JAPN 215
Course Description
This course examines contemporary media culture and products as a conceptual lens to focus on Japanese pop culture and soft power in the 21st Century. Manga, Anime, Cinema, literature, performance art, music, and fine arts will all be surveyed with an eye to understanding what exactly is cool and different about Japanese creative work and whether these kinds of cultural exports could become the foundation of a new post-industrial Japanese economy. Taught in English.
Course Reflection
This course meets the requirements for MLO 2 through power points and videos on the art, literature and performative arts that led to modern Japanese cultural institutions as well as the functioning of those cultural institutions, such as Manga, Anime and the music industry. These classes reinforced my appreciation of manga, anime, Japanese music and the like. This class explained well the history that inform the cultural changes that have occurred through important historical events. I'll probably continue to consume manga, anime and Japanese music.
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