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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 to 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.

This course is designed to learn advanced macroeconomics for students who already completead a coursework of basic economics.

This class is intended for students who aim to become environmental design professionals, focusing on architectural design, urban design, and landscape design. And this class aims to help them acquire digital skills such as architectural drawing, 3D modeling, and CG perspective.



Students will learn how to create 2D drawings and 3D modeling using architectural 3D modeling software called Rhinoceros, how to create photorealistic architectural CG using the Unity game engine, and how to use Illustrator to create layouts using the grid system.

This class is aimed at intermediate and advanced learners of Korean. In class, we will use Korean short stories as teaching materials to organize grammatical matters and vocabulary, and think about literary expressions.

Korean is one of the easiest language for Japanese speakers to learn(and vice versa). There are many reasons: (1) same word order, (2) grammatical similarity, (3) a number of kanji words shared in Japanese and Korean, (4) cultural similarity. It takes relatively short time from zero to fluency.

In this seminar, we are going to tackle topics related to Islamic and Arabic studies.

In this course, you will learn how to use the physical layer of the OSI reference model. In this course, you will learn the basics of production engineering and its practical applications. In this course, you will learn how to solve problems with the help of corporate experts.
At the end of the exercises, there will be a presentation by each group as a summary.

In 2020 and beyond, we are faced with Covid19 and the various social changes cascading from it. This virus is spreading through the physical connections between people, and it is also affecting the various traditions, cultures and systems that humanity has created analogously.
At the same time, the world built by the digital revolution has strengthened our virtual connections, and cutting-edge technologies such as media, bio, nano, AI, robotics, and space are interacting with the ever-changing global landscape, inviting us into the unknown.
How will we face these dramatic changes, how will we have our own compass, and how will we live in the new future? We believe that we need a more three-dimensional, interdisciplinary, experiential forum for discussion that cannot be shared by traditional media journalism.
In this course, we envision Artistic Journalism as a new media, place, and system for broadly experiencing and discussing the future. Throughout history, mankind has created the future through the invention of new arts and technologies to overcome various difficulties.
Through the activities of Ars Electronica, based in Austria-Lintz, we will create a dialogue with new knowledge that cannot be conveyed by books, newspapers and online media alone, and discuss how to apply this dialogue to future policy.

Students on this course learn the negotiation process from the initial planning to closing deals. Role-plays, negotiation games, and full group business and UN model negotiations are used to develop both negotiation and language skills while developing an understanding of cultural differences when negotiating.

This research group focuses on modeling, simulation, and visualization of natural phenomena.

In this workshop, we will focus on several contemporary artists, analyze their uniqueness and survival strategies, and develop a workshop based on the formal knowledge gained from this analysis. Students who wish to work as a director, curator, or artist in the future are welcome to take this course.

In the age of artificial intelligence, it is desirable that text data
are treated like any other data. The use of text processing technology
will lead to significant value creation. Students are expected to
learn basic techniques of text processing and to develop their own
text processing applications. In this course, the emphasis is not on
understanding complex natural language processing theories, but rather
on the basic techniques and applications of text processing, the
possibilities of text processing, and the fun and excitement of using
it. At the end of the course, students will create their own text
processing applications using the skills and knowledge they learned in
the course.

While ICT's progress is remarkable, we need not only to develop technology, but also need to adopt and properly use it for society and economy.
This seminar discusses digital technology policies with focusing on human beings, aiming at realization of sustainable better life and better culture in the year of 2050, with viewpoints of better and more adoption of technology, and with long-term global vision.