KIC

KOSHINKAN　KS304

英語

This seminar is designed for reading and understanding Edward W. Said's (d. 2003) Orientalism, an essential book for students of global studies who seek to unravel the fundamental impasses underpinning intercultural misunderstandings, phobias, and hatreds.
In today's world which witnesses remarkable advancements in communication and transportation technologies, cultural borders still exist. Hardly a day goes by without encountering or hearing about new cases of prejudices, stereotypes about others, and cultural phobias such as "Islamophobia" and "Asian Hate." These challenges jeopardize individual lives and social peace in many parts of the world. To secure a more inclusive society, we need to understand each other as we are and remove misunderstandings. This is where the significance of Said's book appears. Although Said's book does not demonstrate how to develop an unbiased understanding of others, it illustrates what should be avoided when depicting the other people and their cultures.
Said's book, by its academically proven arguments, critically examines how depictions of "the Other" (the Oriental culture) can be altered or distorted to glorify "the Self” (the Western culture) by focusing on some themes, interests, and biases prevalent in the literature and academic works of Orientalists—the experts, authors, and scholars in the West who interpreted, defined and depicted the cultures of the Orient (the Middle East, India, Asia and Africa) during the colonial era to produce knowledge for policy makers to control and rule the Orient.
The book will be divided into several parts as to the number of students in the class, and each parts will be assigned to an individual student or a team.
Each individual or team is expected to complete the following four tasks:
(1) Read the entire book on their own.
(2) Deliver a presentation on their assigned section.
(3) Lead a discussion at the end of the presentations.
(4) Write a comment sheet for the content of each week.
*After each presentation, there might be a class evaluation for the individuauls and groups doing presentations, and sometimes a quiz game.

The students will be able to
(1) develop a deep understanding of concepts and arguments in Said’s Orientalism,
(2) critically analyze misconception of the "Orient" has been constructed,
(3) apply core ideas in the book to contemporary examples,
(4) gain skills of presentation, teamwork, discussion.

Lecture/Instructor（When there are multiple instructors)	Theme
	Keyword, References and Supplementary Information
1	Orientation
2-5	Presentations & Discussions

Classes will be conducted face-to-face, with a few possible exceptions of media-based classes. In the case of media-based classes, students will be informed beforehand.

Reading Said's trilogy: Orientalism, the Question of Palestine and Covering Islam

Kind	Percentage	Grading Criteria etc.
Final Examination (Written)
Report Examination (A report to be submitted by the unified deadline)
Exams and/or Reports other than those stated above, and Continuous Assessment　 (Evaluation of Everyday Performance in Class)	100	Active class participation (%30) Presentations (%35) Writing comment sheets on the contents of each presentations (%35)

Title	Author	Publisher	ISBN Code	Comment
Orientalism	Edward W. Said	Penguin Classics (August 28, 2003)	978-0141187426 (ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0141187425)

Learning Management System （manaba+R）,Talk with Students,Other (Separate instructions will be provided)

(1) Students are requirred to attend all classes, join class activities, team works and discussions. Registering yourselves from remote by entering attendence code provided by Learning Management Systems like "Manaba" will not be counted as attendence.
Approved abscence is available only for cases approved by the university. Other reasons such as forgetting the day of the class, internships etc for abscence can not be accommodated. For complete details on the abscence and make-up policies, please refer the university guidlines.

(2) The students are required to submit comment sheets for every presentation weeks. The length of each sheet is between 350 and 400 words.It could be more but not less.
The comment sheets must include a brief summary of the presentations in question, along with the students’ critiques, and questions about the content of the part of the book being presented. For the details of evaluation criteria refer to the rubrics that will be provided in the class.

(3) Students are expected to perform individual or in-group presentations about the book. Portions of each presenteations will be decided at the beginning of the term. For the details of evaluation criteria refer to the rubrics that will be provided in the class.

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