Waseda University

In developed countries, social security expenditures, such as public pension, health care and long-term care, account for a substantial part of the total expenditures of the public sector. The design of the social security system is an important policy issue in Japan, which is facing a rapidly aging population with a declining birthrate, as well as skyrocketing public debt. This course provides an overview of Japan's social security system and the economic theories behind the system.

This course introduces students to the basic framework and key concepts to understand the behavior of voters and politicians in elections. It also explores the foundations of political parties and electoral competition. The course acquaints one with the knowledge and terminology of political science, but also gives one tools to evaluate information and think critically about how politics works.

This course is a survey of the history of Great Britain from the Revolution of 1688 to Brexit. The course seeks to understand how Britain and the British came to be the way they are at present-economy, society, politics, and culture. It covers the rise and fall of British power and influence; the expansion of English power within the British Isles; the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain; the transformation of a traditional society; the rise and decline of British industrial power; the development of a class society, and the rise and fall of Britain as a great power. 

This advanced course on postcolonial literature situates the representative texts of postcolonial literature in broader intellectual and historical contexts, exploring not only the works of literature under this category but also the important issues often associated with postcolonial studies in general by means of comparative, historical, and theoretical approaches.

This course is an introduction to international trade for students who already have sound knowledge in introductory microeconomics. The course covers the following topics: the main reasons for trade; trade patterns; trade and income distribution; FDI and outsourcing; trade policy instruments; the World Trade Organization, and the multilateral trading system. 
 

This course focuses on translating short English texts (up to two pages) from various genres into Japanese. It teaches the basic skills necessary to begin translating texts from English to Japanese, further examining British and American culture, society, and literature. Translation consists in reproducing the reception language to the closest natural equivalent of the source-language message, first in terms of meaning and secondly in terms of style; translation should preserve somewhat the beauty of style and the flowing cadences of the original. This course aims for the class to create an accurate and reliable Japanese translation on the basis of the translation rules they learn each week. 

This course explores an appreciation of the unique aesthetics of fiction and non-fiction film from a holistic perspective.  The course looks at works from author-directors; documentaries, and anthropological films (also known as visual ethnography), which are categorized into different themes; the course them aims to see different expressions of the same theme in different films with a comparative discussion of films from other cultures.

The selected films are all Chinese language films, which means the class will enter the context of Chinese culture through the film text. It is not only the lines told in Chinese and the scenes taken on the ground in China, but the “the Chinese emotional presentation” and "the Chinese way of viewing.” 

The course also discusses a range of possibilities arising from the collision of film as an art form with the Chinese context.

This course provides basic set operations in set theory and examines how to prove propositions, with a focus of setting operations and links to the proofs. Students study systematic operations in set theory and apply such operations to extended mathematical proofs. 

This course discusses game theory for economic analysis at the undergraduate level. For undergraduate students, the course, Intro to Game Theory, is a prerequisite. Students are also expected to have a basic knowledge of mathematics such as basic differentiation and basic probability theory.

The course aims to teach formal concepts in game theory and provide hands on experience in solving games with different solution concepts.

This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive introduction to the entire integrated marketing communication process, covering a variety of elements in integrated marketing communication and other marketing components.  The course instructs on how advertising relates to marketing and the specifics of research, setting objectives, strategy, positioning, creative, media, promotions, public relations, and campaigns.  Upon completion of the course, one will have a better general understanding of the development of the advertising industry; how it works today, and debate about its roles in society.