Graduate Studies Scholarships
Hi all,
I had been surfing the net looking for advice on what, where, how to apply for scholarships abroad, specifically Japan. I want to do some research on Japanese culture, mythology and how it relates to contemporary life or on youkai and yuurei since I've been really interested in it for quite a long time or on something broader like japanese folklore and what it says about modern japan or some asian gender and sexuality studies which I still have to refine.
Anyway, some background info on me:
I graduated BA Political Science, with loads of units on Sociology and Humanities and currently working in an international non-government org.
I haven't any Jap language units, when I was still in my undergrad I took up Italian, Jap classes were limited and very hard to enlist into. Anyway, I did a couple of asian geography and history studies. My thesis was on Social capital, tradition, norms (mostly on culture stuff, I don't know how it'd be helpful for my youkai/yuurei study pursuit). I did a couple of papers on gender and women and culture.
My work now deals with poverty and gender and probably some intercultural subjectivity stuff.
So there. I looked into the Asian Youth Fellowship Program, they offer a 7-month Jap language training and then you're off to Monbusho. I don't know if this is good for me or if I'm good for it. Sorry this post is really long, but I need some comments, some advices, what do you think should I do? Are there other programs that would really best fit my qualifications and the topics that I want to study?
Thanks.
I had been surfing the net looking for advice on what, where, how to apply for scholarships abroad, specifically Japan. I want to do some research on Japanese culture, mythology and how it relates to contemporary life or on youkai and yuurei since I've been really interested in it for quite a long time or on something broader like japanese folklore and what it says about modern japan or some asian gender and sexuality studies which I still have to refine.
Anyway, some background info on me:
I graduated BA Political Science, with loads of units on Sociology and Humanities and currently working in an international non-government org.
I haven't any Jap language units, when I was still in my undergrad I took up Italian, Jap classes were limited and very hard to enlist into. Anyway, I did a couple of asian geography and history studies. My thesis was on Social capital, tradition, norms (mostly on culture stuff, I don't know how it'd be helpful for my youkai/yuurei study pursuit). I did a couple of papers on gender and women and culture.
My work now deals with poverty and gender and probably some intercultural subjectivity stuff.
So there. I looked into the Asian Youth Fellowship Program, they offer a 7-month Jap language training and then you're off to Monbusho. I don't know if this is good for me or if I'm good for it. Sorry this post is really long, but I need some comments, some advices, what do you think should I do? Are there other programs that would really best fit my qualifications and the topics that I want to study?
Thanks.