| 科目名 | 核文化論 | ||
| 単位数 | 2.0 | ||
| 担当者 | Robert Jacobs, Professor at HPI | ||
| 履修時期 | Spring Semester | ||
| 履修対象 | 1st and 2nd year student, MA | ||
| 講義形態 | 講義 | ||
| 講義の目的 | This course will examine how people around the world learned to think about nuclear weapons and nuclear power. It will examine official narratives about these technologies as articulated by governments, militaries and industry. It will also look at how counternarratives were produced in society and by popular culture that sometimes reflected those official narratives, and how they resisted or subverted those narratives. This will be traced against a historical background in which nuclear weapons proliferated, nuclear testing spread radiation, thermonuclear weapons were developed and deployed, Cold War tensions threatened a global thermonuclear war, and commercial nuclear power spread internationally. | ||
| 到達目標 | Students will learn about how nuclear issues are presented in popular culture, and how popular culture critiques these narratives. Students will be able grasp public understandings of nuclear issues. | ||
| 受講要件 | None | ||
| 履修取消の可否 | 可 | ||
| 履修取消不可の理由 | |||
| 事前・事後学修 | Each class session will require significant reading assignments to prepare for class discussions, and all assigned readings will be made available in class well ahead of the discussion topics. All readings, lectures and discussions will be conducted in English. | ||
| 講義内容 |
All classes will be conducted in lecture style. 1. Nuclear culture before Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1 week) 2. Learning to think about nuclear weapons after Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2 weeks) 2. Nuclear weapons as indicators of impending social transformation (1 weeks) 3. Imagining the end of the world (3 weeks) 4. Radiation as a cultural talisman (2 weeks) 5. Survival culture and imagined nuclear war (3 weeks) 6. Nuclear disasters and their legacies (2 weeks) 7. Post nuclear war dystopias (1 week) |
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| 期末試験実施の有無 | 実施しない | ||
| 評価方法・基準 | The course requirements consist of extensive class participation in discussions and presentations that will be worth 40 percent of the course grade. The remaining 60 percent, students enrolled in the course will have to write a review article weighted at 20 percent and a long research paper that will be worth the remaining 40 percent. Topics for the review will be given in class while the topics for the research essays will be arrived at in consultation individually with students. | ||
| 教科書等 | Distributed in class the prior week | ||
| 担当者プロフィール | Robert Jacobs is a historian of science and technology working on issues of nuclear technology. He has taught on nuclear issues in the Graduate School of International Studies. | ||
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| 課題や試験に対するフィードバック | Via email and Zoom session | ||
| アクティブ・ラーニング | |||
| キーワード | Culture, nuclear weapons, Cold War | ||
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