Program for EU-Japanology Education and Research(PEJER)
メンバー紹介
 
 
  November 2007
“Kansai University Program for EU-Japanology Education and Research (PEJER)”, a program for educational reformation of graduate school promoted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology starts in April 2008.
 
 
 
Introduction of Sub-Major System to the Faculty of Letters 
 


  “Program for EU-Japanology Education and Research (PEJER)”, the first sub-major system in the Faculty of Letters, is open to any post-graduate student who enrols in the General Department of Humanities. Taking the courses introduced below as their sub-majors, students pursue their major subjects for MA and PhD degrees with broader academic perspectives.

 
 
 
Partnership with EU-Japanology
 
 Setting up a partnership with the EU universities, this program aims at generalising and innovating Japanese studies in Japan that are too ramified even though they reach an advanced level. Recently, Japanology in the EU steps into a new stage not only because the EU expansion into 27 signatories encourages the more active economic and cultural exchange with Japan but also because humanities including Japanology has been initiated by the EU. This program promotes academic exchanges on the basis of the Kansai University EU-Japan Centre at Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, established on the 120th anniversary of Kansai University.
 
 
New Opening of Attractive 4 Courses of Japanology
 
 The following 4 courses are offered as the sub-major.
1. Japanology Fieldwork: students understand various cultural aspects of Japan through the inter-departmental methodologies of material studies.
2. EU-Japanology Lecture: students realise the globalisation of Japanology by understanding the diversified perspectives of Japanology in the EU countries.
3. Japanology Academic Communication Training: students improve their English skills to communicate academic achievements of Japanology on international occasions. The parallel taking of the “Graduate School English”, a newly opened common course of the Faculty of Letters, will promote the improvement.
4. Japanology Workshop: the annual international workshops are held at Kansai University in July and EU universities including Catholic University of Leuven in September. On these occasions, students collaborate with the young generation from EU universities exchanging ideas and findings of research through discussion.
 
 
 
Training Japanologists for Next Generation
 
 In this program, an extensive range of academic resources provided by 25 staffs from the Faculty of Letters, Faculty of Sociology and Graduate School of Foreign Language Education and Research broaden students’ perspectives in studying Japanology. Moreover, “Education Chart” will be made up for each student, according to which students will receive the uniform supervision both in their majors and sub-majors. Through this new curriculum, the program trains the Japanologists for next generation.
 
 
 
Program for EU-Japanology Education and Research (PEJER) Staffs
 

Japanology Fieldwork
Fumitaka YONEDA (Head, Professor, Course of History)
Yoichi HASE (Professor, Course of Art History and Aesthetics)
Nobuo NAKATANI (Professor, Course of Art History and Aesthetics)
Yoshihiro NIKAIDO (Professor, Course of Chinese Language and Literature)
Masahiro NISHIMOTO (Professor, Course of History)
Toshihiko SEKIYA (Professor, Course of Japanese Language and Literature)
Noboru TANAKA (Professor, Course of Japanese Language and Literature)
Takashi YAMAMOTO (Professor, Course of Japanese Language and Literature)

EU-Japanology Lecture
Takashi HAMAMOTO (Head, Professor, Course of Cultural Symbiotics)
Keizo ASAJI (Professor, Course of History)
Junji HORI (Associate Professor, Course of Film and Media Studies)
Osamu KASHIWAGI (Professor, Course of Cultural Symbiotics)
Takashi KUMANO (Professor, Course of Anthropology, Faculty of Sociology)
Junko NINAGAWA (Professor, Course of Art History and Aesthetics)
Kaoru OSHIMA (Professor, Course of Japanese Language and Literature)
Keiji SHIBAI (Professor, Course of History)
Yoshino SUGAWARA (Associate Professor, Course of Film and Media Studies)
Tokuro YAMAMOTO (Professor, Course of Japanese Language and Literature)

Japanology Academic Communication Training
Masako SUGITANI (Head, Professor, Graduate School of Foreign Language Education and Research)
Tomonori OKUBO (Associate Professor, Course of French Language and Literature)
Chie TAKAGI (Lecturer, Course of Japanese Language and Literature)
Maho TOYODA (Lecturer, Course of Cross-Cultural Studies)

Japanology Workshop
Yutaka YABUTA (Director, Head, Professor, Course of History)
Mark F. Meli (Associate Professor, Course of Cross-Cultural Studies)
Robert F. Wittkamp (Associate Professor, Course of German Language and Literature)

 
 
 
Training Japanologists for Next Generation
 
In this program, an extensive range of academic resources provided by 25 staffs from the Faculty of Letters, Faculty of Sociology and Graduate School of Foreign Language Education and Research broaden students’ perspectives in studying Japanology. Moreover, “Education Chart” will be made up for each student, according to which students will receive the uniform supervision both in their majors and sub-majors. Through this new curriculum, the program trains the Japanologists for next generation.
 
 
 

General Department of Humanities, Faculty of Letters, Kansai University Graduate School
3-3-35 Yamate-cho, Suita-shi, Osaka 564-8680 JAPAN
TEL +81-6-6368-1111-3979(3993)
URL http://www2.kansai-u.ac.jp/eu-japan/
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