The Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies

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Date written: 04/18/2003 07:08:14 PM
Last edited: 2003/05/25 16:52:55
Keywords: KCJS, The Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies, Stanford University, Kyoto, Japanese language school

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The Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies

The Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies (KCJS) is a two-semester program designed mainly for undergraduate students who are interested in doing advanced work in the Japanese language and in Japanese studies. Established in 1989 as part of the Stanford Japan Center (SJC), KCJS is run by a consortium of thirteen American universities (Boston, Brown, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Emory, Harvard, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Stanford, Washington University and Yale) and administered by the Overseas Studies Program at Stanford University.

Each year about 35-45 students, mainly from the consortium schools, come to Kyoto to study. The academic program at KCJS is composed of a language component and a disciplinary component. Students come with two or more years of Japanese language training and continue to study the language intensively at KCJS. The program also offers a wide selection of courses on pre-modern and contemporary Japan in both the social sciences and humanities. Outside the classroom, the program takes advantage of the rich social and cultural resources of the area by integrating field trips, guest speakers, research projects and presentations into the curriculum.

The faculty at KCJS is composed of resident Japanese language instructors, the KCJS Director, the KCJS visiting professor and other native and non-native professors from the Kansai area. In addition to the academic curriculum at KCJS, the program offers every student the opportunity to participate in a home stay and encourages and aids students to integrate themselves into the community through a variety of extracurricular activities.

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