Compiling solid knowledge and the power to shape your life - that's what we're doing. While social media "visualizes" individual opinions, it also divides them into asymmetrical clusters and floods them with bias and falsehoods. We need to have the wisdom to think about what is happening behind the scenes. It is becoming increasingly important for everyone to understand, communicate, and acquire the skills to act on the nature of change in the context of daily social events.
In this course, students will learn how to "compile" and utilize such knowledge on their own, based on the basic knowledge of theories and ideas in economics and business administration, which are often discussed in the real world. Through weekly assignments of 300 to 600 words, midterm assignments, and final assignments, students will increase their thought paths, broaden their perspectives, and comprehensively develop their discernment, expressive skills, and ability to summarize findings.
In addition to lectures and exercises, guest lectures by professionals from Japan and overseas and group work will be interwoven throughout the program. On the last day of the lecture, we will invite Professor Ulrike Schade of the University of California, San Diego, who is one of the most detailed watchers of Japanese companies and the Japanese economy in the United States, to give a special lecture on her unique insights into Japanese society via Zoom.
The lecturer has gained a wide range of experience over the past 30 years as a reporter, author, and editor for the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, Nikkei Business magazine, the English-language media Nikkei Asia, the online media Nikkei Business Online (now Nikkei Business E-edition), and academic books. In the past 15 years, I have interviewed many of the world's top economists and management scholars, including the Nobel Prize-winning behavioral economist Professor Richard Thaler and the world-renowned management expert Professor Michael Porter. In 2023, I have published three edited volumes based on the economics and business administration interviews I have conducted (see bibliography), including "12 Lessons From The World's Premier Economists", --book review of it has been published in the weekly Toyo Keizai (Toyo Keizai Shinposha), the weekly The Economist (Mainichi Newspapers), and the Seikyo Shimbun (Seikyo Newspaper).
Based on the instructor's extensive and unique journalism experience and network, students will learn "knowledge compilation" techniques to look at society as a non-professional.