Course description: An analysis of historical and modern Japanese society through works of art and media including photography, film, maps, and other visual materials. Students learn to extract information from images as part of a visual analysis, while dealing with socio-geographical methods for understanding urban flows, economic disparities, transportation, and built environments. Students compare what they understand about Japanese culture with their own familiar environments. Taught in English .
Reflection: This class was an introduction of the historical and modern Japanese society. In this course we were able to learn about the Japanese culture and historical context. Also we were able to analyze differents images and videos. I enjoyed to be in this class so much, because this class was something new for me! I meet more friends and I had the opportunity to learn about other culture, believes and different perspectives. This class was so helpful because everything that I learned was though visualizing images and videos. I learned to observe and define the meaning of an image. An image can tell so much!