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Upper Division

110A. Survey of Japanese Literature: Classical
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
A survey of Japanese literature focusing on the classical period from 800 to 1200. Readings, lectures, and discussions in English.

110B. Survey of Japanese Literature: Medieval
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
A survey of Japanese literature from 1200 to 1600. Readings, lectures, and discussions in English.

110C. Survey of Japanese Literature: Early Modern
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
A survey of Japanese literature from the 17th to the 19th centuries. Readings, lectures, and discussions in English.

112. Survey of Modern Japanese Literature
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
A survey of Japanese literature after contact with the West, from 1868 to the present. Readings, lectures, and discussions in English.

115. Topics in Twentieth-Century Japanese
(4) Nathan
Prerequisites: upper-division standing and Japanese 112, or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Topics to be considered will include: the Japanese novelist as intellectual and social critic; representations of the "self" and similarities and differences between the shosetsu and the western novel; and Japanese literature in and outside Japan.

119. Shugendo: Japanese Mountain Religion
(4) Grapard
Same course as Religious Studies 120.
Historical study of texts and practices of Japanese mountain ascetics (Yamabushi), and of their role in the formation of Japanese culture, from 700 to present.

120A-B-C. Third-Year Japanese
(4-4-4) Staff
Prerequisite: Japanese 6 or equivalent.
Develops an intermediate to advanced level of aural-oral skills to carry on conversations on diverse topics with linguistic accuracy and cultural appropiateness, readings skills to comprehend authentic materials, and writing skills with grammatical accuracy and an increasing number of Kanji.

124. Japanese Grammar
(4) Narahara
Prerequisite: Japanese 120A
Develops an understanding of the principles of Japanese grammar necessary to comprehend sentence structures. Analyzes both spoken and written Japanese with an emphasis on the latter.

125. Intermediate Japanese Reading
(4) Saltzman-Li
Prerequisite: Japanese 124
Designed to develop skills in reading through translation for students who have been studying advanced-level Japanese.

126. Business Japanese
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: Japanese 120A or consent of instructor.
A course designed to develop the Japanese language skills necessary for communication in business contexts. Emphasis on verbal, reading, and writing skills.

130.A-B-C. Reading and Composition in Practical Pratical Japanese
(4-4-4) Staff
Prerequisite: Japanese 120C.
Course aims to enhance reading and composition in contemporary practical Japanese. Class conducted in Japanese.

144. Readings in Contemporary Issues
(4) Iwasaki
Prerequisite: Japanese 120C or 125.
Designed to further develop skills in reading by focusing on analysis of Japanese sentence structures.

145. Readings in Twentieth Century Japanese Literature
(4) Iwasaki
Prerequisite: Japanese 144.
Introduces advanced students to selected prose and poetry from post-World War II.

146. Advanced Japanese Readings
(4) Nathan
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Recommended preparation:a fourth year reading level in Japanese.
A selection of texts, including both fiction and non-fiction, by representative authors from the Meiji period to the present.

149. Traditional Japanese Drama
(4) Saltzman-Li
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
Overview of the major forms of traditional Japanese drama examining their distinctive features and the ways in which they relate to one another and to general features of Japanese culture and literature. Frequent use of films and slides. Lectures and readings in English.

155. Genre in the Japanese Verbal Arts
(4) Saltzman-Li
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Recommended preparation: 8 units from Japanese 110A-B-C and 115.
Survey of Japanese verbal arts to define important genres, comprehend the process of genre birth and development, and examine attitudes towards the verbal arts as found in Japanese history. Comparison of Western and Japanese aspects of genre.

159. Japanese Cinema
(4) Nathan
Prerequiste: upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Same course as Film Studies 120.
An introductory scrutiny of major Japanese directors: Mizoguchi, Ozu, Oshima, and Kurosawa. Close attention to their film composition, choices of subject and character, their ideas of the cinematic, and the relationship of cinema to Japanese culture and society.

160. Topics in Japanese Culture
(4) Saltzman-Li
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
Exploration and definition through reading in English of interesting themes that have persisted in Japanese culture to the present.

162. Representations of Sexuality in Modern Japan
(4) Frühstück
Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Same course as History 188S.
The main ideologies guiding the establishment of various representations of sexuality from prewar scientific writings to contemporary popular culture.

164. Modernity and the Masses of Taisho Japan
(4) Frühstück
Same course as History 188T.
Examines the beginnings of a modern mass culture in early twentieth-century Japan. Central topics are political and social movement, the new woman and the modern girl, westernication, new media and censorship, modernism and nationalism.

165. Popular Culture in Japan
(4) Frühstück
Examines popular culture in present-day Japan: advertising, music, fashion, television, animation, comics, sports. Integrates visual and acoustic material.

167A. Religion in Japanese Culture
(4) Grapard
Same course as Religious Studies 167A.
A historical analysis of the major components of the classical and medieval religious systems of Japan, through investigation of texts, rituals, and institutions.

167B. Religion in Japanese Culture
(4) Grapard
Prerequisite: Japanese 167A or Religious Studies 167A. Same course as Religious Studies 167B.
A historical analysis of the major components of premodern Japanese ideology through investigation of texts, institutions, and rituals.

167D. Shinto
(4) Grapard
Same course as Religious Studies 167D.
A systematic analysis of the principal institutions, texts, and rituals of the Shinto traditions of Japan, in historical perspective.

169. Seminar in Traditional Japanese Drama
(4) Saltzman-Li
Prerequisite: Japanese 149 and knowledge of Japanese; upper-division standing; or consent of instructor.
In-depth examinations of specific selected topics in traditional Japanese drama. Knowledge of Japanese required for readings and research for term papers.

170. Introduction to Japanese Linguistics
(4) Narahara
Prerequisites: Japanese 120B or 124.
Introduces Japanese linguistics to the students of the third-year or higher level Japanese. Discusses phonetics, phonology, morphology,syntax, and pragrmatics.

171. Special topics in Japanese Linguistics
(4) Narahara
Prerequisites: Japanese 170.
Discusses current issues dealing with syntactic phenomena from the perspective of comparative linguistics.

181. Classical Japanese (Bungo)
(4) Iwasaki
Prerequisite: Japanese 120C or 125. Not open for credit to students who have completed Japanese 101A.
Introduction to classical Japanese which continued to influence modern Japanese texts.

182. Classical Japanese II (Kabun)
(4) Iwasaki
Prerequisite: Japanese 181. Not open for credit to students who have completed Japanese 101B.
Introduction to Kanbun, a hybrid of classical Chinese and Japanese that remained essential in formal writings through World War II.

183. Special Readings in Prewar Japanese Texts
(4) Iwasaki
Prerequisite: Japanese 181. May be repeated foir credit to a maximum of 8 units. Not open for credit to students who have completed Japanese 101C.
Reviews Bungo, followed by readings in the classical, medieval, early modern, and Meiji texts.

197. Senior Honors Project
(4) Staff
Prerequisites: open to senior majors only, consent of instructor. Student must have a 3.0 overall grade-point average and a 3.5 in the major. May be repeated for a maximum of 8 units.
An independent study course (one to three quarters) directed by a faculty member with a carefully chosen topic and bibliography which will result in a documented project or a senior thesis.

198. Readings in Japanese
(1-5) Staff
Prerequisites: students must (1) have attained upper-division standing; (2) have a minimum 3.0 grade-point average for the preceding three quarters; (3) have completed at least two upper-division courses in Japanese. Students are limited to 5 units per quarter and 30 units total in all 98/99/198/199/199RA courses combined. May be repeated up to 12 units.
Guided reading in Japanese on a subject not covered in the regularly offered courses.

199. Independent Studies in Japanese
(1-5) Staff
Prerequisites: students must (1) have attained upper-division standing; (2) have a minimum 3.0 grade-point average for the preceding three quarters; (3) have completed at least two upper-division courses in Japanese. Students are limited to 5 units per quarter and 30 units total in all 98/99/198/199/199RA courses combined.
Individual investigations in literary fields.

199RA. Independent Research Assistance
(1-5) Frühstück
Prerequisites: upper-division standing; completion of two upper-division courses in Japanese or East Asian Studies; consent of instructor and department. Students must have a minimum 3.0 grade-point average for the preceding three quarters and are limited to 5 units per quarter and 30 units total in all 98/99/198/199/199DC/199RA courses combined.
Faculty supervised research.

INT 184SF. History and Memory in the 20th Century (Honors Forum)
(4) Frühstück
Attempts to enhance students' understanding of the making of history as a complex and multifold process that is constantly in motion and is characterized by a national perspective. Focus on representations of the (Pacific side of) World War II, the Korean war, and the Vietnam war in contemporary propaganda, school education, present-day debates, and popular culture.

Lower Division

1-2-3. First-Year Japanese
(5-5-5) Narahara
An introduction to modern Japanese. Students will develop basic communicative skills based on the fundamentals of grammar, vocabulary, and conversational expressions. Emphasis on both oral-aural proficiency and writing-reading skills. Introduction to Hiragana and Katakana syllabaries, and Kanji.

4-5-6.Second-Year Japanese
(5-5-5) Staff
Prerequisite: Japanese 3 or equivalent.
Continuation of Japanese 3. This course emphasizes the further development of both oral-aural proficiency and reading-writing skills with an intensive review of basic grammar as well as an introduction to more advanced grammar, vocabulary, and Kanji.

7H. Japanese for Native Speakers
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Designed for those with native or near-native Japanese speaking proficiency who need to work on their reading-writing skills. Through intensive training in written Japanese and review of grammar, it prepares students to join intermediate or advanced Japanese courses.

8A-B-C. Basic Conversational Japanese
(2-2-2) Staff
Prerequisite: Japanese 3(for Japanese 8A): Japanese 8A (for 8B): Japanese 8B(for 8C).
Designed for those who have completed first year Japanese to continue developing basic communicative skills focusing on oral-aural proficiency.

22. Religious Narratives and Paintings of Japan
(4) Grapard
Same course as Religious Studies 22.
A survey and cultural analysis of the painted scrolls and texts related to historical records of religious institutions in medieval and premodern Japan. Taught in English.

25. Violence and the Japanese State
(4) Frühstück
Same course as Anthropology 25 and History 25.
Examines historically and socialogically the Japanese State's various engagement in violent acts during war and peace times.

27. Conflicts and Tensions in Post-War Japanese Society
(4) Frühstück
Challenges the persistent view of Japan as a harmonious society. Conflicts are examined in regard to class and stratification, work and labor, education, gender, generation, minority groups, popular culture and everyday life.

63. Sociology of Japan
(4) Frühstück
Not open for credit to students who have completed Japanese 163.
Sociological macro- and micro-analysis of Japanese society in the twentieth centry.

INT 94BC0100. Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan (Freshman Seminar)
(1) Frühstück
Starting with contemporary Japan the course takes a look at marginalized, criminalized and tabooed sexualities. Moving back in modern Japanese history we analyze how certain modes of sexual expression were politicized and problematized during the early and mid-twentieth century.