Keio University

This course is aimed at students interested in starting their own business who want to learn different aspects of business management. It is also suited to those involved in corporate entrepreneurship or in improving competitive positioning and transforming corporations towards value-creation. The course instructs on the essential skills needed to start and manage a successful new business venture.
 

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Evaluate the necessary qualities and characteristics of a successful entrepreneurial profile.
- Recognize and determine the steps necessary to open and operate a small business enterprise.
- Identify the marketing, financial, leadership and other competencies needed by an entrepreneur.
- Use information, projections, logic and critical thinking to recognize an opportunity and solve small business problems in a multicultural, ethical and legal environment.
- Develop and present a business plan for a business in Japan or another country.

The course is delivered through a combination of lectures, class discussions, and presentations.

This course examines the psychology of experiencing cultural difference and investigates the cultural differences between Japan and other countries. Culture affects us at the level of the unconscious mind and understanding cultural difference requires the process of deep culture learning. The class has two parts, 1) the psychology of deep culture, and 2) analyzing cultural difference. The goal of this course is to gain a deeper understanding of how culture shapes our minds as well as a deeper understanding of Japan and other cultural communities.

This seminar course focuses on globalization and the development of education, especially the effect that globalization and development have on societies and education systems in Asia. The course explores the roles and activities of agencies such as the UN, the World Bank, JICA, and grassroots NGOs as well as their impact on education in the developed and developing countries of East and Southeast Asia.

This course is designed for students who are able to write around 30 basic kanji characters to study around 80 kanji characters and to practice reading and writing sentences using these characters.
The course is designed for students who have already learned approximately 30 elementary kanji.
The aim of this course is to aid students in reading and writing a further 80 elementary kanji (Lesson 7-12 of the the textbook, Elementary Japanese for Academic Purposes Vol.1), as well as associated vocabulary and expressions.

What do companies have to deal with when crossing national borders? This workshop takes a broad approach to learning about and discussing different aspects, challenges, and opportunities of global strategy. As globalization is expanding, all countries are host to foreign firms; thus, large multinational companies are not the only ones taking part in global strategy. This workshop is valuable not only for students who wish to work in an international setting, but for any student that wants to have a grasp of the modern business environment.
The course focuses on questions of strategy and organization, rather than issues or activities related to leadership, psychology, operations management, or finance/accounting.

Digital technology has fundamentally and dramatically changed the way people live; the way society develops, and, most importantly, it refined the fundamental nature of human civilization. We are spending more time and effort in borderless cyberspace but, at the same time, dealing with issues in a multicultural physical space. Technology and society co-evolve, thus making it essential to understand both in order to grasp the best opportunities and also prepare for the upcoming challenges that arise from the ever-increasing integration of technologies into our societies.

This course broadly covers issues related to emerging technology advancement and addresses its critical societal challenges such as privacy, cybersecurity, governance, media, business stability, law enforcement, justice, and new modes of the workforce, among others. The course also investigates Japanese internet governance as well as privacy protection rules in a global context for a better understanding of not just the Japanese, but the global trends in building healthy relations between technology and society. The course aims to educate students to think critically about approaches and possible solutions to the challenges in the physical and virtual domain.

 

This course is designed for students who have some experience learning Japanese. The course aims to enhance listening and speaking skills through teaching and practice of vocabulary and expressions needed for everyday conversation. 

This course is designed for students learning Japanese for the first time. The course focuses on the acquisition of grammar and sentence patterns based on the textbook Elementary Japanese for Academic Purposes Vol.1 (Lesson 1 to 6). Students must understand hiragana before taking this course.

This course acquaints students with an improved understanding of the key disciplines of environmental economics pertaining to the study of the relationships between the economy and the environment. It equips students with the practical knowledge of environmental economic principles, environmental sciences and other related disciplines in managing the environment-economy relationships towards achieving a more resource-efficient and environmentally sustainable economy for the benefit of society. This takes the course to an extensive range of studies covering the connection between the economics of ecosystem services, ecosystem multifunctionality and environmental value which integrally linked to resource efficient economy and human welfare; the relationship between economic use of the natural system and environmental externality; market mechanism; environmental and resource conservation; cost-benefit analysis; valuation techniques and their limitations, among other subjects of interest.

This course is designed for students learning Japanese for the first time. The course focuses on the acquisition of grammar and sentence patterns based on the textbook Elementary Japanese for Academic Purposes Vol.1 (Lesson 1 to 6). Students must understand hiragana before taking this course.