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The purpose of this course is to examine the diversity of language and culture through Chinese. China has a large population, vast territory and abundant cultures. Every region has its own cultural background and linguistic habits. PUTONGHUA is only one of the many aspects present in the Chinese language. In order to make you learn about the internal diversity of Chinese, I will introduce dialects, especially the form spoken in Taiwan. And then, through the contrast between Chinese and other languages, you can develop your understanding of Chinese while familiarizing yourself with the differences of the cultures behind those languages.
This course is aimed to learn basics of risk managemant and insurance economics.
Appropriately managing risk increases utility of individuals and firm value.
This decision making process is "risk management."
There are many financial instruments for risk management such as insurance, annuities, and derivatives, provied by insurance company and financial institutions, regulated by the authority.
Advanced-level readings and analysis of economic and social development issues in the Asian region. Objective: To research and discuss issues of livelihood, environmental resources, health, and migration within the ASEAN countries in the postwar and contemporary periods.
The focus is on the issues that have arisen from the impact of economic development on local communities and ordinary citizens.
Method: In addition to reading theoretical and critical works on development, there is weekly discussion based on the readings. We adopt a regional focus on Southeast and East Asian with successful and unsuccessful examples. There is also a practical and micro-level focus on the people and communities that are experiencing development themselves. After the mid-term, we explore various strategies for Sustainable Development and participatory development by looking at some current projects in Asia.
We look at 5 main issues in contemporary development in rural Asia: 1) Unsustainable and Sustainable livelihoods in rural areas 2) Efforts to fulfil Basic Human Needs and Human Security 3) Labor force: gender, migration (both domestic and cross-border), wages 4) Public Health issues and policies 5) Impacts of Climate Change on developing countries and populations。
For a basic grasp of the topics above, students will need to complete a fair amount of reading each week. After reading the assigned materials for each week and participating in the lectures on the reading material, students are expected to participate in questions and discussion. Students should also look at the materials and issues from a multi-faceted point of view. For this purpose they should also research on their own into other relevant primary sources, including books, websites, and current statistical data. Suggestions on these other materials are offered in class.
Arab countries and the Middle East are still unfamiliar to many Japanese and are often subject to prejudice and misunderstanding. In the first half of this lecture, students learn basic knowledge about the Middle East and Muslim world, with special focus on Arab countries. Then in the second half, looking back on about 10 years since the so-called 'Arab Spring' in which protests by citizens calling for the overthrow of the long-lasting dictatorship spread among Arab countries, we examine how the people in the Arab countries attempted to change their society, while appreciating the cultural and artistic works created in the process.
*I plan to deliver interactive lectures in Zoom. Check the SOL class site for updates
Using a variety of print and visual media, this course will investigate the concept of multicultural society. The course will begin with a study of multicultural societies in settler colonial countries such as Canada and the United States. The second phase of the course will look at how national and ethnic identities and mythologies were created and sustained in a variety of European countries. The third phase of the course will be student presentations profiling minority groups of their choice.
Critical areas: Literary Studies, Film Studies, Media Literacy, Colonization & Othering, National Identity Theory, Cultural Identity, Social Identity Theory, Gender Studies, Indigenous Studies
By the Soviet Perestroika which was started by Gorbachev in the mid of 1980s, the communist regimes of the world had great shook. Then, the Soviet Union was collapsed in the end of 1991, most of the former USSR the Eastern European countries abandoned communism; and the dream of communism seemed to be disappeared. However, the many communist regimes have been kept in East Asia and Southeast Asia, although many of their system have been modified. In addition, many of the former USSR states have been keeping the undemocratic regimes, and some of them are almost same to the communist regime in the different names. On the other hand, the pressures of democratization have been given not only from the international society, but from the people in some states, although there are many opinions if such pressures would be effective or not.
In this course, we will try to compare the political systems focusing on the political changes of the former USSR states after the end of cold war.
In addition, the recent US political movement is really impressive, so I am planning to have guest speech on this issue.
This class is intended for students who aim to become specialists in environmental design, focusing on architectural design, urban design, and landscape design, and is positioned as the first course such students should take. The core of SFC's architectural design, urban design, and landscape design is the design practice classes such as "Design Studio". In principle, only students who have already taken "Basic Digital Design" or "Basic Design Studio" are eligible to take the three "Design Studio" advanced courses. Therefore, it is advisable to take this class as early as possible in the school year, as the knowledge and skills acquired in this class will be essential for students to take more specialized environmental design classes in the future. It is also recommended that students who wish to learn digital skills such as architectural 3D modeling, drawing and perspective creation in more detail take "Basics of Architectural Computer-Aided Design(CAD)" at the same time.
Subject
In this class, we will design a chair using the 3D modeling software "Rhinoceros" and create a chair using digital fabrication machine "Shopbot". The material constraint will be one wood plywood of thickness 9mm, width 910mm, and height 1820mm.
Objectives
The purpose of this class is the following two points.
(1) Learn a basic design language.
(2) To be able to move freely between digital and analog
This course presents a theoretical analysis of Japan’s public finance covering expenditure and revenue analysis. Japan’s local public finance is linked to the national finance, so we analyze the relationship between central and local governments. The course equips students to analyze the Japanese economy comprehensively from various viewpoints.
Legal mind is one of the indispensable knowledge in the actual policy making and institutional design. After understanding the basic contents of law, the goal is to acquire a legal mind based on various real legal problems.
See the Japanese version.
The class is the introduction to issues concerning sports business. I will be asking various experts from different topics to share with you their experience and point of view. What I want you to do is to find out interesting areas, feel from the guest speakers' stories. and then try and experience yourself to learn.
The purpose of this course is to look at “Multilingual Society and Communication” from various angles and illustrate the various linguistic phenomena that can be observed. The course will focus especially on the examination of Japan as a multilingual society. It is also the goal of this course to develop sensitivity for the diversity of languages. Following issues are to be discussed:
- language policy and language planning
- language rights
- language spread
- language education
- language contact
- maintenance, loss and revitalization of minority languages
- linguistic imperialism and monolingual hegemony
- bilingualism, multilingualism and diglossia
- code switching
- pidgin and creole languages
- History of Japanese language education
In this class, students will learn investments, corporate finance and basic theory of finance. They will be able to learn practical skill.
The first goal is to understand the fundamentals of microeconomics and macroeconomics that form the basis of economics with certainty. The economic thinking is unexpectedly simple (this can be said for both microeconomics and macroeconomics), students will acquire representative analytical techniques such as constrained maximization (minimization) and comparative statics.
Then, when viewing the real economy, it is the second goal to get a first understanding of what points to focus on and how to use theoretical tools. Also, I would like to mention the latest topics within the scope of time.
Local government in Japan consists of 47 prefectures and 1,718 municipalities (City, Town and Village). Before HEISEI Merger, the number of municipalities was over 3,000. Difficulty of public finance forced reform of municipalities. Yubari city, Hokkaido is the only bankruptcy municipality in Japan now. In future, some municipality will face the same difficulty.
This class provides the understanding a general and a specific topics of the public finance of local government. Students investigate the accounting reports.
Theory and Analysis of Public Finance for Central Government
This course aims to understand the standard knowledge and theory of public finance, which is the study of revenue and expenditure of the country, and to consider the important fiscal issues surrounding our country today. Individually, we will examine what constitutes a fair tax system with respect to social security systems (e.g. medical care, public pension system and social welfare) and the tax system, which tends to be biased in its historical context.
Using microeconomics and game theory mainly, the public choice explains political phenomena, analyzes interdependence between polity and economy, and clarifies the basis of legal system and social norm. Adopting the analytical methods of microeconomics and game theory here means that the public choice basically depends on the hypothesis that people and organizations behave to maximally achieve their specific objectives under given conditions.
In this lecture, in order to place emphasis on having students understand the basic idea of public choice, we will not carry out detailed technical explanation as a rule. However, because it is necessary to respond well to the intellectual requirements of graduate students, somewhat advanced contents may be included for undergraduates.
This course focuses on corporate legal issues. Companies need to overcome a numerous kinds of complex and advanced problems in order to create value by cooperating with other companies, such as M&A activities. The objective of this course is to give students an introduction to Critical Legal Thinking and Practical Legal Methods to handle issues associated with co-creation activities by corporations. The topics will address from very fundamental and essential issues of Corporate Governance and Finance to the latest issues of M&A, Venture Investment, and Joint Venture. The style of the course is lecture and class activity. It is expected to analyze issues deeply in the class although class activities will complete in the class. In the co-creation activities like M&A, companies solve problems by putting variety of knowledge of professions in different fields such as management, finance, tax and legal. In this course, too, employing interdisciplinary approaches will enable students to obtain deep insights and provide solutions for the issues.
The purpose of this course is dissection and comprehension of Japanese Civil Code by writing essays for the questions of bar exams of previous years.
In this course, you will learn the basic concepts of administrative law through specific issues related to administration. It deals with important items in the interpretation law such as administrative discretion and legal administration, as well as matters related to public policy such as private consignment, administrative regulation, social welfare and city planning. In addition, as the latest topic, we plan to set the theme of traffic policy such as drones and self-driving cars and digitization of administration. By considering the mechanism of current law and disputes, we would like to examine the direction of legal policy that should be in the future.
This is a course on foreign policy analysis, known as FPA. It focuses on policy-making, decision-making and implelemtation of foreign policy, mainly of Japan, but we will compare it with other countries. This course will also examine policy process within the European Union (EU) - particularly, European foreign policy (EFP) - and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO).
Environmental issues have already been recognized as global risks, and risks such as climate change, water, food crises, and resource depletion have become reality. The purpose of this lecture is to understand the actual situation and background of the growing environmental issues, to know the trends of domestic and foreign policies, and to acquire a basic perspective on how to realize a sustainable world. In classes, you will also learn the importance of understanding actual data and events and grasping things from a medium- to long-term perspective.
The very introductory class of X-Design thread in Keio SFC.
3 Professors would give you 3 of deep practices (projects).
Students wishing to take this course in English are encouraged to take the GIGA course which is offered concurrently.
We provide the principles of molecular and cellular biology through "Molecular and Cellular Biology 1-4." This class will be conducted in a format similar to a qualification exam. Students will study the textbook on their own, take online exams, and earn a grade based on the results.
This course covers Chapter 11-15 of the textbook "Essential Cell Biology".