Students explore a subject of particular interest in collaboration with a faculty member in the area of Japanese Culture. Love and Death in Japanese Culture. A knowledge of Japanese is not required. This course covers issues of Love and Death in Japan, and how it is portrayed in Japanese Literature. In this course, students read a variety of premodern literature, including portions of the Tale of Genji and the Tale of Heike.
All literature is read in a cultural context.
Writing Japanese Women. This is a course on writing by and about women women's self-representation and men's representations of women in Japanese culture. Rewriting Identities in Modern Japan. This introductory course to modern Japanese fiction examines how novels and short stories written after 1868 engage the issue of national, cultural, and social identities. The inquiry in the course simultaneously moves in two directions.