Waseda University

This course examines the long-term perspectives of environmental and climate change policies in France and Japan, considering historical developments, current challenges, and future prospects. It engages with a range of sources in French, English, and Japanese to develop a comprehensive understanding of the policies, strategies, and frameworks implemented in the context of environmental and climate change.  The course provides an opportunity to develop one's ability to analyze and compare the approaches and effectiveness of environmental and climate change policies between France and Japan.

This course will be essentially taught in English and, depending on the students' proficiency level in French, will use some or many documents in French. 

The course brielfy introduces ethics and the history of computing and the Internet. It focuses on a number of areas in which computers and information technology impact society, including work, the environment, privacy, freedom of speech, and intellectual property. 

This course provides fundamental knowledge of media history in Japan and Asia from the late 19th century to the early 21st century, discussing the historical process of the transformation of relations between media, governments and peoples. The focus is to promote historical understanding and analysis of media development with influences in political process.

To understand contemporary international society in the wave of globalization, it is no longer enough to follow behavior and interaction of governments. Other actors, such as NGOs, supranational organizations, migrant or indigenous communities, as well as other cultural entities including minorities and individuals, have transnational networks and influences. After defining globalization and methodology, the course sheds light on transnational influence of international migration and cultural exchanges through colonization, decolonization, and structural changes of postwar international politics. The latter half analyzes reasons and solutions for contemporary issues concerning international migration. This course focuses on the Asia-Pacific region with examples from former British colonies and Japanese policies. 

This course introduces students to the mutually influential art of the East and the West. The first half of the course focuses on "Shosoin Treasures and Buddhist Art of Todaiji Temple," with the objective of fostering an interest in the origins of traditional designs and symbols in Japanese art. The second half of the course covers different topics, one of which is the visualization of the "Arabian Nights" and consideration of Orientalism and Japonisme in art.  The course also considers manuscript illustrations from the Islamic world and Japanese picture scrolls, comparing media and painting materials with the actual objects, while reviewing the history of printing technology using plant-fiber paper. 

Animals (and even insects) can communicate with each other, but man's way of communication is fundamentally different in that it is greatly facilitated by language, the structure of which seems species-specific. This course concentrates on this part of human language with special reference to its syntax, a set of rules that govern the way the words in a sentence come together. This course thus aims to discover principles that govern this essential aspect of human language and tries to tackle issues such as how child language acquisition takes place and how surface differences among languages may be explained by the notion of parameter.

It is impossible to obtain a full picture of Japanese economic history without understanding how global and international relationships shaped the economy of the country. This course surveys recent scholarship on economic history of Japan, East Asia, and the rest of the world in the past few centuries. Most of the reading materials emphasize global and international perspectives in the analysis of economic history.  The course discusses a wide range of key topics and methodologies in the study of Japanese economic history.

This Japanese course chooses a different theme concerning Japanese culture and society to discuss each week. Students are split into groups to engage in activities, discussion, and group work concerning the selected topic. The goal of the class is for students to widen their perspectives and deepen their knowledge regarding various issues related to Japan and Japanese society. The program offers various theme courses and students may take multiple sections.

This is a sequential course of FILM & MEDIA STUDIES 10A. 

Through movies and other visual materials, this course examines important issues in modern society from a cross-disciplinary perspective. Each lecture features guest speakers who work in the field of making films, videos, and broadcasting. The course reviews specific production methods and a future vision of movies in class discussions. 

This course explores the normative dynamics of distributive justice. First, it explores the question of how much government ought to redistribute; then, it examines the currency and limits of distributive justice. Third, the course explores the question, "What does distributive justice look like across borders, and does tension exist between domestic and global distributive justice?"