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This course will address the basic knowledge, theoretical models and perspectives of Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy. Especially, this course will shed some light on the black box of Chinese domestic/foreign policy decision-making process.
With the impressive developments of ICT, a new field of research on learning called Learning Environment Theory is gaining popularity. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing institutions that promote education to make major structural changes. As a result, traditional ideas about the meaning of learning environments, in which formal learning in the classroom and informal learning outside the classroom work together, efforts to create autonomous learning environments are now going through a major transformation.
Learning Environment Theory has connections with a variety of disciplines, including cognitive science, neuroscience, culture, and communication.
In addition to Learning Environment Theory, research on education is exploring the possibility of bringing in new perspectives, such as globalization and education, integrated education/individualized autonomous learning, and situated learning. Consequently, the idea of Environmental Design is gaining importance as well.
In these lectures, four faculty members will discuss ICT-based learning environments based on research in their respective fields at this important time, with the aim of producing human resources with a broad range of knowledge and practical skills: promoting collaboration between those involved in education and those in technology, considering the needs of learners, and developing contents that reflect new learning styles, with emphasis on awareness of the existence of new trends. Students will be invited to articulate proposals for developing learning environments that exploit their creativity in building a new learning environment through theory and practice.
What is transculturalism? Is it similar to multiculturalism or interculturalism? For us, it paves the way to a third possibility different from them, and this course aims to bring to light the scope and the potentiality of this concept.
The objective of transculturalism is not only to ensure the coexistence of cultural communities through a public recognition of their plurality. Nor does it simply consist of guaranteeing intercultural communications and compromises in order to protect the rights of citizens and to create national stability.
Transculturalism pays attention primarily to the individual who cuts across cultural borders and to the meaning of her or his experiences as a human subject.
Today, in this globalized world, it is a rather banal experience to encounter foreign cultures and discover others. Transcultural experience, however, is not to observe some cultures from the outside, but to experience them at once from the inside, which requires the individual to call into question her or his proper identity. As it were, because of taking root in several cultural communities through their language, one becomes aware that her or his identity is not entirely defined by her or his belonging to one of these cultures. In this sense, “tranculturation” is nothing less than ”the acquisition of a new code without losing the previous one.” (T.Todorov) Transculturalism, which is neither a shallow cosmopolitanism that ignores communal dimensions of culture, nor an unconditional praise of cultural plurality in its brightness, provides a unique domain and objective of research on human living in this world. This course investigates the meaning of transculturation given to human agents, particularly from the point of view of humanities.
This course will look at the economic features and business model evolution of the information communication technology (ICT) industry. We will examine through various case studies the survival strategy of ICT operators facing ever-increasing market competition and in conjunction understand global market movements and government-business relationships.
As Drucker pointed out, "our society has become, in a short time, an organizational society," with all the significant tasks of industry, government, and academia in the hands of organizations and the fear of a return to totalitarianism is remote. (Drucker, Management: The Essential Edition, 2011)
This course is intended for leaders of organizations in society, including corporations, their chiefs of staff, those who aspire to such positions in the future, and those who wish to study organizational strategy.
Among the factors that determine the fate of an organization exposed to competition, this course focuses on excellent leaders, who must have strategies defined by the five P (Plan, Pattern, Position, Perspective, and Ploy) as the necessary condition and APEC (Aspiration, Philosophy, Ethics, and Commitment) as the sufficient condition.
This course will examine the Japanese governance system and policymaking process focusing on
①Duality of government and the ruling party
②Relationship between the Prime Minister's Office and the ministries
③Relationship between the politicians and bureaucrats
④Public function played by the private sector and local residents(New Public Commons)
We would like deepen discussions and each graduate student's research mobilizing various resources of the society including market,
government and the New Public Commons.
This course is not MOT.
This course is ELSA( Ethical, Legal, and Social Aspects), and RRI (Responsible Research & Innovation) has become a central issue.
Various modern human-computer interaction (HCI) techniques are used everywhere. We show the history of human computer interaction systems and discuss the ideal future of human-computer interface design.
This course is designed to cultivate the basic ability to propose future architectural and urban environments by learning the actual conditions of management for the construction of architectural and urban spaces. The program aims to foster a realistic perspective on construction and development work by providing opportunities to visit actual construction projects in central Tokyo and directly exchange opinions with development and construction professionals working on the front lines of the projects.
By learning about large-scale development projects that are actually underway, students will be able to develop a clear vision of the urban development and building production that the construction industry is responsible for, by learning about the construction management work involved, the urban planning legal system, and the reality of urban redevelopment projects. The goal is to develop a clear vision of the urban development and building production that the construction industry is responsible for.
Specifically, students will visit each construction site, and learn based on realistic issues through question-and-answer sessions with experts in planning, design, construction, etc. involved in the project.
Cities in the 21st century have various issues, and we are trying to deal with them in various ways.
In Japan, as the overall population declines and the aging is rapidly progressing, the decline of rural regions, the change of suburban residential areas, etc. are remarkable. At the same time, in the world, persistent racial and ethnic discrimination/ conflicts, expanding economic disparity, the rapid increase in immigration influence the cities' living conditions. In addition, the ongoing pandemic severely affects the lives of cities.
With these conditions in our minds, this class will explore the problem from various angles and discuss what kinds of housing, urban, and social policy are needed in our cities.
This is a practical course focused on digital design that is grounded in the particular culture of SFC. With the ongoing progress in digital communication media in architecture and urbanism, programmable 3D data has become a comprehensive tool for sharing ideas. Consequently it has a strong impact on the design, construction and utilization of the ideas. It is used in many ways, including the visualization of complex topology and geometry, the simulation of environmental factors, the materialization of unique shapes and tectonics through digital fabrication, navigation of the vast design space that comes from algorithmic design methodology, adaptation to dynamic environments, and the interaction with human behavior through digital sensing technology.The objective of this studio is firstly to realize the practical potential of computational design methods using these technologies. Secondly it is to build a concrete skill set through a hands-on working method.
The purpose of this class is to consider several themes of past buildings and cities by introducing cases of various ages and cultures. The key issues of the whole class are the locality found in the historical buildings and cities, their transformation process, and the way to understand and interpret them. The examples of different ages and cultures often question our everyday lives. Therefore, this class aims to broaden one's perspectives on buildings and cities by introducing unfamiliar examples.
This course covers building materials as the basis for architecture.
This online lecture course is concerned with the collective nature and political potential of urban public spaces. It sees public space as an arena whose form and function are determined, at one side, by the authority of political, economic, religious and cultural forces, and by an expression of social desire at the other.
The course examines how urban public space functions in real and in theory in support of democratic life, and its status as a basic asset through which, in principle but not necessarily in practice, resources such as freedom, privilege, equality and justice are made possible. The course examines how space can be a facilitator of civic order, a site of resistance, association and exercise of power, and a stage for creativity and performance. The course brings together separate models for critical analysis of public space with 'classic' and contemporary readings in order to illustrate the theoretical foundations of public space, enable discussion of capital issues, resource allocation, accessibility and availability, and offer ways to address public policy issues and public space management.
The themes of the course cover three district moments. They offer a critical overview of key concepts of public space as they were introduced in the ancient and the modern city, deal with the changing notions of the realm in the contemporary city, and propose a speculative prediction of public space in the near future. We will focus on the spaces of modern and contemporary man, the street corner and the factory’s canteen, the artificial infrastructure and the battlefield, above and under the ground, as well as a representation and a work of art. We will begin with a lecture titled “Bubble Protocol: Epidemic Public Space”, and finish with a lecture about “Seconds and Centimeters - The Workings of Radical Measurements”. Particular emphasis will be given to a discussion of the private and public distinction - the ‘grand dichotomy’; to study the relationship between what belongs to the protected area of the individual, in his or her personal domain, and what is to ‘take place’ in the interpersonal domain of the public, in the public sphere.
The course spans over fifteen classroom sessions. We will devote them to lectures and class discussions of assigned readings, practice critical thinking and develop analysis skills of urban public space related topics.
This class is designed for graduate students who have taken basic lectures and exercises in environmental design to learn more about landscape design in a more specialized way. We will observe some landscape design projects in cities and suburbs, then analyze, discuss their social and spatial meanings, design concepts, plantings, pavements, structures, and facilities.
In the second and fourth weeks, we will actually visit parks and green spaces in Tokyo (on-site gathering and dismissal), and the following week, students will give presentations and discussions on their analyses and considerations.
In order to create safe and comfortable environments, it is necessary to understand a broad range of engineering technology. Structural design and materials are especially important for architects. In this course students will examine the relationships between structural engineering and material science.
Objective of this course is to obtain fundamental knowledge on information security to equip with skills to build secure system in business environment.
This course provides fundamental knowledge and skills of information security which widely required for practice and design of Information Technology. This include technology, management, legal issues, certification and privacy issues etc. The newest trends on techniques used by attackers and their countermeasures are to be covered. This course is intended to comply with standardized body of knowledge in information security and students can be prepared for certification such as "information security specialist" or CISSP. Expect students who seek carrier as information technology/information security manager in organizations, consultants, researchers etc.
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A major focus of the class is on learning to parse and discuss molecular biology papers such as Nature, Science and Cell.
Topics covered are:
(1) Gene identification (basics of molecular biology)
(2) Gene expression
(3) Preparation of recombinant proteins
(4) Genes and their regulatory proteins
(5) Non-coding RNAs
(6) Applications of Biotechnology
The course will also involve seminars to be supervised by guest professors.
In light of the advent of DNA sequencing technologies, genomic analysis of microbes is “democratized” to the level where “anyone” can sequence “anywhere”. Portable nanopore sequencing device that enables extreme long reads without the need for large initial investment especially contributed to this accessibility. Therefore, it is now economically feasible to sequence the entire genome instead of a single amplified gene to answer certain questions. In this workshop, we train students to go through the entire process of 1. Long DNA extraction and purification, 2. Nanopore sequencing, 3. Bioinformatics of genome assembly and annotation, and 4. Writing Genome Report paper for submission to international archives.
For more than half a century now, a genome has been a blueprint for the mystery of life. The genome has been treated as one of the primary information in molecular biology. Several technological innovations have drastically reduced the amount of effort spent on determining the genome sequences. Then, "how to use it" has become more important than observing a string of letters. At the same time, however, people have been faced with the difficulty of truly understanding the information written in the genome sequence. The genome is a blueprint, describing all the information that governs the phenomena of life. However, a great deal of further experimentation and verification is required to understand the life systems generated by the interaction of genomic elements. A separate understanding of genome information cannot help us to know the interlocking biological phenomena. This course is designed to provide a systematic introduction to the origins of genomics, the principles of genome designing biology, designable parameters, and usage of the genome. Furthermore, we will discuss and consider the issues that need to addressed to realize the genome designing biology.
In this course, students will get hands-on exercises on field survey and analytical skills in the fields of environmental science. The objective of the course is to learn the skills and techniques which can approach local and regional environmental issues from diversified standpoints. Hands-on exercises are namely: conducting field survey on biota, exploring publicly available data (both biotic and abiotic variables), generating necessary data-sets, analyzing organism-environment relations. The lecturer will give an explanation on a variety of field survey and analytical methods and guide students to conduct a study. Students are expected to pick a topic on their own and work on their project using the techniques they have learned in the course. Students who will register this course are expected to think by themselves, and to be actively involved in group work to carry their study and present the results in the final class.
This course aims to analyze the point of contact between social change and business encountered by the frontier of social business from the viewpoint of product / service development and promotion, to cultivate the students' ideas for solving social problems .
In this class, you will learn about I / O, which is the basis of the computer system, as a way to solve various problems in the real world.
This class aims to search a concrete method for the family businesses to solve the conflict between tradition and innovation and achieve their contribution to the region.
Nowadays in the US and Europe, there has been a growing interest in the family business. In spite of several problems, it becomes clear that the family business has higher profitability and capital efficiency, and invites more innovation than other businesses. They are based on the region and conduct the management in the long-term perspective. On the other hand, although Japan is a treasury of family businesses, hardly any study and education about family business has been done and the outcome is expected around the world.
From 2009, Keio University has made an effort to create leading base for family business study and created original case materials. In this class, we will use these case materials to study family business governance, management philosophy, strategy and organization, innovation, long-life structure and the contribution to the region, and discuss how to realize the coexistence of private interest and social welfare. We will invite family business managers to deepen our knowledge about the management on site. The essay about family business management will be expected as a final assignment.
The entry into force of the Paris Agreement, the adoption of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the rapid spread of ESG (environmental, social and corporate governance) investment are at a new stage of environmental business. Consider the role that business plays in transitioning to a sustainable, low-carbon society, in light of changes in environmental business and its trends in the world. In addition, you will learn the methods necessary to build an environmental business on the basis of extensive case studies, and actually experience the presentation of business ideas.