International Christian University

The democratization of media technology in contemporary society has transformed the way one perceives and records the world. Mobile devices have made it possible to record images and videos of everyday life anywhere and anytime, and one now has means to edit these images and produce them into secondary texts. This course focuses on "place," and while setting up a specific place as a field, it tackles documentary as a method of preserving the history, culture and memory of that place. 

Within the framework of statistical logic and while utilizing R programming skills, this course engages in data analysis, computer simulation, and quantitative analysis. It equips learners with fundamental R programming skills applicable to statistical learning and practical applications.

This course explores how media impacts how one sees oneself and how they interact with others. The course includes activities that navigate the changing tides and positions others bring to mediated communications, confrontation, friendship-making, and collegiality. 

This course covers the way in which phonological theories provide understanding of phonological alternations in human language. It introduces a variety of recent phonological theories, including but not limited to, constraint-based theory; agreement-by-correspondence theory, and theory of phonology-syntax interface. 

This course surveys the broad history of Japan from the Meiji Restoration until the postwar period. It examines the transformation of Japan from a predominantly agricultural semi-feudal society to an industrialized nation state and regional power in East Asia. Focusing on key topics, this course explores the emergence of the Japanese nation state within an increasingly globalized society, in a time period marked by imperialism, technological innovation, and economic growth. It highlights the transformation of Japanese society from embracing the institutional, technological, and cultural changes in conjunction with Western modernity, while building its own national traditions drawing on premodern legacies. By the end of the course, the class is expected to possess a deeper understanding of the key social, economic, intellectual, and global changes that have shaped Japan over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 

This course introduces risk management while further developing statistics at general education/foundation course levels, utilizing computers for risk calculation and risk minimization.