ANTH 1784 - JAPANESE SOCIETY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to cultural practices and social institutions in postwar and contemporary Japan. It will give students a range of different exposures-using scholarly books, essays, and film-to look at various conditions and aspects of Japanese culture and everyday life: economic high growth, middle class society, recession, social precarity, gender relations, education, consumer culture, and popular culture. We will examine discourses on the uniqueness and homogeneity of Japanese culture and ask what compels and shapes these ideas and how they are confirmed or contested in contemporary Japan. The special focus of this course is media culture (anime, otaku subculture, and Internet culture). We will discuss media culture in Japan and examine the reasons for its popularity abroad.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: Asian Studies, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Social Science General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.

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