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The purpose of the this course is to reviewing and to understanding the key issues of Life-time Career Development. The course also covers topics such as work life balance, second career for seinor workers. The course also puts heavy emphasis on understanding actual career design processes and development of individuals, rather than explaing the theoretical frame work of career development.
The course invites practioners who engage in services to support career design and development of workers in thier firms. It is our aim that participating students of the course will gain knowledge and practices for their acutual career design prosesses.
Therefore, the students will gain practical knowledge and practices to enhance capability to develop their own career development programs in the future.
This course is about International Business. The course explains about the firms that operate in the international business environment from two perspectives: management studies as practical knowledge and management studies as a field of social science. Thus, the course is designed to introduces the participants basic theories related to international business and the reality of global business operation in practice.
The objective of this course to understand how to apply the economic theories and econometrics methods in analysing education and human capital accumulations in developing countries.
This class will be conducted in Japanese. Please refer to the Japanese page.
In this course, we share how to create pattern language, which is a method to scribe out the practical knowledge related to a certain field of knowledge. The original idea of using pattern languages to write out design knowledge was proposed by architect Christopher Alexander. The late 1970’s book he wrote with his colleagues contained 253 patterns on practical architectural design. In the context of architecture, the pattern language was developed in order to serve a lingua franca for designing buildings between architects and residents. Alexander anticipated that people could get involved in the designing process of their homes and towns. Ten years after the book was published, Alexander’s idea of pattern languages was adopted in the field of software design. Since the 1990’s, the fields in which pattern languages are applied have shown even more expansion to cover creative human actions such as education, learning, presentation, collaboration, social innovation, policy making, disaster prevention, life design and even beauty in daily life. Pattern languages are now used to connect all kinds of people with all kinds of different experiences. The patterns help bring light to the less noticeable parts of a person’s experience, so the person can reconsider the experience to talk about it and share it with others. In the classes, there will be many activities to help deeply understand how to create pattern languages and experience them in group work.
The course examines inter-relationship between politics and economics in the field of international trade. The course focuses on in particular the linkage between the trade multilateralism embodied in the WTO and trade regionalism in the form of preferential trade arrangements such as FTA and customs union.
Social participation of individuals is one of many ways to address issues in a community or society. There is a growing expectation to the social participation of individuals from the perspectives of addressing diverse social issues and individual autonomy, but in reality, it is difficult to make one’s first step. This course is an experience learning program in which students take initiatives to interact and cooperate with NPO staff, housewives and employees of public and private sectors to propose an experiment or a suggestion for building a mechanism to enhance “social participation of individuals”. Through the process of learning, students will consider the significance and possibility of social participation of individuals. This course also aims to provide learning opportunities which can be an anchorage to position social engagement in one’s life-career.
Recently, social venture is gaining increasing attention. A typical case would be a creation of a new social service related to a life with more spiritual richness, or a use of business method to help solve or improve social issues due to rapid change in the society.
This course is not for internship in such social ventures (if you are interested in internship, consider “Internship in Nonprofit Organizations”). This course is for participating in practical social activities and gaining experience; it is an action-oriented and experience-based program aiming to enrich your career design options.
Internship is a valuable opportunity to experientially understand the meaning of “work”. The purpose of this course is to understand, through experience, the social significance and your personal value of working in the non-profit organizations.
You will participate in a 1-month internship during the summer vacation. Before going to internship, you will learn the basic manners and attitudes in classroom lectures during the spring semester. After internship, in the fall semester, you will review your experience, together with other members of the class. You will also think about your career development. The registration of this course is in the fall semester, but the course activity starts in the spring semester.
During the internship period, you need to be fully independent and responsible for your activities. As for the internship destinations, you can either chose from the list provided by the lecturer, or negotiate directly with an organization of your choice. (See the notes below for details.)
This course will give lectures on game theory to analyze the strategic interdependence of people and organizations in society, from the beginning to relatively advanced contents. Rather than pursuing mathematical rigor, I would like to give priority to students mainly to understand game theoretical way of thinking. Therefore, advanced mathematical knowledge is not required, but the explanation itself is quite logical.
The content to be dealt mainly with orthodox noncooperative game theory, but includes recent topics on bounded rationality (evolutionary game theory) and experiments in strategic interaction, and part of cooperative game theory. The participants of this lecture should not be satisfied with superficially describing complex social phenomena, but through active analysis using the framework of such game theory, I want you to acquire a clear understanding of the mechanism of social phenomena and flexible thinking that excludes fixed ideas on social problems.
This course is designed to learn advanced macroeconomics for students who already completead a coursework of basic economics.
Evolution of Life and Intelligence: Life is thought to have originated around four billion years ago, but what form did it take? And what are the driving forces and mechanisms behind the evolution of life, just through mutation and natural selection, from unicellular to multicellular organisms, from water to land, and eventually to the human species? We will also look at the origins and evolution of the brain, the ultimate organ. Emotions such as anxiety, anger, and joy are caused by fluctuations of substances within the brain, and genes are deeply involved in such personality traits as curiosity and optimism. We will also touch on depression, schizophrenia, memory impairment, hallucinations, and other disorders of brain function. We will finish with a look at life from the even grander perspective of the origin and evolution of the universe, and consider the possibilities of extraterrestrial life forms and the future of life on Earth.
The theme of this course is the "governance" of the "security" of Japan. Based on the overview of the police and criminal justice system, we will explore crime prevention, criminal statistics, juvenile delinquency, child abuse, and sexual crime, etc.
In the future era, it is essential to create new structures and methods. Every single person is really required to demonstrate creativity. Then, what should we do to think creatively and to create some creative places or team?
In this course, you will learn about the theory related to creativity and collaboration and also attractive cutting-edge cases, then you will try your own practice.
This course is to learn "public safety policy," which is to study how to protect indivuduals and society from anti-social behaviors such as crimes.
Safety is indispensable for free democratic society, but it does not exist a priori in our society. Please understand that safety is barely maintained by many people's efforts.
It is too simple to discuss the policy based on whether it is good or bad, or whether it properly restrains the government. In addition to feasibility of the policy, you need to think about the balance between cost and benefit of the policy and the balance between policy effect and freedom constraint.
We will explore law and policy for safer society in this course.
In this lecture, we deal with the characteristics and issues of three approaches related to public management ((1) Government (2) Market (3) Community)
Since year of 2020, the aim of this course is to help students developing skill in problem-finding, problem-solving and leadership, dealing with the basic concepts of SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP. The previous aim of this course is to help students acquire an understanding of the fundamental principles and values of SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP, however, it is now largely understood. On the other hand, learning process of SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP proved useful in developing skill in problem-finding, problem-solving and leadership.
Can you explain what is Natural Science, what are the differences between natural science and other systematized knowledges? Actually fruites of natural science give us the physical foundation of modern civilization. This course will cover the fundamentals of history and philosophy of natural science.
This is a course on American politics. Will focus on issues that are in dispute in American politics.