Japan

This class is aimed at intermediate level students. It focuses on listening practice, and increases knowledge of vocabulary and grammar, while improving listening comprehension and oral expression. Through this class, students also gain a deeper understanding of Japanese society.

Textbook: Teacher-created materials. 

This is a Japanese language course for non-JLP students designed for students who have a fundamental knowledge of Japanese honorifics. It aims to improve students’ ability of using Japanese honorifics in both spoken and written language. By practicing polite Japanese in various situations or contexts, students learn the relation between Japanese culture and Japanese language, Japanese way of thinking, and Japanese communication. 

This course introduces main functions of governments, and explains some features of central and local governments in Japan. It course examines basic theories of public finance and the fiscal activities of governments, related to efficiency and equity criteria. It explores the issues of provision of public goods, externality, income (re)distribution, economic effects of taxation, some topics of intergovernmental fiscal relations, and some fiscal decision-makings of central and local levels. While the course mainly uses the framework of traditional public finance theory, if necessary, it introduces public choice approach.