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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.

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 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.

This is an undergraduate level econometrics course. In this course, we will start with a review of probability and statistics that are the basics of econometrics. After studying a linear regression model with one regressor, together with its statistical inferences, we will extend our models so that we can have more than one regressor. Issues that interfere with desirable properties of our estimators, such as errors that have autocorrelation or heterosckedasticity, will then be studied. The last part of this course will be devoted to non-linear models, regression with binary dependent variables, instrumental variable regression, and time series regression.

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 spring semester, but the course activities continue in the summer vacation and the fall 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 class aims to help students to improve their decision-making skills by using the insights of behavioral economics, group dynamics, and organizational behavior..

In this class, we will discuss the issue of ethics in management.

In this class, I will give lectures on the theory of sociology after the after the 1960s, influenced by phenomenology. First, I will explain the basics of structuralism and linguistic theory, and then give lectures on how it was applied to various sociological analysis of issues such as identity, hierarchical structure, ethnicity, nationalism, and the world economy.

The main purpose of this course is to introduce to graduate students in the GR programme basic methodologies in the fields of global governance, international relations (IR) and area studies. The course is to be conducted in Japanese.

This is a course designed for students who are eager to improve their basic speaking and listening skills.
We will meet twice a week for a total of 4 periods (Koma).
In the 1st period, we will learn TOEFL test taking strategies; focusing mainly on the listening section.
In the 2nd period, we will focus on improving communication skills by taking part in pair work and group discussions, also giving individual and group presentations.

This is a course designed for students who are eager to improve their basic speaking and listening skills.
We will meet twice a week for a total of 4 periods (Koma).
In the 1st period, we will learn TOEFL test taking strategies; focusing mainly on the listening section.
In the 2nd period, we will focus on improving communication skills by taking part in pair work and group discussions, also giving individual and group presentations.

The main research theme is research and development of information systems related to the Internet.
We will carry out research activities that research and development of protocols, such as IPv6-related, computer systems, security, and distributed systems, which are the next-generation core protocols, and the global expansion of research results developed through international standardization.

Please refer to the Keio University Syllabus / Timetable.
https://gslbs.adst.keio.ac.jp/keiojp_syllabus