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11GSICCS | Taking Communication Beyond the ClassroomFeatures of the Doctoral ProgramGSICCS | Education / Doctoral ProgramSimilar to the course of study at the Master’s, the Doctoral program at GSICCS is divided into three approaches: the linguistic approach, focusing on the analysis of language use, education and communication in our global society; the cultural and media approach, studying the complexity and diversity of contemporary media systems and cultural forms; and the social approach, concentrating on supranational economic and political problems as well as the role and signicance of cross-cultural communities. Within these three approaches, in particular, the program will promote research and education centering on the following elds: Globalization and Transculture, Visual Culture and Language, IT Culture and Modern Society, and Theories of Media and Communication. In terms of curriculum structure, the Doctoral program provides four modes of study: Directed Research (Core Study), which provides the direction necessary to create the doctoral thesis; Seminar A, which gives specialized supervision within the Linguistic, Cultural/Media and Social approaches; Seminar B, which provides opportunities for making interdisciplinary explorations between the Linguistic, Cultural/Media and Social approaches; and Independent Study, which offers the chance to achieve specic goals, mainly under the guidance of a deputy director with common academic concerns. Together these four avenues provide the resources to explore and master a number of different elds of study, and to work on the research project from a wide range of perspectives.Three ApproachesLinguistic ApproachCultural and MediaApproachSocial ApproachIn addition to deepening their specialized understanding of communication with a focus on linguistic media in global society, students carry out applied research centering on language theory and associated elds. In particular, students focus their analysis and research on sociolinguistic problems arising from contact among speakers with different linguistic backgrounds, educational problems arising from second-language acquisition, and linguistic and social problems deriving from the practice of interpretation and translation.Students study artistic and media representation in multicultural societies in order to analyze the processes and mechanisms by which contact among a plurality of cultures gives rise to new cultural formations. At the same time, they are engaged in research and analysis with the goal of building a theoretical framework based on contemporary culture. Specically, students examine the signicance of new cultures whose development is accelerated by mass media such as lm and television as well as new media such as the internet, which is treated as a cultural translation process, by comparing and contrasting the phenomenon with that in traditional culture.Students study the political, economic, and social characteristics of local communities in an era of globalization, by focusing on the social characteristics and problems of new types of social groups that are formed by the movement of human resources with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Specically, they analyze not only the composition and formation of conventional immigrant societies spurred on by cross-border movements of people, but also the political and economic signicance and role of virtual communal spaces formed by the development and expansion of new media such as the Internet. This study includes an analysis of the promise of, and the problems encountered by, these new communities.

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