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This course examines the issues of industrialization, globalization and neoliberalism as well as a broad range of topics, including those related to labor, industrial organization, management, the theory of the firm, gender, and economic reforms in Japanese society. It introduces the complex development of Japanese capitalism from the early 19th century to the present and examines ongoing transformations within Japanese capitalism. It asks the questions: What are the characteristics of Japanese capitalism? In what ways do capitalist economies differ from one another in their social organization, institutional embeddedness, gendered relations, and modes of governance? What are the challenges of such differences for management and economic performance in a competitive global economy? How have Japanese corporations responded to the processes of globalization and neo-liberalization?

This course provides a holistic understanding of the global fashion market and effective strategies for success in this dynamic and innovative industry. With a focus on managing the Korean fashion industry, this course covers a range of topics that reflect the unique characteristics and trends of the Korean fashion markets. 

This course covers issues related to important concepts, practices, and leaders in the world of modern management. 

The world of management is fiercely competitive; managers and their employers must deliver results. In this course, essential performance dimensions: cost, quality, speed, innovation, service, and sustainability are emphasized. A key focus is on the modern management function, including issues of 1) delivering strategic value (for planning), 2) building a dynamic organization (for organizing), 3) mobilizing people (for leading), and 4) learning and changing (for controlling) in turbulent and competitive markets. 

The course considers the following primary questions: (1) what skills will help you to be an effective manager, and (2) how can you apply the material in this course to daily life?  

Ultimately, this course provides core foundational knowledge and principles integral to organizational management careers. 

Sustainable development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are broad, context dependent, and interdisciplinary. This is at the heart of this course. Through short, pre-recorded lecturers from experts in different disciplines, to critical discussions of the Universities' own policies, this course breaks down this complex area into core principles, academic skills, and authentic case studies. The SDGs guide activity around the world, and this too is at the center of this course - critically exploring these goals from different epistemic, political, and cultural perspectives and giving students room to bring their experiences to debates and discussions.

 

This course introduces the basic concepts of Cybersecurity. It explores the challenges that the interconnectedness of cyberspace poses to computer networks; the concept of risk; typical patterns of vulnerabilities, as well as attacks and mitigation strategies.  

The course introduces, in a non-technical fashion, the basic concepts of cryptography, and the typical cryptographic building blocks: encryption, digital signatures, authentication codes, public key and secret key infrastructures. The course discusses how these building blocks are used to construct secure networks and the legal frameworks handling cyber-attacks. Finally, the course analyzes cybersecurity in the context of Japan and East Asia. 

This course aims to explore a set of important issues about the theory and practice of democracy. The first part of the course will examine the challenge of meritocracy and various justifications of democracy, including those offered by Mill, Rousseau, Schumpeter, and others. The second part will address some of the most pressing problems facing liberal democracies today: how to improve the quality of public deliberation in the age of social media? How to overcome the challenges posed by populism? How to maintain the efficacy of democratic institutions in a global capitalist economy?

The goal of this course is to familiarize students with the key analytical methods and leading applications in the field of game theory. At the end of the course, students should be able to identify and formalize problems that involve strategic interaction between different economic agents, and to analyze them with game-theoretical thinking.

This course examines the implications of a finite biosphere and the complexities inherent in environmental decision-making.

This course is systematically organized around the creation of new value, processes of innovation management, and operation of new and emerging ventures in global environments. It covers major aspects of innovation and entrepreneurship strategy in countries such as U.S., Europe, Australia, China, and other emerging countries. 

The course explores various aspects of cinema in Egypt and the Arab World in order to understand its history and determine the themes, styles, and character of this cinema which has been historically among the most influential in national world cinemas. It covers selected films by a number of auteurs from Egypt, Lebanon, and Palestine. Special attention is paid to form and style, as well as recurrent themes; for example, the civil war and Israeli invasions in the case of Lebanon, and the Israeli occupation in the case of Palestine. Additional topics include areas such as New Arab Cinemas, classical Egyptian cinema, the Arab film industry, and independent Arab cinema.