JAPANESE TRANSNATIONAL POPULAR CULTURE

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Lower-Level

Examines Japanese popular culture from transnational critical approach that consider ethnicity, race, gender, and class, demonstrating where East Asian cultures, languages, and histories overlap and shape popular cultural production and consumption. Using multiple methods of inquiry this course will equip students to explore how they participate in and converse with Japanese popular cultural texts in the global community of consumers. Materials include film, television, literature, music, manga, animation, tourism, and more, as examples of Japanese culture’s Soft Power. This course counts towards the electives requirement for the ASIA major.