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This course is specially designed for students who want to learn French but wish to do so in a slower and relaxed pace. The class meets twice a week.
The course is co-taught by two instructors: a native French instructor and Japanese instructor.

This research project focuses on the technologies and societies basis on the internet.

In the technology side, we are implementing and demonstrating for the application and development of protocols and systems, for exsample, Communication System, Distributed Computing Environment, Web Architecture, Sensor Networking Technologies, Big Data System, Internet of Things and Future Internet Technologies.

In the social side, we are discussing the new rules for AI era as well as considering "How to create the future society" through internet researches and practicing the ideas.

This research project is cooperating with the class of postgraduate cource (Mobile wide area network), various labs in SFC laboratory (ex. Internet Research Laboratory, Auto-ID Laboratory, etc...), global standarization body (ex. IETF, W3C, ISO, etc...) and companies or other universities domestically and overseas.

Indie rock: Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock. As grunge and punk revival bands in the US and Britpop bands in the UK broke into the mainstream in the 1990s, it came to be used to identify those acts that retained an outsider and underground perspective. [from Wikipedia]

This class will explore indie rock from 1988 to 1998. It will be a firsthand account of album (cassettes/CDs) buying and concert going during that time period. We will discuss bands and solo artists within their cultural and historical contexts. We will analyze albums, song lyrics, music videos, and footage of live performances. We will have discussions based on these materials. Students are expected to participate enthusiastically. There will be weekly homework that relates to the in-class topics. There will be a midterm essay test and a final presentation.

Heavy Metal lyrics (late 1960s to present) course

Heavy metal: is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and the United States. With roots in blues rock, psychedelic rock, and acid rock, heavy metal bands developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and loudness. The lyrics and performances are sometimes associated with aggression and machismo. [from Wikipedia]

This class will explore heavy metal music from its late 1960s origins until the present day. We will discuss bands within their cultural and historical contexts. We will analyze song lyrics, albums, music videos, and footage of live performances. We will have discussions based on these materials. Students are expected to participate enthusiastically. There will be weekly homework that relates to the in-class topics. There will be a midterm essay test and a final presentation.(Updated Sep.21)

This course will use recent American movies to deepen students' understanding of US culture while boosting their vocabulary, and fine-tuning their listening skills. Among various other facets of US lifestyle, the movies we explore will relate to family, friendship, love, gender, race, work, success, and political issues. Students will be given regular viewing homework and written assignments. There will also be a midterm essay test. Class discussions will relate to cultural aspects of the films. Students should be the driving force of these discussions. Enthusiastic class participation is expected. The course will culminate in student presentations related to modern American cinema.

Students must have a Netflix account to join this course.

Indie rock: Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock. As grunge and punk revival bands in the US and Britpop bands in the UK broke into the mainstream in the 1990s, it came to be used to identify those acts that retained an outsider and underground perspective. [from Wikipedia]

This class will explore indie rock from 1988 to 1998. It will be a firsthand account of album (cassettes/CDs) buying and concert going during that time period. We will discuss bands and solo artists within their cultural and historical contexts. We will analyze albums, song lyrics, music videos, and footage of live performances. We will have discussions based on these materials. Students are expected to participate enthusiastically. There will be weekly homework that relates to the in-class topics. There will be a midterm essay test and a final presentation.

THE MONSTER SHOWED UP AFTER MIDNIGHT. As they do. But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting, the one from the nightmare he’s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming…

This monster is something different, something ancient, something wild. And it wants the truth. [From the back cover of the book]

In this class we will discuss Patrick Ness’s novel A Monster Calls (2011). Students will be given weekly reading assignments from the text, as well as corresponding homework that deals with the vocabulary, cultural aspects, and themes of the book. Class discussions will be based on the readings and a viewing of J. A. Bayona’s (2016) cinematic depiction of the story. Students should be the driving force of these discussions. Enthusiastic class participation is expected. There will be a midterm essay test, and a final presentation.

Students must buy the book (available at Keio Co-op Fujisawa store) for this course. Please buy the Candlewick Press illustrated edition of the novel as we will also discuss Jim Kay’s award-winning illustrations.

In this lecture, we will discuss various aspects of the role that the media plays in policy making. The media is called the Fourth Power after the government, diet and judiciary. In the past, the media such as newspapers and television were the mainstream, but digital media such as the Internet are also joining here. However, because the media acts as a check of power, it also plays a major role in public opinion formation. The two roles of power checking and public opinion formation will also play important roles in policy making. Those in charge of administration and those in charge of legislation especially emphasize the power of newspaper editorials. In this lecture, 11 editorial writers in charge of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun editorial and signature columns will discuss the role of the media in policy making in their respective fields of expertise. In the first half of the 13 lectures, we will discuss the relationship between media transformation by digitization and domestic policy formation, and in the second half, policy formation and media in each country such as the United States, China, and South Korea.

In Fundamentals of Information Technology 2, the goal is to take what you learned in Fundamentals of Information Technology 1 further and create a program of a certain size by yourself.

When creating a program, it is rare that you create everything yourself from nothing at all, and usually you create it using ready-made parts called libraries. There are many types of libraries depending on what you want to make, but this time we will use a library called Pyxel for making retro 2D games.

At first, we will use Pyxel to review Fundamentals of Information Technology 1 and study Python features that were not covered in Fundamentals of Information Technology 1. After that, we will make our own original game.

This research project focuses on the technologies and societies based on Cybersecurity & Digital Trust.
Cybersecurity & Digital Trust plays an essential role as a common infrastructure of present society.
This project wil explore Cybersecurity & Digital Trust issues both from technological and social aspects and study ways to resolve them.

From the technology side, we will be studying towards implementing and demonstrating of Symmetric Key and Asymmetric Key Encryption, as well as Public Key Infrastructre (PKI).

From the social side, we will be discussing new rules for Big data and AI era as well as considering "How to create the future society" through Cybersecurity & Digital Trust researches and practicing the ideas.

This research project is cooperating with the class of postgraduate course, various labs in SFC laboratory, global standardization bodies including IETF, ISO, ITU, NIST, ETSI, and companies or other universities both domestic and overseas.
Through these projects we would study ways of creating a world leading scheme in relation to society.

The acquisition of communication based foreign language skills, which students can competently practice in their daily life, is the top priority goal of German education at SFC. In this course new topics and grammar will be introduced every week. The learning materials are developed to match the student’s school life, area of study and personal interests while studying at SFC. The steps of the grammar lessons as well as the important subjects are all based on the curriculum at SFC. The students will learn around 10 key sentences as well as 40 to 50 words per week. In one semester they will be freely able to communicate with 100 to 150 key sentences and 700 words. Students who will complete the intensive courses 1 and 2 will be able to acquire all basic German grammar, which will be equivalent to the A2 level of CEFR.

This lab considers sports as a tool for solving social issues, and in addition to issues that exist in sports themselves, there are other fields relating to essential issues such as medical and welfare, education, engineering and management, etc.

The purpose of this project is to develop cross-disciplinary projects, collaborate with relevant people through discussions and group work, and achieve social implementation. This laboratory mainly focuses on fieldwork for the social implementation of social issues relating to sports and diversity.

The objective of this course is to understand the ‘trajectory’ of Japan-US Relations through historical analysis. The course will cover the period since Commodore Perry first came to Japan to the present. However, it will not simply be a history of state-to-state relations but more on how people in Japan perceived American presence in the Asia-Pacific region. The course is intended to explore and understand modern (近現代／KINGENDAI) Japan through the prism of Japanese perception of the US.

As an introductory course on Ecology, students will learn the ecology of organisms in four selected groups, which are abundant in the surrounding living environment but receive little attention. Throughout the course, students will acknowledge the diverse organisms living in various environments even within the everyday living area, and also gain skills on observing the organisms with their own point of view and presenting their thoughts with their own words.

Shoot and submit a video singing one song of your choice.
This class will help you refine your skills to express yourself by singing.
The purpose of this study is expanding the knowledge and improve skills of thinking by analyzing and studying more deeply in singing.

India being a diverse country, with a long history and close and strategic partnership with Japan, the course aims to enhance understanding on depth and diversity of India, and would explain the partnership areas of India Japan bilateral collaboration.