2023 Faculty Courses Liberal arts and basic science courses Humanities and social science courses
Cultural Anthropology A
- Academic unit or major
- Humanities and social science courses
- Instructor(s)
- Noriyuki Ueda
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 5-6 Mon (WL2-401(W641))
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- LAH.H103
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2023
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Jul 8, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course aims an introduction to cultural anthropology. Students will be able to give some thoughts to what is culture, why we learn culture, and how different view of the world is from one culture to another culture, through workshops and real experiences. The aim of this course is to encourage students to broaden their minds, as well as to enhance their communication skills and acquire anthropological perspectives on diversity and complexity of human culture and social life. Lectures will be active in doing workshops.
Course description and aims
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1) Have an understanding of cultural diversity.
2) Express own opinion as well as understand others' ideas in the world with distinct values.
Keywords
Culture, view of the world, diversity, communication
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Process of making own discovery is valued through lectures and workshops.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction | Understand the contemporary significance of learning the culture. |
| Class 2 | Cultural diversity | Understand how different view of the world is from one culture to another culture. |
| Class 3 | Workshop "understand others and explain to others" | Understand what others' ideas and explain them to other people |
| Class 4 | Society and human 1 | Understand the basics of "man is a social being." |
| Class 5 | Society and human 2: Is Japanese society strange? | Share the instructor's fieldwork and understand man's sociality. |
| Class 6 | Summary of human history: how did we become ourselves? | Overview human history and understand your viewpoints in it. |
| Class 7 | Modern age and human: Workshop: "How should we live?" | Capture modern society anthropologically and understand its meaning and explore how to live as "human" facing contemporary tasks. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
None required. You should read at least one book from the reference book below.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Ueda Noriyuki. ”Ikiru imi" Iwanami Shinsho
Ueda Noriyuki. "Ningen rashisa: bunmei, shukyo, kagaku kara kangaeru" Kadokawa shinsho
Ueda Noriyuki. ”Jinsei no 'nigeba' Kaisha dakeno seikatsu ni ikizumatte iru hito he" Asahi shinsho
Ueda Noriyuki. "Kakegae no nai ningen" Koudansha gendai shinsho
Ueda Noriyuki. "Sri Lanka no Akuma barai" Koudansha bunko
Udea Noriyuki. "Dalai Lama to no taiwa" Koudansha bunko
Evaluation methods and criteria
Reports, feedback sheets, participation in and contribution to lectures
Related courses
- LAH.H203 ： Cultural Anthropology B
- LAH.H303 ： Cultural Anthropology C
- LAH.H350 ： Seminar on Humanities(Culture, Society and Humanity)3
- LAH.H351 ： Seminar on Humanities(Culture, Society and Humanity)4
- LAH.H352 ： Seminar on Humanities(Culture, Society and Humanity)5
- LAH.H353 ： Seminar on Humanities(Culture, Society and Humanity)6
- LAH.H150 ： Seminar on Humanities(Culture, Society and Humanity)Introduction1
- LAH.H151 ： Seminar on Humanities(Culture, Society and Humanity)Introduction 2
- LAH.H250 ： Seminar on Humanities(Culture, Society and Humanity)1
- LAH.H251 ： Seminar on Humanities(Culture, Society and Humanity)2
Prerequisites
No prerequisites. The instructor will expect that students will actively participate in the course. Please enjoy the class!