Numbering Code	G-HUM34 5F020 LE37	Year/Term	2022 ・ First semester
Number of Credits	2	Course Type	Lecture
Target Year	Master's students	Target Student
Language	English	Day/Period	Thu.3
Instructor name	DALSKY，David Jerome (Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences Associate Professor)
Outline and Purpose of the Course	In the course we will read and discuss material related to online intercultural exchanges and culturally unique psychological concepts with an indigenous psychology approach. The outline of the course will be structured around four major themes: 1) philosophical foundations of intercultural / transcultural understanding, 2) theory and practice of online intercultural exchange, 3) methods, and 4) topics such as amae (Japanese), sajiao (Chinese), manja (Javanese) and bildung (German).
Course Goals	During the semester students will engage in online and face-to-face intercultural exchanges with members of lab teams / classes in Japan, China, Indonesia, and Germany. The goal is to discuss indigenous (emic) concepts, pose research questions / hypotheses about the concepts, and possibly conduct studies to research the concepts with the goal of intercultural understanding. Research proposals / studies may be presented and written up as final reports or comparison / contrast papers regarding the emic cultural concepts will be presented and submitted.
Schedule and Contents	Topics we will cover (one topic may be covered in more than one class): Philosophical Foundations (1): Intercultural Understanding Philosophical Foundations (2): Transculturality Theory and Practice (1): Exploratory Practice Theory and Practice (2): Intergroup Contact Hypothesis Method: Online Intercultural Exchange Indigenous Psychology (1): Introduction: Understanding people in context Indigenous Psychology (2): Amae as distinguished from dependence and attachment Indigenous Psychology (3): Amae as a universal emotion Indigenous Psychology (4): Saijaio (amae in Chinese) Intercultural Exchange Research (1): Japan / China Intercultural Exchange Research (2): Japan / Germany Intercultural Exchange Research (3): Japan / Indonesia Final Presentations (1) Final Presentations (2)
Evaluation Methods and Policy	Means of evaluation: Presentations and discussion questions = 50% Final presentation = 25% Final paper = 25%
Course Requirements	We will use English in this course.
Study outside of Class (preparation and review)	1. Students will present the material (using handouts and presentation slides) and lead discussions of one or two book chapters or research articles. For the weeks that students are not presenting, they will prepare discussion questions. 2. At the end of the course, students will submit a 2000-word research proposal/report or comparison / contrast paper from their notes from a topic that emerges from the intercultural exchanges and class discussions.
Textbooks	Textbooks/References	Prints of research papers will be provided.
References, etc.	Online Intercultural Exchange: Policy, Pedagogy, Practice, O’ Dowd, R., & Lewis, T. , (Routledge)