Meiji Gakuin University

Using the European Union as an example, this course defines regional economic integration and examines the EU's economic challenges and policy responses.

This course provides pratice in reading and understanding current materials such as newspaper articles and online news related to Japanese society and specialized fields of interest. The course provides students an opportunity to enhance their logical thinking and write approximately 4,000 characters on social issues in Japan of interest to them.

This course provides the opportunity for students to experience cultural interactions and conflicts in Japanese society, especially in universities, and simulate how to respond to them.  The class then reads and discusses examples of Japanese society and culture then responds to a social issue through a written essay.

This is a listening and speaking course that improves conversational skills and listening comprehension by recreating daily social interactions. The course aims to provide opportunities to speak in lengthy sentences, and improve daily communication skills outside the classroom. 

This course covers the basic concepts and drivers of economic development focused on macro-regions. It defines macro-regions as the group of countries that share similar economic histories, e.g. North-America, Latin America, Western Europe, Africa, East Asia, South-East Asia, etc.

Demons, ghosts, and monsters have populated the cultural landscape in Japan for centuries. Appearing in anime, manga, games, and movies, mysterious creatures continue to form the core of contemporary popular culture, and have sparked a global obsession with Japanese monsters. This course explores the cultural history of the strange and supernatural in Japanese literary, visual, and performing arts. Engaging with primary and critical sources from the eighth century to the present, the course considers the social roles that representations of the "weird" have played in Japan.

This course offers an introduction to the field of transcultural studies. It explores some of the processes of creative adaptation of foreign ideas and interactions between cultures on multiple levels to better understand human communication. Upon completion, students are expected to acquire knowledge of the transcultural approach and to understand the constructed nature of concepts such as boundaries, culture, nation, society, and civilization.

This course builds upon the concepts studied in INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS A and introduces business strategies. The course covers cost calculations, market structures, firms' decision making, supply chains and such other topics. 

The regular version of this course is worth 3.0 UC quarter units. The Q version of this course is worth 4 or 4.5 UC quarter units. Students must submit a special study project form which outlines the requirements for the additional units. This is typically an additional paper graded by the instructor of the course.