This is a course to introduce Keio Gijuku and provide new students who just “joined” Keio Gijuku with an opportunity to think about the significance of their learning and lives at Keio Gijuku. Knowing ideology and history of Keio Gijuku will be the starting point for both freshman and transfer students in their learning and lives at this university. Particularly in the nursing department where students learn practical and pragmatic matters, they may neglect deep insights regarding people behind and human societies if they focus only on matters which could be immediately useful. Recently, the term “pragmatism” has been frequently used. However, the substantial meaning of this term is much deeper and broader. The key to understand this exists in the tradition and history of Keio Gijuku, which pass down the ideas of Fukuzawa Yukichi who professed pragmatism. We would like our students to pursue “pragmatism ”, which should not be neglected under the simple “how-to” learning.
In this course, students will attend a series of lectures offered by off-campus researchers and business executives from various fields, who have been studying Fukuzawa and the History of Keio Gijuku in association with their own fields.
(This course is taken by many students from each one of the 3 departments of SFC every year. We will occasionally introduce various feedbacks for each lecture submitted by students from different departments, fields and years, hoping that they will find how meaningful and interesting it is to learn on this campus consisting of 3 departments of 2 graduate courses.)