Japan

The purpose of this course is for students to learn about Japanese communication behaviors and culture, using a comparative approach with other cultures, while also learning through their own lived experiences. This course covers the chapters that are not covered in spring semester and aims to deepen understanding of the spring course; it is not mandatory to enroll in the spring course.

This course is taught in English and some Japanese and utilizes the peer teaching approach at the beginning of each class. 

Aging is not all about old age; it is, more broadly, to do with one’s being in time and in relation to others. For example, aging invites one to think about care, something that many experience during their lifetime, and about their relationship to the environment. Thinking about aging, therefore, raises many important questions that are central to life.
 

The aim of this course is to address some of these questions, while introducing students to literary (and cultural) studies of aging. In particular, the course will think about aging from the feminist perspective by reading contemporary (post 1980s) narratives – short stories, novels and films – that explore aging for women and are produced or set in the UK. Although the texts are primarily concerned with women’s experiences of aging in the UK/Western context, one hope for the course is to encourage students to think about aging in broader contexts and one’s temporal being.

Although there will be brief lectures, the course will be run in a seminar style, focusing on class/group discussion. Students will be required to read and/or watch the texts outside class hours; ponder questions on worksheets provided in advance, and actively participate in discussion. 

 

This course studies the history of the 20th century global movement after World War II, which influenced global politics. Students are expected to examine a historical case of a local movement crossing over to global politics. 

This course introduces concepts of international corporate law. It seeks to understand the relation between most major constituents (director, shareholder, officers) in international corporations as well as the relevance of business organizations in corporate transactions such as mergers & acquisitions. The course also provides a basic understanding of fundamental capital market rules. 

This course provides third and final year students with the theoretical and practical knowledge of diachronic studies of language, or historical linguistics, enabling them to understand how some historical changes in language can be described and explained. This course can also aid in conducting research for graduation theses and, for some, prospective postgraduate studies. 

This course covers processing principles of data types other than text format that are used to create multimedia contents like three dimensional solid body with various tools for the multimedia. 

The course covers the following topics:

• 3DCG
• Stereoscopic 3D
• 360degree video
• Virtual Reality
• Augmented Reality

This course must be taken simultaneously with LABOR ECONOMICS AND PUBLIC POLICY A. This course explores how labor markets work and analyzes a wide range of labor issues within Japanese and US economies. Each class begins with the theoretical background of labor economics, then students analyze a related research article to understand how and whether the standard, neo-classical model is applied to real economic life.

This course introduces the basic issues associated with contemporary globalization. While the focus is on contemporary issues, the course begins by examining challenges of development in the context of the history of the past two centuries. And while the course conceives globalization as a process driven by economic and technological forces, it recognizes distinct and significant social, political, and cultural manifestations and consequences. Thus, it analyzes the most important social, cultural, and political factors interacting with the dynamic forces of the world economy.

This course prepares students to participate in university lectures taught in Japanese. By studying various topics, students will acquire the Japanese language proficiency (listening, reading, discussion, and writing) required for university lectures and autonomous learning skills to improve these skills further. The target level is CEFR B2.2. Prerequisite: “J6: Japanese” or equivalent. Three class hours/week. 

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Listen and comprehend long conversations, lectures, discussions, and media messages if an argument's structure and point are clear.
• Understand lengthy and abstract text in their familiar field, provided they can use a dictionary occasionally.
• Conduct discussion, presentation, etc., neither making mistakes that lead to misunderstanding nor causing strain or inconvenience to the listener.

Linear algebra is an essential tool to handle multi-component quantities. It is used not only in mathematics but also in natural and social sciences. This course provides basic notions and understanding of linear algebra such as vectors and matrices.