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Arduino [ simple input / output microcontroller board system] was born, and rapid prototyping became familiar. Rapid prototyping is changing to literacy over the past decade. The skills to master complex technologies centering on electronic circuits are becoming commonsense skills, as well as skills to write emails and watch websites. Based on these backgrounds, this lecture aims at acquiring prototyping literacy through various hands-on workshop practices. Instead of explaining the basic theory of analog / digital circuits, we aim to master basic skills of manufacturing based on electronic circuits.
In this class, students will learn the theory and techniques of "observation," "sketching," and "drawing." These are the skills needed for design.
The design includes the actions of finding (observing) problems, devising (interpreting) solutions, and materializing (expressing). Hand-drawn sketches include these actions.
Today, sensing, modeling, and rendering technologies using digital devices have advanced and become widespread. But it is crucial to practice observing and expressing with the body in real space to master digital technology.
This lesson is an introductory lesson for beginners who want to move into some design area, and it is intended for those who have no experience in sketching or drawing. Students will learn the process and theory of observing a landscape, thinking about its form, structure, meaning, and expressing it in pictures and figures.
This class is also related to the course offered in the fall semester with the same title. Both have the same aim of observation and expression, but the faculty member in charge is different, and the viewpoints of theory and the tools are different. Taking both courses together is recommended.
Fieldwork is a way to learn about society and culture. Therefore, its practical meaning as a technique is essential. Still, it is also closely related to how to look at things to define problems for oneself and communication to interpret and express the results of research and analysis. In this lecture, students will learn the basic methods and attitudes of "fieldwork" through courses and practical assignments. Each student (or group) will set a theme and conduct fieldwork throughout the semester. Students are required to go outside the campus, walk around the city, take photos and videos, and first of all, see with their own eyes and feel with their bodies.
The main objective of this class is to enable students to develop research skills to obtain relevant materials and data effectively for their papers and theses. The students will also learn about essential skills for academic writings.
The students will practice during the course and submit midterm and final assignments.
It is important to do correct deduction. In this lecture, we study the correctness of deduction using symbolic logic. Natural language is too complex to handle, so we first need to replace it with symbols and find out the essential logical structure. We will study what is the correct deduction, how we can show the correctness, and so on. We will handle first propositional logic, then predicate logic. We may also touch some of none classical logic.
In the future era, it is essential to create new structures and methods. Every single person is really required to demonstrate creativity. Then, what should we do to think creatively and to create some creative places or team? In this course, you will learn about the theory related to creativity and collaboration and also attractive cutting-edge cases, then you will try your own practice.
'Body theory' can be discussed from various perspectives. In this lecture, I will discuss body theory from various perspectives such as physical medicine, psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, psychoanalysis and contemporary medicine. The psycho and the physical soma are inseparably related, and the psychodynamics surrounding the body can be widely observed from the healthy development of human beings to the pathological state. The purpose of this lecture is to expand the student's perspectives regarding the body.
How modern Japan became status quo? They hardly protected its independence around middle 19th century, and only 50 years later, they got a position and reputation as one of the great power countries in the world. After hard defeated at WW2, they came back the top stage of the world economics only 30 years efforts. This “success” story very attracts people who has been interested in the way of development, sometimes it ties with the curiosity of Japanese culture.
It would be hard to answer the question “What’s Japan?”, not only Japanese but also others. We should have opportunities to ruminate the past, the present, and the future of “Japan”.
This lecture intend to enhance each other recognition and answers with a crow's nest view from various area all over the globe.
The class will study the basic concept of the jurisprudence, and analyze the case of information, environmental and medical problem such as a tip-interdisciplinary field of society to seek the acquisition of "Legal Mind".
Jurisprudence is academic discipline with no correct answer, but in order to make policy decisions must figure out the answer.
The class will pay attention to the perspective of possibilities and limits of "Legal Mind". We will challenge to use "Legal Mind" as a tool in order to conclude with mutual understanding.
Can you explain what is Natural Science, what are the differences between natural science and other systematized knowledges? Actually fruites of natural science give us the physical foundation of modern civilization. This course will cover the fundamentals of history and philosophy of natural science.
This lecture aims to understand the basis of Islamic teachings. In the first half, you will learn the Islamic teachings along the "five practices and six beliefs of Islam" that Muslims practice and believe. In the second half, individual themes related to contemporary social problems such as women, science and halal will be discussed. The main subject of the lecture is Islam as a teaching, but the lecture will be delivered with showing the actual situation and problems of the modern world between Muslims and non-Muslims and comparing teaching and reality.
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.
In our daily life, our sensory systems are detecting various types of information about environments inside/outside of our body which varies from hour to hour. Our movements are well-modulated by utilizing such sensory information which is integrated within our brain. In addition, sensory systems are also associated with reflexes (=involuntary bodily response to some stimuli ) . By utilizing such reflexes, we can prevent from some dangers quickly without thinking. As such, sensory systems play important roles for safe and grateful life.
In this course, we are regarding humans as systems which involve "inputs" and "output", and are learning sensory physiology (structures and functions of various sensors within our body / mechanisms of our perception and cognition) and psychology (how our mental process is associated with our cognition and action). Due to time constraints, we are focusing on somatosensory and visual systems in this course.
An importance of Computer software becomes higher and higher in various fields. Computer software is developed using various programming language. There are many types of programming languages. For examples, there are a programming language for a large scale software, for prototyping, for logic and so on.
In this class, students learn the design and strong point of programming languages. Students becomes who can choose an appropriate programming language.
Various software systems are used in the current computer system. The most fundamental software system is Operating system. Every computer has its operating system and it allows other software to operate on the computer. On top of the operating system, there are several important middleware software systems. We pick up some of the software systems which we use in our daily computer use and look into their functions and mechanisms.
As computers become more sophisticated, faster, and smaller, including personal computers, smart devices, and wearable devices, and as they are networked with each other, computers become ubiquitous not only in the devices we carry and use, but also in the "environment" such as rooms, traffic, and cities, as an intelligent information infrastructure. "Ubiquitous computing" has become a reality.
In ubiquitous computing, there are various aspects such as sensing of information about real space and humans as digital data, distribution of data through networks, understanding/recognition as "knowledge" through analysis and machine learning at the edge and in the cloud, feedback to humans based on the knowledge, and operation of machines (actuation). These functions constitute the "architecture of ubiquitous systems".
In this lecture, we will discuss mobile/distributed programming, location/context-aware programming, sensing, activity recognition, data communication, and other technologies, including actual examples and actual JavaScript programming.
Today, from science to automobiles, everything is becoming software. In science, computational science is beginning to play a major role as a paradigm following theory and experiment, and automobiles are becoming more computer-centric than mechanical with the arrival of the automated driving car era. Software is at the center of these systems. The core of such software-centric systems is the data system. In this class, we will learn how to use databases, and then we will discuss query processing and data mining behind the databases.
This class deals with issues concerning “learning” in a very broad sense, which includes almost all knowledge and skill that is acquired through one’s own experience or instructions. For example it includes learning of native and non-native language, literacy, everyday concepts and scientific concepts. It also includes various types of skills, such as sports, playing musical instruments, performing art, and fine arts. The goal of the class is to gain understanding of cognitive mechanisms through which learners acquire knowledge and skills. Based on this understanding, the class discusses ideal forms of learning and education in and outside classrooms.
Details will be announced in few days.
The next generation of developed countries, including Japan, will focus on the field of health. In the future, health will become a key word in various policies, industries, and national development. The purpose of this course is to provide students with the minimum necessary knowledge of the basics of biology, such as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, in a way that is easy to understand, even if they have not taken any biology courses before. Specifically, the course covers the metabolism of sugars, lipids, and amino acids in the acquisition of biological energy. Genetics is the study of genes, which are the basis of our biology. This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the molecular basis of life science. In this course, students will learn the basics of molecular biology, which is the basis for all of the above, during a half-year period.
Molecular biology was definitely the central player of the life sciences in the 20th century. At the end of the nineteenth century, Mendel explained the genetic phenomena. Avery determined that the gene was DNA. Watson and Click came to discover the double helix structure of DNA. Then, main theme of the life science in the second half of the 20th century was directed to "Exploring cells ". Basic Molecular Biology 1 to 4 will acquire knowledge of molecular cell biology indispensable for grasping modern life science. Instead of passively listening to lectures, classes focus on exercises that actively solve problems. Basic Molecular Biology 1 will be the first part of it.
We provide the principles of molecular and cellular biology through "Molecular and Cellular Biology 1-4." This class will be conducted in a format similar to a qualification exam. Students will study the textbook on their own, take online exams, and earn a grade based on the results.
This course covers Chapter 1-5 of the textbook "Essential Cell Biology".
Molecular biology was definitely the central player of the life sciences in the 20th century. At the end of the nineteenth century, Mendel explained the genetic phenomena. Avery determined that the gene was DNA. Watson and Click came to discover the double helix structure of DNA. Then, main theme of the life science in the second half of the 20th century was directed to "Exploring cells ". Basic Molecular Biology 1 to 4 will acquire knowledge of molecular cell biology indispensable for grasping modern life science. Instead of passively listening to lectures, classes focus on exercises that actively solve problems. Basic Molecular Biology X will be the first part of it.
We provide the principles of molecular and cellular biology through "Molecular and Cellular Biology 1-4." This class will be conducted in a format similar to a qualification exam. Students will study the textbook on their own, take online exams, and earn a grade based on the results.
This course covers Chapter 6-10 of the textbook "Essential Cell Biology".
In this course, we invite 10 or more guest lecturers from the major Japanese government ministries, namely the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries,and so on.
Students, as well learn the latest challenges in each field of the ministries, will learn how their own research subjects are positioned and dealt with in the the various ministries.