International Christian University

This course is part of the "Japanese as a Foreign Language Program." It provides an opportunity to learn reading, writing, and usage of vocabulary and kanji in the latter half of intermediate-level Japanese. The course includes lectures on reading, writing, vocabulary usage, research, as well as individual and group presentations. There will be weekly check assignments on vocabulary and kanji. Prerequisite: “J4: JAPANESE” or equivalent.

This course is designed to explore key issues and current debates in the field of Marketing and International Marketing. The course explains theoretical concepts in the discipline of international marketing and the importance of how to think globally in business. In addition, the impact of political, legal, economic and cultural factors on marketing activities across countries will be discussed. Students will learn to analyze marketing plans and consumer product strategy at the global level.

The course examines how different religions adapt to a world of consumer capitalism, mass migrations and new technologies. Religious participation has gained new speed in recent years, but not in ways we associate with traditional institutions like temples, pilgrimages and rituals. In today's world, religions spread through transnational migration, social media and consumer practices. Focusing on ethnographies conducted mainly (but not exclusively) in Asia, the course explores how these emerging practices shape contemporary religion.

This course teaches basketball as a team sport, providing an overview of the communication skills, teamwork, leadership, followership, self-understanding, understanding others, and awareness of one's own body and its movements to play a successful game. Furthermore, this course aims at learning the enjoyment of the sports culture of basketball itself.

This Japanese language course is designed for students who have completed Japanese III at ICU and have mastered basic skills. It is comparable to third and beginning fourth year at UC. The course continues the development of skills in listening, reading, and writing. By the end of the course, students should be able to communicate in intermediate Japanese incorporating fundamental knowledge of Japanese culture.

This course introduces the sounds, grammar, vocabulary, genetic affiliation, and types of Japanese language, terms and concepts often used in Japanese linguistics.  It covers the basic information on Japanese language needed for students interested in teaching it as a second/foreign language or a native language. Japanese is also contrasted with other languages such as Korean, Chinese and English.

A beginning dance class, this course teaches the basics of jazz dance and various ways to express music with one's body. This class requires a lot of movements based on the classical ballet technique. 

This course takes a critical and in-depth look at language teaching methodology in light of recent research findings in second language acquisition. Approaches and methods will be reviewed and focus will be placed on task-based language teaching (TBLT). Theoretical and pedagogical principles underlying TBLT will be discussed as background to the approach and students will explore means of implementing TBLT in their own classrooms. Finally, comparative studies examining the merits of TBLT versus other approaches and methods will be critically examined.

Families are a fundamental unit in the organization of social life. Most people are born into one or later may create one of their own. This course is an introduction to the sociological study of marriage and family, its structures, and functions. The course explores the functions of family; changes in families over time and assesses how families both affect social life and are affected by it. There is an emphasis on sociological theory and research on marriage, kinship systems, components of mate selection, intimate relationships and parenting practices.

This course introduces how sociologists study families and along with them, topics that seem very personal, emotional and important to many of us - ideals about love, marriage, gender, parenthood, work, and human sexuality. It explores how wider social forces, including the state, the media, the workforce, race, class, and the sex/gender system, influence both our cultural assumptions about the marriage and family. A larger aim of this course is to integrate research, theory, and practical ideas so that people can pursue healthy and productive relationships. Students are expected to keep up with the readings and enhance the energy level of the classroom. This class is based on active student participation in class discussions.

The globalization of the translation industry has accelerated the use of specialized tools in response to constraints such as time, cost, consistency and teamwork. This class offers students an opportunity for hands-on exploration of a number of industry-leading applications widely used today by key players in the translation industry to equip students with knowledge about translation working environment; translation memory technology; translation project management; translation workflow management; translation quality management; machine translation, and so forth. By using them to complete both individual and collaborative translation tasks, you will gain an understanding of: (1) An overview of the localization industry in which the tools are used; (2) Their potential and limitations; (3) Methods of evaluating their performance, and (4) How translation quality are evaluated in the translation industry.