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Physical and Mental Health for Campus Life is a prerequisite for second year advancement. Freshmen are strongly recommended to enroll during their first semester. Through lecture and group work, this course aims to provide fundamental knowledge for a healthy and productive campus life and further prepare the student to be a self-managing and self-sufficient leader of society after graduation. In Fall semester, there is also Physical and Mental Health for Campus Life in English. This course is for GIGA program students and international students, and special emphasis is placed on Intercultural adaptation issues. Students who are not accustomed to Japanese culture are strongly recommended to take English course.
The aim of this course is to examine the meaning of cross-border culture by looking at the reception of Japanese manga and anime culture (hereafter ACGN culture) in Taiwan.
The goal of this lecture is to understand the various aspects of the acceptance of ACGN culture in Taiwan, mainly through the results of academic and field research. Specifically, we will first overview the development of manga culture in Taiwan since the 1950s, referring to the works of Chen Chu-wei, a leading researcher of ACGN culture. Next, I will give an overview of some of the topics that arose in the 1990s and 2000s. After that, we will discuss the trend of master thesis on ACGN culture and the second half of the class will be devoted to the basic knowledge of ACGN culture in Japan. The second half of the class will be devoted to teaching basic knowledge of Japanese ACGN culture. As a concrete example of the localization of ACGN culture, the Japan-Taiwan collaboration puppet show "Thunderbolt Fantasy" will be introduced.
Computers are used everywhere in modern information society. Whenever a computer is used, some algorithm is used. The purpose of this lecture is to introduce algorithms used in various situations and to make them more interesting.
Economics is the study of the problem of managing rare resources as efficiently as possible. The allocation of resources is determined by the interactions between consumers and firms. It is essential to analyze the results of various economic activities in order to understand consumer behaviors and firm strategies. Therefore, by modeling behaviors of consumers and firms, it is necessary to learn about supply and demand of goods. Economic trading exists when there is a balance between demand and supply of goods, which can be understood by the concept of market equilibrium. Further, based on the concept of social welfare, the study discusses the policies to achieve the desirable resource allocation. Microeconomics provides a theoretical framework for such economic analyses. This course aims to understand how the concepts of microeconomics solve the existing economic issue. Although mathematics is used in this course, the main aim is for intuitive understanding through the use of diagrams. Knowledge of microeconomics opens up new perspectives in other fields such as business administration, politics, and sociology.
Chinese civilization thought has had a big influence on East Asia including Japan.
It is useful to get an overview of Chinese history and thought for doing East Asian area studies.
This course introduces Chinese history from Zhou Dynasty to Ming Dynasty and establishment and development of Confucianism to students taking this course.
In this course, I will lecture on Chinese history from ancient China to Ming Dynasty, and development of the history of Chinese thought (mainly of Confucianism).