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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.
This class is organized by researchers from not only inside cyber-informatics division in SFC, but also outside SFC. All the speakers are at the top class. The topics include human-computer interaction, signal processing, medical informatics, data system.
This course covers building construction methods as the basis for architecture.
We will focus on learning practical techniques and methods for making laws.
We will learn from the establishment of the law to the utilization, for example, ①What background should the law create? ②How is the law created? ③How to apply and utilize the law？
Therefore, we will challenge various tasks.
I hope that this lesson will provide an opportunity to think about how to implement laws that make use of SFC technology.
（Please note that animation may be used as a material for legal analysis.）
Through this workshop, students will learn policy making processes for institutional solution, using materials on ICT (information communication technology) field rapidly changing.
There are two types of bills to be enacted at the Diet. One is to be submitted by the government (Cabinet submission bills) and another to be submitted by Diet members (Diet member submission bills). Among them, most of the bills to be submitted by the Cabinet will be formulated based on reports discussed by councils, committees and study groups etc. composed of external experts, established by ministries which are required to submit bills.
In this workshop, I will first give lectures on the basic knowledge on legislation (such as the process up to the establishment of law) and the information and communication fields such as the Internet and digital broadcasting.
We will learn about "how to make laws (policies)", through the presentation and discussion by students on ① how to discover real problems, ② how to choose solution methods, and ③ how to make compromises among interested parties.
In addition, this workshop will not deal with the technical wording on how to write laws.
This course will explain what contracts are, why contracts needed, how contracts work and more by verifying various contracts. The students will learn about basis of contracts in business through case studies.
Learn the English proficiency required to prepare legal documents and contracts, and understand the legal system in Japan. We also plan to invite active lawyers with overseas qualifications (for example, the United States) as guest speakers, depending on the progress.
In this class, students will learn how research works should do, how topic should be set, how academic paper should be written.
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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.
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).
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.
Natural environment as a composition of ecosystems provides a variety of ecosystem services to human beings. however, Its capacity to accommodate human need is limited. When the pressure exceed the capacity, ecosystems may change irreversibly and enter to a unstable and unsustainable state. This sounds self-evident to every one but on paper only, no real experience. This course interpret high resolution images and calculate the land price, agricultural products, and CO2 absorptions through simple exercise. Through the processes we will learn the procedure of ecosystem assessment, the knowledge to understand the status and functions, and services of environment. By putting the results on the frame of stock and flow we will rethink the role of land capital, industrial capital and natural capital in modern society, and clarify the precondition of sustainability.
“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.
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.