Japanese 305: Intro to Japanese Culture and Civilization
This course introduces various aspects of Japanese culture, including history, geography, religion, government, politics, customs and traditions. After a broad historical overview beginning in prehistory, this course focuses on the Tokugawa period as the bedrock for understanding modern Japanese society as a mass society. Taught in English.
In JAPN 305 I continued my advancement in the MLO 2 culture requirement. This class, was probably my favorite of all the Japanese culture courses, because it was studying, evrything I had previously found incredibly interesting in Japanese culture, mainly Japanese Civilization and Culture which happens to also be the name of this course. Like the other culture courses taught in english, this course studied Japanese culture mainly from the time that Japanese civilization was established. Like the other culture courses I describe, this course entailed reading numerous articles and then analyzing them to continue grasping the concept of Japanese culture. At the end of this class we were required to choose a topic that we had discussed in class, and then research more on that topic. The topic I chose, which I uploaded below, was the establishment of the Japanese education system. I chose this topic because I plan to become a teacher in Japan. I felt that without knowing about the establishment of the Japanese system, I couldn’t expect myself to join it. Within the paper I talk about the history of the education system dating back to its establishment, and then continuing through to it’s reformation at the beginning of the Meji period. BY researching and analyzing the Japanese education system I got to look specifically into an aspect of Japanese culture that is a personal interest of mine, which helped me fully understand why the system is the way that it is. In the future I would really like to continue studying the Japanese education system as well as seeing how it continues to change.
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