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The third course of the introductory physics series (Introduction to Physical Science, Classical Physics), this course is designed to study modern physics developed in the 20th century. The course covers special relativity and quantum physics.

What are the methodological implications of queer theory? What makes an article or a research project 'queer’ or ‘feminist’? This course provides students with a practical exploration of queer theory and feminist perspectives in research methods. We examine how societal norms and power structures impact research, including research design, data collection methods (such as surveys, interviews, and observations), data analysis techniques, and ethical considerations in research. We explore a range of concepts, such as intersectionality, homonormativity, and anti- and inter-disciplinarity, and discuss how they could shape and inform sociology and research. After covering these key concepts, we focus on ethnographic methods and address the ethics of conducting research with vulnerable groups, including the importance of consent, confidentiality, and reflexivity. Throughout the course, students develop critical thinking skills, engage in discussions and debates, and conduct research tasks under the supervision of the instructor. The course hosts guest speakers who are experienced in gender and sexuality research in Germany.  

This course covers various aspects of multi-core programming. Topics include programming models for multi-threading (Pthread), GPUs (CUDA), and the theoretical backgrounds behind them. Students also implement and optimize various emerging applications such as matrix multiplication, reduction, and deep learning kernels.

This intermediate foundation course investigates the various materials, skills, and expressive issues involved in drawing the city of Florence, its architecture, sculptures, and the human figure from the live model. Students explore a range of compositional issues such as figure/ground relationships, light and shade, perspective, line and shape, value and color, texture, anatomy, contrapposto, and design.  Students draw on site in the city of Florence as well as in the classroom. Both are used in conjunction with exploring diverse approaches to the learning of drawing fundamentals. Emphasis is placed on drawing from perception while focusing on different cultural conventions relating to space, perspective, the human figure, architecture, anatomy, and proportion. The course includes trips to on-site locations in the city of Florence: its piazzas, gardens, museums, as well as a visit to an artist studio. There are two versions of the FOUNDATIONS OF DRAWING: DRAWING IN THE CITY OF FLORENCE, a beginner level and an intermediate level, this course is the intermediate level. Intermediate students are required to have completed a beginning drawing course as a prerequisite. Some assignments for the intermediate students will vary from the assignments given to beginning students. Intermediate students' assignments and progress are held to a higher standard than beginning students. The intermediate students are expected to perform at a higher level.

This course examines the dynamic nature of leadership and innovation as theorized in the past, its present application, and how it might evolve in the future within the backdrop of a fast-digitalizing emerging economy. Lectures focus on how leadership and innovation have evolved over time and how emerging economies are learning from the existing leadership debates and adding to it from their own experiences, culture, and social context. While this course starts from existing leadership discourse, it does not limit itself to the current understanding of leadership. It explores newer leadership experiences from emerging economies to develop a counter exploration to the existing leadership narrative and provides a holistic understanding of leadership by filling the gaps and insights from vibrant diverse cultures that identify themselves as emerging economies.

We have various images of how the ideal human being should live. This course seeks to answer this question from a philosophical point of view through various philosophical methods.
 

There are two notable features in this course. First, the course attempts to use the images of ideal human beings taken both from western culture and Japanese culture, highlighting similarities and differences that transcend the difference of cultural background. In doing so, the course engages participants to seek what their ideal human being looks like.

Second, the course will utilize classical philosophy texts such as Descartes’s and Kant’s philosophy texts, but also Muneyoshi Yanagi’s writings on the works of Japanese folk art (Mingei) and Kenji Miyazawa’s poem.

This course addresses the following topics:

1. Rationality and intellect as an ideal capacity for human beings
2. Anti-intellectualism and its problems
3. Beauty and the image of ideal human beings

This course gives an overarching view of the different challenges and opportunities of international management, and takes a deep dive into some selected cases and examples. It covers the different layers of complexities that come with business across borders and how companies manage to solve, or gain advantage of, these issues. The course focuses mostly on questions of strategy and organization, rather than issues or activities related to leadership, psychology, operations management or finance/accounting.

This course examines some of the major debates in comparative political economy by focusing on the creation, evolution and reform of market institutions. The course begins with the discussion about some of the important writings in political economy. It also examines the literatures on the political economy of the developed countries, the developing countries, and the post-Communist economies.

This course examines chapters from 19th and 20th century art history with a goal of gaining an understanding of the period, while learning about artists and movements. It introduces key ideas such as Expressionism and Abstraction with the emphasis on the networks of artists and art supporters (curators, sponsors, publishers) that developed them. Careful consideration is given to the political, cultural contexts and general circumstances that formed the cultural production by the artists discussed.

The course teaches major western leadership theories, but also explores, through the real practices of Asian business leaders, the characteristics and behaviors that are not always covered by Western leadership theories. The theories can be divided into three types: the leader as an individual (e.g., personality traits, values, perceptions, attitudes, EQ., etc.);  the leader’s behavior (e.g., participative, delegating, empowering, transformational/transactional, authentic, servant and value-based), and the situation that affects leadership (e.g. Contingency theory; cross-cultural leadership theory). In Asia, paternalistic leadership has been relatively well known, however, Asian countries have been the most rapidly developing in the world. This course introduces new leadership practices as well as traditional classic practices, including Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism, which are believed to influence many of the Eastern Asian countries, including Japan, Korea, and China.