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LED313
E
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CREDIT:3
WINTER
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Fieldwork in Language and Education
Students learn to analyze an unknown language through hands-on experience with a native speaker. This is not a lecture course. Techniques of language elicitation and analysis are learned through direct practice in the classroom. The course is followed by an optional field-trip. This is a unique experience in language contact and applied language learning.
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MCC103
J,E
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CREDIT:3
SPRING
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Introduction to Cultural Studies
This course examines history and development of cultural studies in different social contexts.
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MCC104
J,E
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CREDIT:3
AUTUMN
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Language and Society
Introduction to the study of language in social context, including both macro and micro perspectives. Focus
on language variation, language in interaction, language and identity, bilingualism, and language policy and planning, and language and globalization. Language of instruction differs by year.
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MCC105
J
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CREDIT:3
WINTER
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Theories of Human Communication
This course covers various concepts and theories of communication studies. It examines how they are embedded in our everyday life.
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MCC107
E
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CREDIT:3
SPRING
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Introduction to Interpreting
This course explores what is required of communication through interpreting, as well as what constitutes accurate understanding of the “intended meaning” and its rendition across different languages and cultures. The course introduces the basic theories and notions in interpreting, as well as the unique processes arising from the differences in their media and objectives. It provides a foundation for the understanding and practice of interpretation.
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MCC108
E
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CREDIT:3
AUTUMN
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Introduction to Translation
This course provides an introductory overview of some key issues in the field of Translation Studies. Through lectures, discussion, and practice, the course will look at longstanding debates in translation, and new ideas that challenge such resistant notions as fidelity and equivalence. Throughout the course, translation will be positioned as crucial cultural practices that reveal much about the societies in which they circulate, and that are a means to understand change.
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MCC109
E
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CREDIT:3
AUTUMN
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Introduction to Media and Communication Theories
This is an introductory course of core theories in media and communication studies. Theories of interpersonal communication and mass media will be covered in context of the changing media environment
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MCC211
E
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CREDIT:3
SPRING
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Bilingualism and Multilingualism
There are nearly 5000 languages used daily around the world. Geographical and political restructuring, migration, natural disassters are just a few of the factors which cause multilingualism in society. Key questions dealt with are: what does it mean to be bilingual and how does a child or adult become bilingual? This course also surveys bilingualism and bidialectalism in Japan (e.g. Korean, Okinawan, Tagalog, English.)
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MCC212
E
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CREDIT:3
AUTUMN
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Discourse in Society
Discourse analysis is the analysis of the patterns of the organization of language in continuous stretches above the level of the sentence. This course analyses issues such as the macro-grammar of mealtime conversation, telephone talk, turn-taking, the use of well in conversations, verbal ticks such as ah, nanka, er or yer know. Also discussed are theoretical issues such as how discourse constructs social reality and organizes knowledge.
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MCC213
E
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CREDIT:3
WINTER
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Language and Gender
This course introduces general theories and approaches to the study of language and gender. What is
women's language and men's language? How do girls and boys talk in media like Mange or drama? What
is language and sexuality? Students will acquire analytic tools for critically examining connections among
language and social practice, and then they will apply these techniques in exploring linguistic data collected in communities of their interests.
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MCC214
J,E
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CREDIT:3
SPRING
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Communication Technology and Popular Culture
A wide range of emerging communication and computing technologies and services such as artificial intelligence, big data, algorithms, virtual reality or augmented reality are increasingly being introduced and becoming key components of our everyday lives. This course examines the growing significance of such emerging technologies, by exploring a series of the critical cultural, social and political agendas they raise in the realm of popular culture.
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MCC215
J,E
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CREDIT:3
WINTER
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Language in Europe
Historical, cultural, social, and political influences on languages in Europe; survey of languages in Europe, including social and regional varieties; policies and practices for international communication, including approaches to managing multilingualism in state institutions such as education; the role of English; language rights. Language of instruction differs by year.
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MCC216
J,E
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CREDIT:2
AUTUMN
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Language in Film and Popular Culture
The purpose of this course is to examine representations of human language as they appear in popular media such as the film, television, cartoons, advertising, and other popular genres. Popular (mis-)conceptions of human language are contrasted with more scientific conceptions of language constructed in linguistics and other disciplines. The course will also focus on attitudes about language(s) and their speakers, as reflected in popular culture.
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MCC217
J
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CREDIT:3
AUTUMN
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Language in Japan
This course examines various languages spoken in Japan from historical, cultural and sociological perspectives.
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MCC218
E
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CREDIT:3
WINTER
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Language in the United States
This study of the origins, development, and characteristics of English in North America will investigate historical, cultural, and social influences on the language. Also addressed will be regional and social dialects, language policy, and the relationship between English and other languages.
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MCC219
E
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CREDIT:3
SPRING
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Language, Politics and the Media
This course discusses the role of language in a range of international issues such as: language and freedom: language, war, and reporting; apologies; language and the Japanese constitution; Chomsky''s philosophy of language and critique of the media.
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MCC231
E
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CREDIT:3
AUTUMN
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Beginners Interpreting Practice
This course provides basic interpreting skill training (e.g., listening comprehension, note-taking, chunking, and first-in first-out translation, etc.) and actual interpreting opportunities to beginner-level students. Students will be trained to become able to perform basic-to-intermediate-level consecutive interpreting and introductory simultaneous interpreting.
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MCC232
E
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CREDIT:3
WINTER
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Interpreting in Society
The course examines roles and function interpreters have played in different societies throughout the history. The course also explores roles expected of them as professionals serving in our community which is becoming increasingly diverse linguistically as well as culturally, through research and actual interpreting practice.
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MCC234
J,E
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CREDIT:3
SPRING
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Public Communication
The course trains students to become effective communicators, as speaker, listener or interpreter. The theory of rhetorical communication is applied to the presentation of self and ideas for a specific purpose. Critical thinking processes are emphasized in preparing, making and critiquing various forms of public communication.
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MCC235
E
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CREDIT:3
SPRING
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Media Interpreting
The course focuses on the roles and unique challenges of media interpreters, with a particular focus on news interpreters. The course combines actual news interpreting practice and discussions on various relevant issues, exploring the world of media interpreting.
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MCC236
E
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CREDIT:3
AUTUMN
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Translation at Work
In this course students examine the way information and ideas circulate and change in the creative process of translation. Students engage in descriptive and comparative analyses of selected translations from a range of different cultural productions, and attempt their own creative translation projects.
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MCC237
J,E
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CREDIT:3
WINTER
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Media Translation
In the rapidly globalizing world, a growing number of media play an increasingly important role in creating, expressing and disseminating culture. The course focuses in the new functions translation plays for the diverse media types. Students will study and practice the translation approaches that best suite the nature of each media type.
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MCC238
E
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CREDIT:3
SPRING
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Translation in Society
This class offers students an overview of some major concepts concerning translation as a social practice that has a significant impact on our daily lives and cultures, Students will also have opportunities to increase awareness through practical exercises in translation.
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MCC252
J,E
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CREDIT:3
AUTUMN
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Cultural Studies I
This course examines the circle of production, representation and consumption of various media texts (newspaper, TV programs, magazines, etc.), in which all processes are intertwined. Students study through concrete media texts how they are produced under the constraints of political economy and media organization; how power relations and cultural differences are represented; and how they are consumed by audiences.
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MCC253
J
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CREDIT:3
WINTER
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Cultural Studies II
This course critically examines transnational flows of image and information promoted by media globalization. Main issues are cultural homogenization, hybridization, global-local nexus, cultural imperialism and export of Japanese popular culture.
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MCC254
J
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CREDIT:3
WINTER
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Documentary Film Making
Since we tend to see ourselves as the audience/consumers vis-a-vis the media, the production side’s viewpoints are often ignored. In this course students are required to take the roles of producer, scriptwriter, director and/or cameraman. While making a documentary film, students are expected to (1) develop fundamental skills to examine the world around them, (2) express their feelings and opinions through the film and (3) find a way to communicate with the audience.
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MCC255
J
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CREDIT:3
AUTUMN
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Human Rights and Media
This course critically examines media''s accuntability regarding human rights and pablic access to information.
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MCC256
J
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CREDIT:3
SPRING
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Introduction to Media Studies
While learning from the most recent studies on the media, this course critically examines how the media influences our daily lives. Media literacy, in its broadest sense, will be the topic of discussion.
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MCC257
E
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CREDIT:2
SPRING
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Media and Multicultural Society
This course introduces key theories in the field of media and cultural studies to analyze the role the media play in global and multicultural contexts.
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MCC271
J
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CREDIT:2
AUTUMN
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Contemporary Praxes on Communication Study
This course will study various issues related to communication in contemporary society. The focus involves description of communicative phenomena in changing society and a scrutiny of those phenomena.
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MCC272
J,E
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CREDIT:2
WINTER
Offered Alternate Year
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Communication and Power
The key question of this course is: how power is related to communication. It will be examined in various contexts.
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MCC273
J,E
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CREDIT:3
SPRING
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Intercultural Communication
Introduction to intercultural communication. This course reviews core theories and research in intercultural communication and examines various issues that arise when encountering different others. In the process, students will gain understanding of the opportunities and challenges involved in intercultural communication.
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MCC274
E
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CREDIT:3
AUTUMN
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Persuasion and Language
This course explores what it is to be persuasive in various cultural contexts and how culture affects styles of negotiation. Students then apply their new awareness to the development of a persuasive speech and to participation in a simulated negotiation.
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MCC275
E
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CREDIT:3
WINTER
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Communication Technology and Society
By closely examining the adoption and use of new and old communication technologies, students develop a capability for analyzing the role of communication technologies in our society.
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MCC311
J
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CREDIT:3
WINTER
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Language and History
This course examines language in historical perspective. What is the role of language in creating nations
over the centuries? How has language changed over time- the language of London, the language of Edo,
the language that people spoke and wrote in 500 years ago compared to today. How has writing and literacy
changed? What are the cultural and linguistic flows through Asia or Europe through history? How have
the writing system and spelling andpronunciation changed? These are some of the questions discussed in this course.
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MCC312
J
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CREDIT:3
AUTUMN
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Linguistic Variation
This course will present the fundamentals of examining linguistic variation between and within speech communities. Kansai dialect and Manchester dialect, a sermon in a church and a chat on the internet,
a speech by a politician and a joke by a comedian. It will consider regional, social and stylistic differences
in the use of language. Students will acquire methods of data collection, analysis and interpretation and
engage in field projects by using these techniques.
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MCC313
E
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CREDIT:2
WINTER
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Literacy and Society
Reading and writing are foundations of organized society. This course involves a linguistic comparison of different writing systems around the world, the role of literacy in national and local development and gender issues in literacy around the world.
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MCC331
E
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CREDIT:3
WINTER
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Advanced Interpreting Practice
This is an advanced-level interpreter training course designed for those who have had basic skill course training. The aim of the course is to further advance one’s skills in areas such as consecutive interpreting and note-taking, simultaneous interpreting, whispering (chuchotage), and sight-translation. The course also covers topics on professional conduct, ethics, and other issues on interpreting as a profession.
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MCC351
J
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CREDIT:3
SPRING
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Cultural Studies III
This course critically examines various aspects of Tokyo: especially the flows of people, capital, image and information prompted by globalization.
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MCC371
E
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CREDIT:2
WINTER
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Communication in Global Society
New Communication technologies have enabled faster and wider communications across geographic borders. This course examines the role of communication technologies in global society by reviewing theories and analyzing current global events.
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MCC372
J
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CREDIT:3
SPRING
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Humanistic Approaches to Communication
This course is primarily designed for students majoring in communication. It surveys major research methods in communication studies, with a particular emphasis on humanistic (qualitative, interpretive and critical) approaches. Students will learn both the theory and practice of research in communication studies; they will also engage in critical reading of research papers. After completing this course, students should be able to conduct their own research, including their senior thesis research.
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MCC373
E
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CREDIT:1
SPRING
Offered Alternate Year
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Cross-Cultural Business Communication
This is an intensive, one-week course in the third week of March. Students in this class will engage in collaborative
projects with students from the University of Southern California who will be visiting Tokyo for a week. Students from
both universities would have been collaborating virtually as part of the COIL (Collaborative Online International
Learning) Project in MCC 382: Advanced Studies in Communication II (Winter Term). Students will finalize their
group projects in the early part of the week and prepare for presentations. In the later part of the week, students will
visit four companies in Japan and present their group project results.
Prerequisite: MCC 382: Advanced Studies in Communication II.
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MCC381
J
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CREDIT:3
AUTUMN
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Advanced Studies in Communication I
Special Studies in selected areas of communication for students who have completed introductory courses.
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MCC382
E
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CREDIT:3
SPRING
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Advanced Studies in Communication II
Special studies in selected areas of communication for students who have completed introductory courses.
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MCC384
J,E
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CREDIT:3
AUTUMN
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Advanced Studies in Media Studies
While examining the current status of the media, each student is to choose his/her own research topic and develop appropriate methodologies.
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MCC385
E
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CREDIT:3
AUTUMN
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Advanced Studies in Translation
The course studies the notable theories and new developments in translation studies, as well as their applications in society. Pre-requisite MCC108 Introduction to Translation.
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PPL208
J
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CREDIT:3
WINTER
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Mass Media and Public Policy
While public opinion will have an impact on the process of public policy making in democratic societies, mass media can and does influence the formation of public opinion. This course will analyse the relationship between the government’s policies and mass media reports focusing on constitutional reform, security issues or nuclear energy policy.
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QPFD408
J,E
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CREDIT:2
WINTER
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Media and Power
A comparative investigation of how is media involved in the “places” where power operates is the primary focus of this class. While studying latest ideas and research methods in the fields of media theory and cultural studies, themes are assigned and research projects are carried out in which new perspectives and methodologies that do not fit within existing frameworks are introduced. Additionally, in order to investigate directions in actual practice, the class deepens investigations into the limitations and possibilities in new forms of media such as the Internet.
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QPFD409
E
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CREDIT:2
WINTER
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Language and Linguistics
This course highlights the fundamental concepts in general linguistics. Topics include the nature of language; language and the mind; folklinguistics; language and writing; dialects, language contact, and language change; bilingualism; discourse analysis; propaganda; and language and nation. The course examines the foundation for the contemporary study of linguistics, sociolinguistics and language in society.
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STH391
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CREDIT:3/(9)
EVERY TERM
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Senior Thesis
Senior students, under the guidance of an advisor, will select a subject related to their major and prepare a senior thesis. The final product should represent the efforts of one year of sustained and rigorous thinking, research, and writing. Required of all students in their senior year.
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