IDST 350 Study Abroad: Japan & Korea: Food and Pop Cultures

Food serves as a lens for understanding diverse cultures. With the growing popularity of K-pop and K-drama, this course offers students a cross-cultural study of how personal identities and social groups are formed. We will identify the meaning and significance of food by experiencing and exploring foods in Korea and Japan to directly engage with…

ARC 401 Topics: Intro to Anime, Manga and Webtoons

This course introduces new and experienced students to Japanese animation (anime) and manga and Korean manhwa and webtoons by considering them as literary genres, medium, art, culture, and industry. We will review their histories from AD 1000 to the present, focusing on the period from post-WWII to the present, while we explore in depth and…