JAPN 306: The Japanese Mind
A project-based course that looks behind the Japanese social mask to understand how Japanese people build relationships, community, and lives worth living. Covers modes of thinking and communicating, negotiating, and decision making; ethical systems; the central role of social status and hierarchical relationships; patterns of making friends and influencing others; psychological factors such as dependence and duty; and the Japanese aesthetics and ideology
Reflective Narrative:
This class was really interesting and a new area for me. I had never really studied the Japanese culture. However, I was able to learn a lot of this class based on the way it was set up. The class focused mainly in group discussion, in which we were able to express our self about the different topics. More or less we often compared the Japanese mind and the American mind. I was able to see and understand the significant differences among the cultures. We also learned about different concept in the Japanese mind such as Haiku, Wabi-Sabi, Omotenashi, Uchi-Soto, and many other concepts. One of the aspects that helped me learn these aspects as mentioned was being to talk about them and present them in class.
This class was really interesting and a new area for me. I had never really studied the Japanese culture. However, I was able to learn a lot of this class based on the way it was set up. The class focused mainly in group discussion, in which we were able to express our self about the different topics. More or less we often compared the Japanese mind and the American mind. I was able to see and understand the significant differences among the cultures. We also learned about different concept in the Japanese mind such as Haiku, Wabi-Sabi, Omotenashi, Uchi-Soto, and many other concepts. One of the aspects that helped me learn these aspects as mentioned was being to talk about them and present them in class.