Non-Japanese Communication Strategies[4380]

＜授業のねらい＞

To develop students abilities to communicate in settings where Japanese language, Japanese customs, and Japanese discursive formations are not the controlling elements in the interaction process. Students will learn critical theory based methods to analyze the cultural constructions that control communication processes. Students will make their own global hodological maps.

＜受講にあたっての前提条件＞

None. However, students need to be willing try to communicate in English. English will be the language of the course.

＜具体的な到達目標＞

Students will understand and be able to apply critical theory methods of analysis to the cultural constructions that control communication. Students will develop global hodological maps. Students will improve their English Skills.

＜授業計画及び準備学習＞

The following concepts, theories, and strategies will be introduced, developed, and practiced over the course of the semester: concepts related to general linguistic formations, Japanese linguistic formations, Japanese discursive formations, binary oppositional thought patterns, non-ethnocentric thinking processes, cultural observation and analysis techniques and methodologies, and the implementation of non-Japanese communication strategies.

Students will have reading and writing homework. The professor will give written and oral feedback.

Week 1: Orientation and overview of course
Weeks 2-7: Concepts related to how language and communication systems function
Saussurean Theory of Linguistics; Sign Systems
Foucauldian Discursive Formations
Lacanian Concepts of Language, Identity, and Symbolic Order
Burroughs’ Theory of the “Word Virus”
Weeks 8-9: Derridian Theories
Differance and Binary Oppositional Thought Patterning
Transcendental Signified Based Systems
Weeks 10-11: Examination of Japanese language and culture
Japanese linguistic formations
Japanese discursive formations
Japanese cultural systems
Weeks 12-15: Application of theories and analysis
Non-ethnocentric thinking processes
Techniques and methods for analyzing cultural constructions
Practical implementation of theories to non-Japanese situations

＜成績評価方法及び水準＞

Homework（20%), course work（20%), projects/tests（30%) and participation（30%)
Students must achieve 60％　or above to earn the credit.

＜教科書＞

No text is required for this course.

＜参考書＞

None

＜オフィスアワー＞

Shinjuku Campus　A-2737: Wednesdays & Thursdays lunch time and by appointment.