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The focus for this course is the expanded contextual relationship of the arts to society, politics, culture and history, with a special emphasis on environmentalism and human rights. Supported by reference to Post War art & culture and through seminars and workshops, students study concepts relating to relevant creative expression and use this knowledge to present projects about art & context during the semester, concentrating on Artists Tackling Global Issues. In addition to the development of critical thinking skills, students develop the following English language skills: listening and note taking, reading, writing, seminar participation, discussion, debate and presentation. The course is best suited to students who are comfortable taking instruction and participating in class in English. Students who are interested in Architecture, Design, Urban Planning, and Media will especially benefit from this course.
The goal of this course is to enhance the English language abilities and leadership qualities of the students. It will introduce them to various discussion formats, challenging their critical thinking and problem-solving abilities. In the concluding weeks, the students will showcase their learning by organizing and conducting discussions on topics of their preference, assessed through regular class participation, homework assignments, and peer assessment.
Language and Culture Exchange with Congo in Reality . Mainly on Campus, 4 times on-line.
- What is sustainability to enforce our mutual understanding through a language and culture exchange program?
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO AFRICAN COUNTRIES? HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO AN AFRICAN COUNTRY, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO(DRC)? OR HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF OUR "CONGO ACADEX PROJECT", WHICH IS 11 YEARS OLD? IF NOT, WHY DON'T YOU COME AND JOIN US AND OPEN THE DOOR WIDE OPEN TO THE WORLD OF AFRICA-JAPAN FUTURE? THIS SEMESTER WE ARE HAPPY TO INFORM YOU THAT WE STARTED A NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH INDIA. YOU WILL LEARN THE HISTORICAL PARTNERSHIP AMONG AFRICAN COUNTRIES,JAPAN, AND INDIA. YOU ARE SURE TO HAVE A BRODER PERSPETIVE OF THE RELATIONS OF THE THREE COUNTRIES.
THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO ENFORCE AND TO SHARE THE INTRODUCTION AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF 3 COUNTRIES:HISTORY, CULTURE, EDUCATION, ECONOMICS, NATIONALITY,ETC.
•THE GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO FIND WHAT WE CAN DO AND HOW WE CAN COLLABORATE FOR THE SAKE OF THE FUTURE OF 3 COUNTRIES.
In this course you will have a chance to learn about people in Japan who are doing good for Japan's future in terms of protecting the environment, building communities and setting up a viable business. You will also have a chance to discuss with students from foreign countries. You will learn, watch and hear about their daily lives and work.
How to Successfully Bring a Product or Service to Market Using Online Marketing
***Please note that eight classes will be held live on campus, and six classes will be held live on Zoom. You must attend and be able to participate in real-time in both formats, not by a class recording or on-demand.***
In this class, you will learn and apply marketing strategies to create two online marketing presentations
1. A YouTube Marketing Consulting project
2. A Marketing AI project
You will learn and apply the following: market research, YouTube analytics, salesmanship and copywriting, Internet ad creation, YouTube video creation, and marketing AI.
The course will use active learning in every class (discussion and group work).
Each week, a short lecture will be followed by a hands-on activity to put the information learned into action. Some activities will be done individually, but several activities will be group-based. Homework will be given every week, including several discussions and presentations.
By the end of the class, you will have learned about several areas of online marketing and improved your presentation skills in different formats.
Learners will have the opportunity to explore and apply sustainability concepts in real life contexts. We will look especially at sustainability in the land environment of coastal communities.
Are you confident speaking English in front of people? Are you comfortable presenting in English? In this course, you will use drama games, role plays, and techniques of Story Theatre to practise story telling in English. In an active environment you will work in teams to present stories using story-telling, acting, movement and even music if you want to.
Learners will have the opportunity to explore and apply sustainability concepts in real life contexts. We will look especially at sustainability in the land environment of coastal communities.
Improvisation!
Improvisation is speaking, acting or creating something without having prepared it. How do people do that? Where do they get their ideas from? And where do they get the confidence? Let's find out! You will play games together. You will learn to generate ideas, be flexible in your thinking, both work with a team and be confident improvising by yourself. Let's enjoy the thrill of trying something outside your comfort zone.
Your final project will be a group performance.
Improvisation!
Improvisation is speaking, acting or creating something without having prepared it. How do people do that? Where do they get their ideas from? And where do they get the confidence? Let's find out! You will play games together. You will learn to generate ideas, be flexible in your thinking, both work with a team and be confident improvising by yourself. Let's enjoy the thrill of trying something outside your comfort zone.
Your final project will be a group performance.
An Introduction to India
The course will help students understand the ideas connected to modern India on key themes and develop analytical and presentation skills. Students will study the making of India and its diverse politics, cultures, ideas and traditions. The course will be based on group discussions in class and end-semester project presentation. The presentation theme will be decided in class based on discussion with the instructor.
The course is firmly based on the idea that language is a powerful reflection of cultural values, and therefore uses translation as a means to explore the workings and characteristics of our own language as well as those of English. Making use of subtitled/dubbed movies and TV shows as material, we will mainly work on Japanese to English translations. In every class, we will challenge ourselves with the task of creating our own "sub-channel" scripts or subtitles. It is an activity-based course in which students are expected to learn from practical experience and experimentation. Creativity, imagination, and humor will be highly appreciated. We will also be working towards a common goal- producing a dubbed ("fukikae") English version of a segment from a Japanese video of your choice in groups. In the beginning of the course we will work on English-language videos translating the subtitles or dubbed versions and "re-creating" the English scripts. After writing Japanese dub scripts for English videos for a few weeks, we finally move on to using Japanese materials to create the English versions.
In class, we will use short video segments and work on the translation in pairs or small groups. Class activities will basically follow the same procedure every week:
1. Watching the video segment
2. Translating and discussing in pairs or groups
3. Presenting the script and sharing each other's work
4. Comparing our versions with the original version
5. Discussing the work and material
In this course you will have a chance to learn about people in Japan who are doing good for Japan's future in terms of protecting the environment, building communities and setting up a viable business. You will also have a chance to discuss with students from foreign countries. You will learn, watch and hear about their daily lives and work.
In this course, Communicating across Cultures, each lesson throughout this course will take on a task-based approach to English language learning, and each classroom task is (1) goal-oriented, (2) content focused, (3) has a real outcome, and (4) reflects real-life language use and language needs.
building tools such as understanding collocations, word forms, and connotation.
During the lessons for this course, students are given preparation for the task through different activities: the target language of the lesson is presented and practiced, there are pronunciation exercises on an area related to the target language, and finally students will practice target language through a consequential task, which enables students to practice language in a meaningful context. While Communicating across Cultures is organized around activities and tasks, vocabulary building also an integral part of the course and should help students develop essential communication skills in English.
This course focuses on the essential parts of speech, common abbreviations, and changes that occur in stress, rhythm and intonation in the English language through some of the most popular songs in contemporary music.
Throughout this course, various aspects of the English language will be examined, including nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, as well as common abbreviations. The course also introduces stress and rhythm in English and how it can be affected when used in songs.
To enhance our understanding of these concepts, the course uses some of the biggest and most popular songs in contemporary music as our listening material, providing a practical and relatable context for the English language learning.
This is a learner-centered course with a student-generated materials being used for classwork and homework.
This course involves pair-work and small group group-work to complete tasks and activities, and vocabulary related to rock and pop music and genres will also be discussed throughout the course.
By the end of this course, students should have a better understanding of the essential parts of speech, common abbreviations, and changes in stress and rhythm in English, and be able to apply these concepts to your own listening and speaking skills, and be able to enjoy listening to popular music with greater confidence.
English Section has its own on-line syllabi, please check the syllabus of each class you would like to take through the following URL.
【Project English A】* http://english.sfc.keio.ac.jp/syllabus/list.php?level=A
This class is suitable for students who enjoy reading and feel challenged to analyze the stories, and use imagination to write further to develop the stories. The selection chosen for this class are taken from the work of famous writers with diverse cultural and ethnic background, and protagonists with variety of moods, styles, subjects, and themes. Students will read short fictions ranging from 500 to 3,000 words that are appropriate in content and vocabulary, engaging and relatively easy to comprehend.
In this class, you will read some famous Japanese poets from the Meiji through roughly the early Shōwa era. Most of the reading will be in Japanese. You will improve your English writing and translation skills by translating poems into English. You will also write your own original English poems! We will look at haiku, tanka, and more modern styles of poetry. Every week we will have discussion activities. You will work with classmates to translate and write poems. There will also be some "Poetry Projects" where you will read your translated and original poems to your classmates and give each other feedback. As part of these projects, you will submit your poems in English and receive feedback from the teacher.
In this class you will listen to a variety of materials (podcasts, music, fiction/nonfiction, etc.) and answer moderately challenging questions about them. You will work at your own pace. By listening to a wide range of content, you will develop confidence in your ability to understand authentic spoken English.
This class is suitable for students who enjoy reading and feel challenged to analyze the stories and use imagination to write further to develop the stories. The selection chosen for this class are taken from the work of famous writers with diverse cultural and ethnic background, and protagonists with variety of moods, styles, subjects, and themes. Students will read short fictions ranging from 500 to 3,000 words that are appropriate in content and vocabulary, engaging and relatively easy to comprehend.
In this class students will take part in discussions as well as debates to enhance their English and communication skills.
We shall read news articles on a wide range of world affairs. The course aims to develop students' (i) reading skills, (ii) vocabulary and (iii) understanding of the issues our world is facing. We start with articles from The Economist and later more liberty will be given to text selection. When reading a text, not just Japanese translation but other approaches, e.g. paragraph summary, logical analysis, and English paraphrase, will also be adopted.
The goal of this class is to enable students to explain modern Japanese culture in their own words. This semester, we will particularly focus on the seasonal events and customs that give life in Japan a yearly rhythm. Students will learn to explain these in English and give presentations both in groups and alone.
This course aims to develop students’ listening ability and students’ recognition, understanding and use of the parts of speech in English. Students will listen to contemporary rock and pop songs at natural speed in order to get accustomed to phonological changes in, rhythms, pitch and intonation of English as it appears in songs. Students will also learn abbreviations, phrases, and expressions typically found in English song culture. The ultimate goal of this course is to develop students’ listening ability so that they can grasp listening for specific information.
Throughout this Grammar through Rock and Pop Music course, students will be exposed to and given practice with the parts of speech in English through cloze activities based on some of the biggest selling rock or pop music. Over the final weeks of the course, student-generated material will be utilized in class.
This course involves pair-work and small group group-work to complete tasks, exercises, and activities, and vocabulary related to rock and pop music and genres will also be looked at throughout the course.
Academic Writing Foundations introduces students to the process of academic writing. It will give ample practice and reinforcement of writing skills by utilizing peer brainstorming, analyzing model paragraphs, identifying and practicing topic sentences, supporting sentences to correctly structure writing. The course is designed to use the students' experience as a base for writing, and classroom tasks will be guided to develop proficiency.
Presented as a foundation level course, it should meet the needs of lower-level learners through practice in basic grammar, vocabulary and spelling. This course also provides explanations, student writing models, and meaningful practice opportunities. In the latter half of the course, students will move from creating sentences to creating meaningful paragraphs with topic sentences, supporting sentences, and concluding sentences.
During the course, writing tasks will focus on writing as yourself for the teacher, and the process will involve gathering ideas, organizing ideas, and turning these ideas into written text. Corrective feedback will be given and submitted texts will be edited.