GER 42300 - Japanese Germanophilia And Other Aspects Of Asian German Studies

Topics dealing with Japanese and/or other Asian language(s), literature(s), and culture(s) through interactions with the German-speaking countries, generally in the more recent historical periods.

Cr. 3.
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Recognize a variety of canonical Japanese writers and their works.
2. Grasp how Japanese writers and thinkers interacted with the German-speaking world differently than with the United States and England.
3. Explain Japanese associations with the German-speaking world as both part of and also distinct from the so-called West.
4. Understand how Japanese traditional culture both adapted to Western culture and also retained its own particular Asian/Eastern identity (i.e., values, aesthetics, shift from Classical Japanese to modernized Japanese, changes in literary themes next to maintenance of traditional themes, etc.).
5. Identify, describe, and explain representative, articulations of human activities situated in geographical contexts outside the United States from historical, political, and/or cultural perspectives.
6. Summarize, analyze, and discuss texts and/or forms of media that center on understanding representative articulations of human activities situated in geographical contexts outside the United Sates from historical, political, and/or cultural perspectives.
7. Formulate significant critical questions about representative, articulations of human activities situated in geographical contexts outside the United States from historical, political, and/or cultural perspectives.
8. Create effective written texts and/or oral presentations that explore and explicate these questions.