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Classes December 14, 2017
(From JEA) "Special Topics: Japan in East Asia XXV (Global Ethics)"
Dear Students
We would like to draw your attention to an intensive, full two-credit course to be offered at the end of the A2 Term in January 2018. The course title is "Special Topics: Japan in East Asia XXV (Global Ethics)" and it will be convened by a visiting professor, Kimberly Hutchings, who has been invited to UTokyo to deliver a workshop and seminar on faculty development and share her knowledge about innovative teaching and learning practices. She is also one of the world's leading scholars in international political theory (IPT), especially feminist IPT, and is currently professor at Queen Mary University of London, UK. She has kindly agreed to convene the “Global Ethics" course during her stay at UTokyo (Komaba campus). It "introduces students to frameworks for thinking about moral problems raised by issues such as the global inequality of wealth, tensions between the rights of individuals and of states and cultures in a plural world, and the rights and wrongs of migration, climate change or drone warfare.”
The course is a unique opportunity to benefit from a leading scholar and teacher who is a renowned expert in her field. Prof. Hutchings is the author of the established IPT textbook, Global Ethics: An Introduction (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010). She is currently writing the second edition and will be using new material for the book in the course in January, so this is a rare chance for UTokyo students to experience and have an input into how state-of-the-art research and teaching combine in the university. Below are the dates of the course and if students are unable to attend all the sessions due to a clash with examinations or course assignments that are due, Prof. Hutchings has kindly agreed to allow students to be absent from one or two of the sessions, or to audit her course without credit for those students who cannot attend at least eleven sessions.
9 January: 2nd (10h25-12h10) and 6th (18h45-20h30) periods
10 January: 2nd and 6th periods
11 January: 5th (16h50-18h35) and 6th periods
15 January: 6th period
16 January: 6th period
22 January: 6th period
23 January: 6th period
24 January: 6th period
25 January: 6th period
26 January: 6th period
10 January: 2nd and 6th periods
11 January: 5th (16h50-18h35) and 6th periods
15 January: 6th period
16 January: 6th period
22 January: 6th period
23 January: 6th period
24 January: 6th period
25 January: 6th period
26 January: 6th period
Registration via UTAS is closed, but you can now register the course at the PEAK/GPEAK Section.
Click here for the notice: Special Topics Japan in East Asia XXV
With thanks,
International Program on Japan in East Asia
