Course Description

The appearance of tourism for popular culture such as movies, cartoons, video games is one of the outstanding trends in modern tourism. In this exercise, we will read and announce the popular culture as a common theme. "Popular culture" includes a wide range of cultural areas ranging from mass media such as movies to sports and fashion that we touch in everyday life. However, in this exercise, we aim not to look at subjects as consumers of such cultures, but to consider the cultural meaning of the subjects from the viewpoint of researchers. Therefore, in this exercise, we will (1) read studies which examined the subject from the academic point of view, (2) find out our own research theme based on previous studies, (3) investigate the subject and report the results to others.