Activities and Trips
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| Sagawa Art Museum -- Irene Convey, 2007-2008 |
Field trips, excursions, guest lectures, workshops, and social events round out the KCJS experience, further exposing students to the treasures of Kyoto and the surrounding areas, and also providing deeper insight into Japanese culture.
Field Trips
Visits to local museums, temples, shrines, and the theater are often incorporated into courses. Depending on the topic and curriculum, trips have included noh and Bunraku performances, visits to a machiya (traditional Kyoto-style house), a historical entertainment site, and a day trip to Nara."I still remember the experience of attending a rakugo performance in Osaka and a kabuki performance at Minami-za in Kyoto. Both experiences gave me the opportunity to sample Japanese culture first-hand."
An overnight trip for the entire KCJS group is usually made once each term, either to a rural area of Okayama prefecture or to a famous historical area like Hiroshima-Miyajima, Ise-Toba, or Mount Koya.
Guest Speakers Series
Visiting scholars and local experts are invited to speak to the KCJS students about a diverse range of topics. Subjects covered in the past year included gender and art, Buddhism and Japanese film, Japanese architecture, and journalism and the Japanese media.
Other Activities
KCJS students are encouraged to join the student clubs at Kyoto University. There are also many opportunities "My weekends became filled with Frisbee tournaments, mountain hiking, snowboarding, excursions into Osaka for salsa dancing, even video games, all done with mostly Japanese students my age."outside of the KCJS to take lessons in traditional Kyoto crafts such as ceramics,
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| Hiking on Miyajima -- Jenna Moriwaki, 2007-2008 |
