English

This course examines economic miracles of Japan and Korea and their central business organizations, keiretsu and chaebols, that brought the success. It then analyzes how they responded to the challenges of the transition from catching‐up economies to mature economies, and how their business organizations functioned in the transition process. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

This course offers a historical perspective on the development of the European Union and its close associates yet not formally members of the Union. The EU is usually approached and studied as an administrative and legal construct. In this lecture series by contrast, the emergence and
development of this singular polity is examined in the variety of its manifestations: economic as well as political and cultural.

This course is an introductory study of contemporary organizations and their management. It explores the types of purposes of organizations, their stakeholders and changing environments together with their key managerial processes – entrepreneurship, organizational structure, leading, strategic planning and change. The focus throughout is on helping students achieve a critical and reflective approach, and learning to apply relevant concepts, tools, and models. The course provides a platform for later study by encouraging skills in critical thinking, academic writing, concept acquisition, and research. 

This course focuses on the fundamental principles of circuit theorems and circuit elements, DC/AC and three-phase circuits, transient and steady-state responses, circuit analysis using Laplace transforms. Students learn various techniques ('tools') to analyze the operation of real circuits with a focus on the study of the behavior of the circuit, not the creation of circuits, i.e., the engineering design of the circuit. Topics include capacitors and inductors, Fourier series, Laplace transform, and sinusoids and phasors. 

This course critically examines the issue of endangered languages, focusing on the impacts of globalization, ethnic identity, and language policies on language survival. It explores historical and contemporary factors, including population movements, war, trade, and colonization, that have shaped linguistic diversity. The course investigates why a small number of global languages dominate while thousands of minor languages face decline, and considers debates around language preservation, revitalization, and the pressures of modernity. Students analyze the political, cultural, and educational forces that influence language use and endangerment, developing insight into the tension between preserving linguistic heritage and adapting to a globalized world.

This course covers the different periods of collaboration between the United States and the United Kingdom in various domains (such as politics, economics, diplomacy, defense, culture) from the origins until now, with a sharp focus on the 1945-2025 period. It discusses foreign policy-making and provides an overview of the current state of the relationship. The course analyzes foreign policies with the recurring strategic features for each country concerned, and assesses crisis management and resolution options as regards complex defense and security issues.

This course explores Buddhist philosophical issues and logic that were established during Mahayanic development. Topics include Mahayanic issues such as icchantika and the Mahayanic theory of knowledge. Under the latter, topics such as the concept of Buddha nature, reality, sources of knowledge, sensations, reflexes, conceptions, judgement, inferences, etc. are examined.

This course concerns the contexts in which English is used, and the fact that the patterns and variations in language used in the everyday are worthy of analysis. It demonstrates how language-in-use can be studied systematically, and to show how English is used in particular situations and in the module of activities, speech situations, public discourse, and interpersonal interactions that might otherwise be taken for granted.

This intermediate international business course solves a challenge related to the internationalization of companies. As a learning outcome, the class develops skills to understand the processes required to conduct business in Mexico using various input methods while grasping the processes involved and, of course, understanding how cultural differences must be analyzed when doing business in an international context.

Course topics include:

• History of Mexico and the political environment
• Mexican economy
• Mexican infrastructure
• Trade agreements
• Cultural patterns and business protocol
• Management styles
• Work and labor conditions in Mexico

Forget about the American Dream. This course explores the nightmarish and phantasmagorical hinterlands of the American project. It covers that which is repressed, depraved, monstrous, grotesque, terrifying, disturbing, unsettling, marginal, and bizarre in its culture. Together students seek to account for the existence of these horrors, through historicizing, close reading, and conceptualizing them via the contested histories of race, gender, sexuality, and class in the US. Students are looking at different genres and the troubled worlds contained within them. Students can expect to read in any given year works in the gothic, horror, noir and neo-noir, grotesque, racial melodrama, black comedy, crime, war, dystopian, science fiction, and mystery traditions.