Japan

This course is designed to introduce students to the systematic study of international political economy (IPE). It attempts to address major IPE theoretical approaches and issues within the field such as trade, finance, and capital movement. 

This is a Japanese language course for non-JLP students designed for students who have experience studying Japanese at the intermediate level. The course aims to facilitate a mastery of the oral communication and listening skills necessary in daily conversation to develop more advanced oral expression and listening comprehension skills based on specific situations or context.

This is a foundation course in the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies. In this course, the general frameworks, basic concepts, and historical backgrounds of gender studies are examined. The course describes and discusses gender research and analyses in various disciplines in order for students to obtain the basic analytical power in dealing with gender analysis in interdisciplinary fields. The course enhances students' understanding of how GSS develops in a respective field, what the current issues are, and what the future development might be, and helps them grasp the importance of the perspectives of gender, which is interdisciplinary. The course gives students an important tool to think deeply about the way the new "knowledge" opened up by the GSS should be and encourages them to transform the "knowledge" into actions, or activism in a broad sense.

This course aims to provide deep insight into marketing in the digital environment. The first part of the course is based on lectures which consist of three parts (1) outbound marketing, i.e., companies reaching out to consumers, more specifically online advertising, (2) inbound marketing, i.e., consumers reaching out to companies; and (3) social media marketing. The second part utilizes case studies that illustrate various aspects of digital marketing. The knowledge and insights are drawn from the instructor’s practical experience as an advisor for multiple companies and teaching experience in the MBA program.