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1
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Educational privilege and the Brideshead myth. The social and political power of ‘Public’ schools and Oxbridge: Porterhouse Blue. The rather different image of university life in A Very Peculiar Practice.
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Background research on British education system.
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2
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Background on the British education system. Discussion of media reportage of debates over ‘grade inflation’ (whether school and university exams have become easier over recent years)， curricula at university level， and costs of tuition.
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Preliminary thoughts on strengths and weaknesses of Japanese university education.
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3
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Discussion of the comparative merits of the Japanese and British university systems.
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Background research on British historical memory of WWI.
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4
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World War I and historical memory: Michael Gove vs. Blackadder Goes Forth
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What was the ‘Blitz’?
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5
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The ‘Spirit of the Blitz’: wartime Britain as a model of virtuous communal relations.
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Preliminary viewing of credit sequences of Dad’s Army.
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6
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Dad’s Army and ‘muddling through’ (doing things badly but still getting them done) and the ‘plucky underdog’ (the hero as a man who fails most of the time， but not when it matters): the continuing importance of both for British self-image.
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Preliminary viewing of Basil’s rant at the end of ‘The Germans’.
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7
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Analysis of continuing media obsession with WWII， particularly in connection with attitudes towards mainland Europe. Tabloid newspaper headline-conventions. Fawlty Towers， ‘The Germans’.
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Preliminary thoughts on multiculturalism/multiracialism distinction.
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8
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Race and multiculturalism in modern Britain: historical background to immigration and immigration debates.
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Preliminary viewing of the Major's soliloquy in 'The Germans'.
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9
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‘I took her to see India!”: Cricket and Empire.
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Preliminary media research on ‘Euroscepticism’.
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10
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Modern-day debates on immigration: the shift from ‘Empire’ to ‘Europe’ as location of un-English otherness. Media perspectives on the rise of UKIP.
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Research on MAD.
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11
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The threat of Nuclear Annihilation: Threads and Edge of Darkness.
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（授業時間外の学習/ Assignments）
Thinking about nuclear anxiety in modern Japan.
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12
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Nuclear threats and attitudes towards government， the UK and US contrasted: Threads and The Day After.
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（授業時間外の学習/ Assignments）
Term-paper proposal.
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13
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The same difficult subject resumed.
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Term-paper drafting.
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14
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Term Paper (part 1).
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Self- and course-evaluation.
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15
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Summation of the course and guidance in the composition of the term paper (Part 2).
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Term-paper.
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