Course title
多文化共生論   [Cultures Studies for Symbiotic Society]
Course category	Liberal Arts and Fundamental Studies	Requirement		Credit	2
Department		Year	1～4	Semester	1st
Course type	1st	Course code	020017
Instructor(s)
福島 康博   [FUKUSHIMA Yasuhiro]
Facility affiliation	Graduate School of Agriculture	Office		Email address

Course description

This course is offered as one of the Humanities and Social Sciences courses of the Global Liberal Arts Studies. This course aims to consider the symbiosis among those who belongs to different ethnic groups and/or believes in different religions. To this purpose, this course deals with two cases; Malaysia and Japan.

Expected Learning

1) To conduct competency development: Autonomy, Intercultural Understanding, Global Awareness, Ability to Explore Knowledge, Academic Ethics 2) To understand and explain the core concepts and theories related to Studies of Multicultural Symbiotic Society 3) To understand and explain the current situation of Multicultural Symbiotic Society through the cases of Malaysia and Japan

Course schedule

●Basic Part ・1st Class: Orientation ・2nd Class: Core concepts and theories of Multicultural Symbiotic Society ・3rd Class: International Society, Global Society, and Multicultural Symbiotic Society ・4th Class: TV Program “Halal industry and Japan” ・5th Class: Population Problems ●Case Studies #1: Malaysia ・6th Class: Malaysia “the Multiethnic and Multi-religious Country” ・7th Class: Philosophy of Islam ・8th Class: Halal Food #1: Islam and Eating ・9th Class: Halal Food #2: Halal Certification System ・10th Class: Halal Food #3: Halal Food Industry ●Case Studies #2: Japan ・11th Class: Foreign Workers ・12th Class: Foreign Tourists ・13th Class: Trends of Foreign Muslim Tourists ・14th Class: Receptions for Foreign Muslim Tourists ・15th Class: Japanese companies in Islamic countries

Prerequisites

In addition to 30 hours you spend in the class, you are recommended to prepare for and review the classes, using the handouts available on Moodle and spending the standard amount of time as specified by the University for each class. The medium of instruction in this course is Japanese. Therefore, the ability of Japanese (listening, reading and writing) is required, while the ability of any other languages (English, Malay, Arabic...) is not needed.

Required Text(s) and Materials

Instead of textbook, handouts will be distributed on Moodle.

References

福島康博『Q&Aハラールを知る101問：ムスリムおもてなしガイド』解放出版社、2018年

Assessment/Grading

Score is decided by the following two factors; ・class participation (30%) and final exam (70%)

Message from instructor(s)

It is unpopular for students to deal with themes in this course; "ethnic group and culture", "symbiosis", "Islam and religion", and "ASEAN countries". The instructor welcomes those who is interested in and tries to study these themes.

Course keywords

Multicultural Symbiosis, Local Society, Globalization, Islam, ASEAN, Malaysia

Office hours

Before and after each class, the instructor accepts questions.

Remarks 1

Remarks 2

Related URL

Moodle

Lecture Language

Japanese

Language Subject

Last update

3/25/2019 5:19:37 PM