Arts and Ideas 310: The Art of Being an Outsider in Japan

Instructor: Christopher Daniels

E-mail: cdaniels@unca.edu

Information: This class is intended to introduce, in various media forms, how some Japanese artists in the last one hundred and fifty years have employed the outsider as a theme in their works to express their struggle with the duty to oneself vs. the duty to one's group.

Course Materials:

• Syllabus

• Class Calendar

• First Day

• How to change our wiki!

   

*Japan Movie Project! (new)*

• Every other Tuesday in the Whitman Room, a different Japanese film!

Student Project Pages

Units:

• The class covers a lot of ground, but here are some of the major focus points of the semester

History	Kurosawa and Yojimbo	modern Japan
Wabi Sabi	Post WWII	Way, Way, Way Underground Music
The Meiji Era	Manga	Anime
Kokoro	Avant-Garde Theater	Superflat
Meiji Era to WWII	Haruki Murukami

Visual Art by Students

• Students are encouraged/required to make at least one artwork based on what they've seen in the course of the semester.  Click through to see our growing collection.

Creative Writing by Students

Essays by Students

Bonus materials!

• Click "New Page" to create a universe of pages using pre-made templates

• 25 ideas for using PBwiki
• White papers (PDFs): FAQS about PBwiki and The PBwiki Guide to Upgrading
• Get PBwiki tips & tricks at our blog, http://blog.pbwiki.com