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Wie denken junge Deutsche? Was koennen wir ihnen ueber die japanische Gesellschaft mitteilen? Was moechten wir ueber Deutschland wissen?
In diesem Seminar sprechen wir ueber gesellschaftliche Trends in Japan und Deutschland, wie immer gemeinsam mit einer Partnergruppe an der Martin Luther-Universitaet in Halle. In gemischten Kleingruppen (SFC-Uni Halle) werden per Video-Chat Themen zur Praesentation vorbereitet. Bei der Aufbereitung der Themen werden wir die Instrumente Medienrecherche, Umfragen und Interviews nutzen. Die Ergebnisse werden im Plenum besprochen und in Video-Konferenzen vorgestellt. Arbeitssprachen sind Deutsch und Japanisch.
In this seminar, we will learn about Germany, Austria and Switzerland. We will read various texts, watch videos and eventually hold talks with experts. There will also be an opportunity to work with students of Trier University in Germany (online collaboration: exchange, discussion, possibly presentations).
Il n’est pas de société humaine qui ne valorise certains actes et n’en prohibe d’autres. Chaque société conçoit des règles pour mesurer et juger des comportements qu’elle qualifie de « normal » et auxquelles les membres d’un groupe doivent se soumettre sous peine d’être exclu de la communauté. L’individu non conforme au reste du groupe est alors qualifié de « déviant » par rapport à la norme en vigueur dans ce groupe. Mais, qu’est-ce qui définit la nature déviante d’un acte ? L’objectif de ce cours sera, à partir de textes choisis, de comprendre la construction sociale de la déviance et ainsi, par conséquence, nous déduirons ce qu’on a définit par « normalité » selon la société et l’époque.
The purpose of this course is to examine the diversity of language and culture through Chinese. China has a large population, vast territory and abundant cultures. Every region has its own cultural background and linguistic habits. PUTONGHUA is only one of the many aspects present in the Chinese language. In order to make you learn about the internal diversity of Chinese, I will introduce dialects, especially the form spoken in Taiwan. And then, through the contrast between Chinese and other languages, you can develop your understanding of Chinese while familiarizing yourself with the differences of the cultures behind those languages.
In this course, we will examine various issues in Korean society using Korean documentaries(which are not easily accessible in Japan). Starting with various analysis of the actual reality of Korean society, we will take a quick look at how we can explain it academically. In particular, using Korean society as an concrete example, we will have an opportunity to think about what position we can take on various kinds of inequality and discrimination.
The course will focus on carbon neutrality and various climate scenarios, ESG investment and sustainable finance, ESG corporate management, as well as the cases of the European Union, United Kingdom, China, the United States, and Japan, based on the textbook published in July 2020. The course will focus on policy, money and civil society movements related to carbon neutrality. The supplementary textbook (to be published in September 2020) will be used to deepen further understanding.
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 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 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.
Course Topic: Changes in Asia at the beginning of the end of Covid-19: Data collecting, Evidence selecting and storytelling.
Content: Asia Workshop is the dynamic working space where students and instructors work together to discuss emerging issues in Asia. Topics for discussion changes every year to keep up with changes at both regional and global scales. Against the prolonged backdrop of the Covid-19, we are committed to sustaining the interactive working environment for the students and promoting “get-your-hands-dirty” activities to facilitate the students’ first-hand observations of problems and encourage their original interpretations of the collected data. To realize that aim, we will introduce an online platform as a working space where students can discuss and exchange opinions with the support of visual aids to have a real feel for the projected reality. At the class, the students can experience:
- “One sees for all” (one collect material (video, picture, narrative) for the rest to observe);
- “Together, we see more and better” (all interpret one given material),
- “Different eyes different views” (one reality can be presented differently in a different context)
The topics covered include development, health, poverty, global warming, unemployment and many more (subject to changes depending on the students’ background). We also provide lectures delivered by guest speakers during the semester.
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 course aims at introducing students to the contemporary Indonesia. It will cover the recent changes in Indonesian society, popular culture and sub-cultures, and business to some extent. A guest lecture will be organized to provide students with current information.
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
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 or security policy as well as the handling of specific problem situations like Russia's attack of Ukraine, the Corona pandemic, the refugee issue, environmental challenges, Brexit or the financial crisis, before finally looking at various options for future developments. Each student is expected to do a presentation in class.
In this lecture, we will look at religion from a social science perspective. Whether easily recognizable or not, many phenomena in our modern society are closely connected to religion. This lecture aims to provide students with the necessary skills to analyze the relationship between societal phenomena and religion.
In the first half of the lecture, we look at several examples of religious elements apparent in modern society and examine how Japanese values took form since the influx of Christian culture in the Meiji period and during the modernization of Japan.
In this lecture, we neither support nor criticize any religion. We aim to discuss religion purely from an academic point of view.
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.
21世紀に入り、地球規模の環境の悪化は、これまで考えられてきた環境問題とは全く質の異なるものであるという認識が広まっている。その大きな特徴の一つは、問題の原因と結果が必ずしも近接して生じるわけではなく、地理的にも時間的にも、一見無関係のように起こる事柄に因果関係がある、というところにある。産業革命以来の工業化による温室効果ガスの排出が原因となる気候変動は、アフリカでの旱魃を引き起こしたと思えば、ゲリラ豪雨を引き起こしたりする。熱帯雨林での森林伐採が招く生物多様性の喪失は、生態系のバランスを崩し、別の生物の生存を危うくしたりする。こうした事象に対応するために、人間や社会システムはどう対応すれば良いのだろうか？地球規模の現象と、国民国家に基づく国際関係のギャップはどう埋めればよいのだろうか？
本科目は英語で開講されます。This course will explore conceptual, theoretical, and accumulated knowledge of international security and conflict studies. Security studies in 21st century face with complex and uncertain international trends: 1) rise of emerging powers (how do emerging powers change the international security order?), 2) asymmetrical threats (terrorism and insurgency activities), 3) proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and conventional weapons, 4) emerging importance of new domains (space and cyberspace). Throughout this semester, this course will conduct in-depth lectures and discussion dealing with these emerging trends of international security.
Which country or place do you think of when you hear “Koreans’ living area”? Many people tend to thing of South Korea or North Korea, the nation from the Korean Peninsula. However, as a matter of fact, Koreans are separated all around the world, establishing their own society in various places. In this lecture, we will analyze the main factor of defining an ethnic group, “the use of language”, in order to understand the characteristics of Koreans’ living areas all around the world.
The rapid economic development of postwar Korea, called “compressed modernity,” was realized in the state-led development economic system from the 1960s. South Korea, a typical developing country, has undergone a dynamic transformation after the development era of the 1960s and 1970s, the June 1987 Declaration of Democracy, the 1997 IMF Economic Crisis, and the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. However, the government-led economic system, which was effective during that period, has lost its expiration date. The opening of the domestic market and the transition to a high-wage nation have fundamentally changed the basic framework of the Korean economy, and the impact of globalization is accelerating such movements.
Global companies from South Korea, such as Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Motor, and POSCO, are active on the world stage, while they are fiercely competing with companies in developed and developing countries.
Then, what kind of transformation has Korean society undergone during that time? It is a historical fact that South Korea has become a very prosperous country, driven by the rapid growth of the chaebol, and the economic level has risen significantly overall. It can also be considered that it has achieved the rank of developed countries. However, domestic economic disparities are widening, and there is considerable friction and conflict between groups that can feel affluence and those who do not, forming a background for political conflict.
In this lecture, we will examine how Korean society, led by chaebols, is changing amid historical environmental changes.
The purpose of this class is to understand Indonesian society with examining various events and topics which affect the social changes. Since the collapse of the Suharto authoritarian regime in 1998, Indonesia has experienced remarkable economic growth as well as democratization. At the same time, in the society where democracy has begun to take root, Islam has become more visible and has been exerting its power in various aspects of society. In this class, students will learn the reality of Indonesia with these characteristics and the changes in society by examining individual topics. Although we will be dealing directly with Indonesian society, we will also consider the cases from other regions, such as emerging countries in Asia that have similar characteristics or are experiencing similar changes, and the Islamic world in the Middle East, where turmoil continues.
Using a variety of print and visual media, this course will investigate the concept of multicultural society. The course will begin with a study of multicultural societies in settler colonial countries such as Canada and the United States. The second phase of the course will look at how national and ethnic identities and mythologies were created and sustained in a variety of European countries. The third phase of the course will be student presentations profiling minority groups of their choice.
Critical areas: Literary Studies, Film Studies, Media Literacy, Colonization & Othering, National Identity Theory, Cultural Identity, Social Identity Theory, Gender Studies, Indigenous Studies
Our lectures will mainly introduce modernistic studies on nationalism. Specifically our lectures consists of three parts: In the first part, we will review theoretical frameworks provided by Fichte, Rousseau, E.Gellner, A.D.Smith, B.Anderson and so on. In the second part, we will consider interactions between nationalism and other factors (ex. economy, history, geopolitics, religions etc.). In the third part, we will analyse Chinese nationalism as a study case.
By the Soviet Perestroika which was started by Gorbachev in the mid of 1980s, the communist regimes of the world had great shook. Then, the Soviet Union was collapsed in the end of 1991, most of the former USSR the Eastern European countries abandoned communism; and the dream of communism seemed to be disappeared. However, the many communist regimes have been kept in East Asia and Southeast Asia, although many of their system have been modified. In addition, many of the former USSR states have been keeping the undemocratic regimes, and some of them are almost same to the communist regime in the different names. On the other hand, the pressures of democratization have been given not only from the international society, but from the people in some states, although there are many opinions if such pressures would be effective or not.
In this course, we will try to compare the political systems focusing on the political changes of the former USSR states after the end of cold war.
In addition, the recent US political movement is really impressive, so I am planning to have guest speech on this issue.
This course aims to give students an overview of main issues discussed in contemporary political philosophy. Political philosophy is distinguished from political science or sociology in that it adopts principally normative approach. As normative theory, political philosophy has made a remarkable revival and development since John Rawls, American philosopher, published A Theory of Justice in 1971. What problems does contemporary political philosophy focus on? How does it attempt to solve those problems? The first part of this course makes clear a variety of criticisms addressed to modern political philosophy in order to understand the issues that contemporary theories have raised since the 1970’s. The second deals with three conceptions of freedom, each of which represents particular position in contemporary political philosophy. The third explains fundamental ideas of Rawlsian theory of justice, and also three criticisms directed towards his liberal conception. The fourth shows how political philosophers tackle concrete issues raised by today's social and global situation, particularly with regard to culture, gender, and global justice.