SOC 250 - U.S.-Japan Relations

Semester Hours: 3

Offered at Lakeland College Japan. This course introduces various issues in U.S.-Japan Relations which are currently important to students in both Japan and the U.S., especially those who study overseas and form the future relations between these two cultures. We will look at how each of the following areas in current U.S.-Japan relations are rooted in cultural context and concrete history of political choices that affect daily life in each society: modernization and globalization, cross-cultural communication (personal, business, and political) political history, economic relations, media, news, and pop culture information flows.

Pre-requisites: none.