Keio University

This course investigates human (in)security by examining the state’s duty to its citizens, analyzing both the scope of services a government provides and its capacity to reach its people. It also examines the risks to individuals due to the lack of services and/or the limited coverage of existing services. Utilizing examples across healthcare, law enforcement, and education, this course investigates how distinct state governance models approach public issues and how these decisions shape citizens' lives.

This course explores contemporary Japanese short stories, focusing on the works Seicho Matsumoto and Masao Yamakawa.

This course provides the spatial perspective required to address environmental and social challenges through hands-on training in core geospatial analysis methods. The first half of the course covers foundational concepts and technical skills of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), while the second half engages the class in a group project where they conduct planning, data collection, analysis, and a final presentation of their findings.

This course introduces health economics as an applied field that uses microeconomic theory and empirical methods to study health, healthcare markets, and policy. 

The course is organized across the academic year: The fall semester examines demand-side behavior through formal economic models of individual decision-making, while this course analyzes supply-side behavior. It studies how healthcare providers, insurers, and firms operate under production constraints, strategic incentives, and regulatory frameworks.

Founded in the mid-18th century by the German philosopher Baumgarten, aesthetics is the study of sensibility, art, and beauty from a philosophical perspective. This course provides a historical overview of the development of Western aesthetics, from antiquity to the early 19th century. It explores how sensibility, art, and beauty have been discussed and theorized in Western philosophy, and the historical context in which they were formed.

Using an economic lens, this course draws especially on The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People (supported by additional cases and readings). Through a mix of close readings, brief lectures and student presentations, structured discussions, and applied project work, students will develop practical frameworks for understanding how religious organizations create value, differentiate themselves, build loyalty, and attempt to maintain legitimacy. The course covers key themes such as religious supply and demand; the platform model of religion, mechanisms of commitment (ritual and social bonding); the role of belief, and the power of narrative in shaping meaning, identity, and decision-making.

This course equips students with the statistical and financial data skills needed for industry and academic research, providing opportunities to master key techniques and frameworks for building, estimating, and evaluating statistical models. 

This course provides a basic understanding of and an integrated view of current landscape of risk analysis. It covers risk analysis; health impact assessment; environmental health and safety; policy making, and evaluation processes. The course mainly deals with selected applications of epidemiological methods and findings to public health issues.

This course teaches fundamental aspects of vocabulary and meaning in modern Japanese.

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