School of Letters Department of Humanities

(Credit 2)

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Humanities (Japan and East Asia) in English(Seminar I)
Humanities (Japan and East Asia) in English(Seminar I)
Sub Title@ Japan through European Eyes
Associate Professor Ellen VAN GOETHEM
Numbering Code: LET-HUM3103E
Course Code: 16052109
2016 SpringTerm
weekly Tue2
Hakozaki Classroom
E‰È–Ú (English, English)
Course Overview This course provides students with an opportunity to explore how Europeans have described and interpreted Japan through centuries of contact. We will use primary source materials written by travellers, missionaries, adventurers, teachers, traders, and scholars to learn about life in Japan and in Europe between the thirteenth and the twentieth centuries. Through readings and discussions, students will also explore such concepts as Orientalism, representation of other cultures, and Japanfs place in European historical imagination.
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