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Academic Career = Postgraduate – Taught
Faculty = Art
Academic Program = Master of Arts in Japanese Studies
Effective from 2024-25,
1. Coursework and Graduation requirement (applicable to all students)
Within the normative study period (full-time: 1 year; part-time: 2 years), students are required to:
JASP 5000-level courses are for M.A. students. A few courses will share lectures with an undergraduate course. These code-sharing courses will be offered in the daytime, subject to course availability. All students, including part-time students, are eligible to enrol if they have flexible daytime schedules. Part-time students should note that a sufficient number of courses to meet graduation requirements during the normative study period (two years) will be offered on weeknights and Saturdays, but a few courses may be offered during the daytime on weekdays. Part-time students with fulltime jobs may consider taking a half-day off per week if they wish to enroll in weekday, daytime courses.
When taking courses in which lectures are shared with undergraduate students, M.A. students may be required to complete more readings and may be given different assessment methods in accordance with M.A. course level. These code-sharing courses will not be offered in the evenings or on Saturdays.
*Code-sharing courses will be announced once available
Core Course (students are required to select at least 3 units from the core course list)
Course Code | Course Title / Description | Units |
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JASP 5517 |
Japanese Communication through Language and Culture
通過日本的語言和文化分析日語溝通的模式
This course explores Japanese communication patterns and the relationship between Japanese language, society, and culture. The course considers how the use of language reflects social contexts and human relationships. It also explores the factors that shape the success or failure of communicating in Japan, and how Japanese communication patterns compare with those of other cultures.
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3 |
JASP 5519 |
Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Japan
日本傳統文化及現代社會
This course aims at analyzing the relationship between traditional culture and modern society in Japan. It explores key cultural and social concepts in historical contexts, and considers how ideas and institutions have changed over time.
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3 |
JASP 5601 |
Theory and Methods in Japanese Studies
日本硏究的理論及方法
This course provides an overview of the major theories and approaches that have been used to examine Japan. It provides insight into the key issues shaping Japan in recent decades.
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3 |
Elective Course
Course Code | Course Title / Description | Units |
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JASP 5501 |
Teaching Japanese as a Second Language (JLPT N1 required)
以日語為第二語言的日語教學
This course introduces and discusses various concepts in teaching Japanese as a second language which include course design, the procedures of handling classroom activities, the proper usage of teaching materials and teaching tools and methods of assessing of students.
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3 |
JASP 5515 |
Japanese Linguistics (JLPT N2 required)
日語語言學
The aim of this course is to enable students to understand linguistic aspects of Japanese. The course content includes pronunciation, writing system, vocabulary, and grammar. This course is suitable for everyone who wishes to organize and enrich their knowledge about the Japanese language for academic and pedagogical purposes, such as proficient Japanese speakers and prospective or ongoing Japanese teachers.
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3 |
JASP 5522 |
Chinese-Japanese Interpretation and Translation (JLPT N1 required)
中日傳譯
This course aims to enable students with a good knowledge of Chinese to develop their skills and techniques in interpreting Chinese into Japanese. Different text types will be used in the class, and techniques of interpretation will be provided in stages. Special attention will be given to the fundamental differences between Chinese and Japanese, especially grammatical, syntactical and cultural differences.
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3 |
JASP 5523 |
Advanced English-Japanese Translation (JLPT N1 or N2 required)
高級英日翻譯
This course introduces some of the key concepts in translation theory and focuses on their application to English to Japanese translation practice, provides
students who have a solid knowledge of basic Japanese with a practical experience in translation and aims to develop their translation skills to a high level of proficiency. Students will work with a wide range of text types, drawn from various sources including news media, the internet, business communication, academic literature, fiction and films. |
3 |
JASP 5611 |
Japan’s Modern Transformations, 1600-1945
日本邁向現代的歷史軌跡
This course examines key issues in Japanese history and provides training in textual and comparative analysis. Students are trained in how to use primary and secondary sources to study Japanese history. Western and Japanese scholarship on Japanese history will be introduced. Besides lectures and discussions, topical essays and group projects may be required.
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3 |
JASP 5612 |
Critical Analysis of Popular Culture
流行文化的批判性分析
This course discusses major theories, approaches and writings on Japanese popular culture. Japanese popular culture will be examined through the lens of globalization, fandom, media studies, cultural industry, and cultural diplomacy. Both theoretical and empirical research methods and representative works will be introduced. A fieldwork-based group project may be required.
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3 |
JASP 5613 |
Thematic Study of Japanese Films
日本電影專題研究
This course provides theoretical training and historical background on Japanese films. Approaches and ideas from film studies, media studies, cultural studies and gender studies will be introduced. Selected themes about Japanese films will be discussed in class and students are required to write essays or conduct a group project.
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3 |
JASP 5614 |
Japanese Literature in Historical Perspective
歷史視野中的日本文學
This course introduces the main themes in Japanese literature from the ancient to the modern period. The texts covered include poetry, diaries, drama, and fiction. The social and cultural context in which the work was produced will be discussed. Students are expected to have completed all reading assignments before class so that the assigned reading may be discussed during the class.
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3 |
JASP 5615 |
Anthropology of Japan
日本人類學
This course examines how anthropologists and other social scientists have studied and written about Japan in recent decades. Lectures will introduce different approaches to Japan, and the assigned readings will provide examples of these approaches. Graduates of the Japanese Studies undergraduate major programme who have taken JASP4110 Anthropological Studies of Japanese Culture are not permitted to take this course.
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3 |
JASP 5617 |
History of Postwar Japan
戰後日本史
This course examines the political, economic, social and cultural transformations of Japan in the postwar era. It deepens understanding of Japanese history and contemporary issues.
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3 |
JASP 5618 |
Contemporary Japan-China Relations
近代日中關係
This course examines the regional and global implications of Sino-Japanese relations. Students will explore Sino-Japanese relations from political, economic, security and cultural perspectives from 1850 onwards. Using the prisms of history and international relations theories, students will gain a deeper understanding of developments, challenges and opportunities that exist between Japan and China.
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3 |
JASP 5619 |
Philosophy in Japanese Culture
日本文化哲學
This course introduces students to Japanese philosophy, which is an important topic for understanding the roots of Japanese culture. Three areas will be discussed: 1) traditional Japanese thought such as Buddhism, Confucianism and Shinto/Native Studies thought; 2) modern Japanese philosophers such as Nishida Kitaro, Kuki Shuzo & Watsuji Tetsuro; and 3) special issues related to Japanese philosophical thought.
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3 |
JASP 5620 |
Japanese Cultural Identity
日本文化身份認同的一個剖析
This course explores how the Yamato nation and the Japanese language were formed based on hypotheses in related fields. How Japanese society arose through the localization of foreign cultures will be dealt with from a cultural historical point of view. Attempts will be made to identify nation-wide characteristics, if any, and investigate how they were cultivated over the past centuries. Special attention will be paid to the similarities that can be found between the two major social reforms in modern Japanese history i.e. the Meiji Restoration and postwar reform. The course also discusses how these reforms influence modern Japan society.
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3 |
JASP 5621 |
Japanese Management: Work, Culture and Capitalism
日本管理:工作、文化及 資本主義
Japanese business practices have emerged from Japan’s particular path to modernization and its capitalist conditions. The course will analyze the issues of industrialization, globalization and neoliberalism as well as a broad range of topics, including those related to labor, industrial organization, the theory of the firm, management, gender, and economic reforms in Japanese society. This course introduces the complex development of Japanese capitalism from the early 19th century to the present and examines ongoing transformations within Japanese capitalism.
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3 |
JASP 5622 |
The Global Japanese
日本的全球化
This course examines Japanese migrants and communities in diverse locations such as East Asia, Oceania, Europe, and Americas. Through tracing historical experiences of Japanese emigrants (Nikkeijin) and exploring their transnational cultural practices, students will develop a picture of Japan’s changing roles in a globalized world from an aggressive colonizer to an economic superpower to a shrinking society. Topics may include the variegated roles of Japanese migrants in settler communities and colonial societies, gendered communities of practice, transnational networks and communication, linguistic and culinary hybridity, and Japanese migrants’ contribution to the global spread and dissemination of Japanese popular culture.
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3 |
JASP 5623 |
Anthropology of Japanese Popular Culture
日本流行文化與人類學
This course offers an advanced seminar on Japanese popular and mass culture from anthropological perspectives. The course first provides literature on the major classical and critical theories of the "culture industry" in Europe as well as the formation of mass society in Japan. Specifically, this course examines the issues of popular culture and mass culture through four different spheres: culture industries, media consumption, material culture and fandom, and globalization. These issues provide the underlying structure and symbols that demonstrate how anthropologists approach a particular representation of complex popularized cultural movements under late capitalism.
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3 |
JASP 5624 |
Japanese Language and Society (JLPT N2 required)
日本語言與社會
This course explores both linguistic structures and sociolinguistic features of the Japanese language, discussing sociolinguistic features in Japanese language such as the history of linguistic exchanges in the kanji (Chinese character) and lexicon between China and Japan among other case studies, application of linguistic politeness expressions and word formation. The course will also cover the major linguistic features in Japanese language such as its grammatical structures and semantic features in the Japanese language. At the completion of the course, students will have gained a better understanding of the structure of the Japanese language in general situations and will have learned how to apply language usage according to Japanese linguistic social norms.
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3 |
JASP 5625 |
Japanese Philosophy
日本哲學
This course aims to understand and analyze Japanese philosophy, which is an important topic for reflecting on the roots of Japanese intellectual history and contemporary
philosophical debates. Three areas will be discussed: 1) Japanese intellectual traditions such as those found in Buddhism, Confucianism and Shinto/Native Studies thought; 2) modern Japanese philosophers such as Nishida Kitaro, Kuki Shuzo and Watsuji Tetsuro; and 3) contemporary Japanese thought: Karatani Kojin, Post-311 philosophy, etc. |
3 |
JASP 5060 |
Special Topics in Japanese Studies
日本研究專題特講
This course will focus on specific topics in Japanese studies that are not covered in the regular course offering. These topics will reflect academic needs/interests and faculty expertise.
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3 |
JASP 5530 |
Special Topics in Japanese Languages (may be repeated for credit)
日語專論
This course will focus on specific topics in Japanese language that are not covered in the regular course offering. Subject to the approval of the Programme Director, students are allowed to take this course more than once and gain the units each time they pass the course.
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3 |
JASP 5700 |
Independent Research Project
獨立專題研究
This course enables MA students to independently investigate a research topic with the assistance of a supervising professor. The research question, research methods, length of the paper and frequency of meetings will be decided at the start of the course through discussion and agreement between the student and the supervisor.
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3 |
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