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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.
Molecular biology was definitely the central player of the life sciences in the 20th century. At the end of the nineteenth century, Mendel explained the genetic phenomena. Avery determined that the gene was DNA. Watson and Click came to discover the double helix structure of DNA. Then, main theme of the life science in the second half of the 20th century was directed to "Exploring cells ". Basic Molecular Biology 1 to 4 will acquire knowledge of molecular cell biology indispensable for grasping modern life science. Instead of passively listening to lectures, classes focus on exercises that actively solve problems. Basic Molecular Biology 1 will be the first part of it.
The purpose of this course is to learn CIS region comprehensively. This course would be consisted by lecturers, group work and presentations, and individual term report.
"Regional study" is needed to deal with many aspects such as politics, economics, international relations, history, ethnicity, society, religion, conflicts, environmental problems, energy problems, etc. In particular, the former Soviet Union states are young and they have many problems to be solved, and such problems are complicated and to be needed the comprehensive knowledge and considering the international relations.
In order to think about the current world, it is essential to understand the former Soviet space. Therefore, we aim to deepen the understanding of the region.
This class aims for enhancing the understanding of contemporary international political economy, security and society mainly in East Asia through examining theories, policy frameworks and practices. All sessions are conducted in English.
”Region” could be defined in various terms. In international relations, it generally indicates the multilateral groupings of neighboring nations. However, when it comes to the term regionalism, it suggests a functional relation that bundles multiple nations with their political, economic and cultural inheritance, often based on the geographical advantages. Region could be formed either inherently or arbitrary. Thus, the "Region/Regionalism" is a dynamic concept of geopolitics/economics, which rests between the global governance, the bilateral rational choice of the government, and people's perceptions.
This course specifically focuses on following agendas: 1)theory and practices of regionalism in East Asia, 2)security in Asia-Pacific region, 3)Japan’s foreign policy on regionalism.
This subject offers a comprehensive overview of the global communication landscape. Students will understand the history, current theories and the several case studies of international communication.
Students will understand about the history of news agencies and the concept of propaganda. Also they'll have a chance to think about the effect of international flow of information, things and people.
To understand the International Law including topics or issues in the International Society.
This course is about International Business. The course explains about the firms that operate in the international business environment from two perspectives: management studies as practical knowledge and management studies as a field of social science. Thus, the course is designed to introduces the participants basic theories related to international business and the reality of global business operation in practice.
This is an international finance course for undergraduate students. We will cover the monetary or macroeconomic side of international economics, such as the determinants of the exchange rate and the effects of monetary policy. The first half of the course will be devoted to the exchange rate and open-economy macroeconomics. In particular, we will learn how the exchange rate is determined. Then, in the last half, we will look at international macroeconomic policy as well as exchange rate policies in developed and developing countries. We will study how policies work, and what kind of policy is desirable.
This lecture will focus on disaster risk as the key element of international environmental studies, and will elaborate with case studies on disaster risk reduction frameworks, climate change adaptation and sustainable development. Examples from developing countries in Asia will be presented. Group discussion among students will be made.
The objective of this course to understand how to apply the economic theories and econometrics methods in analysing education and human capital accumulations in developing countries.
This class will be conducted in Japanese. Please refer the Japanese page.
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.
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.
This class aims to help students to improve their decision-making skills by using the insights of behavioral economics, group dynamics, and organizational behavior..
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.