Japan

Students will acquire basic grammar and vocabulary needed for everyday life and attending university classes in Japan, learn the skills “reading” and “writing”.

Eligibility: A2.1 level in the CEFR/JF Standard for Japanese-Language Education (N4 in the JLPT).

Learning Objectives: 
A2.2 level in the CEFR/JF Standard for Japanese-Language Education
Review the expressions/sentence structures learned at the basic level (A1-A2.1); learn new expressions/sentence structures, and when, where, and how to use them, to achieve the below goals:
・ Comprehend texts on every day, specific, familiar topics. 
・ Writing concise texts about events, past activities, and personal experiences using simple conjunctions to connect ideas (soshite, shikashi, nazenara, etc.). 

The course is designed for students who are able to write around 300 basic kanji characeters to study around 100 kanji characters and to practice reading and writing sentences using these characters. 

Econometrics provides a robust statistical framework for effectively evaluating economic theories. Our goal is to cover a broad range of econometric techniques applicable to real-world economic analysis, with a focus on empirical applications and utilizing R programming skills. Completing the prerequisite course 'Statistics for Business and Economics' is mandatory for enrollment; students without this prerequisite will not be permitted to enroll. While matrices are not the primary tool for explaining regression equation structures, a brief overview of matrix concepts related to regression may be provided. You can begin to learn R programming skills from this course. 

Learning Goals:

1. Simple and Multiple Regressions
2. Statistical Inferences for Regressions
3. Dummy Variable Regression
4. Heteroskedasticity and Serial correlation
3. Instrumental Variable Regression
4. Panel Regression
5. Logit and Probit Regression
6. Quantile Regression
7. etc.