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1
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The Two Nations. Brideshead Revisited and Boys from the Blackstuff.
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（授業時間外の学習/ Assignments）
Background on early-1980s social history.
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2
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Introduction to the British class system. Are Brits as obsessed by social class as they are commonly supposed to be? Discussion of a contrary piece of Japanese social mythology. We are all Middle Class.
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（授業時間外の学習/ Assignments）
Varieties of spoken English: u and non-u.
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3
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Fawlty Towers, A Touch of Class
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Research on reputation of Margaret Thatcher.
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4
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The Remains of the Day: Class and Service
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Preliminary thoughts on the politics of service employment.
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5
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The Remains of the Day (2): Politics of the 1930s.
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（授業時間外の学習/ Assignments）
Jane Austen: preliminary viewing/research.
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6
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Brideshead， Pride and Prejudice， and the fantasy of the aristocratic good life. Discussion of ‘heritage’ as a country’s main ‘selling point’.
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Background research on the National Trust.
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7
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Introduction to the history of the English country house. The importance of preservation in British culture (again， usefully compared to Japan). The power and glory of the National Trust.
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Preliminary thoughts on the distinctiveness of urban living.
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8
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Alternative heritages: Dickens’ London (in the 2006 BBC version of Bleak House) and the Industrial North (in Boys from the Blackstuff). Discussion of the comparative virtues of City and Country as sources of social values.
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（授業時間外の学習/ Assignments）
Media research on lad and laddette culture.
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9
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The comedy of conflicting values in Lost in Austen. Modern attitudes towards gender and social class confronting the different standards of the nineteenth-century: who wins the battle， and why? Discussion of the emergence， in recent years， of the laddette.
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（授業時間外の学習/ Assignments）
Viewing various screen versions of Pride and Prejudice.
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10
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Women as the principle consumers of heritage: why? Darcy as an object of universal female desire in Pride and Prejudice (both the TV and the Keira Knightly movie version)， Lost in Austen， and Bridget Jones.
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Media research: Japanese hooligan anxieties in 2002.
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11
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Sports and sports violence: Cracker， To Be a Somebody. Introduction to the geography of British sporting allegiance. Discussion of Japanese media coverage of English football hooliganism in run-up to the 2002 World Cup.
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Background research on the Hillsborough Disaster.
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12
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Background material and discussion on the Hillsborough Disaster， the Taylor Report， and the recent re-opening of investigation into police handling of the disaster.
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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 Hillsborough Disaster as motive for murder in Cracker， To Be a Somebody. British attitudes towards the police and the history of British miscarriages of justice. Discussion of the image of police-work and the justice system in Japan.
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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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