Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, Introduce major themes, stories, and people in the Bible. Explore the relation between Christianity and society. Present Christian music of various genres. Classes will include small group discussions and time for written response. We hope to have a number of guest speakers. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Christianity, Christian Ministries, General Education, Music, Religion.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This course will examine Christianity from an academic, cultural, experiential and global perspective. Special attention is given to the following topics: · Origins and historical development of Christianity · Christian thought and teachings · Christian belief and practices of followers of Christ around the world. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Christianity, Christian Ministries, General Education, Music, Religion.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, To gain a basic understanding the themes and stories from the Bible and how they present themselves in English culture in particular and in Western culture as a whole. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Christianity, Christian Ministries, General Education, Music, Religion.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, A comprehensive study of the themes and stories presented in the second half of the English Bible, King James Version. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Christianity, Christian Ministries, General Education, Music, Religion.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This class will use lectures and readings to guide students through an exploration of “What is Japan?” and, more importantly, “What is Japan in the world?” We will use case studies based on current global issues: Japan’s “history wars” in East Asia, the US-Japan relationship, migration, and environmental problems. It will sharpen students’ critical thinking about history at the same time that it introduces some of the key issues facing Japanese foreign relations, both formal and informal. This will be interesting for any students looking to deepen their understanding of Japanese modern history or improve their English-language skills. It is particularly designed to prepare students who want to study abroad or work in a global environment. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: English, General Education, History, Liberal Studies.

Course Code: N/A, Units 2, This course explores various advertising media. Students will examine and analyze print, billboard, radio, TV, and Internet advertisements for a variety of products and services. Students will learn persuasive techniques and language using in advertising. At the end of the semester, students will create their advertisement for the assigned product. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: English, General Education, History, Liberal Studies.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, In parallel with the changes of the political and economical world trends, the global business environments shall be affected accordingly depending on the different regions of the world. In order to understand how the international businesses have developed in such a transitional world, it is necessary to realize the culture, religions, customs and characteristics of the regions concerned. In this course, the invited instructors who have been engaged in the international business, such as general trading companies, manufacturing industries, financial institutions, etc., staying in oversea for many years, will give the lectures on the characteristics of the regions concerned from the viewpoints of actual models and future prospects of the international business by use of their experience and knowledge. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Business, Foreign Affairs, General Education, Global Studies, International Business.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, In this class, we will conduct a close reading of Kojiki, or the Account of Ancient Matters. Known as Japan's oldest surviving narrative, the eighth-century Kojiki illustrates the mythical origins of the Japanese archipelago, deities who created the land, sovereigns believed to be the descendants of these deities, and aristocratic families that served the dynasty with a diverse array of genealogies. The lectures will 1) shed lights on the historical context of its compilation, 2) introduce how the mythical narratives are annotated and interpreted in previous scholarship, and 3) compare the variants of narratives found in Nihon shoki with those of Kojiki.. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: General Education, Japanese Literature, Japanese Mythology.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This course will introduce learners to a broad range of theories, issues and debates about the societal roles and functions of schools, universities and education systems around the world. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: General Education.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, In this survey class of pre-modern Japanese literature, we will read a variety of texts listed in a chronological order. The textbook places the selections in their proper historical context, helping us to study both literature and cultural history of Japan. Selections include “Man’yoshu” or “Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves” from the Nara period; “Kokinshu” or “Collection of Ancient and Modern Poetry,” “The Tosa Diary”, “Yugao” from “Tales of Genji”, and “The Pillow Book” from the Heian Period; “The Tale of the Heike” from the Kamakura Period; Plan of the No Stage, “Birds of Sorrow” of Zeami, and “Three Poets at Minase” from the Muromachi Period; and Sections from Basho, including “The Narrow Road of Oku,” “The Love Suicides at Sonezaki” by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, and Waka and haiku of the Tokugawa Period. The one-year long class allow you to get a general picture of pre-modern Japanese literature and the elements that nourished the Japanese culture. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: General Education, Japanese Literature, Japanese Mythology.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This is a survey class of pre-modern Japanese literature before Tokugawa period. Students will be assigned to read important literary works of each period that is accompanied with introductions explaining the cultural and historical context. The reading assignments will begin with a brief overview of major political and social events, brief introductions to the authors and specific texts. It allows you to study both the important works and the cultural history of Japan. The one-year long class is designed to portray a general picture of pre-modern Japanese literature and the elements that nourished the Japanese cultural traditions. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: General Education, History, Intercultural Studies, Literature.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This is an acting and social problem awareness class. From the acting standpoint, students will be taught how to develop small roleplays and skits, based on lectures and their own research into prevailing international/domestic social inequities. They will also work on physical and voice techniques. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: English, Communications, Performance, Social Studies, Theater.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This course serves as an introduction to the world of radio broadcasting and broadcast journalism.Students will learn foundational skills in news writing, reporting and the creative use of audio. The emphasis will be on grammar, spelling, punctuation and journalistic style, along with accuracy, completeness, and writing for the ear. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: English, Communications, Performance, Social Studies, Theater.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, In this ONLINE semester, we will read from classic nostalgia fiction of the so-called “moonlight and magnolia” South, such as Gone with the Wind and “Song of the South,” considering too their film versions and the controversies that have followed these works up until the present time. Tennessee Williams's Streetcar Named Desire will allow us to interrogate the South as fantasy along gender and class lines. We will conclude by considering the parodies and revisions Old South nostalgia has spawned,including Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone. We will not neglect, of course,“tragic mulatto” tales, minstrel shows, vaudeville, African American writers and entertainers, Elvis Presley and other 20th-century popular culture figures. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: American Studies, English, Literature.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, In this ONLINE class, we will read a variety of American literary and social texts in English from the colonial period through the Civil War and into the latter half of the 19th century in order to grasp the development of literary history and culture as a progression of birth and rebirth narratives, that is, “renaissances.” For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: American Studies, English, Literature.

A practical introduction to the world of English newspapers. Students will learn how to gather and evaluate information and write in a journalistic style. The emphasis will be on grammar, spelling, punctuation and journalistic style, and on elements of content including accuracy, completeness, and objectivity. For a longer course description, click here.Subject Areas: English, Literature, Journalism.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, In this class, we will find out how we can use the media, and “be” the media, to improve our language and thinking skills (as well as regular enjoyment) and also become aware of the media’s disruption possibilities through addiction, tracking, and false news. Thus, the course title might be better phrased as Critical Agentic Media English: Self-Regulated Use (CAME:SRU). For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Communication, English, Literature, Media.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, To learn the knowledge that is minimally necessary for understanding subfields of English linguistics. More specifically, the objective is to understand sound and spelling in English, phonetics, phonology, morphology, and others. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas English, Literature.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This course will be self-directed learning using CoursePower. The first semester of this seminar involves learning about individual differences between learners and how they are measured. Many self study exercises and reports will be assigned on CoursePower. Please note, there is a new textbook requirement for this course, Lessons from good language learners, by Carol Griffiths (2008), Cambridge University Press. This is a required text and must be bought by students in the seminar. The second semester of this seminar will involve designing a speaking or writing task for data collection, developing hypotheses about its effects on learner language, for a specific type of learner, and using it to collect data. The results of data collection will be submitted to CoursePower as a research report at the end of the second semester. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: English, Language Studies, Literature.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This lecture class is on the topic of first and second language acquisition, and the relationship between them. We are concerned basically with theories of first and second language acquisition and development, and we interpret data showing language development in the light of these theories. Various cognitive psychological terms and concepts will be introduced, such as implicit versus explicit learning and memory, priming, restructuring, triggering, fossilization, interlanguage, and many others relevant to first (L1) and second (L2) acquisition theory. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: English, Literature.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, Using diversity of experiences, backgrounds and interests as a resource, this seminar will explore various topics in Comparative Culture Studies as well as Communication. Expanding on models of culture and communication including, (Hall, 1976, Kramsch, 1993, Byram, 1997)students will connect products, practices, people and communities with perspectives and differences in communication. These models will be used to explore how our ideas of culture and identity are constructed and how these are maintained in the mass media today. Themes will be introduced and developed using the textbook, but students are expected to make weekly contributions through mini presentations and assignments based on their own research and experiences. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Communication, English, Literature.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, Using diversity of experiences, backgrounds and interests as a resource, this seminar will explore various topics in Comparative Culture Studies as well as Communication. Expanding on models of culture and communication including, (Hall, 1976, Kramsch, 1993, Byram, 1997)students will connect products, practices, people and communities with perspectives and differences in communication. These models will be used to explore how our ideas of culture and identity are constructed and how these are maintained in the mass media today. Themes will be introduced and developed using the textbook, but students are expected to make weekly contributions through mini presentations and assignments based on their own research and experiences. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Communications, English, Intercultural Studies.

Course Code: N/A Units: 2, In this introductory course, we will explore the mass media, the relay of information from individuals and groups to large segments of the population, the history of media, its influences, and the convergence of different media today. Lectures will trace the history of mass communication from man’s earliest images in caves to the invention of writing, Gutenberg’s book printing press, painting, photography, magazine and book publishing, and censorship. There will be weekly class readings, Powerpoints, group discussions, Questionnaires, and two projects/reports. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Communications, English, Intercultural Studies.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This course will help students develop the skills necessary to speak and debate in public. Debate is highly useful because it helps to develop the necessary competence to communicate effectively in English and also helps to prepare students for global citizenship. As the course progresses, students will learn how to prepare arguments for and against a position on a topic, listen to ideas critically, and to speak persuasively on a topic. Four aspects of speaking and debating will be emphasized: language, content, delivery, and critical thinking. This course will be of interest to students with good English oral communication skills who want to challenge their public speaking skills and wish to improve their critical thinking skills. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Communication, English.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, Informative, persuasive, evocative, impromptu, memorized speeches plus debate. We will undertake a variety of different speeches and look at how to effectively construct our work so it appeals, entertains and persuades our audience. International students are very welcome. While the class is conducted in English, it is designed with the needs and abilities of ESL students in mind. There are 2 written components plus various opportunities for students to reflect on their work and that of their peers. Students keep a journal of the work they do in class in English. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Communication, English.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, British Culture I surveys the ideas, individuals, and events that shaped British culture from the earliest times up to the present. Lectures in British Culture I are easier to understand than in previous years; the most challenging discussions have been moved to British Culture II. In British Culture I students learn how Britain’s cultural exchanges with people in Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Africa influenced and informed British culture. Students will also learn how different communities within Britain shaped the evolution of British culture. We watch videos, listen to music, and visit interesting websites. Stonehenge, music, tea, art, architecture, King Arthur, Elizabeth I, slavery, Christianity, magic, witchcraft, women writers, British sports, Charles Darwin, Charlie Chaplin, Margaret Thatcher, Brexit and Megxit are some of the topics we will discuss. All foreign students from any department are welcome. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: English, History, Intercultural Studies, Literature.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, Students may NOT take this class for two consecutive years. This class will focus on Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare. Class discussions will cover the major themes in Shakespeare’s works. These discussions will be fueled by individual presentations, performances, and group feedback. Supplemental material will be presented from major film productions of Shakespeare. This class will be taught using Zoom Video Conferencing. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: English, History, Intercultural Studies, Literature.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, To study the global themes and linguistic meanings in Shakespearean drama. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: English, History, Intercultural Studies, Literature.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, In this course, we will read Walter Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian (1818) as Edinburgh fiction as well as crime fiction. The novel, set in mid-18th-century Edinburgh, London, and the Scottish Highlands, is partly based on actual historical events and characters like the Porteous Riots in 1736 and a courageous woman called Helen Walker, and has enjoyed critical acclaim as one of the historical novelist’s masterpieces. First we consider the city of Edinburgh as setting of a novel, then analyse the novel in the Scottish historical and imperial contexts, focusing on its narrative structure, its use of historical events and characters, and the linguistic and geographical variey in Britain. The following lecture plan and the method of instruction may be modified during the course where necessary. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: English, History, Intercultural Studies, Literature.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, Over the course of this year in two semesters, our readings will center on works by two Asian American authors that feature at their hearts male double agents or spies. In this first semester, we will read Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Sympathizer (2015), and deeply explore its subject matter of the Vietnam War and refugees to the US, as well as issues of the CIA, torture, and Cold War politics. Indeed, we will read several stories by Nguyen from his collection, The Refugees (2017), as well. The Sympathizer allows us to examine not only the themes of Asian and American stereotypes as a problem of translation, but also ideas of divided political and cultural ideologies and loyalties raised in the novel. We will excerpt key moments from Francis Ford Coppola’s film Apocalype Now (1979) as it makes up a vital metafictional thread in the novel, and for historical background we will counter Hollywood with clips from Ken Burns's encyclopedic documentary series, The Vietnam War. In the second semester, we will read Chang-Rae Lee’s Native Speaker (1995). Despite subject matter focused on different countries, cultures, and languages across East and Southeast Asia, these two novels nonetheless share a remarkable focus on the same war-torn Cold War era, partitioned nations, and Asian masculine identities troubled by cultural assimilation pressures in the US. Each offers a unique perspective on geopolitical effects on individual lives. Readings and assignments may at any time be modified from those on the syllabus to accommodate student interests, talents and background, as well as enrollment numbers. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: English, History, Intercultural Studies, Literature.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, Creative Writing allows students to go beyond the normal formal, journalistic, academic and technical form of literature typically studied in other core courses. This course allows students to emphasize skills in narrative and character development by using imagination and artistic intuition. Many forms fit under the umbrella of creative writing including novel, short stories, children’s stories, poems, plays, memoirs, etc. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: English, Writing.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This course is meant to help students become more “other-aware” as they learn about various dimensions of culture and intercultural issues, and more “self-aware” by experientially uncovering their own deeply held beliefs. Although much of the theory and many of the concepts related to Intercultural Communication will be covered in this course, it will be accomplished by focusing on contemporary issues and controversies, such as why Japan’s closest Asian neighbors never seem to hear its apology for past offenses, how the Olympiads are shaped by the countries and cultures that host them, cultural differences in the acceptance of gays and lesbians in societies around the world, and how civil discourse is affected by disasters such as that experienced on 3/11. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Communication, Intercultural Communications, Social Psychology.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This introductory course in business communication will cover emails, reports and presentations as they relate to day-to-day operation of business. The class is at a level appropriate for students who have mastered the basics of English and will focus on developing an effective communication strategy and style. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Business, Communications, International Business, Intercultural Communications, Writing.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This is an introductory course in business communication, covering emails, reports and presentations as they relate to day-to-day operation of business. The focus will be on developing an effective communication strategy and style, not on the mechanics of writing and speaking in English. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Business, Communications, International Business, Intercultural Communications, Writing.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This course is for students who plan to write a graduation thesis in their 4th year, and is designed to provide them with an understanding of Western research methods and the skills needed to create and complete a thesis/research paper. Areas of focus include: ? What is academic research ? Primary and secondary sources, Evaluating sources ? Arriving at a thesis, Testing a thesis, Documenting a thesis ? The nature of objectivity in academia. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Research, Writing.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This is a survey course in the history of Japanese civilization. With a concise introduction of remarkable historic events, influential cultural exchanges, millstones of art and literary works, the course helps provide an understanding of the background of Japanese civilization, especially as reflected in traditions of thought that remains alive today. Throughout the centuries, Japanese civilization is inspired and nourished in the cultural cradle of East Asian civilizations. The acquaintance with Japanese traditions is therefore helpful for anyone who wish to see beyond the geographic, temporal, and regional bounds of one’s immediate neighborhood. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Japanese Language, Literature.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, The aim of this class is to understand the sound features in the Japanese language through reading the textbook. Students should read the materials every week and try to understand them deeply. This class is the self-study type lecture. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Japanese Language, Linguistics, Literature.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, We focus on noncooperative game theory. Topics covered in the course are strategic and extensive form games with various economic applications. You have to know how to calculate partial derivatives, a golobal maximum, expected values, conditional probabilities, and so on. You also need to be familiar to English material. Otherwise, I do not recommend you to take this class. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Economics, International Relations.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This class will cover issues related to English language texts and films that relate to the US. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: American Studies, English Language, History Media, Social Issues.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, The objective of this course is to develop your understanding of the principles, strategies, and tactics of effective negotiation in business contexts. By using case study approaches, the course methodology is highly participative and utilizes class discussion, assigned readings, and simulations in one-on-one and group situations. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Business, Communication, International Business, Leadership.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This course aims to explore practical and theoretical issues of management and organization in international comparative perspectives. Japanese and American cases will be reviewed to understand how organizations try to manage complexity in both internal and external world. Actual management models of organizations will be also introduced to know fundamental ways organizations operate. Students are expected to join case analysis sessions to develop the analytical skills articulating own original ideas to solve current issues in respective case study. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Business, Communication, International Business, Leadership.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This course serves as an introduction to the use of written and spoken English in conveying information about organized activities involving relatively small groups of people. The topics will be various popular (and not-so-popular) sports and, to a lesser extent, games. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Communication, English.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This is a business English fundamentals course that focuses on banking and finance. This class will help students increase their professional communication and language skills necessary for a wide range of business tasks, such as negotiation, presenting and networking. Students who are not confident in their fluency or accuracy of English are welcome. Only a desire to learn and willingness to work on fluency is important. Students may be asked to share their responses to issues and respond to the opinions and insights during class. Homework may include special reading assignments. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Business, Communications, International Business, Intercultural Communications, Writing.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This course is designed to help students develop their speech communication skills, including techniques to lessen speaker anxiety and the use of visual aids to enhance speaker presentations. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Communication, English.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This course is positioned as an entry point for students who want to develop an Entrepreneurial Mindset and become involved in impactful entrepreneurship (i.e. new business creation) in large enterprises (after graduation) but are uncertain how or where to begin. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Business, Entrepreneurship.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This course investigates the phenomenon of globalization within the field of economics to provide understanding of today’s increasingly interdependent world. This course will focus largely on international trade which has probably received the most attention in the globalization literature because of its direct relevance to employment, wages,and living standards. We then examine the international migration of labor and analyze its economic consequences. Students will be required to present their research findings to the class online. Details concerning this assignment will be worked out and explained once student enrollment is finalized. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Global Studies, International Relations, Political Science.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This is a linguistic introduction to the Japanese language. Students will be introduced to the major characteristics of Japanese with emphasis on (i) its sound system, (ii) its sentence structure and grammatical phenomena, and (iii) its historical development and dialects. Students will also have opportunities to analyze actual Japanese examples. This year, we will take up the particles wa and ga as our special topic, and study them in detail. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Grammar, Japanese Language, Literature.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, The world is facing with complex issues that a nation state can not solve by itself. How should these issues be solved under the form of international cooperation? This course is aimed at examining what kinds of organizational activities have been carried out on various issues across borders by focusing not only the theoretical aspects of the International Administration but also the practical cases such as energy, global health and international finance. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Global Politics, International Relations, International Studies, Political Science.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, By the end of this course, we will be better equipped to attend a conference which is held in English. We will be better able to present, ask questions, participate in discussions,and read printed material about the conference, and find specific details in the written material which would be necessary to attend a conference in our field. We will also be able to better discuss the topics presented at a conference. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: English, Grammar, Writing.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, By the end of this course, we will be better equipped to attend a conference which is held in English. We will be better able to present, ask questions, participate in discussions,and read printed material about the conference, and find specific details in the written material which would be necessary to attend a conference in our field. We will also be able to better discuss the topics presented at a conference. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: English, Grammar, Writing.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This course covers various aspects of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) and the role of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the world economy. We will first examine trends in multinational activity and the stylized fasts on MNEs and FDI. We then explore the reasons behind decisions to engage in FDI. Finally we will study the impact of MNEs on host economies. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Business, Business Management, International Business.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This is the first half of the International Labor sequence. In this course, we study the organization and operation of labor markets. The typical topics include;Why do people participate in the labor market? What factors determine how much labor is employed? How does the interaction of people willing to work and firms wanting to hire workers determine the distribution of wages observed in the economy? What is the purpose of unions, and how do they affect the labor market equilibrium? Why is there unemployment? How valuable is education? Why do seemingly identical workers receive different wages? Which public policies are most likely to alleviate poverty? How can we identify discrimination in the labor market? For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Business, Business Management, International Business,.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This course helps students deepen their understanding of the concepts and theories of intercultural communication. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Intercultural Communications.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, International economics, which considers phenomena related to economic relations between countries, is broadly divided into "international trade theory" that deals with transnational goods and services transactions, and "international theory" that deals with money transactions. There is financial theory. In this lecture, you will learn basic concepts and theoretical frameworks in international trade theory and international financial theory. By giving an overview of what tools are used for theoretical and empirical analysis of major topics related to the international economy and what kind of policy implications are introduced, the background of the actual international economic problem and its We aim to develop a deeper understanding of impacts and the ability to think from an economic perspective. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Economics, International Relations, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, In this course we will study some basic framework of economic reasoning. In particular, we study the notion of market equilibrium superficially first and then dive into the deep ocean to unearth buried but precious components of the market equilibrium. Then, we reconstruct the notion of market equilibrium indifferent contexts such as imperfect competition, externality, public goods,and information asymmetry. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Economics, International Relations, Microeconomics.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This course aims to offer an overview of recent developments in East Asia with a special focus on three inter-related regional trends: Democratization, globalization, and the rise of China. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Asia Studies, Global Studies, International Relations, Political Science.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This course will beconducted entirely on CoursePower, which includes a revised syllabus andschedule, as well as all lecture plans and assignments. This course will focus on two particular areas of international communication: (1) language and culture, and (2)intercultural communication. The first half of the semester will be devoted to the unit on language and culture,and cover such topics as linguistics, pragmatics, semiotics, and communication theory. The second half of the semester will be devoted to the unit on intercultural communication, and cover such topics as basic concepts, intercultural sensitivity, communication styles, and nonverbal communication. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Communications, Global Studies, International Relations, Intercultural Communications, Political Science.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This course is designed to introduce students to politics in postwar Japan from the political science perspective of comparative politics. The course proceeds in two parts. The first introduces the course, considers the legacies of Japan’s prewar regime as well as the origin of its present democratic regime, and provides a stylized model of Japanese politics under the 1955 system period (1955-1993). The second part of the course covers the key institutions and actors of postwar Japanese politics, including the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government, the party system, the electoral system, voters, civil society, the media and major organized interests such as business organizations and labor unions. In each case, lectures and readings first present a picture of how these institutions and actors influenced politics and policy-making during the 1955 system period and then consider how and why these patterns have changed over the last two decades. Weekly readings and graded assignments require students to spend about 120 minutes preparing for class each week. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Japanese Studies, International Relations, Political Science.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This is the first half of the intermediate Macro Econ sequence. In this course, we will study the area of economics commonly defined as macroeconomics. The main goal of macroeconomics is to gain a better understanding of the factors that affect short-run business cycle fluctuations and long-run economic growth. Note that we do not seek for a simple explanation for any real world macroeconomic issues. (There is neither simple answer nor clear cut!) Rather, what you should aim for is to develop a dynamic framework for studying the past, present, and future macroeconomic issue, along with some empirical guidance. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Economics, Global Politics, Macroeconomics.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, Learn the basics of writing a thesis on intercultural business. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Business, International Business, Intercultural Studies.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This course will investigate the interactions between culture and society, primarily using the example of the martial culture of the samurai class in Japan, which ruled the country for almost 700 years. Although the shogunate and the samurai are no more, their culture continues to exert an influence on Japanese society, and we will look at the effects that this culture has on the society today. We will discuss the various elements of culture and society, and see how these elements interact in the particular example of samurai culture and contemporary Japan, with some reference made to parallels in other cultures and societies around the world. A considerable amount of time will be given to pair and group discussion of the information and ideas in the readings, presentations, and other media used in the course. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Cultural Studies, History, Society.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, Learn the basics of writing a thesis on intercultural business. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Business, Communication .

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, In this class, we will study Media Communication by learning about Open education. The purpose of Open education is to open more opportunities for learning by integrating Web technologies. First of all, we will study the main features of Open education, such as the benefits of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Then we will conduct project-based learning. The students will design and carry out their Open education projects. Through the projects, they can deepen understanding of Open education and media communication using Web technologies. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Communications, Media.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, In this class, we will study Media Communication by learning about Open education. The purpose of Open education is to open more opportunities for learning by integrating Web technologies. First of all, we will study the main features of Open education, such as the benefits of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Then we will conduct project-based learning. The students will design and carry out their Open education projects. Through the projects, they can deepen understanding of Open education and media communication using Web technologies. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Communications, Media.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, Marketing is by far the broadest area of business. Almost every aspect of business serves as an input to the marketing function. Indeed, management is more “marketing” than anything else. Thus, no matter where you start in an organization, as you move up and gain more responsibility, your job will become more and more marketing oriented. While there are many specific skills needed for various aspects of marketing, the one skill that is required of everyone no matter what their function is a “marketing frame of mind,” for marketing is more a way of thinking about and analyzing business problems than anything else. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: International Marketing, Marketing.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This course is designed to study communication in an intercultural context, with an emphasis on cross-cultural adjustment, culture shock, education, and intercultural competence. The course also provides an understanding of the dynamics of intercultural adjustment and the support necessary for a successful study abroad experience by understanding intercultural communication and education style differences. The course is intended for students who are interested in studying abroad in the near future and students who have begun their study abroad experience in Japan. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Global Studies, Intercultural Communication, Intercultural Studies, Global Studies.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This course will be conducted entirely on Course Power, which includes a revised syllabus and schedule, as well as all lecture plans and assignments. The course will cover the following topics in roughly the following order: (1) exploring individual diversity; (2) introduction to intercultural communication; (3) developing intercultural sensitivity; (4) differences in communication styles; (5) non-verbal communication; and (6) applying cross-cultural training. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Communications, Intercultural Studies, Intercultural Communication.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This course is an introduction to international relations (IR). The field of international relations—a field of political science—emphasizes theoretical explanations for and understanding of international politics through “scientific” research, rather than simple descriptions of cases and/or journalistic impressions about current events. These theories address questions such as “What increases or decreases the risk of international conflict?”, “What conditions encourage regional integration like the EU?”, and “What types of domestic legislature and bureaucracy lead to flexible foreign policy?” through reasoning and empirical data analysis. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Global Studies, International Relations, Political Science.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This course aims at studying how to persuade people and how not to be deceived by using data. This course covers basic ideas of statistics as well as how to conduct statistical analysis by Excel. Students are required to give presentations and participate actively in discussions. Students can choose any topic of their presentation as long as they use statistics taught in this course. For instance, if you are interested in Tokyo Disney Resort, what affects the number of visitors is an example of your presentation topic. If you are interested in baseball or football, what affects the winning rate of your favorite team is an example of your presentation topic. If you are interested in AKB48, what affects the outcome of the general election is an example of your presentation topic. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Statistics.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This introductory course is designed to introduce students to the basic concepts, theoretical approaches and enduring questions of political science. It helps students understand key concepts, such as power, authority, ideology, the state, legitimacy, democracy, and nationalism, among others, necessary to understand modern politics in historical context. The course is divided into two parts. The first part introduces different approaches to political analysis, major ideological traditions, the role of the state in politics, the nature of legitimacy, contrasting models of democracy, the significance of nationalism and national identity as well as the reshaping of many of these by globalizing forces. The second part highlights the dynamics of the interaction between politics and other spheres of social life, such as the economy, civil society, and popular culture, with a focus on the mechanisms through which societal pressures are channeled into political action. Weekly reading and graded assignments require students to spend about 120 minutes preparing for class each week. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Political Science.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This course aim at examining the fundamentals of international organization, such as history, purpose, functions and limitations. In the first half, we we investigate international organizations from various angles. In the second half, we will focus on the structure of United Nations. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Global Studies, International Relations, Political Science.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, We will begin with the examination of the key data of macroeconomics and address the economist’s approach of building models to explain macroeconomic questions. Then we will develop and analyze macroeconomic models to understand the behavior of aggregate economic variables such as output, consumption and investment in the long-run (Classical model). We will also study the conduct of fiscal and monetary policy and how those affect macroeconomic outcomes. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Economics, Macroeconomics.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This course offers an introduction to public economics. Public economics is an economic discipline for analyzing government activities and the interactions of markets with public sectors. In particular, we focus on the microeconomic functions of government including tax, subsidy and various welfare programs. We first learn theoretical frameworks without complicated algebra. A problem set assignment is given. We then discuss how the systems of public finance work in industrialized countries. A short essay assignment is provided. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Global Studies, Economics, Political Science.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, Although originally formed as an ad hoc measure, it is now reckoned as one of the central efforts for the UN to contribute international peace and security. Despite the wide-spread appreciation, UN peace operations have experienced a variety of challenges. We will inquire various questions regarding UN peace operations: Why and how has UN peace operations developed? How have they transformed since its creation in 1948? What are the current agendas and the future prospects? We will tackle these problems through this course. . For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Conflict Resolution, Global Studies, Peace Studies, Political Science.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, The course aims to provide students with a practical overview of global management issues like corporate social responsibility, disruptive tech and cutting-edge science. Students will learn about the practical skills required to be a successful manager in international business. With the difficulty in studying overseas in this current period, this class provides a great opportunity for those students who still want to be able to improve their English ability and their global business skills. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Business, Business Administration, Business Management, European Studies, International Business, International Studies, International Trade.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, The objectives are to provide an overview of Europe from both an economic and political perspective. It aims to give students a broad understanding of the EU which will allow useful comparison against major economies like the US, Japan and China. With the difficulty in studying overseas in this current period, this class provides a great opportunity for those students who still want to be able to improve their English ability while increasing their international knowledge and economic awareness. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: European Studies, Global Studies, International Relations, Political Science.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This course aims to outline and analyze the Cool Japan strategy from the Japanese government. Students will learn basic concepts related to Cool Japan at a global level, such as “soft power” or “kawaii (cute).” At the end of the semester, students will propose an improvement plan of how to promote Japan to the world in a final presentation and report. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Cultural Studies, History, Society.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, The course will question the discourses of modern Japanese identity in the critical spirit of cultural studies. The students will reexamine and enrich their experience of modern Japanese culture through reading of texts on the topic written by an international body of experts. The students are required to prepare presentations about their favorite films, games, TV shows, music, sports or other products of Japanese popular culture, and explain in detail why and how those contents are attractive for global audiences. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Cultural Studies, Japanese Studies, Society.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, This course examines major trends in Japanese literature and arts from its beginnings through the modern period. It highlights how Japanese culture developed in intense dialogue with nature, and offers the context of how cultural production has been embedded in an environment that was immersed in awareness of past belletristic rhetorics. Concentrating on close reading of “Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons,” an overview of Japanese literature, culture and arts as well as some traditional industries, we focus in particular on the topic of “Nature” and on the characteristic dynamics that developed between the natural environment and the socio-cultural landscape in Japan.. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Art, Cultural Studies, Japanese Studies, Literature.

Course Code: N/A, Units: 2, What is translation? (Theory and exercises centered on literary and media translation). This course provides an overview of the history, theories and actual situations of translation culture, which has played an important role in the establishment of modern Japanese culture.. For a longer course description, click here. Subject Areas: Cultural Studies, Language.