生活概論

English translation: Introduction to living

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Japanese term or phrase:	生活概論
English translation:	Introduction to living
Entered by:	Joss Ky

05:02 Aug 3, 2011

Japanese to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.

Japanese term or phrase: 生活概論

Context: Subject name, within a Social Welfare degree in Japan.

What do you think would be appropriate?
　

Joss Ky KudoZ activity Questions: 130 (none open) (1 without valid answers) (3 closed without grading) Answers: 15 Australia
Local time: 04:17

Introduction to living

Explanation:
An idea...
I second to Carlis's idea and put 'agree',though.
Considering the field of natural science(where 'life' would be taken as '生命’such as 'life science'(ライフサイエンス、生命科学） ),I would go for 'living' as a counterpart of 生活.　
In the field of social welfare, this subject might be a part of 'living science',it's just my opinion...

Please see the below links:
http://campus3.kj.yamagata-u.ac.jp/syllabus/2011/list2030.ht...
http://cms.db.tokushima-u.ac.jp/syllabus/2011/html/218271.ht...

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Many thanks, Joss ;-)

Selected response from:

Mami Yamaguchi
Japan
Local time: 02:47

Grading comment

Good idea to change life to living, emphasising that it is not a biological science subject. Thank you.
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4 +3

Introduction to Life

Carlis Hsu

Introduction to Making a Living

DK432 (X)

Introduction to living

Mami Yamaguchi

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5 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

Introduction to Life

Explanation:
Just an idea, for your reference.

Carlis Hsu
United States
Local time: 13:47
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

Chinese

2 days 7 hrs confidence:

Introduction to living

Mami Yamaguchi
Japan
Local time: 02:47
Native speaker of:

Japanese
PRO pts in category: 12

Grading comment

Good idea to change life to living, emphasising that it is not a biological science subject. Thank you.

680 days confidence:

Introduction to Making a Living

Explanation:
For 生活, I would suggest "Making a Living" which is close in meaning to the second definition in Kenkyusha J-E dictionary which is "[人の暮らし](a) life; (an) existence; [生計]livelihood; living; subsistence", or maybe "livelihood", "subsistence" or "lifestyles" would be fine too.
For the word "概論", I think "introduction" would be fine as in the examples in Mami Yamaguchi's webpages. Maybe "Survey" or "Overview" might be fine too. I remember some introductory courses at my college that had in their title, "Survey of ...". Also in the Kojien dictionary 概論 is defined as "全体にわたって大要を述べたもの。"something that gives an overall summary of something. So maybe "Survey" or "Overview" might be fine too.
Being able to communicate with the instructor and investigate the actual nature of the course would help too.

DK432 (X)
United States
Local time: 07:47
Native speaker of:

English

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