Waseda University

This course examines pressing global issues and the efforts of international organizations to address them in recent decades. The course explores the six principal organs of the United Nations and various UN Funds and Programmes as well as UN Specialized Agencies. The course also emphasizes the efforts made by national governments, including Japan's foreign policy towards the UN and Japan's ODA policy. 

This course begins by looking at the historical background of English education in Japan up until today's discussions of the demands that globalization requires of Japanese learners and educators. While deepening understanding of the role of English as a language of international communication in the era of globalization, the course considers the linguistic content and teaching approaches suitable for Japanese education. The course also encourages students to reflect on their understanding of English education in Japan.

This course introduces foundations of microeconomic theory, including how individual consumers and producers make decisions and how different market mechanisms operate to allocate resources. The course emphasizes problem solving using calculus (rather than graphs and tables in introductory courses). Therefore, students are expected to have some background in multivariable calculus. 

This course explores the relationship between religion and violence through a close reading of one of the foundational texts for the understanding of this relationship - R. Girard's Violence and the Sacred. The course analyzes this text, while examining criticisms or developments of Girard's thought from William Cavanaugh, Luce Irigaray, Sarah Coakley, and John Milbank. 

This course requires basic programming skills, which includes an understanding of what variables are; the basic structure of loops; Python indexing, and slicing of iterables. It expands on programming skills from a digital humanities perspective. The course focuses on Python pandas for data analysis and data manipulation and uses matplotlib for visualization. The course also instructs on version control using git. The latter half of the course focuses on social media analysis including network analysis, topic modeling, and sentiment analysis.

It is strongly recommended that students have taken the intermediate course “Python Programming for Digital Humanities” or a similar one before taking this course.

This course delves into labor in China through an anthropological lens and pays attention to various aspects, including skill and livelihood; institution and reform; culture and technology, and gender and family, based on relevant literature and first-hand fieldwork materials obtained through the teacher’s research. The concept of "labor" is not confined to Marxism, but it is extended by specific materials from anthropological labor studies. The course aims not only to lead students to master multiple situations of labor in the Chinese context, but also encourages a reflexive exploration of students finding their own positions in society.

This course introduces basic grammar of classical Japanese. The class reads a wide range of original Japanese texts from the eighth to mid-twentieth centuries, including poetry, tales, legal writings, etc. 

This course is conducted in English, but since it involves translation from classical Japanese to English, having intermediate Japanese proficiency (2 years of Japanese) is recommended.

This course covers econometrics techniques for analyzing data to answer various economic and financial questions. The course introduces the nature of econometrics and economic data, then examines various types of regression analysis.

This course provides an introductory survey of post-war Japanese international relations, with particular emphasis on the development of the US-Japan alliance and the evolution of relations between Japan and neighboring Asian states. It begins with a study of the making of the San Francisco System, and then concentrates on the major events that shaped the history of Japan up to the years after the Cold War. Through the analysis and explanation of historical events, particular efforts are made to place those events that relate to Japan in the context of transformations in the structure of wider international relations.