The Japan Study Group has been an option
for Colgate students since the early 1970s. Accompanied by a Colgate faculty
member, students spend about four months (August to December) in Kyoto, Japan
living with Japanese families and studying Japanese culture and social
structure. Preparation for the study group includes two terms of Japanese
language and CORE 167, Japan (formerly GNED 206). Students continue
their study of the language in Japan and complete one course in a subject
of the director's choosing and one focusing on the village life in Japan.
Study tours take the group to two villages: Sonobe, which is near Kyoto,
and a village on Ogasawara Islands, 500 miles south of the main islands
of Japan.
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Below you will find a visual scrapbook of the Study Group.
Click on any of the pictures to get a close up look!
View of the many temples that dots the landscape of Kyoto
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Colgate students from the Japan study group visit a park in
Kyoto
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Colgate student are treated to a traditional
Japanese meal while at Mt. Koya at the Buddhist Headquaters.
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The famous Golden Pavilion
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Nara which houses the Great Buddha
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