This course will start as an online endeavour and continue as such as long as necessary. We will not meet in person for the time being.
With the end of the LSF-registration period on April 7th I will contact you with the request to please register for this course on Moodle: AEAS-Module: The Political System of Japan (Summer 2020).
I will also send you the password then.
After that I will contact you via the Moodle email-list and let you know which software we will use to meet in cyberspace for our classes. Please have a webcam, a microphone and loudspeakers ready to communicate.
This AEAS module will introduce students to the political system of Japan, following loosely Almond and Powell’s structural-functionalist policy cycle model (if you are not familiar with it yet, google it!).
Requirements to pass this course are active (and I mean active) participation, preparation of assigned readings, one term paper (required length is 6,500 words plus any graphs, tables etc.), and a short oral presentation on the subject of the written assignment (possibly online).
Students who are planning a BA- or MA-thesis on Japanese politics are invited to the “Colloquium on Japanese Politics” (Mondays) offered by Axel Klein to be found elsewhere on the LSF.
Please refer to the university's website for information on when our first meeting will take place.
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