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This course focuses on computer-specific acoustic expression methods such as digital signal processing and synthesis through the production of works. Students will acquire basic knowledge of sound processing and sound synthesis using Ableton Live, a music production software, and Max for Live, a device creation environment for it, and generate various music structures and synthesize / process sounds. By learning these techniques, it is expected that students will be able to experience the possibilities and attractions of computer music. In addition, since the content of this course can be applied to the production of various works using acoustic expressions such as media art and audiovisual works, students who are interested in these fields are also welcomed. It is desirable that students of this course have already taken "Computer Music 1" or have acquired the corresponding knowledge of digital sound.
Japan is currently facing the problem of a shrinking society characterised by the low birthrate, the ageing, the declining population and the change of household structures. The new challenges arising from the climate change cannot be also overlooked. In this lecture, we will focus on Germany, which faces similar challenges to Japan. In contrast to the UK and France, where there was a concentration of urbanisation in London and Paris, the urbanisation has been progressed in Germany by maintaining a polycentric structure, and the cities are now developing an urban planning programme in collaboration with the federal and state governments in order to ensure the future development potential of the city. The aim of this lecture is to clarify the characteristics of German cities using this programme as a guide, and to gain implications for regional revitalisation in Japan.
Scientific Writing Workshop teaches how to state facts, communicate your opinions and share your thoughts with others. The methods and techniques covered in this workshop are common among scientific and technical papers as to the kata (forms). Students are taught how to write scientific and technical papers and how those papers are evaluated.
You can be a Humanities student or a Sciences student to take this workshop. It is more difficult to write Humanities papers. Learning how to write scientific and technical papers first as a basic skill is therefore highly recommended.
The first half of this workshop covers what is taught in elementary schools in the Western world. The skills you will learn will prove to be very important in the future when you become a global leader dealing with Westerners who were taught the skills in school.
The main topic is embodied intelligence. Students will learn and discuss how embodied intelligence is created through interactions between doing by body, feeling bodily sensations, verbalizing how body feels and think by words. Conventionally, studies on embodied intelligence have been done through objective observation of movements of body, but that does not suffice to reveal important aspects of embodied intelligence, which is relations between body movements and one's own thoughts and verbalization.
This course deals with the SDGs as a novel global governance strategy. The goal of the course is to understand the SDGs from various dimensions.
This course identifies two modes of global governance strategies – the one through rules and the one through goals. Governance through goals emerged with an ambition to tackle with unprecedented problems we are facing in the 21st century, while recognizing importance of rule-based governance. This course explores possibilities of global governance through goals using the SDGs as an example.
In this course, you will study "Pattern Language," a medium designed to support people's creativity and practice. Pattern language encapsulates the essence (the knack) of creation and practice into small units termed "patterns," which are adequately abstracted, systematized, and verbalized. You will learn about what pattern language is by exploring various pattern languages and experiencing their practical application. The course covers a wide range of topics including learning, dialogue, omotenashi (hospitality), presentation, teamwork, creative project, innovation in welfare, the care practice and realizing good places, support in organizations and education, inquiry, reading, realizing a better digital society, and life design. Each of these topics is not only extensive but also practical, relevant to your daily life and personal growth. In this sense, this class offers a unique opportunity to learn about the new medium of pattern language and its methods, as well as to gain insights that can enhance your everyday life and future. I hope you will seize this chance to experience and appreciate the fascinating world of pattern language and apply it in your life going forward.
This course focuses on computer-specific acoustic expression methods such as digital signal processing and synthesis through the production of works. Students will acquire basic knowledge of sound processing and sound synthesis using Ableton Live, a music production software, and Max for Live, a device creation environment for it, and generate various music structures and synthesize / process sounds. By learning these techniques, it is expected that students will be able to experience the possibilities and attractions of computer music. In addition, since the content of this course can be applied to the production of various works using acoustic expressions such as media art and audiovisual works, students who are interested in these fields are also welcomed. It is desirable that students of this course have already taken "Computer Music 1" or have acquired the corresponding knowledge of digital sound.
This is a hands-on class to develop the "power of expression = the ability to express thoughts and feelings in words and communicate them to people and society" that will last a lifetime. We train the power of expression, which is the foundation of presentation, from the very beginning with an emphasis on the ability to think. If you train your ability to think, your ability to express yourself will grow to a pleasant level. First, you will grasp the technique of deriving the "subject" (what you want to convey most) from within yourself while actually expressing it. You will be able to discover your own unique and convincing subject matter, and your ability to express yourself and your originality will open up. Next, while gaining the trust and empathy of others, students will develop the ability to convey what they want to say in a way that resonates with others (expressive and media skills that work in the context of the situation). Furthermore, we will train your "ability to express yourself in a way that is persuasive and understandable to society," such as getting hired for job hunting or attracting collaborators on social networking sites (expressive ability that will pave the way to the desired results). This is an "inspiring" class where students can express themselves without being passive, and encounter many expressions that will shake the hearts of other students. This is a class in which students can feel the realistic touch of expression and the deep interaction between students. We hope you will experience the joy of communicating through expression in this class. You have the power of expression.
This is a hands-on class to develop the "power of expression = the ability to express thoughts and feelings in words and communicate them to people and society" that will last a lifetime. The class is basically a face-to-face class, but there are also online sessions. We train the power of expression, which is the foundation of presentation, from the very beginning with an emphasis on the ability to think. If you train your ability to think, your ability to express yourself will grow to a pleasant level. First, you will grasp the technique of deriving the "subject" (what you want to convey most) from within yourself while actually expressing it. You will be able to discover your own unique and convincing subject matter, and your ability to express yourself and your originality will open up. Next, while gaining the trust and empathy of others, students will develop the ability to convey what they want to say in a way that resonates with others (expressive and media skills that work in the context of the situation). Furthermore, we will train your "ability to express yourself in a way that is persuasive and understandable to society," such as getting hired for job hunting or attracting collaborators on social networking sites (expressive ability that will pave the way to the desired results). This is an "inspiring" class where students can express themselves without being passive, and encounter many expressions that will shake the hearts of other students. This is a class in which students can feel the realistic touch of expression and the deep interaction between students. We hope you will experience the joy of communicating through expression in this class. You have the power of expression.
This course aims to explore Creative Systems Theory, which seeks to formulate the mechanisms underlying creativity. The theory posits that creativity is an autopoietic system consisting of discoveries as elements. To understand this theory, a deep understanding of foundational theories and philosophies is essential. Each week involves two types of assignments: preparatory homework, which requires reading a substantial amount of challenging academic literature and summarizing it; and review homework, where you revisit the material after class to solidify your understanding.
"ba" is a Japanese word that represents a space with connotation of its chemistry. Designing "ba" for learning is a key to the success of learning.
What consists of "ba" of learning includes ways of interaction between students and a teacher, interactions among students, distance between and
spatial layout of students, a teacher and hardwares like desks and chairs, the attributes (form, color, size, and etc.) of those hardwares, actions of
people, and so on.
This lecture provides an opportunity to discuss "ba" of learning by designing and evaluating it.
Scientific Writing Workshop teaches how to state facts, communicate your opinions and share your thoughts with others. The methods and techniques covered in this workshop are common among scientific and technical papers as to the kata (forms). Students are taught how to write scientific and technical papers and how those papers are evaluated.
You can be a Humanities student or a Sciences student to take this workshop. It is more difficult to write Humanities papers. Learning how to write scientific and technical papers first as a basic skill is therefore highly recommended.
The first half of this workshop covers what is taught in elementary schools in the Western world. The skills you will learn will prove to be very important in the future when you become a global leader dealing with Westerners who were taught the skills in school.
"ba" is a Japanese word that represents a space with connotation of its chemistry. Designing "ba" for learning is a key to the success of learning.
What consists of "ba" of learning includes ways of interaction between students and a teacher, interactions among students, distance between and
spatial layout of students, a teacher and hardwares like desks and chairs, the attributes (form, color, size, and etc.) of those hardwares, actions of
people, and so on.
This lecture provides an opportunity to discuss "ba" of learning by designing and evaluating it.
The purpose of this course is to teach the skills and concepts necessary for creating documents through practice. The course focuses on document creation as a step in "information production" and covers many methodologies, especially those related to structuring and communicating information. In structuring information, we will focus on requirements analysis and outlining to discover what needs to be written and to formulate it into a document. In terms of communication, we will follow the concept of paragraph writing and aim to learn how to express information to allow the reader to understand what is being communicated efficiently and without misunderstanding. We will also engage in group discussions, peer review (an activity in which students critique each other's documents and give advice to each other), and publishing the learning process online.
The purpose of this course is to look at “Multilingual Society and Communication” from various angles and illustrate the various linguistic phenomena that can be observed. The course will focus especially on the examination of Japan as a multilingual society. It is also the goal of this course to develop sensitivity for the diversity of languages. Following issues are to be discussed:
- language policy and language planning
- language rights
- language spread
- language education
- language contact
- maintenance, loss and revitalization of minority languages
- linguistic imperialism and monolingual hegemony
- bilingualism, multilingualism and diglossia
- code switching
- pidgin and creole languages
- History of Japanese language education
This course focuses on computer-specific acoustic expression methods such as digital signal processing and synthesis through the production of works. Students will acquire basic knowledge of sound processing and sound synthesis using Ableton Live, a music production software, and Max for Live, a device creation environment for it, and generate various music structures and synthesize / process sounds. By learning these techniques, it is expected that students will be able to experience the possibilities and attractions of computer music. In addition, since the content of this course can be applied to the production of various works using acoustic expressions such as media art and audiovisual works, students who are interested in these fields are also welcomed. It is desirable that students of this course have already taken "Computer Music 1" or have acquired the corresponding knowledge of digital sound.
This course aims to introduce the basic concepts of research methodology for social sciences. In particular, it is designed to gain practical skills for using the five types of research method: (i) qualitative interview, (ii) survey, (iii) experiment, (iv) case study, and (v) mixed methods.
This course aims to introduce the basic concepts of research methodology for social sciences. In particular, it is designed to gain practical skills for using the five types of research method: (i) qualitative interview, (ii) survey, (iii) experiment, (iv) case study, and (v) mixed methods.
Interviews and dialogues in magazines and newspapers do not actually translate what you are talking about. There is a lot of "processing (editing)" done there. Each of them is packed with the idea of making the articles of editors, reporters, and writers more interesting and the technology to make the sentences "more readable". In this class, you will learn how to write "sentences that people will read" through actual editing work. From blogs to novels, we aim to inspire people who want to improve their writing. Keep an editor in yourself. That will dramatically improve your original writing. That is the purpose of the lesson.
Have you ever heard of "Oral History"? It is a method of recording the memories of politicians, entrepreneurs, artists, parents, children, and even family members by listening to their experiences and perceptions. This may sound like a conventional method of gathering materials. That is true, of course, but there is more to it than that.
Oral history is not just about acquiring the "facts" of someone's story. When you take the time to "hear" or "listen," the structure of an issue that was previously unseen opens up before your eyes, and you gain a new understanding. However, without the ability to listen, oral history is not possible. And developing your listening skills will also help you develop your imaginative and writing skills.
Therefore, this workshop aims to do two things. First, to conduct an oral history and to grasp the skills of listening and logical organization. Second, by using the premise of your own research project as the subject matter, you will build the foundation and basis for your future research. These are the two main goals of this workshop. If this workshop can be a big step forward in your research and practice, there is no better outcome than that.
The purpose of this course is to acquire basic knowledge and skills in Japanese "science writing". Specifically, reading and interpreting information on science and technology, which is the conduct of humankind, and describing it in a simpler way.
The 20th century was called “the century of science”. Remarkable advances in science and technology have contributed to making human life richer and more comfortable. The following 21st century is sometimes called the “century of life science” due to the rapid progress in the elucidation of life phenomena along with genome decoding.
Our lives are influenced by the benefits of science and technology, but their knowledge has increased dramatically and their specialization has made it difficult for non-experts to understand. Consequently, “Science writing” is becoming increasingly important.
How can we develop and implement innovative ideas? To do this, each of us must acquire the "ability to conceive" and "ability to collaborate," develop our own "methodology for originality and co-creation," and actually "try out" these methods.
In the first half of this class, students will learn both "the art of thinking of ideas" and "the art of collaboration" based on several issues (future themes). Then, in the middle to the second half of the class, we plan to take on the challenge of developing and implementing future products and building sustainable business models, with the city of Fujiyoshida in Yamanashi Prefecture in mind. Our goal is to go beyond the acquisition of transient skills and frameworks, and to "make the body of ideas", "nurture the soil of creativity", and "create future business models".
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This course aims to introduce the basic concepts of research methodology for social sciences. In particular, it is designed to gain practical skills for using the five types of research method: (i) qualitative interview, (ii) survey, (iii) experiment, (iv) case study, and (v) mixed methods.
In this class, students will learn how research works should do, how topic should be set, how academic paper should be written.