Hiroshima University Syllabus

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Academic Year 2024Year School/Graduate School School of Integrated Arts and Sciences Department of Integrated Global Studies
Lecture Code ARS10101 Subject Classification Specialized Education
Subject Name Anthropology of Globalization II (グローバリゼーションの人類学 II)
Subject Name
(Katakana)
グローバリゼーションノジンルイガク II
Subject Name in
English
Anthropology of Globalization II
Instructor ADAMS JILL PETERSEN,ADAMS JILL PETERSEN
Instructor
(Katakana)
アダムス ジル ピーターセン,アダムス ジル ピーターセン
Campus Higashi-Hiroshima Semester/Term 2nd-Year,  First Semester,  2Term
Days, Periods, and Classrooms (2T) Weds3-4:IAS K210
Lesson Style Seminar Lesson Style
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Credits 1.0 Class Hours/Week   Language of Instruction E : English
Course Level 2 : Undergraduate Low-Intermediate
Course Area(Area) 23 : Arts and Humanities
Course Area(Discipline) 14 : Cultural Studies
Eligible Students undergraduate students, 2nd year above
Keywords  
Special Subject for Teacher Education   Special Subject  
Class Status
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Program
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Criterion referenced
Evaluation
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Integrated Global Studies
(Knowledge and Understanding)
・The knowledge and understanding of the important characteristics and basic theoretical framework of individual academic disciplines.
・The knowledge and understanding of one's own language and culture and other languages and cultures that are prerequisite abilities for communication with people from different cultures and areas of specialization.
・The knowledge and understanding to fully recognize the
mutual relations and their importance among individual
academic disciplines.
(Abilities and Skills)
・The ability to collect and analyze necessary literature or data among various sources of information in individual academic disciplines.
・The ability to specify necessary theories and methods for the consideration of important issues.
・The ability to summarize one's own research in reports or academic papers, deliver presentations at seminars or research meetings, and explain it in an easy way so that people in different cultures and areas of specialization understand.
(Comprehensive Abilities)
・The ability to think in an interdisciplinary way to discover issues based on ethical research practices and subjective intellectual interests, and propose a plan to solve them.
・The ability to conduct research proactively by combining knowledge,  understanding, and skills for the tasks, based on flexible creativity and imagination.
・The ability to take action cooperatively to advance research to resolve the problem by sharing issues with people from different cultures and areas of specialization, and explaining one’s own ideas logically and simply. 
Class Objectives
/Class Outline
This course builds on foundational material from Anthropology of Globalization I to continue to examine legacies of war and catastrophic loss as issues of contemporary society. We continue to analyze the different ways meaning is constructed and communicated in monuments, memorials, and sites of memory—particularly between the United States and Japan since 1945. We use the tools of our disciplines to better identify, understand, and analyze the meanings communicated and contested in these spaces. We will join our academic concepts to real life places, people, and problems using “case studies.” These case studies help us apply but also critique academic theories, developing new concepts and modes of understanding. 
Class Schedule lesson1 Key concepts regarding cultural, social, and public
memory
lesson2 Monuments, Memorials, and Meanings
lesson3 Questioning memorial sites and the politics of memory

lesson4 Japan Case Study: A-Bomb Memory in Hiroshima
lesson5 Japan Case Study: Beyond Hiroshima—Postwar Japanese
Memorialization
lesson6 U.S. Case Study: Civil Rights Memorialization in the U.S. South
lesson7 U.S. Case Study: Vietnam War Memorialization in
the U.S. and Vietnam
lesson8 Your own (Virtual?) case study
lesson9
lesson10
lesson11
lesson12
lesson13
lesson14
lesson15 
Text/Reference
Books,etc.
Seth Bruggeman, “Memorials and Monuments,” The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook website, and other materials 
PC or AV used in
Class,etc.
 
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Learning techniques to be incorporated  
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Preparation and
Review
These abilities and skills are needed: The knowledge and understanding of the important
characteristics and basic theoretical framework of individual academic disciplines.
・ The knowledge and understanding of one's own language and culture and other languages and cultures that are prerequisite abilities for communication with people from different cultures and areas of specialization.
・ The knowledge and understanding to fully recognize the mutual relations and their importance among individual academic disciplines. 
Requirements  
Grading Method These abilities are highly evaluated: The ability to think in an interdisciplinary way to
discover issues based on ethical research practices and subjective intellectual interests, and propose a plan to solve them.
・ The ability to conduct research proactively by combining knowledge, understanding, and skills for the tasks, based on flexible creativity and imagination.
・ The ability to take action cooperatively to advance research to resolve the problem by sharing issues with people from different cultures and areas of specialization, and explaining one’s own ideas logically and simply. 
Practical Experience  
Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it  
Message  
Other   
Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes.
Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching. 
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