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This course provides the fundamental keys to understanding the geopolitics of the Persian Gulf region. It offers an overview of the region through a double prism: economy and strategy. It demonstrates how fundamental this region is to global energy flows and, hence, how many powers seek to control the Persian Gulf. The course also includes a simulation module for international negotiations to allow a more practical approach of the subject and its stakes, as well as practice international negotiations, public speaking, and to solicit the knowledge acquired in the course. In view of the breadth of the theme and the area covered, the teaching involves many disciplines, such as history, geography, economics, and international law, with a predominance of international relations and strategic studies.

This course offers a broad introduction to the most relevant features of human geography in Asia. The first part of this course offers insights into main themes that are relevant across this diverse continent. As Asia is huge and the semester is short, this course focuses on Southeast Asia in the second part of the semester. On one hand Southeast Asia includes successful and developed countries like Singapore, Brunei, and Malaysia, while it also includes countries where poverty is still widespread and difficult to reduce. Also, Southeast Asian countries both look at the USA and China for economic and political cooperation.  

This course discusses a range of prominent issues such as colonial legacies; nation-building projects amidst ethnic and religious diversity; natural disasters and climate change; economic geographical patterns; poverty; socioeconomic inequality; spatial disparities; land governance, and the South China Sea dispute.  

This course does not include in-depth studies of the Republic of Korea, China, and Japan. 

This course explores how forbidden romance —amorous engagement in fiction and reality—became the most volatile form of cultural expression in the modern world of revolution and enlightenment. Drawing on literary masterpieces across China and the West, the course examines how the modern lure of free will and emancipated subjectivity drove Chinese intellectuals, Sinophone writers, and their Western contemporaries to redefine terms of affect, such as love, desire, passion, loyalty, and sacrifice. The course also explores how the moral and political consequences of affect were evoked in such a way as to traverse or fortify consensual boundaries and their literary manifestations.

This course offers a study of data integration and visualization. Topics include: data integration models; data acquisition; noSQL databases in data integration; situational awareness and interpretation in the Big Data era; visual analytics; principles of human-machine interaction; visual interfaces; temporal and geo-spatial data processing; applications of visual analytics.

This introductory course aims to cultivate a broad understanding of the liberal arts, which forms the foundation of studies at Keio University. Conducted in a seminar style, students will deepen their learning through oral presentations, class discussions and debates, and practical work.

This course explores the relationship between the literary genre of “weird fiction” and conceptions of race and racism. How has weird fiction engaged with, promoted, and challenged racist ideas in an English language context? How might weird fiction be reworked to function as a positive force for change in an anti-racist way? More generally, why is it important that we, as 21st-century readers studying at a university in Japan, think seriously about these issues?

The class will read two stories by two different authors closely over the course of the semester. The goal of each class meeting will be to analyze the week’s assigned story section together in as much detail as possible, leading into broader thematic discussions of ideologies of race and racism in the genre of weird fiction.

Nowadays, consumers or organizations, are more informed and more demanding as the landscape of international marketing knowledge changes. Combined with technological advancements, environmental degradation and sociocultural changes, these factors provide strong support for the proposition that marketing practices, perspectives, and assumptions are becoming outdated. This course introduces reflection and debate regarding current challenges in international marketing, bringing together culturally diverse and interdisciplinary perspectives. This course provides students with the current challenges and opportunities of international marketing. In this vein, students focus on current trends in international marketing, issues relevant to the global environment.

This course introduces economic, political, cultural, religious, gender, and other dynamics of Taiwan’s society. The primary goal is to bring about an in-depth understanding of the contending forces that are constantly remaking Taiwan. While the focus is on the present, some historical topics are included for a grip on the preceding transformations in the postwar era. A survey on contemporary Taiwan’s society necessarily sensitizes us to the complicated nature of social groupings. Differences in ethnicity, class, gender, region, age, sexual orientation, religious belief, and lifestyle give rise to highly diversified cultural expressions, among which contention and cooperation co-exist.

The course focuses on neuroimaging and neurostimulation techniques and their neuroscientific application for the study of interindividual brain differences in healthy and pathological populations, with a particular focus on forensic psychiatry. This course explores the fundamental concepts of neuroimaging, neurostimulation, and machine learning, and the main applications of these promising approaches to brain disorders. The course focuses in depth on each of these techniques, as well as on the advantages of their combined used for the study of the human brain connectome organization and its deviances. The course discusses theoretical knowledge on the following topics: 1) why are neuroimaging methods important in clinical settings; 2) how neuroimaging and neurostimulation techniques can be combined to study the patterns of information flow in the brain; 3) how machine learning methods differ from classical statistics; 4) what are the main machine learning methods used in clinical neuroscience; 5) how these methods can be used to investigate the neural basis of brain disorders in a research setting; 6) how these methods can be used to inform diagnostic and prognostic assessment in a clinical setting; 7) how the results obtained at the level of the group can be translated to the single individual; 8) how this approach can be helpful in clinical and forensic settings; 9) what do we mean by “multimodal approaches” and how can we use them to individualize the study in the brain; 9) how results should be interpreted; 10) how neuroscientific approach and classical psychiatry approach can run side by side. The course requires students to have basic knowledge of statistics, clinical neuroscience, neuropsychology, neuroanatomy, and psychiatry as a prerequisite.

The 19th century saw the birth of many revolutionary artistic practices that transformed the visual culture of Europe. Industrialization, urbanization, and colonialism brought about a new social order, and artists responded by developing artistic styles that addressed society's modern values. This course explores artistic innovations in Britain and France including Impressionism, Pre-Raphalitism, and the invention of photography. By examining individual art objects and wider art historical themes, students see how new artistic styles responded to issues like class, gender, and race. This course makes use of the rich art collections on offer in London, with seminars taking place at Tate Britain and the National Gallery.

Environmental management professionals frequently require the ability to understand and work with quantitative data. This course unit starts by introducing the practical and ethical implications of working with quantitative data. Following this, content provides grounding in different data sources, exploring varied data types and the processes required before any visualization or analysis can occur. The course then explores different analytical methods that can be used to facilitate interpretation and presentation of outputs related to environmental management professions, including inferential statistics and the foundations of basic computer coding.