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“The Limits to Growth” (by The Club of Rome), published in 1972, noted that "the global system of nature in which we all live – probably cannot support present rates of economic and population growth much beyond the year 2100." However, the Ecological Footprint*, an indicator of the impact of human activities on the global environment, has doubled since the 1970s, reaching 1.7 times the global supply of ecosystem services (biocapacity) that the Earth can produce and absorb. In particular, in our country, the production and consumption are separated, and the cost of cleaning up the resulting pollution is not sufficiently taken into account (the environmental burden is passed on to other regions and future generations). As a result, environmental problems in developing countries are becoming more serious, and the effects of climate change are gradually becoming a reality in the world.
In this course, through group works, we will try to set the boundaries of the environment and manage natural resources. After defining the scale of the environment to be managed, students will belong to a community that uses the environment, and each student will play a role within the community and try to "design" a way to make the limited natural resources sustainable.
Since the class requires a lot of basic information as a basis for discussion, the tasks assigned in preparation for the class are mainly to collect materials and organize data.
*Ecological Footprint: The amount of demand for ecosystem services needed to produce the resources we consume and to absorb the CO2 generated by socioeconomic activities, expressed in terms of the area of the earth.

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This class will focus on sharing the skills, approaches and ways of thinking, which are considered to be the essentials of management consulting activities.
Management consulting is the practice to support management executives in improving or strengthening their performances.
The course will provide opportunities to learn the basics of management consulting methods and to experience applying such basic approaches, through rigorous group work studies.

What is human capital?

Why is it important to invest in (all) people?

How have countries successfully invested in people?

These are the three central questions we will discuss in this course.

The purpose of this course is to study the systems and mechanisms of organizational communication and their impact on organizational effectiveness and dynamism of interpersonal relations. This course mainly focuses on several theories in organizational psychology such as leadership, motivation, organizational development, career development, and cross-cultural management. In the first half of this course, students will learn these theories. In the latter half of this course, students will study organizational communication from a practical perspective. Organizational communication has been becoming more important, as organizational members (corporate employees) have been getting increasingly diversified. Although the teaching style of this course is lecture, students are expected to learn organizational communication deeply enough to apply it to their future career.

This class aims to help students to improve their negotiation skills through exercises, class discussions, and lectures.

Public Relations (PR) is a very important activity for increase corporate value for not only companies but also nonprofit organizations such as government and NPO.

In this class, we will mainly learn the marketing theory, the historical changes and cases of PR about how organizations can build and maintain better relationships with public.

The participants will acquire the way of thinking the PR strategy.

This course is a two-period, intensive course that combines lectures, exercises, and group work to experience experiments and research on basic concepts, theories, and models in marketing and consumer research. This year, we will take up the development of university education services as an issue and examine "Analysis and Strategy of Market Environment", "Consumer Purchasing Decision", "Consumption Pattern Analysis", "Price and Promotion", "Brand Building" and "New Products and Popularization". Participants will be asked to present their marketing plans at the final debriefing session (as a group) and to submit a report on each survey/experiment (as an individual).

Social entrepreneur and social business are the business that aims to solve social problems(Welfare, environmental measures, education, poverty, and international cooperation) such as the government and the market has not been able to solve so far.
Solving social problems requires a new way of thinking that connects people in difficult situations with social resources. Social entrepreneurs use business methods to ensure that the system is sustainable.
In recent years, with increasing interest in climate change and SDGs, many companies are also interested in social business.

This class is designed for students who will start up social business and who will work in the government, social enterprise　and foundation. They will learn the ideas and perspectives of social business, actually do the planning of social business.
Waiting for students who want to act themselves in order to create a good society.

In 2007, the United Nations estimated that, for the first time, more than half of the world’s population lived in cities. The ongoing urbanization of the human population represents an enormous change for our environmental, economic, social, and cultural practices. The creation and operation of cities is a leading contributor to climate change, and the way we manage architecture, infrastructure, and landscape must change if we are to avoid its worst effects. Designing sustainable cities has become an imperative. At the same time, the city is a cultural landscape. From its origins in antiquity, the city has been a place for the exchange of goods and ideas and place for us to congregate and share in the riches of a public realm. Cities are, perhaps, our greatest artistic achievement as a species.

The central question asked by this course is: how do we balance the ecological and social imperatives of our time with the cultural and aesthetic functions of the city? There is no easy answer to this question, but in our pursuit of one we will investigate theories, technologies, and practices of city making in broad terms. Historical episodes in the development of architecture, infrastructure, and urban planning will be examined to provide context for our analysis of the contemporary city as a complex system. Throughout the course, both Japanese and global examples will be considered. Key topics covered include aesthetics, demographic change, design, energy use, economics, and social patterns insofar as these influence the processes and outcomes of urbanization. Students are encouraged to be critical of the concepts presented and to form and express their own opinions.

Efforts to preserve the global environment are one of the greatest challenges of the present age. Thus, it is inevitable to have a considerable involvement in environmental issues, irrespective of the area of specialization. The field of environment is extremely broad. It involves a wide range of stages from the earth to life to human society. For this reason, subjects related to the environment are currently being segmented and specialized.

With this context, this course helps the students to learn specialized knowledge in the field of extremely wide sectors related to environment in order to have a solid foundation of this diverse topic. A comprehensive review of a wide range of environmental fields from a unified viewpoint of science and technology is provided. This helps in deepening knowledge while viewing the entire environmental field, even if the student advances to one specific areas for his/her research or profession. In each lesson, we will take up specific cases, that can easily be understood with view point of science and technology application in the field of environmental management.

It is true that the products of science and its applications are of significance to our lives, but at the same time there are still many social problems which cannot be solved by current science and technology, or they themselves even generate new risks to the society. This lecture course provides you an opportunity to consider how to face these problems.

There are many classes about environment at SFC, but there is no class about nature except this class. In this class we deeply discuss about nature, environment and natural environment. Students should consider a future society based on natural environment through the discussion. Students have to read documents or books and watch movies which are shown in this syllabus before a class. In a class students discuss about a theme.

この講義では、環境リスクの重要な要素である災害リスクに焦点を当て、住宅、保健、水、教育、災害復旧の分野におけるさまざまなイノベーションの事例に関するケーススタディ、特に、アジアの開発途上国の例を紹介します。

Learn remote sensing of satellites and how to use a software for GIS, QGIS.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.