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. 

This course engages in active learning of the theory, research, and practice of designing, developing, and evaluating online learning environments, including distance education and blended learning approaches The discussions and explorations in class includes both sychronous and asynchronous online learning environments. The course covers issues related to current trends in online learning; teaching and learning in an online environment; online learning communities, and designing participatory online courses. 

This is a comparative study of educational aims and systems in numerous national and societal contexts. This course provides an introductory overview of education policies and practices across multiple countries. Topics include educational goals and nation-state development; models and approaches in comparative education; education systems and policy structures; cross-national achievement data; access and opportunity; language and education; colonization and decolonization; history education and national identity; refugee and immigrant education; media literacy education, and peace education.
Through comparative analysis of education systems and practices around the world, the class gains a foundational understanding of how education policies and systems function in different contexts and proposes potential solutions for improving current policies, systems, and/or educational practices.

The history of lyric poetry in English is deeply connected to the history of popular music. The earliest lyric poems were chanted or sung. Early modern plays, like Shakespeare’s, were full of songs. Dances often followed performances of these plays.
 

This course studies lyric poetry from its beginnings in the English language to the present day, showing how lyric poetry is the foundation of song lyrics. The course begins by learning the basics of English poetic form: metre (like musical rhythm) and rhyme. The class covers some of the most famous English poems from Shakespeare to Emily Dickinson and W. B. Yeats, while listening to and studying lyrics from the earliest English ballads to the songs of Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Run-DMC, The Beastie Boys, Amy Winehouse, Taylor Swift, Lizzo, and many others.

This course focuses on critical analysis of media messages and impacts of various media including TV, music videos, newspapers, advertisements, websites, and social media on children and youth. It empowers the class to explore, understand, analyze and control the effects of mass and digital media on young people and oneself.