Hiroshima University Syllabus

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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 : English
Course Level 3 : Undergraduate High-Intermediate
Course Area(Area) 23 : Arts and Humanities
Course Area(Discipline) 11 : Cultural Anthropology
Eligible Students undergraduate students
Keywords contemporary anthropology, globalization, migration, welfare, social development, care, risk, precarity, neoliberalism 
Special Subject for Teacher Education   Special Subject  
Class Status
within Educational
Program
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
 
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
(More Details) 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  
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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