International Christian University

This course focuses on the functions of the animal cell integrated into tissue, covering and discussing regulation of Cell-to-Cell Junction, Cell-Cell Communication, Cell Signaling Pathways, Cell Division and Cell Death.  

Recommended course prerequisites at ICU: Foundation of Biology and Basic Concepts in Cell Biology. 

This course is designed to improve French-language skills and expand cultural knowledge of the French-speaking world. It aims to prepare students for the DELF B1 exam and to provide them with the opportunity to understand the French society.

Course Prerequisite: Completion of Advanced French I or equivalent language skills is required for enrollment.

This course studies Western European history, especially focusing on political, cultural and social aspects of French history from medieval to modern times. 

This course focuses on how gender is socially, economically, and politically constructed in the community/society and how gender matters in addressing development. The course also addresses the kinds of policy and project interventions to achieve sustainable development and gender equalities.

Often called "the language of business," a basic knowledge of accounting is essential to becoming a successful business manager. This course teaches basic accounting concepts to read and analyze corporate financial statements. The first part of the course focuses on the core financial statements: Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Cash Flow Statement. It also covers some important accounting topics such as the globalization of accounting standards and the double-entry accounting process (journal entries, posting, preparing trial balances, adjustments, and closing entries). The second part of the course covers various methods to read and analyze corporate financial statements, such as various financial statement analysis techniques used in both short and long-term analysis. Real examples (actual corporate financial numbers) are used for comparing and analyzing corporate financial performance.

This introductory course explores how political scientists and social analysts approach modern-day issues with modern-day methodological tools and explanations, delving into issues related to the empirical and theoretical causes and consequences of democracy and dictatorship.  The course also projects future institutional design and the change in relationship between actors. 

This course investigates Asian and European history from a global perspective through the analysis of both primary and secondary historical materials. The course compares how how Iberians and English/Dutch established their presence in East Asia, especially in Japan.

The course covers the following topics:

• Introduction: The Age of Discovery and Global History
• Portuguese expansion in Asia - The Estado da India I and India II.
• Iberian traders and slavery in East Asia
• Spain and the Manila Galleons
• The Jesuit enterprise - Christian missions in East Asia
• East India Companies and factories - Dutch and English in Japan
• European Diplomacy vs. East Asian diplomacy
  
   

This course introduces students to empirically-based findings of comparative politics and public policy, through a cross-national, cross-temporal approach of case studies of some of the world’s major political units. In doing so, it examines several important empirical and theoretical puzzles including, but not limited to:

(1) What accounts for variance in terms of the extent and quality of governance; 

(2) How and why do different political regime types produce different outcomes such as better or worse socio-economic levels; 

(3) Are some sets of political regimes better at holding political elites accountable?  

(4) What accounts for variance in terms of some political elites leading their countries into costly wars, and others delivering peace and prosperity? 

The goal of the course is to provide the field’s best generalized answers to these questions as well as to facilitate the development of one’s own conclusions. 

This course teaches basic knowledge and techniques used in animal cell biology, through performing the following animal cell and molecular biology experiments: RNA and protein extraction from rat tissues/cell culture pellets, quantification of transcript (RT-qPCR) and protein (Western-Blotting) expression, and observation of protein expression on rat tissues/cell culture by confocal microscopy.

Recommended Prerequisites: Basic Concepts in Cell Biology; Basic Concepts in Genetics; Advanced Cell Biology, and Laboratory in Foundation of Biology. 

This course introduces students to the principles of management accounting - the internal use of accounting information to manage organizations. It deals with the following topics: using cost accounting information as decision-making; the function of a budget as performance evaluation, and fundamental financial analysis. This course aims to equip students with the knowledge and ability to understand, analyze, and evaluate financial and non-financial accounting information.

Prerequisites: Fundamental accounting and fundamental management.