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This seminar is for the students who are interested in contemporary issues in Southeast Asia, including society, culture, history, politics, economy, the relationship with Japan, etc. The students study these issues through reading important literature in groups and by individuals.

By the end of the course, students will gain basic understanding of statistics as well as methods to analyze data using statistical software.

The number of foreigners living in and visiting to Japan has increase rapidly and “Omotenashi” has become a popular word, however, the foreigners still find difficulties to access the proper information about Japan.
This is the project-based seminar by fieldwork and group work. Continuing from previous semesters students will work on several projects to connect Japanese society and Muslim people visiting to or living in Japan.

This course is a combination reading and discussion course suitable for students with a TOEFL Paper-Based Test score between 460 and 524. Reading for the TOEIC is designed for students studying at the TOEIC 600-750 level.

Developing the skills necessary for the TOEIC can be a trying experience for test-takers, so this course has been designed to provide some strategies to develop students’ higher-order thinking skills and stay motivated. Reading for the TOEIC will go over ways for students to improve their TOEIC score by helping them to think through the test.

A heavy emphasis is placed on strategies for learning vocabulary which will help with depth of understanding, much of which is done through sharing connections with other students. There is ample opportunity for a learning exercise to become an opportunity for social interaction and further understanding of a vocabulary item through others’ experiences.

Strategies for reading are introduced in this course to help with the reading sections of a test. Students will be encouraged to:
- scan for information type questions and judge which words are more important for answering questions
- understand the four major types of reading comprehension questions, recognize questions that ask for specific information such as when, where, who, why, and how
- learn about questions that ask for meaning of a word or a synonym/antonym of a given term
- understand inference questions that require students to take a leap of understanding from the information given in the text to the answer asked for in the comprehension question
- practice answering questions that ask for what is not in the text.

This seminar is for the students who are interested in contemporary issues in Southeast Asia, including society, culture, history, politics, economy, the relationship with Japan, etc. The students study these issues through reading important literature in groups and by individuals.

The number of foreigners living in and visiting to Japan has increase rapidly and “Omotenashi” has become a popular word, however, the foreigners still find difficulties to access the proper information about Japan.

This is the project-based seminar by fieldwork and group work. Continuing from previous semesters students will work on several projects to connect Japanese society and Muslim people visiting to or living in Japan.

■ Outline of this course
Whether you are going to do some kind of business or go into the company, data-driven analytical problem-solving skills and hands-on understanding of data utilization are essential in the days ahead.

This course aims to develop minimum data literacy to survive in this data-driven age for the students with at least 10th-11th grade mathematics skill and basic familiarity of Excel, on the assumption that they do not have much experience in data analysis and utilization.

Classes will be conducted interactively as much as possible. We will invest a considerable amount of time for each homework review and answers to the questions received in a weekly questionnaire.

■ Skill that aims to be acquired
- Perspectives on data-driven society
- Appropriate understanding of various related buzzwords
- Basic skills to extract implications of data
- Basic skills to avoid being deceived by data
- Basic skills of data handling and quantitative analysis

(Note) It is not a course to nurture experts in information science and big data processing
- Natural language processing
- Image processing
- Machine learning
- Data infrastructure construction
- Real time processing, etc.

■Expected outcome
Learns the power and fun of data
Acquire the practical basis of science and data-driven thinking
Becoming able to get the some implications when encounters with a data related news

■Tools to be used
Excel (required)
Powerpoint (optional but preferred to use)

MySQL (optional)
R (optional)
Python (optional)

International politics around Japan and in the world is changing. Especially in East Asia including the Sea of Japan, the East China Sea and the South China Sea, there are heightened tensions. Therefore, it is crucial to revise Japan's defense policies. National Defense Program Outline of the Japanese government was published in 1971 for the first time, and was not revised until 1995. However, after that, it was revised in 2004, 2009, 2013 and 2018. Intervals have become shorter. In this class we will compare and analyze defense policies of Japan and other countries, and review the change and the expansion of operational domains including land, sea, air, space and cyberspace. Non-traditional security issues in the environment, the Arctic Ocean and newly developed technologies are also considered. The goal of this class is to think of defense policies to achieve peace in international relations.

An operating system is the most basic software system which manages CPU, memory, device, etc. of a computer and provides an environment in which an application program runs. Specific operating systems include Windows 10 provided by Microsoft Corporation, Mac OS X provided by Apple, and Unix.
In this class, lectures on functions and concepts of the operating system.

Object Oriented Programming (OOP) is a programming style that uses the concept of classes to organize programs as components and combine the behavior of those components. Programs can be written without using the concept of "class", but in order to make it easier for you to understand and for others to read when you write programs, you write programs using "class".
When you master object-oriented programming, you will be able to quickly create useful programs by combining parts: classes created by others, or create large programs by yourself.

In this class, you will learn OOP by repeatedly studying the concepts necessary for OOP and practicing writing actual programs.
OOP is a programming method used in a variety of languages, but in this class we will learn OOP using Processing, a subset of the Java language.

Introductory sessions for strategic management

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.

Using p5.js, a programming language, and a development environment, we will discuss design and programming. In addition, students will practice and create works while coding. Aimed mainly at beginners in programming, the course will start with the basics of programming (control structure, repetition) through visual expressions and eventually aim to acquire advanced expressions using 3D expressions, image processing, and data analysis. This term will be conducted entirely online. The course will be conducted with a mixture of real-time remote lectures and on-demand video materials and assignments.

The purpose of this classis to provide opportunities.to acquire the legal perspective, knowledge, and sense of risk necessary for starting and operating a new business in a start-up, social venture (an organization that aims to solve social issues such as NPOs) or an existing organization. In starting and operating a business, various laws, contracts, regulations, etc. are closely related beyond individual legal areas such as civil law, company law, and copyright law. Since the purpose of the class in Law school or faculty of law is to study "law", classes are held in each specialized field. However, in the actual society, usually, problems in various fields are intricately intertwined. This class is based on the experience of lecturer who has been involved in various businesses as practitioners (lawyers), and provides the legal perspectives that entrepreneurs or those who aim to start new businesses in the future should acquire. We will provide knowledge and sense of risk through discussions, etc. with reference to materials such as lectures by lecturers, securities reports, and fictitious cases. I graduated from SFC and would like to make the class interactive as much as possible.