| Course title | |||||
| 科学特論Ⅰ [Science: Special Lecture Ⅰ] | |||||
| Course category | common courses | Requirement | Credit | 2 | |
| Department | Year | ～ | Semester | 2nd | |
| Course type | 2nd | Course code | 1060051 | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| RIESER LUKAS, 森 祐希子, 飛嶋 隆信 [RIESER Lukas, MORI Yukiko, TOBISHIMA Takanobu] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Faculty of Engineering | Office | Email address | ||
| Course description |
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This course introduces students to different perspectives on “language” as a tool for understanding various aspects of human activities, or “culture”. The course is divided into three blocks,. each taught by a different instructor. The first block explores the visual language of images. Students learn how to “read” or “interpret” images by analyzing films and comparing them with drama texts, and understand how the development of technology is connected with cultural expression. In the second block, students are introduced to the language of phenomenology, the philosophy of experience and consciousness, and learn to think about culture in the sense of human creation, including engineering processes, from a new perspective. The third block gives an overview of theories of linguistic reference, or how language connects to the world. Students learn how language as a tool for understanding shapes our view of the world and how this relates to cultural differences. Please register to class cnad2r4 in Google classroom. |
| Expected Learning |
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Students will attain basic knowledge of visual interpretation, phenomenology, and linguistic reference. Students will be able to apply this knowledge to independently analyze examples from these three fields. This way of thinking of “language” as a mode of understanding the world and creating “culture” is expected to lead to a deeper understanding of different ways of thinking and help students to see familiar problems from new angles, leading to new ways of solving such problems. |
| Course schedule |
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1. Introduction to visual interpretation (instructor: MORI Yukiko) 2. Topic 1: moving images: films without spoken language and colors 3. Topic 2: the development of technology: grammar of the film language 4. Topic 3: filming of dramas: language, times, and culture 5. Review and examination, block 1 6. Introduction to phenomenology (instructor: TOBISHIMA Takanobu) 7. Topic 1: Philosophical basis of phenomenology: Plato’s theory of forms, empiricism and rationalism 8. Topic 2: Phenomenological reduction (Husserl) and Existentialism (Heidegger) 9. Topic 3: Perception, body and meaning (Merleau-Ponty): critique of natural science 10. Review and examination, block 2 11. Introduction to linguistic reference (instructor: Lukas RIESER) 12. Topic 1: Direct reference theory: words and the world 13. Topic 2: Mediated reference theory: words and the mind 14. Topic 3: Sense and reference: using words and culture 15. Review and examination, block 3 |
| Prerequisites |
| In addition to attending all units of this course, students are recommended to prepare for and review the lectures, spending the standard amount of time as specified by the university, using the lecture materials provided. |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
| Materials will be distributed by the instructors. |
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| Assessment/Grading |
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Class participation (20%) Assignments and/or examinations (80%) Performance will be evaluated by intermediate examinations and/or assignments for each block, as well as the degree of participation in class. |
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| Course keywords |
| Language, Culture, Philosophy, Visual interpretation, Phenomenology, Linguistic reference |
| Office hours |
| Please inquire by e-mail to the instructors |
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| Lecture Language |
| English |
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| Last update |
| 3/29/2022 4:39:34 PM |