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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.
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.
There is common difficulties and challenge in design of artifact today.Product design, Architecture design and Environmental design have to be situated in a context logicaly with both intuitive sense and rational methodology to creat it . By investigationg and about relationship between design and information technologies from many aspects, this subject will become more scientific and promising.
Espacially, when a media to connect reality and design is sifting towards data repreesentation, it became possible to be computationally processed, shared, and simulated. We start taking advantages of very compricated status of geometry with an algorithmto adapt functional requirements of different environmental factors such as structure, sound, heat, light energy etc .
Furthermore it will became more comprehensive issue for us when it is connected to the technology of manufacture and construction, and continuous autonimity of atifact such as Io. Students of this class will learn hulistic idea of cognitive, philosophical, tectonic, socio-cultural factor of influence in current information technologies to human attitude of creation.
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.
The purpose of this course is to consider the problems of contemporary society from the perspective of the humanities. Before we optimistically assume that the world of globalization is a world connected by a single set of values, we must begin by asking the question: do people really understand each other? For people to communicate with each other, words are needed, but can these words function as a transparent and colorless tool? And when we talk about "people" and "people", do they really communicate with the same values? With these questions in mind, this course will examine the meaning of "language" and "people" from the perspectives of philosophy, literature, history, and art, before turning to actual events.
This lecture aims to understand the basis of Islamic teachings. In the first half, you will learn the Islamic teachings along the "five practices and six beliefs of Islam" that Muslims practice and believe. In the second half, individual themes related to contemporary social problems such as women, science and halal will be discussed. The main subject of the lecture is Islam as a teaching, but the lecture will be delivered with showing the actual situation and problems of the modern world between Muslims and non-Muslims and comparing teaching and reality.
See the Japanese version.
When we examine different regions, it is important to understand their culture. The broad concept of culture includes elements such as among others history, religion, language and art. Furthermore we can also say that in its core this concept also merges with the idea of community. This lecture will be conducted jointly by professors of the German and French sections. Although to a certain extent we can not avoid focusing on Germany and France, the goal of this lecture is to approach the true nature of “Europe” especially through the investigation of its western parts. While experiencing ups and downs, Europe has advanced towards unification. In this sense, Europe is getting closer to becoming a region that has overcome borders. At the same time national borders do not
always coincide with linguistic and cultural borders. Furthermore European states are often marked by different regional identities inside their national borders. Investigating this diverse Europe will have a great importance in the 21st century.
This lecture is aimed at students with little prior knowledge about the European Union. After an overview of European integration from the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC, 1951) to today’s European Union, the EU’s main institutions and political stakeholders will be examined. How are the European commission, the European Council, the European Parliament or the European Court of Justice set up? What are their powers and competences, and what is the process of creating European policies and laws? The lecture will then address the workings of the European Union considering specific policy fields like foreign policy, security policy or agriculture policy, as well as the handling of specific problem situations like the financial crisis or the refugee crisis, before finally looking at various options for future developments.
This course will explore the history and aesthetics of independent animation in the Asia Pacific Region. The lectures will have a heavy focus on East Asian animation pioneers and contemporary innovators, but students are encouraged to do research into independent animation more widely across the Asia-Pacific region for their presentations and essays.
Critical areas: Film Studies, Animation Studies, Media Literacy, National Identity Theory, Cultural Identity, Social Identity Theory, Gender Studies
Latin America has always been a source of inspiration for those people working to build a better society. In spite of the colonial heritage and the deep division that runs through the societies of the region, innovative theories and iniciatives emerged and came to influence many aspects of the global social science and humanities of our time. This course aims to survey principal topics related to development and Latin America, covering the contemporary issues of the region especially from a focus on development and social change.
(We plan to do this course on-campus in the spring semester 2021.)
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.
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.
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.)