Course Details
Country:
Japan
Institution:
Nagoya University of Foreign Studies
Course Title:
Japanese Society and World through Media
Course Number:
JSC903
Course Description:
This course deals with Japan seen from the world’s perspective and the world seen from the perspective of Japan. Depending on one’s personal views or their idiosyncratic situation, the way one sees the world largely differs. In the increasingly interconnected globalized economy and large-scale information flow, one’s culture and religion, ethnicity, customs and other elements forming humans’ identity undergo significant changes. In this global age we are forced to decide on how we see the world and our role in it. By adopting the journalist approach, which sees the world from multiple and critical perspectives, this course takes a glance on the Japanese society and world issues as brought to us by the Japanese mass media. The course ends with students working to investigate and research a certain topic, which will then be published as a signed article in the University’s English-language newspaper, The NUFS Times. Students will therefore learn.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
COMM 387
