Fall Quarter 2025

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For all courses not described here, please refer to the General Catalog course descriptions: https://catalog.ucdavis.edu/courses-subject-code/jpn

Lower Division

JPN 001 Elementary Japanese, Sec. 1-16

JPN 004 Intermediate Japanese, Sec. 1-4

JPN 010 Masterworks of Japanese Literature
Joseph Sorensen

Upper Division

JPN 103 Japanese Literature in Translation: The Modern Period
Michiko Suzuki

This lecture/discussion course examines a broad range of major narrative texts in Japanese literature from the 1890s to the present. The novels and short stories we will read focus on issues of self and national identity, sexuality, war, westernization and modernity—issues that have been central to the Japanese cultural imagination since Japan opened up to the West in the mid-19th century. In addition to learning about the authors and their works, we will also examine the historical, literary and cultural contexts of the so-called modern period. GE: AH, WC, WE

JPN 101 Japanese Literature in Translation: The Early Period
David Gundry

JPN 106 Japanese Culture Through Film
David Gundry

JPN 111 Modern Japanese: Reading & Discussion
Section 1 Junko Ito
Section 2, 3: Miyo Uchida

JPN 136 Readings in Japanese Newspapers
David Gundry

JPN 121 Advanced Japanese I
Yumiko Shibata

JPN 153 Love, Sexuality & the Family in Modern Japanese Literature
Michiko Suzuki

JPN JPN 164 Japanese Cinema
Michiko Suzuki