Syllabus Search Result

In order to utilize full potential of information and communications technologies (ICTs) for promoting economic growth and addressing various social issues, we need to take various steps such as 1) development of relevant technologies, 2) development of product and services, 3) expansion of infrastructure, and 4) building capacity of human and society to be ready to use ICTs. Policy intervention is necessary as these goals are hard to accomplish, if solely relying on market competition. Understanding such policies required to support technology will be helpful to predict and take advantage of social dynamics related to new digital products and services that are emerging now and will emerge in the coming future.
In the first stage of this course, explanation will be provided on importance of social expansion of ICTs, mainly focusing on network technologies such as mobile communications and the Internet. Basic knowledge required to understand relevant policies will be also introduced.
Then the course will pick up specific case studies for each sort of ICT policy practices, to discuss how that policy making was triggered and what impacts the policy brought about, with viewpoints of international comparison. In addition, students will be invited to participate in more active discussion on certain topic on future policy direction, which will be shown later in the course.

In the age of artificial intelligence, it is desirable that text data
are treated like any other data. The use of text processing technology
will lead to significant value creation. Students are expected to
learn basic techniques of text processing and to develop their own
text processing applications. In this course, the emphasis is not on
understanding complex natural language processing theories, but rather
on the basic techniques and applications of text processing, the
possibilities of text processing, and the fun and excitement of using
it. At the end of the course, students will create their own text
processing applications using the skills and knowledge they learned in
the course.

The acquisition of communication based foreign language skills, which students can competently practice in their daily life, is the top priority goal of German education at SFC. In this course new topics and grammar will be introduced every week. The learning materials are developed to match the student’s school life, area of study and personal interests while studying at SFC. The steps of the grammar lessons as well as the important subjects are all based on the curriculum at SFC. The students will learn around 10 key sentences as well as 40 to 50 words per week. In one semester they will be freely able to communicate with 100 to 150 key sentences and 700 words. Students who will complete the intensive courses 1 and 2 will be able to acquire all basic German grammar, which will be equivalent to the A2 level of CEFR.

From the viewpoint of fusion field of clinical psychology,developmental psychology and psychoanalysis, students can learn interpersonal relationship and communications,as well as understanding self and others experientially through various exercises. This course is not for the students who wants to be a professional communicator, but for those who feel difficulties with interpersonal communications, helping them developing communication skills so that they can live everyday life more easily.

我が国の平均寿命はほぼ世界最長、乳幼児死亡率はほぼ世界最低である等、我が国の社会保障制度が優れているという指標は枚挙にいとまがない。本講義では、この我が国の社会保障制度の特徴、その長所と短所、我が国から得られる教訓等について、制度の背景となる社会事情も含めて理解を深めるとともに、他国において社会保障制度を構築し、あるいは他国における社会保障制度をより改善する際に有用な知識や手法を身につけることを目指す。講義においては我が国の個々の制度（医療、介護、年金、労働保険、生活保護等）を取り上げるとともに、学生に諸外国（たとえば留学生の出身国等。これに限らない。）の社会保障制度について短い中間レポート（受講者に公開される）を書いてもらうこととする（これにより受講者は他国の制度について、また日本制度との違いについても併せて理解することができ、また我が国の制度（特に医療制度）が「特殊過ぎて直接は他国に応用できない」という点を補えるというメリットがある）。GIGAプログラムの一環として英語で授業を行う。

＊4月9日更新