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This course focuses on the roles of the UN and NGOs in major subjects of global concern, including those pertaining to war and peace, human rights, development, and sustainability, all of which are interrelated. In each of these themes, students examine challenges, opportunities, and prospects facing international organizations and civil society partners, as well as other actors in public and private sectors. Part I of the course addresses the evolution of the international system, focusing on the concept of state sovereignty and collective peace and security.  Part II explores UN-NGO relations in thematic issues ranging from gender to displacement, climate change, and counterterrorism. This course will be highly interactive, featuring guest speakers, simulation exercises, and group presentations.

This course observes how speech is orchestrated to a choreography of the human body. It examines how meanings, abstract or concrete, are not only produced but actually performed on the interactional stage. The course provides an opportunity to observe facial expressions and co-speech gestures in silent movies and explore how speech production necessarily comes with gestural action. This multimodal course combines formal research seminars, animated classroom discussions, creative workshop sessions, and film screenings.

This course looks at the role of education as a signaling device, labor market discrimination, job search models and their applications, decisions within households, and non-cognitive skills as human capital. The course covers both the theoretical model and the empirical evidence to support the model in each part. Students pay particular attention to policy interventions and their effectiveness. While the focus is primarily on the UK, comparisons with other countries will also be introduced.

This course studies what legitimate authority is, under what conditions states have it, how law participates in legitimate authority, and how philosophical issues about legitimate authority are represented in positive law. It provides a grasp on the philosophical debate on legitimate state authority that can be applied in practice as jurists.

For most of us, the first intimate relationships that we experience are family relationships, although at other stages of our life-cycle non-familial relationships may dominate. The course explores different sociological understandings of such relationships and debates about the nature of social change in personal life. The course reviews research on parent-child relationships, friendship and kinship relationships, sexual relationships and couple relationships, drawing on North American, Australian, and New Zealand research as well as British literature.

This course explores past and present wars of the United States, especially the relationship of the news media to those wars. Through the illustrated textbook "Addicted to War" and documentary films, the course takes a critical view of how the US has become a military superpower and why it cannot "kick" its war addiction today.　

This lecture focuses on the development of Japan's economy and financial market. No particular prerequisites are required although basic knowledge of economic theory and policy, including Microeconomic Theory, Macroeconomic Theory, Economic Policies, and International Economics, is desirable.

The course aims to instruct on basic knowledge of the postwar development of Japan's economy and financial system as well as an understanding of its challenges. 

This course introduces classic and new topics in international trade from theoretical and empirical perspectives. It covers standard and academic materials commonly studied by economists in academia as well as international organizations such as the World Trade Organization (WTO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank. Students will be able to demonstrate their knowledge of academic studies on international trade after completing this course.

Ideally, students should have already taken "INTERNATIONAL TRADE A" offered in the Fall semester prior to enrollment in this course. However, it is not a prerequisite.

Given the increasing prevalence of empirical approaches in academic studies on international trade, this course covers basic methods of econometrics and their application to data.

The course examines how the English language varies in use according to contextual factors. By applying theories and analytical frameworks from the fields of pragmatics and sociolinguistics, students discover how speakers and writers use the English language to communicate meanings, carry out actions, signal membership in speech communities, and achieve styles in talk and writing. In the pragmatics portion of the course, the ways in which meaning is context-dependent and the ways in which speakers achieve goals using language are considered. In the sociolinguistics portion of the course, the linguistic resources with which speakers show their connection to a given community and express identity are analyzed. Students use primarily qualitative research methods to complete assignments and short research papers. Examination is done in the form of oral presentations, written assignments, and written final examinations.

This course investigates the idea of global citizenship in contemporary political theory and practice. The course begins by taking a close look at the concept itself and then apply global citizenship perspectives to public policy issues surrounding human rights and immigration, looking especially at scholarly debates on whether national borders should be more open than at present as well as the especially difficult circumstances faced by refugees and women migrant labor. It also examines numerous critical global issues, including climate change, nuclear proliferation, and the COVID-19 pandemic, and this leads into analysis of the state of global governance and principles of global justice, as well as the emerging ‘effective altruism’ movement oriented toward future generations.