| Course title | |||||
| 多文化共生論 [Cultures Studies for Symbiotic Society] | |||||
| Course category | general education courses | Requirement | Credit | 2 | |
| Department | Year | 1～ | Semester | Fall | |
| Course type | Fall | Course code | 01SS0203 | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 吉川 斉 [YOSHIKAWA Hitoshi] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Graduate School of Agriculture | Office | Email address | ||
| Course description |
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In this age of globalization, contact with non-native cultures occurs in various situation. Multicultural symbiosis is a contemporary issue that aims to “live together in the region” with people of different nationalities and ethnic groups. Perhaps, this can also be said as a problem of “human being” concerning “relationship with others”. In this course, we mainly focus on the “relationship with others” in the Western ancient literary works (= Western Classics), which are products of the culture far from modern Japan. Through the “classics” which remains for more than 2000 years, we will think about the problems of “human being” beyond the time and regions. |
| Expected Learning |
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1. Understand the basic idea of “multicultural symbiosis” 2. Learn (some) knowledge about Western Classics. 3. Through Western Classics, deepen our thoughts on human, others, and culture, etc. |
| Course schedule |
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[week 1] Guidance of this course. [week 2] Introduction of the current idea of multicultural symbiosis in Japan. [week 3] Introduction of Western Classics. (Afterwards, we will introduce respective works and discuss the contents. The work we handle may be changed depending on the progress of the classes and interests of the students, etc.) [week 4-6] Hesiod, “Theogony” “Works and days”. [week 7-9] Homer, “Iliad”. [week 10-12] Homer, “Odyssey”. [week 13] Euripides, “Trojan women”. [week 14] Plato, “Apology of Socrates”. [week 15] Summary and conclusion of this course. We distribute reference materials and translation materials each time. After each class, please re-read those materials and deepen your thoughts. |
| Prerequisites |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
| References |
| Assessment/Grading |
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reaction papers describing your thoughts [every week] (50%) term-end report [once] (50%) |
| Message from instructor(s) |
| Western Classics is probably not familiar to you, but as “the classics” created more than 2000 years ago, it has been shaping a part of modern human culture, and is an important and interesting subject. The problem dealt with in this course is, so to speak, a problem without “correct answer”. Through reading classical works, let’s think over this problem together. |
| Course keywords |
| multicultural symbiosis, western classics, classical literature |
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| Lecture Language |
| Japanese |
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| Last update |
| 9/27/2017 2:40:37 PM |