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Understand the education and sports policy system and chronology, the problems and background, and consider improvement / solution measures.
The objective of this course is to understand the ‘trajectory’ of Japan-US Relations through historical analysis. The course will cover the period since Commodore Perry first came to Japan to the present. However, it will not simply be a history of state-to-state relations but more on how people in Japan perceived American presence in the Asia-Pacific region. The course is intended to explore and understand modern (近現代／KINGENDAI) Japan through the prism of Japanese perception of the US.
Why does scientific advice on nutrition keep changing? Does hydroxychloroquine cure coronavirus? How can we tell the difference between a scientific breakthrough and fake news? And how can a budding scientist do exciting research that will save the world and land you a job without following in the footsteps of the fraudsters and spin artists who have been taken down by scientific scandals? This course will look closely at some of the worst examples of science gone wrong from across all disciplines, including RIKEN’s faked stem cell images, the over-hyped “Mozart effect”, scientific racism in IQ and skull measurements, and Excel errors in GDP:debt ratio calculations. Taught by someone with first-hand experience both with using open science and with retracting a high-profile journal article, we will have frank discussions about the perverse incentives that select for unethical science practices and how we might fix them.
With the upcoming 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, sports promotion is accelerating in Japan. On the other hand, in recent years, the implementation rate of sports for the people has been declining, and it is not an environment in which everyone can enjoy sports. In order to promote sports, a wide range of knowledge is required from individual aspects such as mental and physical structure to environmental aspects such as the social and cultural background surrounding sports and the management of sports organizations. In this course, you will learn about issues in promoting sports, thinking methods for solving those issues, and an overview of social implementations. In this course, discussions and group work will be held as needed in order to gain diverse values and perspectives through communication with others and sports experiences.
How do people choose words or expressions to communicate with others successfully? Further, what difficulties are experienced if such acts are done in a second language(L2)? This lecture will survey how adult learners acquire L2. Students will learn theories of L2 acquisition and study issues involving communications from theoretical and practical positions. I welcome students who are interested in cross-cultural communication and pragmatics as well as second language acquisition (SLA) research.
This course offers a systematic introduction of statistics for analyzing human behavior and attitude. It is designed for beginners to understand the practical applications of statistics for analyzing human interactions in politics, public administration, business, and social activities.
The purpose of this course is to deepen the understanding of the society and culture of the Arab world. Interest in the Arab world in Japan tends to be biased towards political and economic issues such as terrorism and oil, and unfortunately there is still a strong lack of understanding and prejudice towards the daily lives and culture of the people living there. In this course, we will introduce not only the historical heritage of the Arab world, but also a wide range of contemporary life and culture, in order to touch upon the realities of contemporary Arab culture, which has been influenced by the changes of the times, such as modernization, popularization, informatization, and globalization, and to challenge the uniform perception of the Arab world. In particular, there will be opportunities to discuss examples of clothing, music, and movies from a gender perspective in order to break down stereotypes about Arab women.
Students learn the relationship between human life and the environment in urban areas. Environmental problems have become more severe in the history. Notably, the population in urban areas increased dramatically, and urban environmental problems had to be resolved in many ways after industrial evolution. Open space and urban greenery have played a significant role in human life. At the end of the class, students consider sustainable urban living in the future.
Design maintaining nature capital and conserving ecosystem service is necessary for sustainable development in urban and rural areas and natural reserve. The design with nature using ecosystem services wisely is called ecological design. In the class, students study ecological design concepts, spatial planning, natural and living materials for design, nature restoration, and monitoring methods through a whole process of a project. Students should understand natural processes and basic concepts and methods of ecological design in the class. There will be lectures, including guest ones, fieldwork, and group work. Also, there should be some reports during and after class.
Many people feel powerless in the face of the climate crisis, but the choices that we make as individuals have social, political and economic consequences that affect our living environment. By addressing some of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, students in this course will investigate ways that people can start living their lives in a sustainable way. The course will be divided into four units: 1) Supporting Local Business, 2) the Satoyama Concept / Organic Farming, 3) Waste Prevention, and 4) Corporate Responsibility. Students will be expected to research a short profile (one A4 page) of a business or community organisation for each unit to share with the class. These may be done as individuals or in pairs.
We require to conduct many surveys for special planning and designing. Especially, surveys of organisms become more important because nature and biodiversity conservation is necessary for sustainable development. Students will learn many kinds of field surveys based on knowledge of ecology. All field surveys should be conducted on SFC. Students will learn how to use a topographical map, find a plant species in a plant guide, plant, bird, insect surveys, etc. After the surveys, students will learn the methods of analysis. The goal is to understand the methods, identify the species, and analyze data through lectures and field works.
This lecture offers students to learn the principles and applications of global and local environmental issues in systems perspective. We will start from the global movements on the global warming and then learn the basic elements of environment including air, soil, water and plants. Then we will learn the stocks and flows of the elements in the perspective ecosystems and services. With this fundamental knowledge, students will be able to understand the background of global environmental policies and think to act proactively in research and daily life.
- The class introduces Buckminster Fuller's inventions for solving global issues.
- The class deals with a subject between design and engineering
- The class introduces Fuller's thought on global issue. But mainly aims at his inventions.
- The class demonstrates the essence of the technologies by model making.
This studio is intended for students who are in the beginning stages of architectural design.
Students will analyze masterpieces of modern architecture and design a house on a real site using the analysis method.
This class is an environmental design practice studio that integrates architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture.
Architecture is necessary for people to live. Architecture is an artificial work, but human life is deeply related to nature in many ways. Human beings are a part of nature, and getting close to nature is a basic human desire. On the other hand, nature sometimes shows a life-threatening appearance. The fundamental role of architecture is to protect human life from the harsh aspects of nature, and at the same time, enjoy the blessings of nature and enjoy it from the bottom of our hearts.
Students will draw a new landscape image of the subject region by presenting a design for a given theme or the found problem after analyzing the region's situation with open data and information technology. Students are expected to understand the environmental strategy that builds the relationship between nature and human beings and acquire skills.
In 2007, the United Nations estimated that, for the first time, more than half of the world’s population lived in cities. The ongoing urbanization of the human population represents an enormous change for our environmental, economic, social, and cultural practices. The creation and operation of cities is a leading contributor to climate change, and the way we manage architecture, infrastructure, and landscape must change if we are to avoid its worst effects. Designing sustainable cities has become an imperative. At the same time, the city is a cultural landscape. From its origins in antiquity, the city has been a place for the exchange of goods and ideas and place for us to congregate and share in the riches of a public realm. Cities are, perhaps, our greatest artistic achievement as a species.
The central question asked by this course is: how do we balance the ecological and social imperatives of our time with the economic and aesthetic functions of the city especially for the unpredictable future?
There is no easy answer to this question, but in our pursuit of one we will investigate theories, technologies, and practices of city making in broad terms. Historical episodes in the development of architecture, infrastructure, and urban planning will be examined to provide context for our analysis of the contemporary city as a complex system. Throughout the course, both Japanese and global examples will be considered by inviting practitioners and theorists from different design fields. Key topics covered include aesthetics, demographic change, design, energy use, economics, and social patterns insofar as these influence the processes and outcomes of urbanization. Students are encouraged to be critical of the concepts presented and to form and express their own opinions.
This course covers building construction methods as the basis for architecture.
Cities and rural provinces change due to various reasons and its space changes accordingly. This class examines actual urban redevelopments and rural revitalization cases in order to clarify what kind of factors effect on changing the space, what kind of conditions are to be considered, and what kind of goals are to be set. In this class, specifically urban and rural problems and its physical design solutions are to be discussed. Japanese urban history will be also studied through local community, ‘Cho’, which leads to a discussion on relationship between emergence of local society and urban form. Through several case studies, urban and rural problems such as pandemic, earthquake, depopulation, poverty, terrorism, are to be examined in terms of social, cultural, and economic point of views. How these problems are reflected on physical space will be discussed as well.
Case studies will be impact of Covid-19 in the major cities in the USA and Europe, Reconstruction projects of Tohoku region, Revitalization of urban dilapidated districts and provinces in Japan, Syrian refugee impact to European cities, and African urban modernization.
In the 3rd period a lecture is conducted, and in the 4th period the topic of the lecture is to be discussed.
This course provides the effective coaching methods which make better human relationships between the coaches and the athletes, and among the team mates to enhance the quality of the performance on each field. Based on the Life Style Program Method, students will be required to propose the way to motivate the athletes to fulfill their potential. For the sake of making good learning effects, class members will be active participants of every activity such like discussions, group works, and so fourth.
Most athletes are having physical trainings well based on sports science, and making efforts to effectively improve their sports performances. However, sports science is not only for athletes. Understanding sports science would be valuable for considering the ways for living a long and healthy life. In this course, we are aiming to learn the basis of our body and movements, and reconsider our own health, based on various findings from researches in the field of sports science.
A recent advance in brain measurement and analysis techniques has enabled to read human brain information non-invasively, to uncover brain functions, and to link a brain and a machine/computer. In this class, we will study neural mechanisms of information transmission by action potentials and brain measurement techniques (physical principles, advantages and disadvantages, analysis algorithms) such as EEG, MEG, and MRI. Furthermore, we will focus on recent technologies such as brain machine/computer interfaces and brain decoding.
In this class, we first learn to use corpus to explore how we understand meanings of each word and how the lexicon is structured in the mind. We then discuss the following issues. 1) In what degree are linguistic categories diverse across different languages? Is there any universality in the way different languages carve up the world?; 2) To what extent does our thought depend on language? ; 3) to what extent is children’s conceptual development shaped by language learning?
During the first half (1-7th time), you will learn how to insert a recombinant gene into a plasmid vector and analyze its gene expression in the bacteria Escherichia coli. During the last half (8-14th time), you will learn how to culture human cells, transfect plasmids, and edit the human genome using the CRISPR/Cas9 system.
Analytical chemistry is one of the essential sciences needed in advancing medical, pharmaceutical, food and environmental researches. Due to technological advancement in analytical instruments, operators can now obtain analytical results easily without the need of understanding the underlying principles of the instruments. The purpose of this lecture is to discuss the basis of analytical chemistry that is used in advanced biosciences.
The main objective of the lecture is to achieve a comprehensive understanding of biochemistry that is closely liked to physiology and/or pathology.
The metabolic enzymes had widely been identified and investigated in the 20th century. The old academic theme, however, has greatly expanded mainly by the development of analytical technologies. The recent advances in molecular biology are built on the knowledge of basic biochemistry.