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What is transculturalism? Is it similar to multiculturalism or interculturalism? For us, it paves the way to a third possibility different from them, and this course aims to bring to light the scope and the potentiality of this concept.
The objective of transculturalism is not only to ensure the coexistence of cultural communities through a public recognition of their plurality. Nor does it simply consist of guaranteeing intercultural communications and compromises in order to protect the rights of citizens and to create national stability.
Transculturalism pays attention primarily to the individual who cuts across cultural borders and to the meaning of her or his experiences as a human subject.
Today, in this globalized world, it is a rather banal experience to encounter foreign cultures and discover others. Transcultural experience, however, is not to observe some cultures from the outside, but to experience them at once from the inside, which requires the individual to call into question her or his proper identity. As it were, because of taking root in several cultural communities through their language, one becomes aware that her or his identity is not entirely defined by her or his belonging to one of these cultures. In this sense, “tranculturation” is nothing less than ”the acquisition of a new code without losing the previous one.” (T.Todorov) Transculturalism, which is neither a shallow cosmopolitanism that ignores communal dimensions of culture, nor an unconditional praise of cultural plurality in its brightness, provides a unique domain and objective of research on human living in this world. This course investigates the meaning of transculturation given to human agents, particularly from the point of view of humanities.
国家が提供するサービスはどこまで市民生活の安全を支えることができるのか？本科目では、公共のサービスを提供する国家の役割を精査することで「人間の安全保障」（あるいはその欠如）を検討し、合わせてその限界が生み出すリスクを明らかにする。
公共のサービスを提供する国家（あるいはその権威の許で機能する政府）とそのコスト（税金など）を負担する市民は一定の契約関係にあると考えてよいが、この契約範囲の大小によっては国家は夜景国家とも福祉国家とも呼ばれる。この契約関係を前提として市民が営む「日常」とはどのようなものなのか？この契約を前提としても、国家の政策が市民全体で享受できるものであるとは限らないし、それどころか全く不十分である場合も多い。さらに、そうした政策は市民の自立性を犠牲にしてしまう場合も十分に考えられるし、そうした例も数多い。
この科目では上記のような疑問、課題をヘルス、治安、教育などの分野でのケースを複数の国の例を取り上げながら検討してゆく。
The core of the human intelligence lies in the fact that people learn and behave in a "situated" manner, dependent on the situation they are in. However, how human intelligence possesses that "situatedness" is still a mystery. Past researches on AI have not yet obtained any answers, even hypotheses.
Although the technology about deep learning is expected to bring huge impact on changes of the world, it theoretically will not give any answers to this problem at all.
This is the PROBLEM the current AI is faced with.
It is a high and hard obstacle. As long as the researchers do not get some ideas to go over it, the AI researches will not get a new future.
Having provided about this problem of AI, this lecture aims to encourage students think of their own intelligence.
This course employs case studies in its discussion of mobile and distributed programming space programming context-aware programming intellectual information space construction and ubiquitous service architecture.
This course is aimed to learn finance theory, particularly investment theory and derivatives.
The keywords are "risk" and "return."
We consider the problem of portfolio decision that individual investors make in financial markets and the equilibrium in this markets.
We can see many applications of these theory using historical financial data.
We learn a wide range of security knowledge specific example cryptography, authentication technology, security issues, security vulnerabilities, such as information security management standard. In addition, we understand the importance of the management of information security risk. Depending on the change, we will update from time to time in the contents.
Order to obtain a wide range of knowledge, several research reports are needed.
We have so many programming languages in the world. In this course, we investigate common concepts behind various programming languages. Our main goal is to gain the fundamental knowledge of computer science such as formal grammar, data types, programming paradigms, etc. through the concepts found in programming languages. Note that we focus on theoretical understanding, not practical skills of programming.
This studio aims to teach the basic architectural designing process dealing with the so-called architectural masterpieces of modern architecture. Firstly, students will make an analysis of a masterpiece house and secondly, they will be designing a house using the analysis result in an actual site.
Description of the assignment:
1) Choose a masterpiece house and make an analysis
Making a geometrical analysis of space, finding the core concept of the designing process and etc.
2) Design for an actual site
Students will use the result of their analysis from the first assignment and design a house for an actual site
Design of public space due to undergrounding of expressway in Nihonbashi
The target site will be the Nihonbashi River in and around in Chuo-ku, Tokyo.
Redevelopment projects are planned in more than 6 districts around the Nihonbashi River, and many new super high-rise buildings specialized for business are planned to be constructed, and along with this, a plan for undergrounding the Metropolitan Expressway is progressing.
As the Tokyo Metropolitan Expressway is underground and the Nihonbashi River is opened, it is required to enhance the public space for business people working in the district or local residents. Consideration of the public space on the waterfront Is in a hurry. Therefore, in this studio, the landscape and architectural forms will be designed for the purpose of public offering along the river, including future utilization of the current Shuto Expressway.
What kind of network, boundary, program, and form can a public space take into account how the river and its riverside space should be, the construction of unnecessary highways, and cooperation with the surrounding redevelopment plan? , We will conduct an online fieldwork-based survey and propose landscape and architectural designs.
"Human Movement Analysis", the students will learn how to observe human behavior and its methodology through the workshop. Fundamentally, the students will learn the physiological and biomechanical methodology in the semester. Heart rate, oxygen uptake, EMG are the topics in the physio. Motion capturte, high speed video analysis are the topics in the biomechanics.
We need knowledge of post process of the observed data set.
The students will learn both the experimental and analytical methodology through the workshop.
都市や地方地域の様相は様々な要因で変化し、それに伴いその空間も変容する。本講義では、都市空間や地方地域の変容がどのような力学の下で起るのか、その時にどのような条件を考慮に入れ、何を目標としてその再生を行われなければならないか、を具体的な都市再開発や地方再生の事例を挙げながら考察する。
本講座では、都市や地方が直面する様々な問題に向き合うための再設計について講義を行う。
日本の都市の歴史を日本固有のコミュニティ（「町」）から考証し、社会の成立ちと都市の形との関わりを探る。そして近年都市が直面する諸問題（震災、貧困、テロなど）を社会・文化・経済的側面から考え、そしてそれらが物理的な都市建築空間にどう反映されるかを事例研究から探る。
具体的な都市再設計事例として、東北復興、都市の密集地域と地方地域の再生、シリア難民問題、アフリカ都市再生などを挙げる。
３時限目に講義を行い、４時限目はそれについて議論を行う。
In this class, we study novel and advanced research subjects in the field of Information and Communication Technology.
The following subjects and new research activities are introduced and explained with actual experiments.
(1) Information system architectures:
processor, new device, system software, network, security, applications
(2) Language processors and Programming
(3) Multimedia data processing
(4) Operating systems
(5) Network architectures
(6) Novel computing:
ubiquitous computing, mobile computing
(7) Social computing environment and applications
(8) Wireless networks
(9) Data-mining and big-data analysis
(10) Artificial intelligence and natural language processing
(11) Neural computing and machine learning
(12) Database and knowledge base technology
(13) Human interface
(14) Cyber security and knowledge resources
In this course, guest speakers talk about various subjects on advanced biosciences and biotechnologies.
Sequence analysis is a broad field, covering any kinds of analyses of textual sequences; e.g. those representing genomes (DNA) and proteins (amino acids). The biological sequence analyses include determining genome structures, identifying protein-coding regions (genes), predicting gene function, inferring phylogenetic relationships, and ancestral reconstruction (Coghlan, 2011; Hall, 2017). Recent studies showed that genomics and phylogenetics can track spread and evolution of novel coronavirus ([https://nextstrain.org/]). The sequence analysis methods have been used not only in the field of biology, but also in genealogy of manuscripts (Barbrook et al., 1998) and quantitative evaluation of melodic similarity (Savage et al., 2018). Thus, text-processing skills necessary to analyze sequence data can be applied to the analysis of data in other fields.
This course will provide the introduction to the main tools and databases used in the analysis of sequence data and explains how these can be used together to answer biological questions. Examples of analysis include retrieving DNA and protein sequences from public databases, DNA sequence statistics (length, GC content, DNA words, and local variation in base composition), pairwise sequence alignment (dotplot, global sequence alignment, and local sequence alignment), multiple sequence alignment, and phylogenetic inference, etc.
Students from all disciplines will use the sequence analysis methods to tackle problems in their fields (biology, language, manuscript, music, etc.).
This class introduces theories and methods of international relations and area studies researches. A key word at the class is "global governance." This class is recommended to students who have come to SFC from other universities and overseas. Students at GR program is envisaged, but students of other programs are permitted. Lectures and discussions are mainly in Japanese.
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.
Engineering is behind our sports activity. A facilities, equipments, sports wears and shoes are necessary for the sports. Its development is mainly based on the engineering. The aim of the engineering for sports is performance enhancement, injury prevention and comfort. This lecture will introduce these engineering aspect on the sports.
In addition, this lecture will also introduce the science and engineering aspect on the athletes' performance. Fluid dynamics, impact engineering, material sciences, etc. This lecture ensure that your insight of the sports must be changed after the semester.
Sports biomechanics focuses on the human movement in our sports activity from the view point of the mechanics. Sports biomechanics has mainly two approaches, Kinematics and Kinetics. Kinematics is focusing on the displacement, velocity, acceleration and their angular alternatives, namely the result of the movement. Kinetics is focusing on the force/ moment, power and energy, namely, the source of the movement. I addition to these approaches, since our human motion is caused by the signal from our brain. A neuro physical approach is necessary for sports biomechanics. In this lecture, we will study how sports biomechanics enhance the athletes performance and prevent injury.
Since the 1990s, while the world has experienced the wave of globalism, it has simultaneously been haunted by the rise of regional conflicts that had erupted subsequent to the end of the Cold War. Concurrently, the international community has been facing threats emanating from the so-called failed states, mainly due to the former's inability to stabilize the situation. Furthermore, counter measures introduced by individual states to deal with challenges represented by global warming and contagious diseases like Ebola will remain less effective if not conducted comprehensively and collectively through international and/or regional institutions or forums. This class will consider a variety of issues that require multilateral mechanism of governance.
Intensive reading of books on Chinese politics and foreign policy
This lecture addresses the design and creation of knowledge processing and discovery systems from two important aspects of information-science and brain-science. From the viewpoint of "Information-science," we study knowledge base systems for multimedia databases (image, video, music and text databases), data mining and emotion-based ("Kansei") multimedia knowledge processing. The first important objective of this lecture is to develop knowledge and skills for designing and creating multimedia knowledge-bases and multimedia systems with experimental practice. It is essential to study how to analyze, store, retrieve and integrate media data (image, video, music and text) in a knowledge-base system environment. An actual knowledge-base system is used to create experimental multimedia knowledge-bases and applied it to WWW system environments. We also design a meta-level multimedia system with data mining processes for new-multimedia creation.
About the latter seven classes, recent advance in brain science has revealed some mechanisms of knowledge processing in a human brain. We study how the visual and auditory systems acquire and process knowledge derived from the external environment, how the memory system retains such knowledge, and how the multimodal knowledge processing is achieved, from a neuroscience point of view. In parallel, they learn anatomical brain structures and pathways, and experience peripheral and central illusions to study knowledge processing phenomenologically.