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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.
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.
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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
This is a lecture to learn the outline of the architectural history as well as the outline of the history of the city.
It may come as a surprise to learn that both personality and life span are inherited, but the latest research shows that they are indeed governed at least in part by genes. The recent rapid advances in genomics have enabled personal genetic information to be analyzed speedily at low cost, and research on utilizing such genetic information to treat and prevent disease is also making big strides. In addition to genetic diagnosis and gene therapy, various biotechnologies such as iPS cell-based organ regeneration, animal cloning, and the genetic modification of crops are now being put to practical use. The impact of such technologies on society and related ethical issues need to be debated, and a sound understanding of the way genes work is vital to ensuring that such debate is not dominated by merely emotional arguments. In this course, together we will learn the basics of biological phenomena at the genetic and molecular levels, and ponder aging, cancer, and other mysteries of life.
This course trains students in the ’novel fabrication’ way of thinking by means of deconstructive analysis of system software and teaching them the basic steps involved in disassembling devices.
In this lecture, we deal with many future issues in the Internet technology, philosophy, regulation and rule, and market value based on our experience at SFC. Our campus, SFC has been charged with the very important role in Japanese Internet. It was a big challenge that SFC adopted the Internet as a campus platform at the beginning, thus our experiment became a big contribution for current information environment in society. Up to the present, the Internet has supported our live. The Internet connected every thing, every service by global scale. Also, an individual can show the message easily to the world by the Internet. The Internet is a global infrastructure designed to solve many issues by simply making good use of it. For the future, we have the mission making the better Internet with better knowledge of technologies, better methods for decision-making, unfettered idea and strong spirit. We wish to meet next generation Internet frontier with strong soul in this lecture.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ecology is the scientific study of the relation of living organisms to each other and their surroundings. Landscape ecology integrates biophysical and analytical approaches with humanistic and holistic perspectives across the natural sciences and social sciences. Landscapes are spatially heterogeneous geographic areas characterized by various interacting patches or ecosystems, ranging from relatively natural terrestrial and aquatic systems such as forests, grasslands, and lakes to human-dominated environments including agricultural and urban settings. You will learn the fundamental theories and methods of landscape ecology and the application to nature conservation and restoration.
This course focuses on computer-specific acoustic expression methods such as digital signal processing and synthesis through the production of works. Students will acquire basic knowledge of sound processing and sound synthesis using Ableton Live, a music production software, and Max for Live, a device creation environment for it, and generate various music structures and synthesize / process sounds. By learning these techniques, it is expected that students will be able to experience the possibilities and attractions of computer music. In addition, since the content of this course can be applied to the production of various works using acoustic expressions such as media art and audiovisual works, students who are interested in these fields are also welcomed. It is desirable that students of this course have already taken "Computer Music 1" or have acquired the corresponding knowledge of digital sound.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.