Week 1 - Course introduction

Week 2 - Introduction to popular culture studies

Week 3 - “Aidoru” culture: Japanese Television and Popular Music

Week 4 - Takarazuka: performing gender and ethnicity

Week 5 - Otaku culture

Week 6 - Japanese hip-hop, race, and subcultures

Week 7 - The aesthetics of anime: movements and morphs

Week 8 - Japanese popular culture and globalization

Week 9 - Viral media: J-horror and millennial anxiety

Week 10 - New media: theory and debates

Week 11 - Mobile media

Week 12 - Cyborg subjectivity

Week 13 - Gaming cultures; course wrap-up

Week 14 - Posters