Meiji Gakuin University

This course addresses how economic and psychological factors affect the economic decisions of individuals, focusing on their bounded rationality. Each class is composed of two parts. The first half of the class addresses the basic concepts and principles of Behavioral Economics, while the second half involves reading research articles and discussing the related research questions.

The course discusses important issues in contemporary Japanese society, fostering a critical stance towards discourses around Japanese society. The course covers topics such as the low birthrate and aging society; rural and urban Japan; gender, sex, marriage, childbirth, and family; rituals, festivals, and traditions; education and media; the military, police and the prison system, and work and leisure. 

This course introduces non-law students to international law rules, dispute resolution institutions, and procedures. The course is composed of theoretical and practical elements to help students with no previous legal knowledge familiarize themselves with various underlying issues of international law.  Class activities include reading cases; redacting simple legal documents, and participating in mock trials (dependent on class number/size). 

This course examines the nature and workings of the American political economy and society. To achieve a well-balanced understanding of the country in the context of the globalized world, it  studies the United States by comparing it to other industrialized democracies of North America, Europe, and Oceania. The course seeks to understand the interplay among politics, the economy, and society and its effects on the economy and the well-being of citizens.

Through weekly readings and class discussions, this course considers how individual bodies are gendered and how gender is constructed in individual bodies. The course explores how social norms strongly construct gendered bodies, thus generating problems, and delves into possibilities to change the norms related to bodies.  Lecture topics vary, but may include problem's created by women's beauty work; radical feminist perspectives from the 1960s through today; why do many women wear makeup; and how to resist gendered norms of body.