |
| An introduction to modern Japanese. Students will develop basic communicative skills based on the fundamentals of grammar, vocabulary, and conversational expressions. Emphasis on both oral-aural proficiency andwriting-reading skills. Introduction to Hiragana and Katakana syllabaries, and Kanji. |
| JAPAN 2 - First-Year Japanese II |
| (5) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Japanese 1 or equivalent. |
| Continuation of Japanese 1. |
| JAPAN 3 - First-Year Japanese III |
| (5) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Japanese 2. |
| Continuation of Japanese 2. |
| JAPAN 4 - Second-Year Japanese I |
| (5) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Japanese 3 or equivalent. |
| Continuation of Japanese 3. Course emphasizes the further development of both oral-aural proficiency and reading-writing skills with an intensivereview of basic grammar as well as an introduction to more advanced grammar, vocabulary, and Kanji. |
| JAPAN 5 - Second-Year Japanese II |
| (5) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Japanese 4 or equivalent. |
| Continuation of Japanese 4. |
| JAPAN 6 - Second-Year Japanese III |
| (5) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Japanese 5 or equivalent. |
| Continuation of Japanese 5. |
| JAPAN 7H - Japanese for Heritage Language Speakers |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. |
| Designed for speakers of Japanese as a heritage language who need to work on their reading and writing skills. Through intensive training in written Japanese and review of grammar, it prepares students to join second- or third-year Japanaese. |
| JAPAN 8A - Basic Conversational Japanese |
| (3) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Japanese 3. |
| Designed for those who have completed first year Japanese to continue developing basic communicative skills focusing on oral-aural proficiency. |
| JAPAN 8B - Basic Conversational Japanese II |
| (3) Furukawa |
| Prerequisites: Japanese 3. |
| Designed for those who have completed first year Japanese to continue developing basic communicative skills focusing on oral-aural proficiency. |
| JAPAN 8C - Basic Conversational Japanese |
| (2) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Japanese 8B. |
| Designed for those who have completed first year Japanese to continue developing basic communicative skills focusing on oral-aural proficiency. |
| JAPAN 22 - Religious Narratives and Paintings of Japan |
| (4) Grapard |
| A survey and cultural analysis of the painted scrolls and texts related to historical records of religious institutions in medieval and premodern Japan. Taught in English. |
| JAPAN 25 - Violence and the Japanese State |
| (4) Fruhstuck |
| Examines historiographically and sociologically the Japanese State's various engagements in violent acts during war and peace times. |
| JAPAN 27 - Conflicts and Tensions in Postwar Japanese Society |
| (4) Fruhstuck |
| Challenges the persistent view of Japan as a harmonious society. Conflicts are examined in regard to class and stratification, work and labor, education, gender, generation, minority groups, popular culture and everyday life. |
| JAPAN 30 - Globalizing Japan: Culture and Society |
| (4) Lewallen |
| Explores Japan as a society in transition by examining changes in (un)employment patterns, youth, family, ethnicity, aging, diet, and human-environment relations. Considers the tension between preserving traditional values and yielding to globalization. |
| JAPAN 63 - Sociology of Japan |
| (4) Fruhstuck |
| Sociological macro- and micro-analyses of Japanese society in the twentieth century. |
| JAPAN 110A - Survey of Japanese Literature: Classical |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| A survey of Japanese literature focusing on the classical period from 800 to 1200. Readings, lectures, and discussions in English. |
| JAPAN 110B - Survey of Japanese Literature: Medieval |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| A survey of Japanese literature from 1200 to 1600. Readings, lectures, and discussions in English. |
| JAPAN 110C - Survey of Japanese Literature-Early Modern |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| A survey of Japanese literature from the 17th to the 19th centuries. Readings, lectures, and discussions in English. |
| JAPAN 111 - Japanese Folklore |
| (4) Saltzman-Li |
| Introduction to Japanese folklore and folklore studies. Concepts, categories, and methodologies of folklore studies will be applied to the narrative, life cycle, and material forms of Japanese folklore. Course also examines motives and aims of Japanese folklorists over time. |
| JAPAN 112 - Survey of Modern Japanese Literature |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| A survey of Japanese literature after contact with the West, from 1868 to the present. Readings, lectures, and discussions in English. |
| JAPAN 115 - Topics in Twentieth-Century Japanese |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Japanese 112; upper-division standing. |
| Topics to be considered will include: the Japanese novelist as intellectualand social critic; representations of the "self" and similarities and differences between the shosetsu and the western novel; and Japanese literature in and outside Japan. |
| JAPAN 119 - Shugendo: Japanese Mountain Religion |
| (4) Grapard |
| Historical study of texts and practices of Japanese mountain ascetics (Yamabushi), and of their role in the formation of Japanese culture, from 700 to present. |
| JAPAN 120A - Third-Year Japanese I |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Japanese 6. |
| Develops an intermediate to advanced level of aural-oral skills to carry on conversations on diverse topics with linguistic accuracy and cultural appropriateness, reading skills to comprehend authentic materials, and writing skills with grammatical accuracy and an increasing number of Kanji. |
| JAPAN 120B - Third-Year Japanese II |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Japanese 120A. |
| Continuation of Japanese 120A. |
| JAPAN 120C - Third-Year Japanese III |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Japanese 120B. |
| Continuation of Japanese 120B. |
| JAPAN 121 - History and Structure of Kanji |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Japanese 2 or equivalent. |
| Examines the history of Kanji, the Chinese characters adopted into the Japanese language, which previously had no writing system. Students also acquire skills to learn the meaning and sound of each Kanji systematically by recognizing elements in structure. |
| JAPAN 125 - Intermediate Japanese Reading |
| (4) Saltzman-Li |
| Prerequisites: Japanese 120A. |
| Designed to develop skills in reading through translation for students who have been studying advanced-level Japanese. |
| JAPAN 126 - Business Japanese |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Japanese 120A. |
| A course designed to develop the Japanese language skills necessary for communication in business contexts. Emphasis on verbal, reading, and writing skills. |
| JAPAN 130A - Reading and Composition in Practical Japanese |
| (4) Sugawara |
| Prerequisites: Japanese 120C. |
| Course aims to enhance reading and composition skills in contemporary practical Japanese. Class conducted in Japanese. |
| JAPAN 130B - Reading and Composition in Practical Japanese |
| (4) Sugawara |
| Prerequisites: Japanese 120C. |
| Course aims to enhance reading and composition skills in contemporary practical Japanese. Class conducted in Japanese. |
| JAPAN 130C - Reading and Composition in Practical Japanese |
| (4) Sugawara |
| Prerequisites: Japanese 120C. |
| Course aims to enhance reading and composition skills in contemporary practical Japanese. Class conducted in Japanese. |
| JAPAN 144 - Advanced Japanese Readings I |
| (4) Iwasaki |
| Prerequisites: Japanese 120C or 125. |
| Designed to further develop skills in reading by focusing on analysis of Japanese sentence structure. |
| JAPAN 145 - Advanced Japanese Readings II |
| (4) Iwasaki |
| Prerequisites: Japanese 144. |
| Introduces advanced students to selected prose and poetry from post-World War II period. |
| JAPAN 146 - Advanced Japanese Readings III |
| (4) Nathan |
| Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. |
| fourth-year reading level in Japanese. |
| A selection of texts, including both fiction and non-fiction, by representative authors from the Meiji period to the present. |
| JAPAN 147 - Advanced Readings in Japanese Texts |
| (4) Nathan |
| Prerequisites: Japanese 144 and 145; or placement exam score of 6. |
| Readings in classical and modern texts. The course focuses on nuances of style in Japanese and polished English translations of the texts. Conducted in Japanese. |
| JAPAN 149 - Traditional Japanese Drama |
| (4) Saltzman-Li |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Overview of the major forms of traditional Japanese drama examining their distinctive features and the ways in which they relate to one another and to general features of Japanese culture and literature. Frequent use of films and slides. Lectures and readings in English. |
| JAPAN 155 - Genre in the Japanese Verbal Arts |
| (4) Saltzman-Li |
| Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. |
| Recommended preparation: completion of 8 units from Japanese 110A-B-C and 115. |
| Survey of Japanese verbal arts to define important genres, comprehend the process of genre birth and development, and examine attitudes towards the verbal arts as found in Japanese history. Comparison of Western and Japanese aspects of genre. |
| JAPAN 159 - Japanese Cinema |
| (4) Nathan |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| An introductory scrutiny of major Japanese directors: Mizoguchi, Ozu, Oshima, and Kurosawa. Close attention to their film composition, choices ofsubject and character, their ideas of the cinematic, and the relationship of cinema to Japanese culture and society. |
| JAPAN 160 - Topics in Japanese Culture |
| (4) Saltzman-Li |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Exploration and definition through reading in English of interesting themesthat have persisted in Japanese culture to the present. |
| JAPAN 161 - Ethnic and Social Diversity in Japan |
| (4) Lewallen |
| Examines how difference is conceptualized and camouflaged in Japan despite an ideology of ethnic homogeneity. Considers the history and development of, and contemporary politics within internal and external minority communities and their diasporas across Japan. |
| JAPAN 162 - Representations of Sexuality in Modern Japan |
| (4) Fruhstuck |
| The main ideologies guiding the establishment of various representations of sexuality from pre-war scientific writings to contemporary popular culture. |
| JAPAN 163 - Gender and Sexuality in Cross-cultural Perspective |
| (4) Lewallen |
| Examines how gender and sexuality are made and un-made across cultural contexts. Explores how these ideas are shaped by ethnicity, class, nationality, religion, and popular culture in India, Iraq, Brazil, and Japan. |
| JAPAN 164 - Modernity and the Masses of Taisho Japan |
| (4) Fruhstuck |
| Examines the beginnings of a modern mass culture in early twentieth- century Japan. Central topics are political and social movements, the new woman and the modern girl, westernization, new media and censorship, modernism and nationalism. |
| JAPAN 165 - Popular Culture in Japan |
| (4) STAFF |
| Examines popular culture in present-day Japan: advertising, music, fashion, television, animation, comics, sports. Integrates visual and acoustic material. |
| JAPAN 166 - Post/Colonialism and Indigenous Movements in Asia |
| (4) Lewallen |
| Examines indigenous peoples as an emergent political community in Asia. Through reading across ethnographic, historical and politico-legal perspectives, explores the material and symbolic benefits of claiming to be indigenous in non-western contexts. |
| JAPAN 167A - Religion in Japanese Culture |
| (4) Grapard |
| A historical analysis of the major components of the classical and medievalreligious systems of Japan, through investigation of texts, rituals, and institutions. |
| JAPAN 167B - Religion in Japanese Culture |
| (4) Grapard |
| Prerequisites: Japanese 167A or Religious Studies 167A. |
| A historical analysis of the major components of premodern Japanese ideology through investigation of texts, institutions, and rituals. |
| JAPAN 167D - Shinto |
| (4) Grapard |
| A systematic analysis of the principal institutions, texts, and rituals of the Shinto traditions of Japan, in historical perspective. |
| JAPAN 169 - Seminar in Traditional Japanese Drama |
| (4) Saltzman-Li |
| Prerequisites: Japanese 149 or upper division standing. |
| Recommended preparation: knowledge of Japanese. |
| In-depth examinations of specific selected topics in traditional Japanese drama. Knowledge of Japanese required for readings and research for term papers. |
| JAPAN 180 - Special Topics in Japanese Studies |
| (4) Staff |
| Special topics in Japanese Studies. Course content varies. |
| JAPAN 181 - Classical Japanese (Bungo) |
| (4) Iwasaki |
| Prerequisites: Japanese 120C or 125. |
| Introduction to classical Japanese, which continued to influence modern Japanese texts. |
| JAPAN 182 - Classical Japanese II (Kanbun) |
| (4) Iwasaki |
| Prerequisites: Japanese 181. |
| Introduction to Kanbun, a hybrid of classical Chinese and Japanese that remained essential in formal writings through World War II. |
| JAPAN 183 - Special Readings in Prewar Japanese Texts |
| (4) Iwasaki |
| Prerequisites: Japanese 181. |
| Reviews Bungo, followed by readings in the classical, medieval, early modern, and Meiji texts. |
| JAPAN 197 - Senior Honors Project |
| (4-8) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Open to senior majors only; consent of instructor. |
| An independent study course (one to three quarters) directed by a faculty member with a carefully chosen topic and bibliography which will result in a documented project or a senior thesis. |
| JAPAN 198 - Readings in Japanese |
| (1-5) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing; completion of 2 upper-division courses in Japaneseconsent of instructor. |
| Guided reading in Japanese on a subject not covered in the regularly offered courses. |
| JAPAN 199 - Independent Studies in Japanese |
| (1-5) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing; completion of 2 upper-division courses in Japaneseconsent of instructor. |
| Individual investigations in literary fields. |
| JAPAN 199RA - Independent Research Assistance |
| (1-5) Fruhstuck |
| Prerequisites: Completion of at least 2 upper-division courses in Japanese studies or EastAsian Cultural Studies; consent of instructor and department. |
| Faculty supervised research. |
| JAPAN 201 - Readings in Selected Texts |
| (2-4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Ability to read japanese at graduate level; consent of instructor. Normallygraduate status is required. |
| Course will center on readings of japanese texts type and period to depend on needs of students and wishes of instructor. Research methods to be taught as appropriate. |
| JAPAN 211 - Bibliography and Research Methodology |
| (4) Saltzman-Li |
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing. |
| Introduction to bibliographies, reference works, and methodologies of research in japanese studies. |
| JAPAN 226 - Japan Modern |
| (4) Fruhstuck |
| Examines Japanese modernity from the mid-nineteenth century to today and analyzes theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of modern Japanese history and society. |
| JAPAN 269 - Seminar in Traditional Japanese Drama |
| (4) Saltzman-Li |
| Prerequisites: Japanese 149 and graduate standing. |
| In-depth examinations of specific selected topics in traditional japanese drama. Knowledge of japanese required for readings and research for term papers. |
| JAPAN 283 - Special Readings in Prewar Japanese Texts |
| (4) Iwasaki |
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing. |
| Reviews Bungo, followed by readings in the classical, medieval, early modern, and Meiji texts. |
| JAPAN 501 - Apprentice Teaching |
| (2-4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor. Employment in this department teaching assistant or linguistic informant. |
| This course consists of supervised teaching practice in japanese language. |
| JAPAN 596 - Directed Reading and Research |
| (2-4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing. |
| Individual tutorial. A written proposal for each tutorial must be approved by department chair and filed with graduate division. |
| JAPAN 597 - Preparation for Comprehensive Examinations |
| (1-6) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Consent of graduate adviser. |
| Study for master's comprehensive examinations and Ph.D examinations. |
| JAPAN 598 - Master's Thesis Research and Preparation |
| (1-6) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing. |
| For research underlying the thesis writing the thesis. Instructor should bethe chair of the student's thesis committee. |