担当者 Bradley, William
テーマ Anthropology in Media, Communication, and Education
(C, G, G+C, G+E, C+E, G+C+E)
講義概要
(演習Ⅰ～Ⅳ)		 This seminar is focused on the study of anthropology (and anthropological methods) in media, communication, and education. What is anthropology? Put simply, anthropology focuses on humans and their diversity in different cultures. Culture in all its forms is the tool for understanding and researching about media, communication, and education. In today’s globalizing world, it is easier to imagine that there is a shared culture of human rights, development and education. However, identities continue to be formed based on group, local and national characteristics (such as age, class, community and nation-state). How do these competing universal and particular knowledges represent themselves in various contexts in the media and ways of communication? How are they the basis of education? Students in this enshu research topics related to the study of culture, but also as demonstrated in fields of food, language, technology, economy, or whatever field they choose to focus on. In the first semester, students choose various topics of research (books, articles, movies, etc.), while focusing on how to do research, interviews and observation. In the second semester students investigate more deeply on a particular aspect of media, communication, or education that they will focus on. In the second year, students will focus on their topic of interest, and in the final semester students must complete a project or graduation paper based on their research. The graduation paper is required but some students may elect to do a combination of intensive fieldwork projects, and a final paper and presentation to fulfill the requirements for this enshu.
到達目標 This seminar will provide students with opportunities to understand how anthropology is used in the contemporary world, in particular by using concepts developed in anthropology, culture and fieldwork, to research about media, communication, and education. By participating in and understanding culture from a perspective of meaning making (in other words, how members of a group create their own worlds of meaning), students should be able to gain broader knowledge of how to explain changing ideas about and ways of doing culture both inside and outside their own groups (young people, university students, Kyoto, Kansai, Japan, East Asia, etc.)
講義方法 In brief, we begin this seminar with readings and projects on media to explore how conceptions of culture are utilized for mass understanding. We will also investigate the meaning and uses of popular culture in relation to advertising, business, and marketing. The choice of materials depends on the individual students.
In the first half of the first semester, we focus on definitions of culture and finding topics of interest related to each individual student’s research. In the second half of the first semester students do presentations based on topics that they choose. In the second semester, we focus on research methods, questionnaires, bibliographies, and other tools to help prepare for writing the final report. This report will summarize readings, and fieldwork that students have done at the end of the first year. Research themes can be chosen from a wide variety of fields (for example, anthropology, education, language and communication, popular culture, culture in business and the cultural economy, multicultural society, gender, sociolinguistics, etc.). The theme and type of research depends on students’ individual interests, but should include some focus on changing society, in Japan (or other societies), connected to a globalizing world.
成績評価の方法 In the first semester, students give presentations based on readings, or their research on media, communication, education and culture. Students should fill in evaluation forms and written summaries of their work which becomes part of their portfolio. The grading is based on this portfolio in which students collect materials (articles, reviews, and other assignments) based on their own interests. In the second semester, in addition to the portfolio and presentations, there are two projects and a final report. The final grade is based on class participation and presentations, the portfolio of short written assignments, and a final report, the exact contents of which vary according to Enshu 2 and Enshu 4. The exact division of grading will be explained in class.
系統的履修 Students should be able to finish this seminar with 1) a broad understanding of differing definitions of culture and diversity in human worlds 2) knowledge of specific research methodologies for doing research in media, communication, and education. In particular, they will understand how to do interviews, fieldwork and write analyses of such research, which they may use for their final reports or graduation thesis or as the basis for presentations of their research in class.
テキスト Materials provided by the professor; 指導教員により配布
参考文献 Materials provided by the professor; 指導教員により配布
履修上の注意・担当者からの一言 The seminar is focused on our working with other students and the professor to come to understand anthropology and culture, do fieldwork related to education and communication, and prepare students to write a final report in English. Attendance at all classes is important and students who fail to attend, will fail the class. All of the classes and discussions are conducted in English and some readings will also be in English.
本ゼミは、英語で教授し、テキストやディスカッション等も英語で実施する。レポートは英語で書くことを義務付ける。文化、言語、メディア、そして人類学に関係するテーマに興味があることが必要である。