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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)
This lecture deals with the history, institutions, and policy of the health care and long-term care services.
Japan is facing a declining and aging population at a high speed that is not like any other in the world. While the decline in the working population is a drag on economic growth, the increase in the elderly population is a factor in the increase in social security benefits. In this class, students will start with a simple question about what the social security system is in the first place, learn basic knowledge and history of the current system, and then study the ideal way of future-oriented social security. I would like to provide students with an opportunity to understand the state of the current system and to think about the ideal way of the social security system from the viewpoint of solving social problems rather than those without a system.
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.
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.
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.
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 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).
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 class aims to help students to improve their negotiation skills through exercises, class discussions, and lectures.
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.
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.
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.
This course will be organized by seven faculties belonging to CB program.
A main faculty, Dr. Ushiyama, coordinates the course, and the other six faculties handle each two-successive classes by rotation. They will introduce research methods and philosophies in their own research fields through lectures, workshops, and group works.
The concept is an important tool to organize thoughts, to communicate between people from different areas, to anchor findings when doing research, and to explain the issue. Students can use concepts as tools to do research or examine a concept for their research.
The course will go over a number of key concepts in social development including Risks, the State, Community, the Individual among others. Case studies are also employed to facilitate the understanding and the use of the concepts. The students will be required to explore secondary resources to find relevant readings to the selected concepts and present the points taken from the readings for classroom discussions. Key reading assignments will be also provided during the course.
In each week, we will invite IAB scientists, Keio Ph. D students as well as two or three guest speakers, and discuss each topic provided by the speakers. Through this class, students aim to establish their “conceptual frameworks” in modern biology: strategy and the strategic way of thinking.
This course aims to understand the most advanced researches of the Graduate Project on Global Governance and Regional Governance (GR).
In this course, faculty members of GR project and guest speakers will have lectures on advanced research in each research field. This course will cover very wide aspects such as disciplines, research methods, approaches and many regions; and such knowledge would be helpful for policy making and finding resolutions of complicated problems.
GR students are strongly recommended to attend, but students from other projects are also welcome.
The aim of this course is to learn the basics and strategies of case study research. This course is designed for those students who would like to conduct researches in the fields of Social Sciences. Students will learn by reading text books and earlier studies, discussion, group work and presentation.Preparation for the lectures and submission of reports are aquired.
The goal of the course are to learn skills of designing case study research, critical reading of research and to improve quality of one's research design.
This lecture will be divided into two parts:
The first part will focus on climate risk reduction. With specific examples from different tools, the lecture will focus on climate change adaptation with cases from developing countries.
University students are in the final stage of adolescence. The task in adolescence is to establish their own identities. It is important for the students to find a most appropriate identity through the self-finding journey to find what I am. In the lecture, students learn ego development, freud's psycho analysis, Jung's analytical psychology,creativity and motivation theory and find their most appropriate way to develop their ability. The final object is to create personatities to be admirable.
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.
This is a course on American politics. The focus is on the dynamics of the political institutions.
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.