In both spring and fall semesters I was able to open my research seminar to third-year students of the College of Arts and Sciences. The seminar is conducted entirely in English, focused on the topic of cultural and national identity, from the prospective of the field of Cultural Studies. All the weekly reading materials are in (academic) English, all weekly discussions are carried out in English, all written assignments are in English, and all additional explanations of difficult points I present during the seminar are in English. The purpose of this style of seminar is to give our students as close an experience to a study-abroad advanced content class as possible while here at Tamagawa, as well as to use English as a medium of communication, study, and research, not only as the object of second-language acquisition.
