Bachelor of Arts (BA) - The University of Hong Kong

222JAPN2031.The media and Japan (6 credits)(This course is also offered to second and third year non-BA students for inter-Faculty broadeningpurposes.)This interdisciplinary content course introduces students to the workings of the electronic media inJapan. We will focus on the following three areas: coverage of the Hong Kong handover; TVdocumentary programmes on international affairs; and Japanese TV entertainment programmesavailable in Hong Kong. We will examine how the Japanese media covered the 1997 handover incomparison with other international media organisations. Students will then watch and analysefeature-length documentaries that influenced subsequent decisions of Japanese Government officials.In addition, we will consider how Hong Kong Chinese have distributed and consumed Japanesecartoons, dramas and entertainment shows since the 1970s.Assessment: 100% coursework (projects, presentations and essays).List A.Japanese Language CoursesSecond YearJAPN2001.Japanese language II (12 credits)Second and Third YearsJAPN1007.Japanese language I(a) (6 credits)Third YearJAPN2020.JAPN3001.JAPN3012.Japanese language II(a) (6 credits)Japanese language III (12 credits)Japanese language III(a) (6 credits)List B.Language Intensive CoursesSecond YearJAPN2002.JAPN2007.JAPN2008.JAPN2009.Japan in Japanese (6 credits)Modern Japanese short stories (6 credits)Translation I (Japanese into English) (6 credits)Translation I (Chinese/Japanese, Japanese/Chinese) (6 credits)Second and Third YearsJAPN2026.Japanese language III extended (6 credits)Third YearJAPN3003.JAPN3005.JAPN3007.JAPN3010.JAPN3011.JAPN3013.Selected readings in Japanese studies (6 credits)Media Japanese (6 credits)Translation II (Japanese into English) (6 credits)Translation II (Chinese/Japanese, Japanese/Chinese) (6 credits)Japanese in popular culture (6 credits)Business Japanese (6 credits)