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Kyoto was founded in the eighth century, and served as the imperial capital of Japan for more than a thousand years until it ceded that position to Tokyo in 1868. It remains one of the country's premier center of traditional culture, art, and craftsmanship and plays a central role in the religious life of Japan as home to a couple thousand Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines and the headquarters of both ancient and new religions. Largely spared in World War II, Kyoto retains an architectural heritage found in few places in Japan.
The Stanford Center for Technology and Innovation (SCTI), was founded in collaboration with the School of Engineering, and has since provided students of engineering the opportunity to fit language emersion and practical classroom experience into their busy schedules. SCTI also welcomes students in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
As of July 2006, the program is hosted on the Doshisha University campus, located at the heart of Kyoto. Founded in 1875, Doshisha is one of Japan’s leading private universities with over 25,000 students and a diversity of programs.
Doshisha is in a lovely location across the street from the Imperial Palace (to the south) and Sokokuji Temple (to the north) and on major transportation links. It is a great opportunity to be at the center of a major private university with all its amenities, as well as the liveliness of students all around. Our program is on the second floor of a central building that also houses a student cafeteria, a co-op, and student lounges.
| Program Location | Quarter(s) Open |
Prerequisite(s) | Language of Instruction | Internship Type | Living Arrangements | Enrollment Capacity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kyoto-SCTI | Spring | JAPANLNG 8B (technical students) JAPANLNG 18B (non-technnical students) | English | Full-time, paid | Homestay, Apartments | 35 |
ObjectivesSCTI is designed for students with intellectual interests in the production, management and politics of advanced economic and technological systems and in exploring aspects of contemporary Japanese society and its cultural underpinnings. For students with technical specialties, the program helps them understand the professional value of developing a linguistic and cultural fluency that facilitates interaction with Japanese while simultaneously complementing their technical abilities. Students in the social sciences and humanities benefit from the multiple levels of Japanese language offerings, coursework on aspects of Japanese culture and contemporary society, economics and politics, and, like science and technology majors, access to summer internships. SCTI permits students having limited prior knowledge of Japan the opportunity to explore how a deeper appreciation of Japanese culture can create new dimensions in their academic and professional development. Academic PrerequisitesFor Spring Quarter, participants who do not intend to participate in an internship or who plan to complete a technical internship must have completed JAPANLNG 8B or the equivalent. Participants who plan to complete a non-technical internship must have completed JAPANLNG 18B or the equivalent. |
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| Related On-Campus Courses: | ||||||
| ANTHSCI 24 | Cultural History of Japan | |||||
| ARTHIST 184 | Aristocrats, Warriors, Sex Workers, and Barbarians: Lived Life in Early Modern Japanese Painting | |||||
| ARTHIST 186 | Theme and Style in Japanese Art | |||||
| ARTHIST 187 | Arts of War and Peace: Late Medieval and early Modern Japan, 1500-1868 | |||||
| ARTHIST 287A | The Japanese Tea Ceremony: The History, Aesthetics, and Politics Behind a National Pastime | |||||
| CASA 128 | The History of Japan | |||||
| CASA 128B | Globalization and Japan | |||||
| CASA 77 | Japanese Society and Culture | |||||
| HISTORY 194B | Japan in the Age of the Samurai | |||||
| HISTORY 195C | Modern Japanese History | |||||
| HISTORY 297E | Meiji Japan | |||||
| HISTORY 298A | Modernizing Women in Japan | |||||
| HISTORY 92S | Lives of the Samurai | |||||
| IPS 225 | Japanese Politics and Political Economy | |||||
| JAPANGEN 115 | History of Japanese popular culture | |||||
| JAPANGEN 137 | Classical Japanese Literature in Translation | |||||
| JAPANGEN 138 | Survey of Modern Japanese Literature in Translation | |||||
| JAPANGEN 148 | Modern Japanese narratives: Literature and Film | |||||
| JAPANGEN 149 | Screening Japan: Issues in Crosscultural Interpretation | |||||
| JAPANGEN 51 | Japanese Business Culture | |||||
| JAPANGEN 66 | Modern Japanese Women Writers | |||||
| JAPANGEN 6 | Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory | |||||
| JAPANGEN 71N | Language and Gender in Japan: Myths and Reality | |||||
| JAPANGEN 92 | Traditional East Asian Civilization: Japan | |||||
| JAPANLIT 143 | Reinscribing Loss: On Japanese Modernity and the Literature of Unclaimed Experience | |||||
| JAPANLIT 157 | Points in Japanese Grammar | |||||
| JAPANLIT 170 | The Tale of Genji and Its Historical Reception | |||||
| JAPANLIT 177 | Structure of Japanese | |||||
| POLISCI 112 | Japanese Foreign Policy | |||||
| POLISCI 148T | Political Parties and Elections in Japan | |||||
| POLISCI 345R | Political Economy of Japan | |||||