Keio University

This course is aimed at those who have already studied the first half of elementary grammar.  It focuses on oral practice, mainly using the sentence patterns and vocabulary introduced in the course, Essential Japanese 3M.

Textbook: "University Japanese: Beginner's Course, Tomodachi vol.2" compiled by the Japanese Language Education Center for International Students, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. 

This course aims to master grammar and sentence patterns, focusing on the textbook, "Daigaku Nihongo Shokyu Tomodachi Vol. 2" (Lessons 19-24).

Textbook: "University Japanese: Beginner's Tomodachi Vol. 2" edited by the Japanese Language Education Center for International Students, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

Industrialization from the 1880s not only accelerated productivity growth but also transformed Japanese society into a more market-oriented system, the entire process of which is called the industrial revolution. The modern sectors in Japanese society composed a classical market economy from the 1880s to the 1910s. The development in the period was supported by the well-integrated international market and was at least partially accommodated by the pool of slack labor in the traditional sector. 

Those favorable environments were impaired from the 1920s, especially in the 1930s. Without a stable international financial market, the macroeconomic stability of a national economy had to be sustained by individual states. Such an international condition instead exacerbated the difficulty of managing society as the labor market became tighter and the growing modern sector absorbed slack labor in rural regions. In the end, Japan chose a state-coordinated market economy after the experiment of a command economy during the Second World War. 

Then, from the 1980s, the economy gradually returned to the standard, rule-based market economy. This course provides an overview of institutional changes in the Japanese economy from the 1920s to the 2000s and to understand how institutional and organizational factors work in a changing society. 

 

This course is for students who have studied basic grammar. By studying reading and writing, students will improve their writing and reading ability and enhance their usage of basic vocabulary and grammar.

Textbook: "University Japanese: Beginner's Tomodachi Vol. 2"  edited by the Japanese Language Education Center for International Students, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

This course is for learning theoretical foundations of behavioral economics. In behavioral economics, researchers test assumptions of one’s behavior through surveys and experiments, thus leading to new theories for economic behavior. These research methods and theories will be useful for understanding international differences in economic behavior and outcome such as economic growth and income distributions. This course mainly focuses on behavioral economic research on time preferences and attitudes toward risk. 

Course enrollees are also encouraged to register for the course, International Economy and Behavioral Economics B, at the same time or after completing this course. 

This course is aimed at students who have experience studying at the intermediate level. It provides a comprehensive study of upper-intermediate Japanese language, preparing students to move on to the advanced level. Through close reading of textbooks, the course increases one's knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, and kanji, and improves one's reading comprehension and written expression skills. Similarly, the course improves one's oral expression skills to explain and discuss what they have understood. 

Textbook: "Let's Learn Intermediate Levels: Intermediate Levels" by Etsuko Hirai and Sachiko Miwa (2009), Three A Network 
 

Prerequisite: It is strongly encouraged that students to take the statistics/econometrics classes in the same semester if they have not yet done so.
 

This course provides an opportunity for students to conduct academic research in the field of economics; summarize research outcomes in a paper effectively, and present their research outcomes in an engaging manner. Given the increasing demand for data analysis skills in industry and academia, this course is designed to help students learn empirical skills and apply them in academic research.