Japan

This course is for students who are learning Italian for the first time. It aims to help develop the full range of linguistic skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing) through practice in grammar, reading, and conversational role-playing, as well as through the use of music and other audiovisual materials that will help students gain a better understanding of Italian culture and language.

By the end of the course, the students will be able to: 
1) Understand and utilize frequently-used everyday expressions as well as simple phrases to meet immediate needs.
2) Introduce themselves and others; asking and answering questions about personal details such as where they live, things they have, and people they know.
3) Interact in a simple way. 

This course provides the opportunity to study and practice sentence patterns, vocabulary, and listening comprehension in the first half of the intermediate level, which corresponds to the N3 level of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT). Therefore the goal of the course is for students to acquire the Japanese proficiency the need to pass the N3 level of the JLPT.

Public Economics analyzes the market failure and the function of the government, specifically what the government should do in a market economy. This course covers the basic principle of public economics, especially the role of the government and the rationale for the policy, in a framework of applied microeconomics. The course teaches the standard approach of public economics, which is the foundation of economic analysis in any policy issue. It assumes that students are familiar and comfortable with basic concepts of microeconomics that includes, for example, the method of Lagrange multiplier and Slutsky Equation.

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.

This course is for students with at least one year of prior study of Japanese. The goal of this course is for students to acquire well-balanced basic proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and to develop an understanding and command of basic grammar and its usage. Students practice listening comprehension and pronunciation using videotapes and CDs. They learn conversational expressions and phrases necessary in daily life, fundamentals of written expression, and how to read and write short passages on topics familiar to them using previously learned sentence patterns and vocabulary. By the end of term, students master 1500 basic words and 300 basic kanji. 

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 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.  

The purpose of this course is to acquire intermediate-level grammar, letters, and vocabulary (JLPT N2-N3 level). In the class, while giving some weight to the N2 level, explanations and exercises on general intermediate level grammar, letters and vocabulary are provided.
The course aims to deepen your knowledge and understanding of intermediate-level Japanese, focusing on grammar, letters, vocabulary, etc., reaching a level at which you can pass the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) level N2.