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科目名 Intensive Topic Studies  Traditions and Popular Expressions
担当教員 Marcus, William
授業の目的、または到達目標 To understand how traditions are created and popularized and recognize how popular traditions are, in reality, created through a combination of universal archetypes, migrating cultures, inspired beliefs, and business judgments. environment.
Learning Goals: * can understand the process of creating traditions
* can explain the origins of popular traditions in Japan
* can explain the relationship between traditions and commerce
* can create unique traditions with relevant symbols and narratives
授業の概要 This course will examine holidays, beginning with their mythological inceptions, to their accepted religious framing and their popular cultural expression in Western countries as well as Japan. Issues of migration, diffusion, and cultural borrowing as they impact on the changes in "tradition" will be considered. The role of business in furthering and popularizing modern traditions will be considered.
科目群/ベンチマーク 共通英語科目　Standardﾚﾍﾞﾙ必修　
時間割   概要 宿題(予習・復習等)
1
  • Course Introductio
  • Syllabus explanation
  • Holidays communication activity
  • Valentine's Day introduction
  • AAY
  • Comprehension Questions
  • Summarizing
2
  • Mythology, History & Seasonal Significance
  • Valentine's Day: Love as new life and continuation
  • AAY
  • Write: Reflection and Response (R&R) paper #1: Explaining Favorite Japanese Holiday
3
  • R&R Read Around Activity
  • Presentation Skills Review
  • Valentine's Day: Love in modern packaging
  • Prepare Presentation Script and Slides: Short Self-Introduction and Favorite Japanese Holiday
4
  • Halloween: Death as Natural Condition
  • Introduce Foreign Holiday Research Project
  • AAY
  • Comprehension Questions
  • Summarizing
  • Choose foreign holiday, members and roles
5
  • Confirm Foreign Holiday Project choices, members and make SNS groups
  • Halloween: Christian Influences, Folkway Resistance and Modern Expressions
  • AAY
  • Comprehension Questions
  • Summarizing
  • Begin Foreign Holiday Research
  • Make Outline (show which member is responsible for which section)
6
  • Halloween Wrap-Up
  • Halloween Quiz
  • Outlines Due (checked in class, if time permits)
  • Explain next R&R: Marketing your Halloween Product/Even
  • Write R & R: Halloween Marketing
7
  • Small Group Presentation: Your Halloween Marketing Idea
  • Introduce Christmas: Solstice Worship in Ancient Times
  • AAY
  • Comprehension Questions
  • Summarizing
  • Work on 1st draft of Foreign Holiday Project
8
  • Christmas: Central Figures and their Origins
  • Foreign Holiday 1st draft workshop
  • Complete Foreign Holiday 1st draft
9
  • Foreign Holiday 1st draft DUE
  • Christmas: Wrap-Up
  • AAY
  • Comprehension Questions
  • Summarizing
10
  • Christmas Review & Quiz
  • Writing Workshop and Conferencing
  • Foreign Holiday Research Project: Work on second draft
11
  • Writing Workshop: Second draft
  • Finalize second draft
12
  • Second draft DUE (or possible 3rd draft)
  • Presentation Skills and Slide Workshop
  • Work on speaking note card and Slides
13
  • Presentation Workshop: Slides, Notecard
  • Practice Presentation (many times!)
14
  • Presentations & Listening Task
  • Flex
15
  • Presentations & Wrap-Up
準備学習 Students are expected to read course readings several hours a week and to prepare short response papers for subsequent class discussions. Students will also be responsible for reviewing course content for occasional quizzes. Students will also research a cultural theme, either individually or as a group, and prepare a report and presentation.
教科書 Materials to be provided by teacher.
参考文献 参考文献 Travers, L. 2006. Encyclopedia of American Holidays and National Days . Santa Barbara: Greenwood Press
Santino, J. (1995). All around the year: holidays and celebrations in American life. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
成績評価方法・基準 "Class work, quizzes = 40% (in-class work, class discussions, homework, mini-presentations,)
Research Presentation = 20% (group presentation on self-selected cultural theme/tradition)
Written summary & reflection of research = 10%
Reflection & response papers – 30%"

時間割

担当教員 開講学期 開講曜日 開講時限 履修クラス 単位数
Marcus, William 春学期 木曜日 ２時限 c 2