International Christian University

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.

This course reviews various academic perspectives on development, including the relationship between development and education. The course explores the history of how education has been perceived and changed its position in the various paradigms of international development; the meaning of each perspective, and their empirical evidence. The first half of the course discusses the definition of development; theories, and empirical evidence of the relationship between development and education, while the latter half focuses on various challenges in development and education.

There are nearly 5000 languages used daily around the world. Geographical and political restructuring, migration, natural disassters are just a few of the factors which cause multilingualism in society.  The course addresses the key questions: What does it mean to be bilingual and how does a child or adult become bilingual? This course also surveys bilingualism and bidialectalism in Japan (e.g. Korean, Okinawan, Tagalog, English).

This course examines various approaches to the study of bilingualism and multilingualism (e.g., societal, cognitive, psychological, educational), covering a wide variety of crucial issues and controversies in the field.  

This course focuses on analyzing the responses of Japan and the global community to multiple environmental issues, predominantly climate change, biodiversity loss, and desertification. The special focus is on Japan's ambition to actively engage in climate change negotiations and the path to reaching carbon neutrality by 2050. The latter is a crucial step to maximize the chances that the average temperature warming will not exceed 1.5ºC above the preindustrial average. The course also explores what Japan has been doing to tackle climate change and other environmental issues.

This course offers advanced studies in the history of the English language. Utilizing knowledge in philology and modern linguistics, particularly in historical linguistics and sociolinguistics, it explores various topics and analyzes data that show major developments from Old English to Present-Day English.

This course provides an an overview of the most influential philosophical traditions that originated in China and India and spread through Asia: Confucianism, Taoism, Hinduism, and Buddhism.