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Film Music focuses on the seven core points to discuss, concept, characteristics, history, function, direction, aesthetics and critic on it of. The course aims to presenting the frontier knowledge, leading the method, supporting the possibilities about how to questioning and analysis as a film goer and an observer. Comprehensive dimensional scope involved and synchronization both theory and practice will be undertaken. The systematic analysis on film music, the categorization of film music, shown an important feature of the course.

This course examines Indigenous, Māori ways of understanding, doing, and creating history. It also examines how Māori historical frameworks engage with the legal and political processes of the Waitangi Tribunal. 

Students participate in creative writing exercises and improvisation games to find their playwriting voice as well as honing an ear for the spoken word onstage. Students examine examples of play scripts with a view to recognizing and utilizing techniques and generate new scripts via exercises and assignments. Students gain a practitioner's understanding of the creative process to evaluate their own writing and its impact on readers and audiences. This course requires a prerequisite.

This course equips students with essential skills for effective communication and collaboration in diverse, global environments. The course explores various aspects of intercultural competence, from understanding cultural differences to fostering diversity in the workplace. Through readings, discussions, presentations, and projects, participants develop a nuanced understanding of cultural nuances and societal themes.

This course discusses the causes, consequences, and trends of conflict in the world. Topics include: types of conflict (inter-state wars, intra-state wars, terrorism, ethnic conflict, and state repression); their long-term evolution; political, economic and social causes of conflict; their consequences for the world order. 

This course explores the major developments in Japanese history and culture from the Meiji period to the end of World War II. The course focuses on key issues and transformations in Japanese society, politics, foreign relations, and culture. The course addresses the following questions: What were the major transformations in modern Japanese history? What factors explain these changes? How have Japanese society and culture evolved? How has Japan interacted with the world? The course provides a broad understanding of the key events and dynamics that shaped modern Japan’s historical development.

This course explores the world of Japanese Science Fiction primarily from a literary point of view but also includes pop cultural media such as anime and manga which oftentimes employ the same narratives and imaginaries and have significantly contributed to Japanese Sci-Fi’s world renown. Tracing back the origins of Japanese Sci-Fi to ancient myths and early 20th century pioneers, the course then delves into the rich Sci-Fi scene that developed after the Postwar era, featuring Japan’s 'three greatest Sci-Fi writers' and their lasting impact.  

The course also focuses on groundbreaking Sci-Fi works from Japanese pop culture, contrasting popular formats such as light novels and web novels with Sci-Fi elements in canonized authors' works, and explores the multifaceted relationship between Japanese Sci-Fi and technological innovation. Moreover, the course analyzes Western sources of inspirations that have impacted Japanese Sci-Fi while critically examining Western, cyberpunk stereotypes of Japan as a futuristic nation. 

This course analyzes clues to major environmental issues that the world faces today. First, it studies the basic process and mechanism of the natural environment and how living organisms adapt to the environment. Secondly, the course teaches the role of semi-natural disturbances on biodiversity conservation. Traditional agricultural practices in Japanese Satoyama and agro-forestry in Indonesia provide some good examples of where people receive natural resources and ecosystem services locally and how energy is flowing in cycle, as well as providing habitat for native species. Such balanced interaction in turn can function as a resilient ecosystem. This concept is called the Ecosystem-Based Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR). Thirdly, the course studies the impacts of recent human activities such as overexploitation of natural resources, industrialization, intensive agriculture and globalization, on ecosystems, wildlife and as well as on our health and safety. Topics include environmental carrying capacity, chemical pollution and bioaccumulation, soil erosion, global warming, climate change, endangered species, aging society and under-use of local resources problem, impacts of invasive species and genetically modified organisms (GMO), and how they are complexly interrelated. Last, the course discusses issues on alternative power/renewable energy usage, such as biomass and geothermal power generation. 

Memory is a precondition for taking responsibility for one’s past and being morally accountable. The connection between autobiographical memory processes and moral reasoning is crucial to the scientific understanding of what is commonly referred to as “moral conscience.” This course covers relevant scientific literature, empirical data, thought experiments, real-life examples, to promote students’ critical understanding of the subject matter. The scientific literature included in the course focuses on the following subject areas: autobiographical memory (key theoretical models, methods, empirical evidence); moral reasoning (key theoretical models, methods, empirical evidence); individual differences and moral reasoning (relevant literature examining Dark Triad Traits, as well as mood disorders in relation to moral reasoning); autobiographical memories and moral transgressions; autobiographical memories and moral emotions. Students are progressively encouraged to discuss the limitations and/or contributions of some of the presented articles.

This course offers a study of the fundamental and applied knowledge of the laws that determine fluid motion with an emphasis on high-Reynolds-numbers flows and gases and their application to the description of problems of interest in aerospace engineering.