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Programme and Module Handbook

Undergraduate Programme and Module Handbook 2005-2006 (archived)

Module EAST2181: JAPANESE CULTURE AND SOCIETY

Department: EAST ASIAN STUDIES

EAST2181: JAPANESE CULTURE AND SOCIETY

Type Open Level 2 Credits 20 Availability Available in 2005/06 Module Cap None. Location Durham

Prerequisites

  • None.

Corequisites

  • None.

Excluded Combination of Modules

  • None.

Aims

  • To explore modern Japanese society from an anthropological point of view.

Content

  • Lectures: principles of social organisations, family structure, kinship, gender, leisure, household economics, in-group/out-group, minorities, religion, silver power, etc.
  • Seminars: traditional performing arts, the tea arts, and the water world.

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:
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Subject-specific Skills:
    Key Skills:

      Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

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      Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

      Activity Number Frequency Duration Total/Hours
      Lectures 18 1 Per Week 1 Hour 18
      Tutorials 3 1 Per Term 1 Hour 3
      Seminars 4 2 Each in Michaelmas and Epiphany Terms 1 Hour 4
      Preparation and reading 175
      Total 200

      Summative Assessment

      Component: Examination Component Weighting: 50%
      Element Length / duration Element Weighting Resit Opportunity
      two-hour written examination 100%
      Component: Essays Component Weighting: 50%
      Element Length / duration Element Weighting Resit Opportunity
      2000 word essay 1 50%
      2000 word essay 2 50%

      Formative Assessment:

      Practice essays and seminar presentations.

      ■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University