Spring 2024

EALANG 24 001 - SEM 001

Freshman Seminar

Ozu's Tokyo: Exploring Japan's Metropolis through the Films of Ozu Yasujiro

Jonathan E Zwicker

Jan 16, 2024 - May 03, 2024

12:00 pm - 12:59 pm

Social Sciences Building 80

Class #:32918

Units: 1

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through East Asian Languages and Cultures

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 1

Enrolled: 17

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 18

Waitlist Max: 5

No Reserved Seats

Hours & Workload

2 hours of outside work hours per week, and 1 hours of student-instructor coverage of course materials per week.

Other classes by Jonathan E Zwicker

The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small seminar setting. Freshman seminars are offered in all campus departments and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to fifteen freshmen.

Class Description

The director Ozu Yasujiro was born in Tokyo in 1903 and the city plays an important role in his films from the late 1920s through his death in 1963. Using his films as a starting point, we will learn how the city changed over the course of the twentieth century from the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake through WWII and the Allied Occupation and into the beginning of High Growth Economics and the preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.