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This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of international management, focusing particularly on the cultural, social, and organizational challenges that arise when conducting business across national borders. The course develops foundational competencies needed to understand, analyze, and navigate cultural diversity in professional contexts. Through theoretical frameworks, case studies, and practical exercises, students learn to interpret how cultural values shape managerial behavior, organizational structures, communication styles, and decision‑making processes around the world. The course provides the analytical tools necessary to understand why managerial practices differ across countries and how to adapt their own approaches when operating in international environments.

This course covers various applications of cognitive science to practical and theoretical problems in psychology. Lectures and research projects offered in the course are aimed at developing students’ appreciation and understanding of the research methodologies and real-world applications of cognitive science. Topics covered include connectionist architectures (neural networks), influences of biological cycles, drugs, and hormones on cognitive performance, the cognitive psychology of decision making, memory in the forensic arena, face recognition and reconstruction, clinical cognition, and evolutionary cognitive psychology among others. DP requirements: Completion of all coursework, as well as completion of 90 minutes in the Student Research Participation Programme (SRPP) or equivalent and attendance of at least 5 tutorials. Assessment: Coursework: counts a total of 50%. This coursework is broken down into weekly tests (25%), and a group field project (25%). Examination: the two-hour examination in June counts 50% towards the final mark Course entry requirements: Students must have passed PSY2015F and PSY2014S.

This course explores the media technology strategies required for strategic communication professionals (advertising, PR) in the rapidly changing media environment. By examining how the digital media market is evolving and understanding the fundamental terminology and various strategies needed for digital communication, the course aims to develop the analytical and problem-solving skills essential for effective strategic communication. 

This intercultural collaborative learning course deepens one's understanding of geological topics. It discusses the geological characteristics that differ from country to country, relating the impact of these characteristics on technology, resources, and disaster prevention. The course covers earth history; geological structural analysis, technology of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), and includes a required field trip to the Geological Museum of the National Institute of Advanced Industrical Science and Technology (AIST) in Tsukuba City. 

The course extends understanding of historical and contemporary theories in social psychology and challenge students to use their knowledge to engage with real-world issues. For example, what brings people together, and what keeps them apart? The emphasis is on fostering ethically minded and socially responsible psychology graduates, through critical reflection of our personal place in a social system. Students consider one’s potential to help others in need, and to be critically and responsively aware of known biases in social perception and judgement. The course equips students with enhanced employability skills through a focus on the ability to understand and articulate complex arguments, and to support claims by making sense of and explaining empirical evidence. Students are encouraged to engage with compelling experimental paradigms and debates in social psychology to move beyond directed textbook material and to become independent, active, and self-directed learners.  

This course examines the damage and recovery efforts following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Through guest lectures, field trips, and disaster prevention workshops, the class teaches essential disaster prevention and mitigation skills to respond to future disasters effectively. The class also discusses challenges of evacuation center management and the importance of disaster prevention in a multicultural society.  The class requires field trips to Ishinomaki City, Minamisanriku Town, and Higahimatushima town areas affected by the disaster. 

This course helps students put their studies and the law into context. The course supports students to feel comfortable studying law, knowledgeable about the global context of current legal education along with "laws" history of hierarchies, colonialism, and ecological violence. The course inculcates greater confidence in their personal capital and helps develop professional skills that they need to be successful after university. Students learn about study skills such as research and drafting; values such as professional legal ethics and reflective practice; and aspects of the profession such as the use of tech in law, and the complexity of seeking access to justice.

After an introduction to the major threats to global biodiversity, student explore a series of broad conservation themes. The first part of the course focuses on the species level, including: some of the particular threats faced, why species become rare and endangered, what measures can be taken to halt or reverse population declines, and how populations of threatened species can be restored. Students consider the contribution of modern molecular genetics to clarifying and addressing various conservation issues. Students also look at how people and wildlife interact, both positively and negatively, and how emergent conflicts can be resolved. The second part of the course adopts a habitat and ecosystem focus. Students work up from a consideration of specific habitats and their management to a landscape approach, including methods for restoring damaged habitats and ecosystems. Finally, students explore the national, European, and international system of conservation designations and their associated legal frameworks.

This course explores various aspects of classical and early medieval Japan by listening to different voices recorded in historical and literary sources. The sessions alternate in focus: first, the sessions discuss the history of a particular time or topic and then explore related literary works. The course expands one's perspective and reshapes their understanding of Japanese history as a complex and nonlinear process.

This course enhances the knowledge and skills related to business process management and improvement, with an emphasis on the applications of analysis and simulation tools. A simulation package is introduced and used to evaluate business process performance and identify possibility of process improvement. The course helps improve scientific competence to deal with practical problems in process improvement and innovation.