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In our daily life, our sensory systems are detecting various types of information about environments inside/outside of our body which varies from hour to hour. Our movements are well-modulated by utilizing such sensory information which is integrated within our brain. In addition, sensory systems are also associated with reflexes (=involuntary bodily response to some stimuli ) . By utilizing such reflexes, we can prevent from some dangers quickly without thinking. As such, sensory systems play important roles for safe and grateful life.
In this course, we are regarding humans as systems which involve "inputs" and "output", and are learning sensory physiology (structures and functions of various sensors within our body / mechanisms of our perception and cognition) and psychology (how our mental process is associated with our cognition and action). Due to time constraints, we are focusing on somatosensory and visual systems in this course.
This course covers basic topics in cognitive psychology, including memory, perception and attention, conceptual representation, reasoning and decision making, language learning and processing, and relation between language and cognition.
In the "Impression Management" course, we will examine what impressions we make of ourselves and others, and what role impressions can play in facilitating the communication processes. Specifically, we will explore the exchange of impressions by paying attention to subtle behaviors, focusing on small gestures and occasions in our day-to-day activities.
The brain science consists of many disciplines. This class is a comprehensive and synthetic introduction to the brain science by understanding neurophysiological structures and psychological behaviors.
Most athletes are having physical training well based on sports science, and making efforts to effectively improve their sports performances. However, sports science is not only for athletes. Understanding sports science would be valuable for considering the ways for living a long and healthy life. In this course, we are aiming to learn the basis of our body and movements, and reconsider our own health, based on various findings from researches in the field of sports sciences.
This course provides the effective coaching methods which make better human relationships between the coaches and the athletes, and among the team mates to enhance the quality of the performance on each field. Based on the Life Style Program Method, students will be required to propose the way to motivate the athletes to fulfill their potential. For the sake of making good learning effects, class members will be active participants of every activity such like discussions, group works, and so fourth.
This lecture offers students to learn the principles and applications of global and local environmental issues in systems perspective. We will start from the global movements on the global warming and then learn the basic elements of environment including air, soil, water and plants. Then we will learn the stocks and flows of the elements in the perspective ecosystems and services. With this fundamental knowledge, students will be able to understand the background of global environmental policies and think to act proactively in research and daily life.
We require to conduct many surveys for special planning and designing. Especially, surveys of organisms become more important because nature and biodiversity conservation is necessary for sustainable development. Students will learn many kinds of field surveys based on knowledge of ecology. All field surveys should be conducted on SFC. Students will learn how to use a topographical map, find a plant species in a plant guide, plant, bird, insect surveys, etc. After the surveys, students will learn the methods of analysis. The goal is to understand the methods, identify the species, and analyze data through lectures and field works.
Many people feel powerless in the face of the climate crisis, but the choices that we make as individuals have social, political and economic consequences that affect our living environment. By addressing some of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, students in this course will investigate ways that people can start living their lives in a sustainable way. The course will be divided into four units: 1) Supporting Local Business, 2) the Satoyama Concept / Organic Farming, 3) Waste Prevention, and 4) Corporate Responsibility. Students will be expected to research a short profile (one A4 page) of a business or community organisation for each unit to share with the class. These may be done as individuals or in pairs.
Design maintaining nature capital and conserving ecosystem service is necessary for sustainable development in urban and rural areas and natural reserve. The design with nature using ecosystem services wisely is called ecological design. In the class, students study ecological design concepts, spatial planning, natural and living materials for design, nature restoration, and monitoring methods through a whole process of a project. Students should understand natural processes and basic concepts and methods of ecological design in the class. There will be lectures, including guest ones, fieldwork, and group work. Also, there should be some reports during and after class.
There is common difficulties and challenge in design of artifact today.Product design, Architecture design and Environmental design have to be situated in a context logicaly with both intuitive sense and rational methodology to creat it . By investigationg and about relationship between design and information technologies from many aspects, this subject will become more scientific and promising.
Espacially, when a media to connect reality and design is sifting towards data repreesentation, it became possible to be computationally processed, shared, and simulated. We start taking advantages of very compricated status of geometry with an algorithmto adapt functional requirements of different environmental factors such as structure, sound, heat, light energy etc .
Furthermore it will became more comprehensive issue for us when it is connected to the technology of manufacture and construction, and continuous autonimity of atifact such as Io. Students of this class will learn hulistic idea of cognitive, philosophical, tectonic, socio-cultural factor of influence in current information technologies to human attitude of creation.
Students learn the relationship between human life and the environment in urban areas. Environmental problems have become more severe in the history. Notably, the population in urban areas increased dramatically, and urban environmental problems had to be resolved in many ways after industrial evolution. Open space and urban greenery have played a significant role in human life. At the end of the class, students consider sustainable urban living in the future.
The purpose of this course is to consider the problems of contemporary society from the perspective of the humanities. Before we optimistically assume that the world of globalization is a world connected by a single set of values, we must begin by asking the question: do people really understand each other? For people to communicate with each other, words are needed, but can these words function as a transparent and colorless tool? And when we talk about "people" and "people", do they really communicate with the same values? With these questions in mind, this course will examine the meaning of "language" and "people" from the perspectives of philosophy, literature, history, and art, before turning to actual events.
When we examine different regions, it is important to understand their culture. The broad concept of culture includes elements such as among others history, religion, language and art. Furthermore we can also say that in its core this concept also merges with the idea of community. This lecture will be conducted jointly by professors of the German and French sections. Although to a certain extent we can not avoid focusing on Germany and France, the goal of this lecture is to approach the true nature of “Europe” especially through the investigation of its western parts. While experiencing ups and downs, Europe has advanced towards unification. In this sense, Europe is getting closer to becoming a region that has overcome borders. At the same time national borders do not
always coincide with linguistic and cultural borders. Furthermore European states are often marked by different regional identities inside their national borders. Investigating this diverse Europe will have a great importance in the 21st century.
This lecture is aimed at students with little prior knowledge about the European Union. After an overview of European integration from the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC, 1951) to today’s European Union, the EU’s main institutions and political stakeholders will be examined. How are the European commission, the European Council, the European Parliament or the European Court of Justice set up? What are their powers and competences, and what is the process of creating European policies and laws? The lecture will then address the workings of the European Union considering specific policy fields like foreign policy, security policy or agriculture policy, as well as the handling of specific problem situations like the financial crisis or the refugee crisis, before finally looking at various options for future developments.
This course will explore the history and aesthetics of independent animation in the Asia Pacific Region. The lectures will have a heavy focus on East Asian animation pioneers and contemporary innovators, but students are encouraged to do research into independent animation more widely across the Asia-Pacific region for their presentations and essays.
Critical areas: Film Studies, Animation Studies, Media Literacy, National Identity Theory, Cultural Identity, Social Identity Theory, Gender Studies
Latin America has always been a source of inspiration for those people working to build a better society. In spite of the colonial heritage and the deep division that runs through the societies of the region, innovative theories and iniciatives emerged and came to influence many aspects of the global social science and humanities of our time. This course aims to survey principal topics related to development and Latin America, covering the contemporary issues of the region especially from a focus on development and social change.
(We plan to do this course on-campus in the spring semester 2021.)
The purpose of this course is to learn CIS region comprehensively. This course would be consisted by lecturers, group work and presentations, and individual term report.
"Regional study" is needed to deal with many aspects such as politics, economics, international relations, history, ethnicity, society, religion, conflicts, environmental problems, energy problems, etc. In particular, the former Soviet Union states are young and they have many problems to be solved, and such problems are complicated and to be needed the comprehensive knowledge and considering the international relations.
In order to think about the current world, it is essential to understand the former Soviet space. Therefore, we aim to deepen the understanding of the region.
This class aims for enhancing the understanding of contemporary international political economy, security and society mainly in East Asia through examining theories, policy frameworks and practices. All sessions are conducted in English.
”Region” could be defined in various terms. In international relations, it generally indicates the multilateral groupings of neighboring nations. However, when it comes to the term regionalism, it suggests a functional relation that bundles multiple nations with their political, economic and cultural inheritance, often based on the geographical advantages. Region could be formed either inherently or arbitrary. Thus, the "Region/Regionalism" is a dynamic concept of geopolitics/economics, which rests between the global governance, the bilateral rational choice of the government, and people's perceptions.
This course specifically focuses on following agendas: 1)theory and practices of regionalism in East Asia, 2)security in Asia-Pacific region, 3)Japan’s foreign policy on regionalism.
This subject offers a comprehensive overview of the global communication landscape. Students will understand the history, current theories and the several case studies of international communication.
Students will understand about the history of news agencies and the concept of propaganda. Also they'll have a chance to think about the effect of international flow of information, things and people.
To understand the International Law including topics or issues in the International Society.
This course is about International Business. The course explains about the firms that operate in the international business environment from two perspectives: management studies as practical knowledge and management studies as a field of social science. Thus, the course is designed to introduces the participants basic theories related to international business and the reality of global business operation in practice.
This is an international finance course for undergraduate students. We will cover the monetary or macroeconomic side of international economics, such as the determinants of the exchange rate and the effects of monetary policy. The first half of the course will be devoted to the exchange rate and open-economy macroeconomics. In particular, we will learn how the exchange rate is determined. Then, in the last half, we will look at international macroeconomic policy as well as exchange rate policies in developed and developing countries. We will study how policies work, and what kind of policy is desirable.