Literature/Culture Courses
Literature/Culture Courses
Self-Placement Guidelines for Japanese Language Courses
The following is a list of Japanese Literature and Culture courses which are currently taught through the Japanese Program. These courses are conducted in English.
AALL 152 Topics in Japanese Anime Yoda
The course will examine a wide range of contemporary Japanese animations that feature young girls (and some adult women), whose characterization and stories revolve around their status as fighters, facing off adversaries using their supernatural forces, martial arts skills, cyborgian prosthetics, and manipulation of varied robotic and other forms of weaponry.
AALL 162 Modern Japanese Literature and Culture Ching or Yoda
An examination of modern Japanese culture through a variety of media including literary texts, cultural representations, and materials. Different material each year; may be repeated for credit.
AALL 171 Japanese Cinema Yoda
An introduction to the history of Japanese cinema focusing on issues including the relation between the tradition-modernity or Japan-West in the development of Japanese cinema, the influence of Japanese films on the theory and practice of cinema abroad, and the ways in which cinema has served as a reflection of and an active agent in the transformation of Japanese society.
AALL 262 Modern Japanese Literature and Culture Ching or Yoda
An examination of modern Japanese culture through a variety of media including literary texts, cultural representations, and materials. Different material each year; may be repeated for credit. (Same as AALL 162 but requires extra assignments.)