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Knowledge on Labor Law, which stipulates basic rules between employers and employees, is very important both for those who are going to be recruited by a company and for those who will establish new business and hire people. The objective of this course is to obtain basic knowledge on Labor Law and to learn mainly about the right of and protection against employees and obligation of employers.
It is safe to say that ‘work’ is something very familiar, rather, inevitable for most of us. Employed workers (=employees) take the biggest share in the number of workers and the basic knowledge of the Labor Law is very useful not only for workers, but also for employers. Furthermore, for employers, that knowledge is indispensable in order not to violate regulations; even for workers, it is best for them to know the Labor Law well, considering the serious social problems brought by the ‘exploitative enterprises’.
In this course, students firstly overview the basics of the Labor Law as well as the rights of workers and the duties of employees. The goal for students is to obtain the abilities to handle concrete labour issues with the knowledge of the Labour Law, considering the both standpoints of workers and employees.
Japan's policy formation process has significantly shifted since the late 1990s. The trend from so-called "bureaucrat-led" to "politician-led" and "Prime Minister's Office-led" has been accelerating. This is mainly because the former method of policy formation, in which the government ministries and agencies coordinate with related parties to develop optimal solutions for each area, is no longer functioning.
Issues such as economic stagnation, fiscal problems, globalization, declining and aging populations with fewer children, energy and environmental matters, new technologies, widening inequality, job mobility, rural exhaustion, disasters and infectious diseases, and loneliness and isolation are becoming increasingly difficult to solve using the policy formation method for each ministry's area.
In addition, traditional bureaucrat-driven policy formation by ministry has been mediated by intermediary organizations that organize people in similar positions. While this approach worked well during the high-growth period, the fact that intermediary organizations' organizational strength and opinion aggregation functions have declined due to the diversification and mobility of people's lifestyles and values is a significant reason why traditional policy formation is finding it challenging to derive optimal solutions.
In addition, the political situation has changed dramatically with the introduction of a parallel constituency-based proportional representation system in the House of Representatives and the expansion of the independent voter base. It is no longer possible to be elected with the support of a specific support group alone, and the key to elections is to gather the support of independents. Under the single-seat constituency system, in which only one person can be elected, the election is a choice between the ruling party and the opposition party, and the cabinet's approval rating at the time has become a significant factor in the outcome of the election. In fact, in 2009 and 2012, we experienced a change in government. A person in office must always maintain a high approval rating, or the ruling party will launch a campaign to topple the government. To ensure the smooth running of the administration, it became necessary for the center of the administration to quickly come up with measures to deal with high-profile issues that directly affect the approval rating.
On the public side, there has been a significant shift in how people obtain information from the major media to the Internet and social networking services. This is especially true among the younger generation. Since the proliferation of SNS in the 2010s, there have been an increasing number of instances in which the voices of unorganized voters have become visible and diffused, leading to the reversal of policies once decided by the government and ruling parties.
Amid these changes in socioeconomic and political conditions and people's lives, it is believed that the prime minister's initiative was the demand of the times. To realize this, mechanisms have been put in place, such as the creation of the Cabinet Office, the establishment of the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy, etc., and the centralization of senior bureaucratic personnel appointments by the Cabinet Personnel Bureau.
It is a good thing that policies have been able to move quickly and significantly, taking into account the needs of the people. Still, the system for appropriately consolidating opinions based on evidence in the policy formation process has yet to be established in this society, and sometimes policies are formulated that misinterpret the community's needs. The policy-making process in this country is still in the process of change, and further progress is needed.
The country's future needs to clarify the changes in the policy-making process, where we are now, and what we should do to establish an ideal policy-making process.
To this end, it is essential for citizens, companies, NPOs, and other private sectors, as well as local governments, who have information that can serve as seeds for policies, to provide solid input to politicians and bureaucrats at the center of the policy formation process, rather than leaving it to politicians and bureaucrats, who are engaged in policy-making as their primary business. They must provide solid input to the politicians and bureaucrats at the center of the policy-making process. Public relations strategies that include the support of the media, experts, and influencers will also become essential to gather the support of more people needed to realize policies. In other words, more than ever before, there is an increasing need to build a collaborative policy-making process that transcends sectors.
This is more than just an issue for those who want to create policies. It is also essential for citizens and those trying to develop and expand business in the corporate and social sectors. When we grow our activities to advance our activities or to solve problems, we are bound to run into issues of rules and systems. For example, to promote the implementation of AI, automated driving, drone technology, and iPS cell technology, it is necessary to change existing laws and regulations that do not anticipate such new technologies in parallel with research and development. If this is completed, the research results will reach fewer people than possible, hindering business. In turn, we must catch up to other countries regarding the economy.
SFC students have a variety of career paths, including employment in large companies, research, the social sector, and entrepreneurship, in addition to those who pursue a career in public service or other policy-related fields. Whichever path they take, if they want to make a significant change for the better in society, it is highly effective for students to learn methods for constructing and participating in the policy formation process of the future. Our lectures aim to improve students' ability to solve social issues through dialogue with guest lecturers who can serve as models for practitioners in such diverse sectors.
In the era of data-driven economy, AI technology has been deployed in practice over the world by large-scale digital platformers such as Google and Amazon. The appearance of Generative AI, which can be easily adopted to various business area, dramatically accelerates use of AI in the society now.
In order to utilize full potential of emerging technologies including AI for promoting economic growth and addressing various social issues, It is necessary for people and society to to be ready to use the technology, not just for the technology to be established. If we solely rely on market competition without policy intervention, those goals cannot be accomplished or unexpected social issues can be arisen.
This course will provide the explanation on social issues related to AI technology as well as the necessity of policy interventions. The course will also introduce basic knowledge of understand policy backgrounds as appropriate.
Then, we will discuss specific issues or policy from the aspects of privacy, safety, open data, fairness, ethics, intellectual property, promotion of use in individual fields, etc., with the viewpoint of international comparison or competition.
While clarifying the evolution of the policy-making process, where we are now and the challenges we face, we will consider how we can establish an ideal policy-making process. The students will then learn methods to engage in building and participating in the policy-making process of the future in order to significantly change society for the better.
This course consists of lectures, guest speaker lectures, and group work.
The lecture will provide basic knowledge about entrepreneurship, innovation, and new business creation, as well as provide a business network that can be used even after graduation, and provide corporate information as a place of employment / internship.
In the lecture by the guest speaker, we invite venture entrepreneurs and practitioners who are closely related to Keio University to learn the actual situation of entrepreneurship. In group work, team building is carried out, problems are discovered, problem solving goals are set, and business plans for solving problems are created and give a presentation.
This course is a donation course by Mr. Taki Toshio, Shunsuke Uchikawa and Nobuhiro Ariyasu. The sponsor and Mentor Mita-kai (Entrepreneur Support Alumni Association) will support this course and give the advice to students.
This course consists of lectures, guest speaker lectures, and group work.
The lecture will provide basic knowledge about entrepreneurship, innovation, and new business creation, as well as provide a business network that can be used even after graduation, and provide corporate information as a place of employment / internship.
In the lecture by the guest speaker, we invite venture entrepreneurs and practitioners who are closely related to Keio University to learn the actual situation of entrepreneurship. In group work, team building is carried out, problems are discovered, problem solving goals are set, and business plans for solving problems are created and give a presentation.
This course is a donation course by Mr. Taki Toshio. The sponsor and Mentor Mita-kai (Entrepreneur Support Alumni Association) will support this course and give the advice to students.
The entry into force of the Paris Agreement, the adoption of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the rapid spread of ESG (environmental, social and corporate governance) investment are at a new stage of environmental business. Understand the role that business plays in transitioning to a sustainable, low-carbon society, in light of changes in environmental business and its trends in the world. In addition, you will learn the methods necessary to build an environmental business on the basis of extensive case studies, and actually experience the presentation of business ideas.
In this course, starting with the viewpoints of ‘work’ and ‘gender’, students firstly obtain basic knowledge and understand the situation of Japanese society; then, from wider point of views, students focus on other inequalities as well as discriminations in the society, and figure out concrete and feasible proposals.
The lecturers are manegerial consultants (ex-McKinsey) who have led various corporate transformations into success so far. In the first third of this series of the classes, you will learn basic concepts and techniques regarding business models, and how data analysis can be used to solve the related issues, using existing cases as clues. In the remaining two-thirds of the class series, individual research or group work (2-3 people per group) will be conducted for studies of business model analyses and strategic evaluations of each industry and/or an individual company. Specifically, data analyses and field surveys will be conducted, and the proposals will be made and summed up while holding meetings once or twice a week (face-to-face in Tokyo or online, depending on the case, may be held on weekday nights or weekends).
In some cases, joint researches will be conducted with individual companies, and in such cases, the companies bear transportation and other expenses.
(Note) See the series of articles in "Nikkei Business Online" for an image of the analysis results. http://shinichi-ueyama.com/DOC/ueyama-article_4.htm
(Note) Whether it will be an independent research project or a joint project with an individual company will be determined by comprehensively taking into consideration the coronavirus infection status, the number and ability of students, and the acceptance status of cooperating companies.
The objective of this course is to give students a realistic sense of business and to deepen their understanding of the impact of recent ESG/sustainability initiatives on corporate management and society, based on the sharing of academic research results and practical lectures by people working on the front lines of business.
The lectures are designed to provide a broad perspective to undergraduate and graduate students who wish to deepen their understanding of not only corporate management, finance, and securities investment, but also ESG and other non-financial information, with a view to developing professionals in the future.
The objective of this course is to give students a realistic sense of business and to deepen their understanding of the impact of recent ESG/sustainability initiatives on corporate management and society, based on the sharing of academic research results and practical lectures by people working on the front lines of business.
The lectures are designed to provide a broad perspective to undergraduate and graduate students who wish to deepen their understanding of not only corporate management, finance, and securities investment, but also ESG and other non-financial information, with a view to developing professionals in the future.
The lecturers are manegerial consultants (ex-McKinsey) who have led various corporate transformations into success so far. In the first third of this series of the classes, you will learn basic concepts and techniques regarding business models, and how data analysis can be used to solve the related issues, using existing cases as clues. In the remaining two-thirds of the class series, individual research or group work (2-3 people per group) will be conducted for studies of business model analyses and strategic evaluations of each industry and/or an individual company. Specifically, data analyses and field surveys will be conducted, and the proposals will be made and summed up while holding meetings once or twice a week (face-to-face in Tokyo or online, depending on the case, may be held on weekday nights or weekends).
In some cases, joint researches will be conducted with individual companies, and in such cases, the companies bear transportation and other expenses.
(Note)1. See the series of articles in "Nikkei Business Online" for an image of the analysis results. http://shinichi-ueyama.com/DOC/ueyama-article_4.htm
(Note)2. Stated above, in the remaining two-thirds of the class series, students will build practical strategies for specific industries and companies through either "Course A: Individual Research" or "Course B: Group Work," depending on each person's skills and situation. The course for individual student will be decided after having an interview with the lecturers at the time of selection and comprehensively taking into consideration the number of students, their ability, their wishes, and the acceptance status of cooperating companies. The lecturers will take also your level of participation in class during the first month and the submitted reports into this consideration.
As a general rule, there will be no exchange of A↔B during the semester.
(Note) 3. "Course A. Individual research"
We mainly conduct issue analysis and market research for various consumer goods industries and individual companies. Specifically, we will conduct data analysis and field surveys. The students assigned to this area form a group, and the lecturers provide feedback to each group regarding the progress of the content, and a report on the survey results is completed.
(Note)4. "Course B: Group Work,"
We compile strategic recommendations through repeated meetings with the assigned specific client company once or twice a week (in Tokyo, on weekday evenings). In this case, the company will pay the transportation and administrative expenses.
(For an image of the analysis results of the group work B team, please refer to the serialized articles (related to consumer goods below) in Nikkei Business Online. http://shinichi-ueyama.com/DOC/ueyama-article_4.htm
（Note)5. As to the contents in the classroom for totally newly registering students in the first month, you will learn about business models based on a business management perspective and actual business management examples. At the same time, you will learn the basics of logical thinking necessary for creating and presenting issue analysis, charts, and presentation packages, which are the basics of consulting practice.
(Note)6. Whether it will be an independent research project or a joint project with an individual company will be determined by comprehensively taking into consideration the coronavirus infection status, the number and ability of students, and the acceptance status of cooperating companies.
This course consists of lectures, guest speaker lectures, and group work.
The lecture will provide basic knowledge about entrepreneurship, innovation, and new business creation, as well as provide a business network that can be used even after graduation, and provide corporate information as a place of employment / internship.
In the lecture by the guest speaker, we invite venture entrepreneurs and practitioners who are closely related to Keio University to learn the actual situation of entrepreneurship. In group work, team building is carried out, problems are discovered, problem solving goals are set, and business plans for solving problems are created and give a presentation.
This course is a donation course by Mr. Taki Toshio, Shunsuke Uchikawa and Ariake Caital Inc. The sponsor and Mentor Mita-kai (Entrepreneur Support Alumni Association) will support this course and give the advice to students.
No one is irrelevant to gender. In this course, starting with the viewpoints of ‘gender’, students firstly look into various discomfortable feelings in daily lives and our society, and then, try to reconsider gender issues in work The goal of this course is to learn the ways to figure out concrete and feasible proposals to diminish gender gaps.
The goal of this class is to be independent of gender and other categories and to have a personal perspective on how to create a society where all people can live and work while respecting human rights.
First of all, we will check the current situation in Japan from a gender perspective, and encourage students to focus on unconscious discrimination from other perspectives and broaden the students' perspectives.
Occupational health psychology concerns the application of psychology to improving the quality of work life, and to protecting and promoting the safety, health and well-being of workers. It covers not only workers but also work organization and environment. It also deals with negative aspects of well-being (e.g., stress, diseases,injury) as well as positive aspects (e.g., performance, motivation, career).
In this course, students will learn concepts and activities of occupational mental health. They will also learn current topics such as positive mental health, leisure time and health, death from overwork (Karo-shi) and suicide from overwork (Karo-jisatu), mental health support for oversea workers, and bullying and harassment.
Occupational health psychology concerns the application of psychology to improving the quality of work life, and to protecting and promoting the safety, health and well-being of workers. It covers not only workers but also work organization and environment. It also deals with negative aspects of well-being (e.g., stress, diseases,injury) as well as positive aspects (e.g., performance, motivation, career).
In this course, students will learn concepts and activities of occupational mental health. They will also learn current topics such as positive mental health, leisure time and health, death from overwork (Karo-shi) and suicide from overwork (Karo-jisatu), mental health support for oversea workers, and bullying and harassment.
Occupational health psychology concerns the application of psychology to improving the quality of work life, and to protecting and promoting the safety, health and well-being of workers. It covers not only workers but also work organization and environment. It also deals with negative aspects of well-being (e.g., stress, diseases,injury) as well as positive aspects (e.g., performance, motivation, career).
In this course, students will learn concepts and activities of occupational mental health. They will also learn current topics such as positive mental health, leisure time and health, death from overwork (Karo-shi) and suicide from overwork (Karo-jisatu), mental health support for oversea workers, and bullying and harassment.
The Student Built Campus (SBC) project began in Spring 2015 as part of Keio University’s new campus-planning project 'Mirai Sozo Juku (Institute for Designing the Future)' aiming to develop a new residential education and research environment created by the students, faculty members, administrative staff and alumni of SFC.
The goal of SBC is to realize a future model of the university campus in a world where various resources, such as knowledge, technology, and people, are integrated. This new network will redefine notions of 'study' and 'education' in the 21st Century.
The 7 classes in this semster are concentrated in the first quarter. We learn about the concept of 'Mirai Sozo Juku' and SBC and understand how 'learning', education', 'university' and 'communication' are to be in the context of current society.
Students are expected to understand what are SBC and Mirai Sozo Juku pursue, and acquire idea and method of learning and managing new education and projects which can be available by future university's residential education and research happening at the SBC.
This class is designed for students to participate in actual planning of SBC (Student Build Campus) which is located in East area of Miraisozo-juku project, north of SFC.
Students will make furniture for House 2 or presentation hall which construction will start in this semester and oversee the holistic idea about SBC.
A guest instructor will be invited to teach practical fabrication.
The Student Built Campus (SBC) project began in Spring 2015 as part of Keio University’s new campus-planning project 'Mirai Sozo Juku (Institute for Designing the Future)' aiming to develop a new residential education and research environment created by the students, faculty members, administrative staff and alumni of SFC. The goal of SBC is to realize a future model of the university campus in a world where various resources, such as knowledge, technology, and people, are integrated. This new network will redefine notions of 'study' and 'education' in the 21st Century. This class adopts the "My Seminar" format, in which two or three alumni are invited as guests, and the students are divided into groups to work on group projects based on themes conceived by the alumni. Students are expected to understand what are SBC and Mirai Sozo Juku pursue, and acquire idea and method of learning and managing new education and projects which can be available by residential education and research happening at the SBC.
Access the following url, so that you can understand what kind of themes we will go with for the next semester.
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lu9jJZu81E7j-fBgRlEJ8kWCHP4txXBacv-uZwEz2BQ/edit#heading=h.nvtk0t3a7y93]
This course aims to develop human resources who can play an active role in society by gaining an understanding of architectural culture, acquiring perspectives, viewpoints, and perspectives that allow them to view things multifaceted and flexibly.
The lectures are unique in that the lectures are interwoven with the instructor's actual work experience in magazine editing and regional development, and the lectures are guest lecturers who are active at the forefront of fields such as fashion and architecture. This allows students to not only acquire simple knowledge and education, but also to learn more practical ways of thinking and methodologies. Students are required to take each event as their own and actively participate in class.
This course is structured based on the following ideas.
・“Architecture” is a dimension that goes beyond mere buildings.
・Architecture is not only artistic, but is also subject to various economic, political, and legal constraints, and is an important cultural component as well as a social entity.
・Therefore, "architecture" is a media that allows us to read the historical and social background and the thoughts of our predecessors. We will examine the significance of each building's existence, and from there we will envision the shape and form of future society.
From the above perspective, each lecture will be based on a theme, learning about society and culture through architecture, cultivating an awareness of issues, and cultivating a free sense and creative ability that is not bound by existing value standards.
Fumihiko Maki (1928-), recipient of numerous international awards including the Pritzker Prize, is one of the world's foremost architects, universally acclaimed for his long-standing design activities and his work. He has designed not only our campus, but also many buildings at Keio University, most notably the libraries in Fujisawa, Mita, and Hiyoshi. In Japan, he has been awarded the AIJ Prize twice, and his many works include the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, Makuhari Messe, and Yokohama City Hall, but it is his international activities and reputation that deserve special mention. He has also been recognized as a practical theorist who introduced Japanese architectural thought to the world. His ideas, which place Japanese cities and their spatiality in the context of the global trend of modernism since the Edo period, have attracted worldwide attention from the perspective of the conflict between localism and globalism in the environment. His work has been highly acclaimed and has been invited to design buildings that symbolize the region and the era around the world, including the WTC site in New York, MIT Media Lab, Bihar Museum in India, Singapore Institute of Technology, the Aga Khan Foundation London Headquarters, and Shenzhen World Culture Center.
Keio University SFC has received a donation from Mr. Fumihiko Maki of valuable materials such as sketches, drawings, models, photographs, manuscripts of his writings, publications, correspondence, etc., which he owned and kept in his possession, and has decided to collect, organize, store, and collect them for future use in research and educational activities both inside and outside Japan. We have decided to collect, organize, store, and collect these materials and to make them available to the public through exhibitions and data for future use in research and educational activities in Japan and abroad. The "Fumihiko Maki Archive Room," located on the renovated fourth floor of the Media Center, which overlooks the entire SFC space designed by Mr. Maki, will not only display and introduce to visitors from around the world the architectural works of Mr. Maki, who has embodied the educational philosophy of Keio University, but will also serve as a historical research resource for current and former students as well as for the public. The aim is to create a digital archive that can be used not only by current students but also by people from all over the world as a historical research resource. We plan to collaborate with the Keio University Art Center, Keio Museum Commons, and the Center for Integrated Research on Digital Media and Content at Keio University in order to create multifaceted and cutting-edge digital content that goes beyond the mere creation of image data.
This class is designed to help students understand the international trend of urbanism and the historical significance of design activities through the works and footsteps of Mr. Fumihiko Maki, and at the same time, to make the creation of analytical results itself a learning opportunity as a teaching material in which elements and applicable specific knowledge that those studying architectural design should master are accumulated. The course provides a practical learning process about the philosophy of Fumihiko Maki, who advocated humanism in architecture, especially for students who aim to study and research architecture and urban design, utilizing the international trend of urbanism and the position of holding valuable materials on the works and philosophy of the architect Fumihiko Maki.
As part of the Student Build Campus (SBC) project, this class will archive the activities at the Miraisozojuku EAST town block and produce output in the form of a zine.
In the first half of the semester, students will create a zine of SBC. Each group will conduct interviews and research to delve into the charms of SBC, and edit the contents based on those interviews and research. Each student will lay out, print, and bind the edited materials.
In the second half of the semester, each student will make a zine individually. Each student will compile thoughts on a topic of interest into a text and edit it. Each student will lay out the text with illustrations, etc., and then print and bind the zine on their own. The output of the project will be to have the finished product placed in bookstores or sold at markets and other events.
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