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In the "Impression Management" course, we will examine what impressions we make of ourselves and others, and what role impressions can play in facilitating the communication processes. Specifically, we will explore the exchange of impressions by paying attention to subtle behaviors, focusing on small gestures and occasions in our day-to-day activities.
Basic Course 2 is for the students who want to learn Chinese as a “Second language” .The textbook and the teaching materials are same as the one used in Intensive courses, but there are more students in Basic Course (30 to 40 students in each class) . Japanese is also allowed in the class.
Basic 2 will study lesson 8- 14.
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.
In Japan, where the birthrate is declining and the population is aging rapidly, business innovation have been occurring in various fields in order to solve social issues that cannot be addressed by conventional systems. In this class, you will learn about business and management in the field of healthcare, with the perspective of "human security." Specifically, we aim to delve into the cases of long-term care businesses that support the lives of the elderly, social entrepreneurs who are trying to solve problems in system gaps and problems in local communities, and understand their significance and strategies.
Classes consist of discussions using the case method teaching method held at business schools, and lectures by outside guest lecturers who are on the front lines.
Digital Fabrication is the technology which enables us to directly making things from digital data. 3D Printer, Laser cutter, CNC milling machine and Digital sewing machines are available here in SFC Media center. In this lecture, we talk about advanced use of Laser cutter based on geometric "ORIGAMI" theory. Through this class, you will be able to fabricate morphing objects for any design fields.
In this class, students experiences basic methods of experiments in cognitive psychology. Students first participates several experiments and learn how to analyze the data. Through a group work, students then design an experiment, collect data, analyze them, and give a presentation.
人工衛星や有人航空機、無人航空機（UAV）に搭載された様々なセンサを用いた環境情報の取得（リモートセンシング）には多くの技術が応用されており、近年その発展は目覚ましく、地球規模の環境計測から自動運転車の開発まで、あらゆる場面で活用されている。本講義では、リモートセンシング、写真測量、GIS（地理情報システム）、GNSS（衛星測位システム）、UAV、地形解析等をキーワードとして、様々なセンシング技術の基礎とそれらを用いた環境情報の取得と分析、また日常生活への応用事例を含めて、実演・実習を交えて幅広く紹介する。
The aim of this course is to provide knowledge of experiments for life science. In the class, students study the basic skills for experiments of DNA and protein.
The aim of this course is to acquire some general experimental procedures and knowledge for biological experiment studies.
This class deals with what human personality is and how it develops using psychoanalytical developmental theories from Freud to the modern infant researchers. And then it shows how disturbances in early years lead to psychopathology, holding Autism Spectrum Disorders and the survivors of child abuse up as examples.
Students will deepen understanding of their own personality development through their report on personal history.
In our daily life, our sensory systems are detecting various types of information about environments inside/outside of our body which varies from hour to hour. Our movements are well-modulated by utilizing such sensory information which is integrated within our brain. In addition, sensory systems are also associated with reflexes (=involuntary bodily response to some stimuli ) . By utilizing such reflexes, we can prevent from some dangers quickly without thinking. As such, sensory systems play important roles for safe and grateful life.
In this course, we are regarding humans as systems which involve "inputs" and "output", and are learning sensory physiology (structures and functions of various sensors within our body / mechanisms of our perception and cognition) and psychology (how our mental process is associated with our cognition and action). Due to time constraints, we are focusing on somatosensory and visual systems in this course.
This course covers basic topics in cognitive psychology, including memory, perception and attention, conceptual representation, reasoning and decision making, language learning and processing, and relation between language and cognition.
See the Japanese version.
The brain science consists of many disciplines. This class is a comprehensive and synthetic introduction to the brain science by understanding neurophysiological structures and psychological behaviors.
Most athletes are having physical training well based on sports science, and making efforts to effectively improve their sports performances. However, sports science is not only for athletes. Understanding sports science would be valuable for considering the ways for living a long and healthy life. In this course, we are aiming to learn the basis of our body and movements, and reconsider our own health, based on various findings from researches in the field of sports sciences.
This course provides the effective coaching methods which make better human relationships between the coaches and the athletes, and among the team mates to enhance the quality of the performance on each field. Based on the Life Style Program Method, students will be required to propose the way to motivate the athletes to fulfill their potential. For the sake of making good learning effects, class members will be active participants of every activity such like discussions, group works, and so fourth.
This lecture offers students to learn the principles and applications of global and local environmental issues in systems perspective. We will start from the global movements on the global warming and then learn the basic elements of environment including air, soil, water and plants. Then we will learn the stocks and flows of the elements in the perspective ecosystems and services. With this fundamental knowledge, students will be able to understand the background of global environmental policies and think to act proactively in research and daily life.
We require to conduct many surveys for special planning and designing. Especially, surveys of organisms become more important because nature and biodiversity conservation is necessary for sustainable development. Students will learn many kinds of field surveys based on knowledge of ecology. All field surveys should be conducted on SFC. Students will learn how to use a topographical map, find a plant species in a plant guide, plant, bird, insect surveys, etc. After the surveys, students will learn the methods of analysis. The goal is to understand the methods, identify the species, and analyze data through lectures and field works.
Many people feel powerless in the face of the climate crisis, but the choices that we make as individuals have social, political and economic consequences that affect our living environment. By addressing some of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, students in this course will investigate ways that people can start living their lives in a sustainable way. The course will be divided into four units: 1) Supporting Local Business, 2) the Satoyama Concept / Organic Farming, 3) Waste Prevention, and 4) Corporate Responsibility. Students will be expected to research a short profile (one A4 page) of a business or community organisation for each unit to share with the class. These may be done as individuals or in pairs.
Design maintaining nature capital and conserving ecosystem service is necessary for sustainable development in urban and rural areas and natural reserve. The design with nature using ecosystem services wisely is called ecological design. In the class, students study ecological design concepts, spatial planning, natural and living materials for design, nature restoration, and monitoring methods through a whole process of a project. Students should understand natural processes and basic concepts and methods of ecological design in the class. There will be lectures, including guest ones, fieldwork, and group work. Also, there should be some reports during and after class.
There is common difficulties and challenge in design of artifact today.Product design, Architecture design and Environmental design have to be situated in a context logicaly with both intuitive sense and rational methodology to creat it . By investigationg and about relationship between design and information technologies from many aspects, this subject will become more scientific and promising.
Espacially, when a media to connect reality and design is sifting towards data repreesentation, it became possible to be computationally processed, shared, and simulated. We start taking advantages of very compricated status of geometry with an algorithmto adapt functional requirements of different environmental factors such as structure, sound, heat, light energy etc .
Furthermore it will became more comprehensive issue for us when it is connected to the technology of manufacture and construction, and continuous autonimity of atifact such as Io. Students of this class will learn hulistic idea of cognitive, philosophical, tectonic, socio-cultural factor of influence in current information technologies to human attitude of creation.
Students learn the relationship between human life and the environment in urban areas. Environmental problems have become more severe in the history. Notably, the population in urban areas increased dramatically, and urban environmental problems had to be resolved in many ways after industrial evolution. Open space and urban greenery have played a significant role in human life. At the end of the class, students consider sustainable urban living in the future.
The purpose of this course is to consider the problems of contemporary society from the perspective of the humanities. Before we optimistically assume that the world of globalization is a world connected by a single set of values, we must begin by asking the question: do people really understand each other? For people to communicate with each other, words are needed, but can these words function as a transparent and colorless tool? And when we talk about "people" and "people", do they really communicate with the same values? With these questions in mind, this course will examine the meaning of "language" and "people" from the perspectives of philosophy, literature, history, and art, before turning to actual events.
This lecture aims to understand the basis of Islamic teachings. In the first half, you will learn the Islamic teachings along the "five practices and six beliefs of Islam" that Muslims practice and believe. In the second half, individual themes related to contemporary social problems such as women, science and halal will be discussed. The main subject of the lecture is Islam as a teaching, but the lecture will be delivered with showing the actual situation and problems of the modern world between Muslims and non-Muslims and comparing teaching and reality.