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This class aims to help students to improve their decision-making skills by using the insights of behavioral economics, group dynamics, and organizational behavior..

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.

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.

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.

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.

In this course, we share how to create pattern language, which is a method to scribe out the practical knowledge related to a certain field of knowledge. The original idea of using pattern languages to write out design knowledge was proposed by architect Christopher Alexander. The late 1970’s book he wrote with his colleagues contained 253 patterns on practical architectural design. In the context of architecture, the pattern language was developed in order to serve a lingua franca for designing buildings between architects and residents. Alexander anticipated that people could get involved in the designing process of their homes and towns. Ten years after the book was published, Alexander’s idea of pattern languages was adopted in the field of software design. Since the 1990’s, the fields in which pattern languages are applied have shown even more expansion to cover creative human actions such as education, learning, presentation, collaboration, social innovation, policy making, disaster prevention, life design and even beauty in daily life. Pattern languages are now used to connect all kinds of people with all kinds of different experiences. The patterns help bring light to the less noticeable parts of a person’s experience, so the person can reconsider the experience to talk about it and share it with others. In the classes, there will be many activities to help deeply understand how to create pattern languages and experience them in group work.

The course examines inter-relationship between politics and economics in the field of international trade. The course focuses on in particular the linkage between the trade multilateralism embodied in the WTO and trade regionalism in the form of preferential trade arrangements such as FTA and customs union.

Social participation of individuals is one of many ways to address issues in a community or society. There is a growing expectation to the social participation of individuals from the perspectives of addressing diverse social issues and individual autonomy, but in reality, it is difficult to make one’s first step. This course is an experience learning program in which students take initiatives to interact and cooperate with NPO staff, housewives and employees of public and private sectors to propose an experiment or a suggestion for building a mechanism to enhance “social participation of individuals”. Through the process of learning, students will consider the significance and possibility of social participation of individuals. This course also aims to provide learning opportunities which can be an anchorage to position social engagement in one’s life-career.

Recently, social venture is gaining increasing attention. A typical case would be a creation of a new social service related to a life with more spiritual richness, or a use of business method to help solve or improve social issues due to rapid change in the society.
This course is not for internship in such social ventures (if you are interested in internship, consider “Internship in Nonprofit Organizations”). This course is for participating in practical social activities and gaining experience; it is an action-oriented and experience-based program aiming to enrich your career design options.

This is an undergraduate level econometrics course. In this course, we will start with a review of probability and statistics that are the basics of econometrics. After studying a linear regression model with one regressor, together with its statistical inferences, we will extend our models so that we can have more than one regressor. Issues that interfere with desirable properties of our estimators, such as errors that have autocorrelation or heterosckedasticity, will then be studied. The last part of this course will be devoted to non-linear models, regression with binary dependent variables, instrumental variable regression, and time series regression.

Internship is a valuable opportunity to experientially understand the meaning of “work”. The purpose of this course is to understand, through experience, the social significance and your personal value of working in the non-profit organizations.
You will participate in a 1-month internship during the summer vacation. Before going to internship, you will learn the basic manners and attitudes in classroom lectures during the spring semester. After internship, in the fall semester, you will review your experience, together with other members of the class. You will also think about your career development. The registration of this course is in the spring semester, but the course activities continue in the summer vacation and the fall semester.
During the internship period, you need to be fully independent and responsible for your activities. As for the internship destinations, you can either chose from the list provided by the lecturer, or negotiate directly with an organization of your choice. (See the notes below for details.)

This course will give lectures on game theory to analyze the strategic interdependence of people and organizations in society, from the beginning to relatively advanced contents. Rather than pursuing mathematical rigor, I would like to give priority to students mainly to understand game theoretical way of thinking. Therefore, advanced mathematical knowledge is not required, but the explanation itself is quite logical.

The content to be dealt mainly with orthodox noncooperative game theory, but includes recent topics on bounded rationality (evolutionary game theory) and experiments in strategic interaction, and part of cooperative game theory. The participants of this lecture should not be satisfied with superficially describing complex social phenomena, but through active analysis using the framework of such game theory, I want you to acquire a clear understanding of the mechanism of social phenomena and flexible thinking that excludes fixed ideas on social problems.

In this class, we will discuss the issue of ethics in management.

This course is designed to learn advanced macroeconomics for students who already completead a coursework of basic economics.

The purpose of the this course is to reviewing and to understanding the key issues of Life-time Career Development. The course also covers topics such as work life balance, second career for seinor workers. The course also puts heavy emphasis on understanding actual career design processes and development of individuals, rather than explaing the theoretical frame work of career development.
The course invites practioners who engage in services to support career design and development of workers in thier firms. It is our aim that participating students of the course will gain knowledge and practices for their acutual career design prosesses.
Therefore, the students will gain practical knowledge and practices to enhance capability to develop their own career development programs in the future.

In this class, we will give an overview of the theory and current status of career development from various perspectives. Career development programs provided by companies are based on various ideas and career models. From that perspective, we will give an overview of various skill development and career development programs. In particular, we plan to specifically consider education and training programs, selective education programs, and the latest self-career development programs, such as designing your own career. The revised Vocational Ability Development Promotion Law, which came into effect in 2016, requires each employee to take responsibility for career design and to provide companies with support for that purpose. In the class, we plan to consider career issues and issues from a practical perspective that promotes one's career design and development. In this class, rather than giving an overview of various theories about careers, we will proceed with the lessons from the perspective of what challenges to overcome in order to carry out career design in a practical manner. In addition, we plan to invite corporate career consultants / advisors, people in charge of education and training centers, or people with unique career histories to the class to talk about various practical issues facing career development. is.

This course is devoted to mastering the basic theory of macroeconomics.The contents dealt with in this class are the perspective of SNA, how to decide GDP, fiscal and monetary policy by IS-LM analysis, economic policy of aggregate demand / aggregate supply analysis, and so on.

Several topics on Career and Society will be discussed in this course. Dynamic changes of Japanese society have made major differences in work styles, competencies, and career development. We analyze those shifts from social and individual perspectives. Please note that this course does not include a macro level perspectives such as labor economics.

The purposes of this course are not only to understand concepts of career development in changing society, but also to think about your own career development. Students who are interested in becoming a professional in Human Resource Management/Development, HR business, career education, and adult education are expected for this course.

This lecture is an intermediate microeconomic analysis. The purpose of
this lecture is to provide the techniques of equilibrium analysis. Topics covered are the foundations of the positive and normative analysis of interaction among agents in competitive markets.

Administrative law is a legal field that discusses the overall structure of administrative activities and the relationship between the state and the people. How to respond to diverse needs is an issue for administrative activities. Based on this perspective, this lecture aims to understand the basic idea of administrative law.

(1)Penal Code specifies requirements in which punishments could be invoked by a state. In general, criminal law lectures are to be organized into its general parts and its specific parts. The general parts discuss about common elements of crimes. The specific parts discuss about specific elements of each crime. To learn the basic ideas of them.
(2)In order to be in touch with the reality of criminal justice, students are requested to view "Alternative Justice Congress"(5 days) (※）and discusse them within a group(group work).
(3)Let's try
(a)Read the white papers on crimes.
(b)Read documents for prosecution on charges.
(c)Read a case in a judicial case collection book.
（※）https://yuji-hosono.com/alternative-justice-congress_en/

This course is designed to assist students to explore the structure of Japanese Corporate Law. We will mainly focus on the organization of Stock Companies under Japanese Companies Act.

Japan's laws and ordinances constitute the legal system of vast spreading hem with the Constitution as the highest regulation at the top. It is important to understand the basic principle and interpretation of the Constitution, since various laws and regulations have been enacted based on the Constitution which is the highest law in the country of law. The Japanese Constitution establishes governance from legislative, judicial and administrative authority. In the Constitution (governance), centering on these, we will study about nation and sovereignty.