Academic Year |
2025Year |
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 |
SEKI KOKI |
Instructor (Katakana) |
セキ コウキ |
Campus |
Higashi-Hiroshima |
Semester/Term |
2nd-Year, First Semester, 1Term |
Days, Periods, and Classrooms |
(1T) Tues7-8:IAS K210 |
Lesson Style |
Seminar |
Lesson Style (More Details) |
Face-to-face |
In principle, the class is conducted in person. Only when the students have unavoidable reasons, the online participation will be allowed. |
Credits |
1.0 |
Class Hours/Week |
2 |
Language of Instruction |
E
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English |
Course Level |
3
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Undergraduate High-Intermediate
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Course Area(Area) |
23
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Arts and Humanities |
Course Area(Discipline) |
11
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Cultural Anthropology |
Eligible Students |
undergraduate students |
Keywords |
contemporary anthropology, globalization, migration, welfare, social development, care, risk, precarity, neoliberalism |
Special Subject for Teacher Education |
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Special Subject |
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Class Status within Educational Program (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students) | |
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Criterion referenced Evaluation (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students) | 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 |
The class deals with various issues of contemporary society through cultural anthropological lens. The topics dealt with are: globalization and transnational migration; welfare and social development which include such focuses on social policy, poverty, and care; violence, conflict and peace; disaster and risk; neoliberalism and precariousness of contemporary world; anthropological focus on nature, non-human, and materiality. Middle to advanced-level English ability, including reading the academic text and engaging in logical debate, is required for all the participants. |
Class Schedule |
Lesson 1: Anthropological approaches to social development and policy Lesson 2: Anthropological approaches to welfare and care Lesson 3: Anthropology and contemporary politics: civil society and citizenship Lesson 4: Anthropological approach to poverty and structural violence Lesson 5: Anthropological approaches to risk, uncertainty, and precariousness of contemporary world Lesson 6: Anthropological approaches contemporary social movements Lesson 7: Anthropological approach to aid and development Lesson 8: Anthropological approach to human and culture in the age of Anthropocene |
Text/Reference Books,etc. |
texts will be informed during the guidance |
PC or AV used in Class,etc. |
Text, Handouts, Visual Materials, moodle |
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text, Power Point slides, handouts |
Learning techniques to be incorporated |
Discussions, Paired Reading, Quizzes/ Quiz format |
Suggestions on Preparation and Review |
Students are required to read the materials and submit the short reports on the reading materials before the each sessions. |
Requirements |
Students are required to enroll for the class of "Anthropology of Grobalization I". Taking only "Anthropology of Globalization Ⅱ" is not permitted. Middle to advanced-level English ability, including reading the academic text and engaging in logical debate, is required for all the participants. |
Grading Method |
Evaluation is made based on the presentation, participation to the discussion, and exam or term paper. |
Practical Experience |
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Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it |
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Message |
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Other |
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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. |