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The contents of this course will provide students with opportunities to develop an understanding of how business is conducted at an international level. Students will gain a better appreciation for intercultural aspects of business transactions while improving their communication, listening, reading, and presentation skills (specifically sales and investment pitches). Particular emphasis will be placed on working across cultures in the business world and how developing those skills can assist in producing international leaders.
Students learn how to use listening techniques and strategies coupled with discussion and debate methodology in order to improve understanding of spoken English, and we concentrate on preparation for “real life situations”. Students learn to how to focus on extracting specific information and details, as well as general meaning. At the end of the course, they will understand more fully what interpretation is, and therefore be able to distinguish and respond to a speaker's attitude, intent and opinion. This course is best suited for students who are comfortable taking instruction and participating in class in English, and who want to become more confident in their ability to apply critical thinking in order to communicate and openly share well considered and logically developed opinions.
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 listen to a variety of authentic content and answer questions about it. The materials' difficulty is relatively high, but you can work at your own pace. Examples of content: English songs, news and entertainment, fiction/non-fiction stories, etc. aimed at native speakers.
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.
Interactive and Active Listening: Mutual Understanding between Africa and Japan mainly on Campus, 4 times online.
- Brush up your listening skills and then make an action plan.
This class is for those who seriously want to brush up not only their Oral Listening skill but also their communication skill towards mutual understanding. The focus point of this class is first of all, being able to listen and understand the lectures, presentations and discussions in class.
How much do you know about African countries? How much do you know about Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa? Let's know more about each country and let us introduce our country Japan to them and share the basic knowledge of one another. Then step forward to social transformation in the field of education based on the collaboration with Japan. Our goal is to make an actual plan of social transformation based on mutual understandings. We will have friends from African countries with us in the classroom activities.
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.
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 overall objectives of the course are for students to improve their English proficiency skills while improving their scores and understanding of TOEFL. All four skills of the test will be covered but more time will be spent developing the productive skills (speaking and writing). We will study the assessment criteria and look at ways to increase scores in each skill.
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.
The contents of this course will provide students with opportunities to develop an understanding of how business is conducted at an international level. Students will gain a better appreciation for intercultural aspects of business transactions while improving their communication, listening, reading, and presentation skills (specifically sales and investment pitches). Particular emphasis will be placed on working across cultures in the business world and how developing those skills can assist in producing international leaders.
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.
This course is designed to enhance oral communication skills (listening and speaking) through watching movies (online materials), and making your own movies in English. Students will get to practice their reading and writing skills, as well, by script reading and writing. We will watch video series
together to learn common phrases and expressions in context, then answer Q&A, and conduct discussions online. There are some phrases that have embedded meaning as well as literal meaning. For example, what does it mean by ‘Get out of here!’ when the speaker had the smiley yet surprised
expression on his face when he said it? Do you really need to get out of the room? Or did the speaker mean something else? These acts are called ‘indirect speech acts’ and students will learn by experiencing them and other types of discourse techniques via role plays. The focus will be placed on
learning by ‘speech act’ (such as ‘apology’ and ‘sarcasm’) but other patterns of pragmatic markers will be covered such as discourse markers, y’know within conversation.
Students will also study our original films (several skits made by English speaking SFC students) and compare their own skits with the model interactions. After learning useful expressions and phrases within context, students will be expected to develop their own scripts, and make their own movies in a group, utilizing what they learned in class. Attention should be paid to not only linguistic but also paralinguistic features such as tones as well as non-verbal ones (facial expressions, gestures, gazing, and body language). They are expected to learn autonomously online and in class interactively engaging with the instructor and the classmates in English.
The Marketing and Advertising Strategies of International Health and Wellness Companies
Course Description:
This is an active class. You will learn about the marketing and advertising strategies of many well-known international health and wellness companies and organizations in fields such as 3D printing human hands, medical tourism, senior care, cosmetic surgery clinics, and NPO/NGOs. You will do a final marketing project about clean water filters for Waves for Water. While you learn about marketing, you will also improve your presentation skills.
Below is a short video about Project Daniel - 3D printing human hands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDYFMgrjeLg
Below is a short video about Waves for Water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zRmofkyVis&nohtml5=False
***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 live, not by a class recording or on-demand.***
The overall objectives of the course are for students to improve their English proficiency skills while improving their scores and understanding of TOEFL. All four skills of the test will be covered but more time will be spent developing the productive skills (speaking and writing). We will study the assessment criteria and look at ways to increase scores in each skill.
Students on this course study a range of public policy issues, develop the ability to analyze these issues, provide solutions, hold extended discussions with classmates, and make academic presentations. We will widen students’ content knowledge in English on these issues while also working on the skill of openly exchanging ideas and opinions.
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.
NOTE: This course is conducted in both English and Japanese.
It may be safe to say the importance of "story-telling" has not been fully recognized in Japanese society. Story-telling, which is the must-have element of presentation on the global stage, may as well be missing in your presentation.
This course is for students who want to brush up on their thinking, story-telling and presentation skills. Presentation is pretty much about thinking—thinking hard to form a good opinion, thinking hard to organize it, and thinking hard from audiences' point of view. Based on group work, the course provides students with opportunities to make presentations and see what stories can do, as well as doing some soul-searching.
NOTE: This course is conducted in both English and Japanese.
This course is for those who want to think better and to be happier. Students will learn basic critical thinking skills: abilities to analyze and evaluate ideas and arguments skillfully as well as to present ideas and arguments logically and efficiently. Critical thinking is considered a skill to understand and analyze OTHER people's ideas and arguments, but it can also be used to understand YOUR own ideas and thought. Through critical thinking, students will be encouraged to think about themselves: what their values are, who they are, and what they can do to be happier.
In this class, you will improve your English writing skills by translating poems into English and composing your own original English poems in traditional Japanese genres. We will cover haiku and tanka by relatively recent (late Shōwa through present day) poets, and AI/algorithmically-created poetry.
Gaining Sharper English Communication
Type:Oral
Keyword:Discussion,Listening,Presentation,Speaking,Vocabulary
Course Description:
The First unit is for introduction and preparation. Each subsequent unit begins and ends with a presentation in order to demonstrate the students’ progress, both to the instructor and to the students themselves. These will be delivered solo, on assigned topics with approximately a minute allowed for preparation. Following the initial presentation, there will be a brief intro followed by exercises and role plays. The role plays will be geared to provide the student with the opportunity of using some part of the skill set in a focused way. Each unit will be organized to gradually expand on the skills involved, in preparation for the exams. Prior to the Midterm and the Final, there will be a consolidation practice day to give the students another opportunity to apply the skills in an integrated way. Any remaining time may be used to begin preparation for the exam
This class is designed to improve your business writing skills. The course will go over pratical writing skills and students will get to practice writing in English. The main focus will be to improve grammar and to write with confidence. This course aims to give students as much writing practice with feedback as possible.
Students will be evalauted on their attendence, participation, assignments and presentations.
Students learn how to express their opinions creatively in English through responding to music & lyricism. They select music from artists they admire and learn to analyse the lyrics, techniques and patterns in order to establish understanding. Song writing patterns and structures are compared and contrasted and students identify styles and genres. Students identify topics they feel strongly about and explain why these issues are important. They select songs that somehow relate to their chosen topics and deconstruct the lyrics in order to express relevance. Students develop the following English language skills: Listening, Reading, Creative Writing and Interpretation. The core subject is used as a vehicle to examine contemporary issues including: philosophy, psychology, politics, history, theology and globalization and there is a special emphasis on Artists Tackling Global Issues. This course is suitable for students who are comfortable participating in class in English and have an interest in modern music
Students learn how to use listening techniques in order to improve understanding of spoken English and we concentrate on preparation for “real life situations”. Students learn to how to focus on extracting specific information and details, as well as general meaning. At the end of the course, they will understand more fully what interpretation is and therefore be able to distinguish and respond to a speaker's attitude, intent and opinion. This course is best suited for students who are comfortable taking instruction and participating in class in English, and who want to become more confident in their ability to communicate and openly share their opinions.
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.