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This course introduces different approaches in the study of non-western musical cultures. Students will learn about methodologies borrowed from ethnomusicology and ethnography. Students focus on particular case studies including, for example, Iranian pop music and Bollywood musicals.

This class introduces students to the process of conducting research on historical topics. Students discuss and critique examples of publishable research and work independently to develop their own topics and interests. Students explore different methods and approaches of historical inquiry, learn how to identify, access, and use records in the archives and in digital humanities, and produce research on their own. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

This course analyzes the basic concept and principle of thermodynamics,  such as the concept of system, matter and energy, as well as the first and second laws of thermodynamics. The course then explores quantitative state changes of matter and the operation principles and efficiency of heat engine, such as piston engine, jet engine, steam cycle, and refrigeration machine.  Finally, the course discusses effective utilization of energy and energy saving.

This course examines the fundamental concepts and problem-solving skills in in statistical mechanics, including topics such as definition of temperature, microcanonical ensemble, canonical ensemble, grand canonical ensemble, Boltzmann, Bose, and Fermi distributions, paramagnets, harmonic oscillators and Debye solids, blackbody radiation, chemical potential, Gibbs free energy, and phase transitions. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

The course is concerned with the nature of mind and its relation to the natural physical world. It divides into roughly two parts, the first dealing with metaphysical and epistemological issues associated with the mind and mental states, the second dealing with specific issues that arise regarding explanations of consciousness and qualia. The course addresses traditional approaches to the metaphysics of mind, such as Dualism, Physicalism and Functionalism, as well as more contemporary positions, such as Illusionism and Panpsychism.

This course provides students with in-depth learning on managing multinational corporations across various product, business, and geographic markets. Specifically, the course focuses on three central issues that are critical to the successful formulation of corporate strategy: (1) the decisions on which businesses bring resources together inside the company and how they could create value, (2) how the company can grow in different settings through acquisitions, partnerships, or internal development, and (3) how the company manages its business portfolio. Overall, this course highlights the criticality of making decisions about the right pathways to firm growth. It provides theoretical frameworks and guiding principles for analyzing practical problems at the corporate or group level as experienced by managers.

This course covers the concepts and analytical methods of basic mechanisms to achieve desired mechanical motions. By the end of the course, the class is expected to understand the basic concept of planning and designing mechanical systems. 

Preferred course prerequisite: Mechanics, Mathematics I, and Mathematics II.

This multidisciplinary course relates basic economic thinking to the real economy, covering the historical developments of economic institutions in the US and Japan as well as global strategies of Japanese corporations such as DeNA, Mercari, Suntory, Uniqlo, Seven Eleven and JR East, etc. The course also introduces related topics of FinTech and economic analysis of Law.. 

This course offers students a conceptual and geographical grasp of key debates within human geography. Most notably, the course explores how geographers have understood and examined issues of social difference, identity (gender, sexuality - along with race and ethnicity), morals and ethics, bodies and emotions, the geopolitics of nation-states and borders, the politics and process of international migration, and the social geographies of the city. Using a range of contemporary examples from both the Global North and the Global South, the course helps students understand the ways in which geographical debates have shaped our knowledge of culture, place, and politic

Focusing on "finance" as an essential element for societal systems transformation to achieve a sustainable society, this class explains the current role of finance in the sustainable development and environmental fields and their theoretical background. It focuses on the two types of environmental finance: 1) Finance related to international cooperation in which developed countries and others financially support developing countries to promote environmental measures in developing countries, and 2) The growing trend toward greening the financial system and the economy from the perspective of stabilizing the financial system. Beyond international environmental conventions, there is now an increasing number of initiatives by financial institutions and companies to address sustainability. 

This class introduces the expansion of environmental finance and its challenges today; introducing trends related to the United Nations; current discussions on sustainable finance and responses to climate and nature-related risks by financial institutions and companies, and the relationship with international environmental conventions. This class also discusses the expansion of environmental finance and its related governance.