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Intensive course 2 is designed for the students who have either passed Intensive 1 in the previous semester or those who passed the qualification exam called “Kakyo”. The size of each class is limited to 25 students and there are 4 classes in a year.
The course is taught by both native and Japanese teachers. Chinese is the only language allowed in the class.
Korean is one of the easiest language for Japanese speakers to learn(and vice versa). There are many reasons: (1) same word order, (2) grammatical similarity, (3) a number of kanji words shared in Japanese and Korean, (4) cultural similarity. It takes relatively short time from zero to fluency.
This course is designed for students at the lower advanced level of Japanese and focuses on the training of writing skills. In this course, students will learn advanced Japanese writing skills that their reader(s) will understand easily what they want to convey. Also, students will be required to write essays, so that they will have confidence in their academic writing skills to attend lectures conducted in Japanese.
Japanese Language Skills 1C (Contemporary Society) is a class for students who are in the first half of their advanced level of Japanese. The goal of this course is to help students understand contemporary society and community, especially SFC as a learning community, and to enable them to learn better at SFC. Specific activities will include reading texts about SFC and learning at SFC, discussing the contents, and writing opinion papers on the topic. Vocabulary, kanji, and grammar related to the theme will also be studied.
The goal of this subject is to read newspaper articles and small‐sized paperback book about social issues, explain them clearly and deliver an opinion in Japanese.
This course is designed for students at the lower advanced level of Japanese and focuses on the training of writing academic essays. In this course, students will be required to read models of logical writings and learn their structure and expressions to tackle writing assignments and acquire the skills needed to write logical essays. As students write their 1500 character essays, they will also learn how to make outlines and structure their academic essays in Japanese.
This course is designed for students at the upper advanced level of Japanese and mainly targets at international and returnee students.
In this course, students will learn the process of writing academic essays and will become able to represent their ideas in logical sequence on paper at the end of this course.
Students are required to frame an argumentative essay through 13 lectures in which they need to express their opinions on the basis of precise information.
In addition, they are also required to get involved in both pair work and group work activities to aim at writing essays from the reader's viewpoint.
This course is designed for students at the upper advanced level of Japanese and aims at developing their academic oral presentation skills. In this course, students will learn the following topics by taking related lectures or discussing with their classmates: - basic structure of presentation - criteria for a good presentation - how to prepare for the oral presentation Those who want to improve their skills required for not only a presentation in lectures but also the one of graduation theses are most welcome.
This course is designed for both international students and returnees. In this course, students will be taught essential skills to effectively learn from lectures at university. More specifically, they will learn how to grasp the key points of a lecture or how to take notes through watching a short lecture video. They will also learn necessary vocabularies and expressions by reading
a syllabus of a lecture they are interested in. Sometimes they will be required to make a brief presentation as well as write a short essay. In the latter half of this course, students will have a chance to discuss about the lecture they plan to take in the future with a lecturer.
At the end of this course, students will be expected to become able to attend any lectures offered in Japanese proactively and confidently.
Intensive Chinese 3 is designed for the students who want to improve their Chinese skills from beginner to intermediate level. Through taking this class, students would be able to speak Chinese more frequently and understand simple Chinese articles. The basic material for this class is “Intensive Chinese (インテンシブ中国語)”, which is also used in Intensive 1, 2 and Basic 1, 2.
※ Due to the Covid-19, most of the classes are going to be held online. If the situation settles down, a part of the classes or final examination would be held on campus.
Intensive Chinese 3 is designed for the students who want to improve their Chinese skills from beginner to intermediate level. Through taking this class, students would be able to speak Chinese more frequently and understand simple Chinese articles. The basic material for this class is “Intensive Chinese (インテンシブ中国語)”, which is also used in Intensive 1, 2 and Basic 1, 2.
※ Due to the Covid-19, most of the classes are going to be held online. If the situation settles down, a part of the classes or final examination would be held on campus.
Intensive course 2 is designed for the students who have either passed Intensive 1 in the previous semester or those who passed the qualification exam called “Kakyo”. The size of each class is limited to 25 students and there are 4 classes in a year.
The course is taught by both native and Japanese teachers. Chinese is the only language allowed in the class.
Intensive course 2 is designed for the students who have either passed Intensive 1 in the previous semester or those who passed the qualification exam called “Kakyo”. The size of each class is limited to 25 students and there are 4 classes in a year.
The course is taught by both native and Japanese teachers. Chinese is the only language allowed in the class.
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.” –Franz Kafka
Though Kafka was referring to the act of reading with this comment, I believe that this idea can be extended to the process of writing. I would like to help each student to use his/her own “axe” to strike against the “frozen sea” of his/her inner self. I am especially interested in guiding students to create works of experimental literature (writing that uses innovative techniques to produce highly unique and expressive material). The course will be conducted as a workshop, with students generating new artistic output in each class. Students will receive extensive feedback on their work, which they will incorporate into the practice of rewriting the piece for homework. We will read poetry and short stories, watch short videos, and view images that induce a literary response. Students will submit an anthology of the best writing they’ve done throughout the course as a final project.
The aim of the class is to improve the design skills and deepen the understanding of the meaning and value of design in our society.
It is advisable for students who are willing to join any laboratory in the design area or advance into the design field, either in a digital or analog way, to take this class.
Courses of the design field in SFC is planned based on a concept called "Design Language." It is based on the design as a tool for problem finding and problem-solving, similar to artificial language (programming) and natural language (foreign language). Furthermore, the name "Design Language" also includes the meaning of literacy; that is, one ability that can be mastered by training. The design usually presupposes "sense," but as long as it is based on a certain logic, learning that logic will improve the sense at the same time. So the design language focuses on the process.
Therefore, this lecture consists of tasks to train the process from consideration to creation through actual work creation. Students are expected to understand the value and significance of new designs in society, develop future learning, production, and research plans, and create opportunities for them to leap forward through the class.
The class is designed for the students who have never learned Chinese before. Students will mainly focus on practicing their Chinese pronunciation and studying new grammars and vocabularies in order to communicate in Chinese with each other. The class is taught by both native and Japanese teachers, using a unique teaching method called “Direct Introductory Method”.
※Due to the Covid-19, most of the classes are going to be held online. If the situation settles down, the final examination would be held on campus.
The class is designed for the students who have never learned Chinese before. Students will mainly focus on practicing their Chinese pronunciation and studying new grammars and vocabularies in order to communicate in Chinese with each other. The class is taught by both native and Japanese teachers, using a unique teaching method called “Direct Introductory Method”.
※Due to the Covid-19, most of the classes are going to be held online. If the situation settles down, the final examination would be held on campus.
The class is designed for the students who have never learned Chinese before. Students will mainly focus on practicing their Chinese pronunciation and studying new grammars and vocabularies in order to communicate in Chinese with each other. The class is taught by both native and Japanese teachers, using a unique teaching method called “Direct Introductory Method”.
※Due to the Covid-19, most of the classes are going to be held online. If the situation settles down, the final examination would be held on campus.
The class is designed for the students who have never learned Chinese before. Students will mainly focus on practicing their Chinese pronunciation and studying new grammars and vocabularies in order to communicate in Chinese with each other. The class is taught by both native and Japanese teachers, using a unique teaching method called “Direct Introductory Method”.
※Due to the Covid-19, most of the classes are going to be held online. If the situation settles down, the final examination would be held on campus.
The goal of the course is to help students become autonomous learners and speakers of French. Students will engage in reading texts, developing conversations about general and specific topics and writing in ways that enable them to experience presenting ideas and opinions in logical ways.
We will help students to acquire sufficient French language to allow them to communicate effectively by using clear and standard expressions on familiar subjects, to carry on conversation while travelling, and to present their own projects and express their ideas accurately.
We will help students to acquire sufficient French language to allow them to communicate effectively by using clear and standard expressions on familiar subjects, to carry on conversation while travelling, and to present their own projects and express their ideas accurately.
The goal of this class is to learn the basic skills of computer music production and to understand the system. In addition to creating sound effects, background music, and tracks, this class will also provide an introduction and basic skills for more advanced classes (i.e., it is not a DTM class).
Students will not only learn how to use the software, but will also understand the basic workflow of production, and experience the conceptual work, handling of various production situations, performance, and instrument production that are essential during production. These are accomplished by workshop format. In the second half of the course, students will be asked to work in groups and evaluate each other's work. In the latter half of the course, students will also experience mutual evaluation and collaboration in groups.
This class aims at providing students with basic understanding on startup business, such as idea generation, business modeling, prototype creation, commercialization, and incorporation. The feature of this class is:
Firstly, interactions with the guest speakers from different industries and countries enable students to understand the know-how to be a successful entrepreneur. The guest speakers in 2020 were:
• Dr. David Farber, The internet hall of fame
• Dr. Sureswaran Ramadass, Founder of Mlabs, Malaysia
• Mr. Hiroki Mashita, CEO of V-CUBE, Japan[Startups from Keio University]
Secondly, to empower design-thinking skills and decision-making experiences, students participate in-class exercises, using design thinking methodology and case method study in line with IoT & Energy and distance learning. For example, case study discussions help the students have a capability of finding and solving the problem in daily management of a business by place students in the role of the decision-maker.
This course provides a broad overview of history and phenomena of NPOs and NGOs in Japan. We consider the possibilities and challenges of NPOs/NGOs through the various perspectives and actual cases. The activities of NPOs/NGOs have pioneered new social business and have played key roles in various fields of environment, international aid, social welfare, education and so on. We have understood that the emergence of NPOs has been significant since the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake in Kobe. However, the history and the reality have not been fully well known even though NPOs in private sector have taken roles historically in public-interest activities in Japan.
The objective of this class is to understand the history, the current situation and the characteristics of NPOs/NGOs in Japan from actual cases and various data. The goal is not to understand “know-how” of establishment and management of NPOs but to be able to explain significance of existence, effectiveness and potentiality of such activities and organizations based on objective facts and your own ideas.