Forum - View topicANIME SCHOOL!
|
Goto page 1, 2 Next |
| Author | Message | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Cloud Strife
 Posts: 41 |
|
||
|
Do you think that they shoud teach people about anime in school.Just for example,what if the homework assignment was to watch tonights Inu-yasha episode. And write a report on what you saw.
|
|||
|
|||
|
Aaron White
Old Regular
Posts: 1365 Location: Birmingham, Alabama |
|
||
|
That would be word.
|
|||
|
|||
littlegreenwolf
 Posts: 4796 Location: Seattle, WA |
|
||
|
I really can't see that happening. Maybe for art class, or perhaps some kind of mythology class studing japanese myths at that momment, but I really can't see it as an actual class.
I did consider asking my psyc. teacher to show lain at one time though. |
|||
|
|||
|
Steventheeunuch
|
|
||
|
THat's a terrible idea. I want to learn stuff at school. I want to watch anime for entertainment value. The two technically should not mix. I hate your topics.
|
|||
CorneredAngel
 Posts: 854 Location: New York, NY |
|
||
|
Classes that have included anime/manga in their curricula
Schools including: Bowdoin College, Brown University, Macalester College, MIT, University of Arizona, University of Michigan, University of Texas. So not a novel idea by any means. And before you do any more thinking, if film and literature are being studied, why not anime/manga/fandom? And as examples of academic papers on anime/manga: Genre and psychoanalysis in Akira Japanese anime in the United States: gender, sexuality, and techno-bodies Speaking without subtitles: the universal language of otaku Saving humanity through gender reversal: a feminist reinterpretation of Shinseiki Evangelion - dozens of others at the ACADEMIC section of the Anime/Manga Web Essay Archive page. |
|||
|
|||
android00
 Posts: 62 Location: In the middle of the Pacific by Japan and Korea |
|
||
|
It's a cool idea but I strongly doubt it would happen. If it happened it would definately be in Japanese class! (We have Japanese I-Japanese IV at my school.) YAY!!! We even have an anime club at my school!!! I am in it too! YAY!!!!
 
|
|||
|
|||
|
Coral Skipper
Posts: 223 |
|
||
As part of my Japanese class we watch some subtitled anime. |
|||
|
|||
|
android00
Posts: 62 Location: In the middle of the Pacific by Japan and Korea |
|
||
|
That's cool! We can watch anime DVDs of any rating in our anime club! (NO hardcore hentai, though! This is high school!
 ) We get to have oodles of fun! Is there anyone else who has a cool anime club at their school?
|
|||
|
|||
|
cookie
Former ANN Editor in Chief
 Posts: 2460 Location: Do not contact me for support. |
|
||
Unfortunately, most of the papers created thus far simply do not measure up to the quality I've come to expect from papers in other fields. When one has to delve to geocities to look at 2-page high school-quality papers about "otaku" and "anime", it's clear that the field is still VERY new, and VERY undeveloped in comparison to other literary courses. The single best piece of work in the field I've read is this one by Sharon Kinsella, regarding Otaku culture.. although the Hashmi paper looks strong as well. I'll probably read over it sometime. Maybe I should dump some of my papers on your site, Mikhail. They certainly wouldn't be any worse than the rest of the material out there. :p As to the tangent on this thread: For language acquisition, the best method is to study in Japan for a few years. Failing that, studying under a native Japanese speaker who knows how to teach language is probably #2. Studying under a non-Japanese, yet Japanese-fluent speaker is probably #3. Self-study through standard textbooks is the 4th best means of learning Japanese... and self-study through anime/j-pop/pop culture is probably #5. It's rather unfortunate that most anime fans choose the worst means of acquiring the language, and then get frustrated and quit when they're unable to go anywhere with the language. |
|||
|
|||
Delthayre
 Posts: 414 Location: One of the good United States |
|
||
|
Indeed. Ironically, while my Japanese teacher (Kuwata-sensee) is quite competent as a teacher, her accent is somewhat challenging. And while I understand the reason, her inability to pronounce the word "clearly" properly, tickles my overactive sense of ironic humor.
I somehow doubt that a class on anime would satisfy the general field of self-proclaimed otaku. I imagine cultural study and more artistically focused topics would occupy the class more than what some (many?) may be hoping for. |
|||
|
|||
|
LordByronius
ANN Columnist
 Posts: 861 Location: Philippe for America! He is five. |
|
||
|
We watched Ghost in the Shell in a Media theory class once. It was interesting, and the students had a lot better grasp of the ideas and concepts of the film than I imagined.
With that out of the way, the rest of this thread is OH NO, MY BRAINS. |
|||
|
|||
Silva
 Posts: 21 |
|
||
Yeah. Many schools are beginning to add anime clubs for those that are interested. Unfortunately, there's not one at my school yet. Well, there is one at a school near mine, and i'm seriously thinking about joining it, but i don't know all it's about yet. Oh, well, just have to go to find out. |
|||
|
|||
Emerje
 Posts: 7434 Location: Maine |
|
||
|
Wow, I had no idea Bowdoin College offered an anime course! That's all of 15 miles from me! Gah, did I pick the wrong college to go to or what. Probably for the best though, that's one hell of a course load. Too bad the course is title Japanimation and Manga, I would have thought a such a heavy class would have more respect for the word anime.
Emerje |
|||
|
|||
|
Aaron White
Old Regular
Posts: 1365 Location: Birmingham, Alabama |
|
||
|
I hope more colleges start covering anime and manga in depth, since that will help discussion and criticism of the material to develop in ways that purely fan-based discussion alone can't.
|
|||
|
|||
|
Aya
Posts: 9 |
|
||
|
I take Japanese 11 in school (in grade 9, i was supposed to take japanese 9 but the teacher said i was too advanced, tried to move me to japanese 10 but was unable to with the schedule that I had, so I didn't take japanese in my grade 9 year. Grade 10 (this year) i went to the japanese 10 class but he said I was too advanced for it (if that was the case why didn't he just move me to grade 11 in my grade 9th year?! I guess he had his reasons.) so he moved me up to japanese 11).
It's great that I can take the course so that I can become more fluent in the language (I lived in japan till I was 5, but because I grew up not knowing anyone except my parents that were fluent in japanese, most of what I have known have faded into the background) but the teacher who teaches the course is not a native japanese speaker but rather someone who learned to speak japanese I'm guessing in his mid-30's. That wouldn't have mattered to me, but I find that the way he writes japanese is a bit...odd. Most hiragana are written correctly but when I wrote one hiragana I kept on getting it wrong, and I couldn't see what I was doing wrong because that was the way I was taught to write it when I was in Japan. I asked my parents, who were born and lived in japan until their mid 40's in which they came to Canada, and they agreed that the way I wrote the hiragana was right. They told me not to say anything to the teacher but I hate to think that I would keep on continuously get something that I'm doing right wrong. There's only one year of Japanese left so I guess I can just keep on doing what I'm doing. It would be really interesting to watch some anime in class, most of the classes so far have consisted of working from the book so it'd be a great break from the book as well as it'd be educational as well  . I would bring anime of my own if the teacher would agree to show it but unfortunately, my school hasn't kept up with the times and they only have vhs players and really small tvs that make it hard to see from the very back.
|
|||
|
|||
 |
All times are GMT - 5 Hours |
|
|
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group