Course Title:
Global Studies
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"Global Studies"at Nagasaki Wesleyan University
Professor in charge:
Kimiyoshi UCHIMURA
Course Description:
We will talk about issues of peace and human rights focusing on experiences of being suffered from the atomic bombing, which is the historical origin for the Chinzei Gakuin/Nagasaki Wesleyan University, and relationship between Asia and Japan. The lecture will be conducted in both English and Japanese.
Objectives:
- Be able to think about issues of wars and peace from both perspectives as a victim and an assailant.
- Acquire glocal (= interlocal) perspective as a main person who lives in a multicultural society.
- Be able to think about the above-mentioned issues in English.
Course Schedule:
- Introduction－Our Dream to be Peacemakers
- Dual Viewpoints for Thinking about War and Peace
- Two Poems (1)－Fukuda Sumako : Monologue
- Two Poems (2)－Kurihara Sadako : When Saying HIROSHIMA
- Testimonies of Korean Atomic Bomb Survivors (1)
- Testimonies of Korean Atomic Bomb Survivors (2)
- Atomic Bomb and Discrimination
- Darkness of Japanese Modern History
- Fieldwork
- Special Lecture by a Guest Speaker
- To Build the Fort of Peace (1)
- To Build the Fort of Peace (2)
- What does it mean to be a Global Citizen? (1)
- What does it mean to be a Global Citizen? (2)
- Discussion and Summary
Method of evaluation:
Three short papers and a final paper.
Reference literature:
Will be introduced as needed.
