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ETHST-3000-1: Study Abroad: Japan: In Search of Emptiness & Wabi Sabi

Summer 2024

Subject: Critical Ethnic Studies - Studio
Type: Studio
Delivery Mode: Hybrid
Level: Undergraduate

Course Dates: May 13, 2024 — June 12, 2024
Meetings: Every Day 9:00AM-05:00PM, Off Campus - Study Abroad
Instructor: David Asari

Units: 3.0
Enrolled: 1/14

Description:

Critical Ethnic Studies 3000-level studios deepen students’ knowledge of the fundamental theoretical and political questions regarding the social construction of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class from both domestic and global perspectives through art, writing, and design practices. The seminars utilize decolonial, transnational, and intersectional approaches for producing works related to power, oppression, and systems of knowledge from the following interdisciplinary fields of critical ethnic studies, Africana studies, African-American Studies, Asian American studies, Indigenous studies, Chicano/a /x and Latino /a/x studies, Women’s studies, border studies, cultural studies, Queer studies and global racialized and marginalized communities. Studio courses bridge the gap between seminar and studio courses and can be in-person, hybrid, or online.

Students spend 13 days in Tokyo with a 5 day excursion to Kyoto. While the focus of the visit is an investigation of Japanese aesthetic values, students also explore the compelling surface of Tokyo and Kyoto. For the duration of their stay, the class lives in the question of what ties the old to the new.The outcome of the course integrates narrative with visual images and may take any form including 2D, 3D, time-based media, or performance art. Final projects are evaluated on the quality of research, analysis, creative thinking, form giving, and craft. Collaboration is always an option.May 13: Zoom program meeting*In Japan May 22-June 10

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