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Efforts to preserve the global environment are one of the greatest challenges of the present age. Thus, it is inevitable to have a considerable involvement in environmental issues, irrespective of the area of specialization. The field of environment is extremely broad. It involves a wide range of stages from the earth to life to human society. For this reason, subjects related to the environment are currently being segmented and specialized.
With this context, this course helps the students to learn specialized knowledge in the field of extremely wide sectors related to environment in order to have a solid foundation of this diverse topic. A comprehensive review of a wide range of environmental fields from a unified viewpoint of science and technology is provided. This helps in deepening knowledge while viewing the entire environmental field, even if the student advances to one specific areas for his/her research or profession. In each lesson, we will take up specific cases, that can easily be understood with view point of science and technology application in the field of environmental management.
This course aims at providing students with basic understanding on startup business, such as idea generation, business modeling, prototype creation, commercialization, and incorporation. The feature of this class is:
Firstly, there are many interactions with the guest speakers from many industries and countries, enabling students to understand the know-how to be a successful entrepreneur. The guest speakers in 2021 were:
• Dr. David Farber, The internet hall of fame
• Dr. Sureswaran Ramadass, Founder of Mlabs, Malaysia
• Mr. Hiroki Mashita, CEO of V-CUBE, alumni in Keio University
Secondly, students participate in-class exercises to learn the design-thinking skill in line with the aggregator that is new business in Energy industry. Plus, case method discussions help the students have a capability of resolving the problems in daily management of a business.
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.
The aim of this course is to help students developing skill in problem-finding, problem-solving and leadership, dealing with the basic concepts of SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP. The previous aim of this course is to help students acquire an understanding of the fundamental principles and values of SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP, however, it is now largely understood. On the other hand, learning process of SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP proved useful in developing skill in problem-finding, problem-solving and leadership.
This lecture will focus on disaster risk as the key element of regional planning, and will elaborate with case studies on integrated planning, coastal zone planning, dry land planning and urban area planning. Examples from developing countries in Asia will be presented. Group discussion among students will be made.
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？
(This course will be a GIGA-English course for AY2022, and in AY2023 will be offered in Japanese.) This lecture will combine the teaching of Aynu language to gain basic communicative competence, which enables us to delve into the rich world of Aynu culture manifested in its oral literature, with reflection on socio-political issues surrounding Aynu peoples and Aynu language revitalization in contemporary Japanese society.
How and why did music evolve? Why is it found in all human cultures, but in such different forms? This course will review the state-of-the-art in scientific research about the biological and cultural evolution of music and musicality in both human and non-human animals. Students will take turns leading discussions of each textbook chapter including a 15-minute presentation. Evaluations will include short weekly reports about the week’s reading, in-class presentations, and a final report proposing an original research project that extends the ideas developed in the class.
This course surveys approaches to second language (L2) learning and factors that influence its rate (and possible route) such as cross-linguistic influence, age and individual differences. Students will discover how humans learn language(s) after they acquire their first language (L1). Students are expected to actively participate in discussions as well as taking turns in leading the discussion on various topics covered in class.
Energy issues are now a global challenge through issues of energy security and climate change. In order to present solutions that are truly useful to society, it is necessary to understand how energy use works, as well as the connections between energy, economic and climate systems. In this course, students will learn the scientific view and methods of integrating multiple systems, and then acquire the ability to identify and analyse energy and climate change issues in a country or region and present solutions.
There are thousands of languages in the world and they exhibit fascinating diversity while interesting patterns have been found. In this class, we will focus on meaning and form of sentences, and explore the knowledge / strategies employed in the communication process in different languages.
Students learn about the principles and measurement methods of the capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometer (CE-MS), the most advanced metabolome measurement technique. Students comprehensively measure metabolic substances in the real samples and analyze dynamic changes in metabolism.
Design is undergoing a revolution. Technology is empowering more people to create and disseminate designs, and professionals and enthusiasts are using it to share their work with the world. Open design is changing everything from furniture to how designers make a living.
"Open design" was defined as design whose makers allowed its free distribution and documentation and permitted modifications and derivations of it. More than a decade later, open design with Digital Fabrication (3D Printing, Laser cutting, so on) is developing actively and constitutes an influential trend in the world of design.
I'll give you a lecture series of how open design has been working in the circumstances of COVID-19. And I'll give you a basic exercise of 3D-Modelling (Tinkercad, fusion360, OpenScad, blender) to create 3D-printed face-shield/face-mask.
In this class, we aim to acquire the concept of open design through the development of interactive systems.
Even in the field of interaction design, it is very important to share the way of making, to create through collaboration, and to actively provide feedback in order to encourage more designers and engineers to participate. With this background, this class will develop lectures and workshops in cooperation with WebDINO Japan, which leads the dissemination and exploitation of open source system concepts.
Specifically, this year we will deepen our learning about interaction design and open design by putting in practice the development of embedded hardware with the theme of the future of IoT (Internet of Things) as the theme.
An overview of human computer interaction and problems of current interest. Topics include: history of HCI, human factors, designing HCI experiments. As a practice in this class, it is required to develop your own prototype of PUI(perceptual UI) / TUI(tangible UI) system, and demonstrate it for a user experiment at the finale.
Climate change is a cross-disciplinary issue that is quite multifaceted and interacts strongly with other aspects of society, especially energy, which underpins modern society. There is no unique solution to this problem. In other words, it is a difficult problem to solve, but also a very interesting one.
In this course, we will focus on the essence of the climate change issue, mainly in terms of climate mitigation, and try to deepen our understanding through lectures and exercises.
The Web is now the platform of all the activities of the people in the world, and the architecture of the Web is still evolving quickly. In this lecture, we introduce various aspects of Web technologies by showing many up-to-date examples.
This architectural studio is open to master course students who have already finished taking the basic studio courses.
The goal of this studio is to propose a new the bus staiton at SFC campus desgining with the structural roof to cover the station and with the cafe and wating space.
As a first phase, students will research several structural engineers and designer with their works in the world through functional and spatial/ geometrical analysis.
As second phase, students will then develop a proposal for a bus station at SFC campus using the idea which you reseached in first phase.
A large part of the world which we live in is constructed via language-based cognition. What is the relation between mind and language? How does this relation mature through cognitive development and change over years? We will try to answer these questions through an interdisciplinary approach combining language acquisition/teaching research, linguistic typology, and cognitive science.
In this increasingly diverse world, there is a clear need for advanced communicative competence. In this project, we will explore the mechanism of second language acquisition and foreign language teaching through a mixed-methods, qualitative and quantitative approach with the aim of utilized-focused
language learning and research. In particular, we will focus on language learning in relation to various cultural perspectives, including cognitive linguistics and pragmatics as they pertain to living in and creating a multilingual and multicultural society.
We are focusing on the sports science in this academic project. Those who will write a master dissertation on the sports science and any of related area should take this academic project. Students should learn academic skills and knowledge on this area through the project by their own presentation and discussion. Then, we hope students make their academic presentation at the conference, symposium etc. in master program.
In this project, each time, the students will introduce their research methodologies by rotation. Then, teachers and students will make discussion on the topics.
This AP aims to bring together graduate students and faculty throughout SFC doing research joining music/art and science. We will spend a full day one Tuesday (tentatively 11:10~18:00 Dec 6th, but exact date/time TBC) with students giving presentations showcasing their research.
This projects aims to use SFC trans-disciplinary knowledges to create a web of connected institutions with SFC as the Japan hub
Increased global interest in Japanese language and cultures has led to government support for cultural outreach programs with a focus on support for policy initiatives in the Asia-Africa corridor
The development of direct student-to-student connectivity and innovative materials has lagged. This project will utilize SFC resources to:
Develop student-centered connections with institutions supporting Japanese studies
(ISP-gombe DRC, St. Stephens College, India etc.)
Create web-based Japanese studies materials
and p-to-p diplomacy portals
As the globalization of our physical and virtual space proceeds, understanding our multi-lingual and multi-cultural community and the ability to communicate with others are becoming gaining in importance. Foreign language education, which is based on diverse languages, aims to educate human resources, fostering leaders who can solve diverse societal problems. At the same time this project will instruct the participants in the basics of the foreign language education research, not only focusing on the practical approach but also on how to conduct quantitative experimental research as well as qualitative empirical research.