Fall 2020  |  AMES 3420 Section 001: Topics in Japanese Culture -- Performing Arts & Martial Arts: AnOther Philosophy (33128)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
9 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020
Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Open (11 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Selected topics in Japanese culture. Topics specified in the Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
Not open to students who enrolled in ALL 1911W for credit
Class Description:
"AMES3420: Performing Arts and Martial Arts, AnOther Philosophy in Japan" challenges the typical understanding of "Japanese philosophy," which usually refers to Western-influenced philosophy in modern times (1868 onward). When its precursor is mentioned, discussion tends to focus on religions (Shinto, Buddhism, and Confucianism) as its matrices. This course shifts our attention to practitioners of physical activities--mainly performing arts and martial arts--as active agents doing the philosophizing, aiming at exploring philosophical ideas conceptualized, practiced, and articulated by artists. Whether they contemplate their respective techniques or training methods, or whether they conceptualize how to acquire the technique in question themselves or how to transmit such knowledge that they thus acquired to their disciples and offspring, these practitioners would inevitably face what we usually think of as philosophical problems: "What is it to be natural?" "What is our existence?" "What is knowledge and how is it generated and transmitted?" The list goes on, encompassing such topics as "body and mind," "knowledge," "gender," "naturalness," and so on. This course explores this phenomenon chiefly using materials from premodern times (through the late nineteenth century), but the theoretical implications go well beyond the said time frame, and our thinking of these matters in this course is well applicable to us, here and now. Class mode ONLINE for Fall 2020
Who Should Take This Class?:
"AMES3420: Performing Arts and Martial Arts, AnOther Philosophy in Japan" welcomes anyone interested in the topic and committed to learn, and there is no prerequisite. No physical training in theatrical or martial arts is involved. Reading knowledge of Japanese or previous course work in Japanese studies, such as literature, will be helpful, but not required. All of the readings will be available in English. Audio-visual materials will be used whenever available and appropriate.
Learning Objectives:
Please see "Class Description" above
Grading:
A-F and audit
Exam Format:
Writing assignments, quizzes, and presentation
Class Format:
Lecture and group- and class-discussions
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33128/1209
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 July 2020

ClassInfo Links - Fall 2020 Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Classes

To link directly to this ClassInfo page from your website or to save it as a bookmark, use:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?subject=AMES&catalog_nbr=3420&term=1209
To see a URL-only list for use in the Faculty Center URL fields, use:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?subject=AMES&catalog_nbr=3420&term=1209&url=1
To see this page output as XML, use:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?subject=AMES&catalog_nbr=3420&term=1209&xml=1
To see this page output as JSON, use:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?subject=AMES&catalog_nbr=3420&term=1209&json=1
To see this page output as CSV, use:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?subject=AMES&catalog_nbr=3420&term=1209&csv=1
Schedule Viewer
8 am
9 am
10 am
11 am
12 pm
1 pm
2 pm
3 pm
4 pm
5 pm
6 pm
7 pm
8 pm
9 pm
10 pm
s
m
t
w
t
f
s
?
Class Title

ClassInfo created and maintained by the Humphrey School of Public Affairs.

If you have questions about specific courses, we strongly encourage you to contact the department where the course resides.