Subject Based Course (taught in English)

2025年6月27日更新

Course Contents

【Subject Based Course】 Choose ONE sub-course from the below

Sub-course 1: Exploring and Creating Fulfilling and Healthy Human Life in Modern Society

Sub-course 2: Diverse Fields and Key Ideas of Natural Science

Sub-course 3: Current Issues in Japanese Culture and Society under Globalization

Sub-course 1: Exploring and Creating Fulfilling and Healthy Human Life in Modern Society

This course is a collaborative program between the three departments of the Faculty of "Human Life and Environmental Science" and the two departments of the newly established Faculty of "Transdisciplinary Engineering" (as of April 2024). The faculty of "Human Life and Environmental Science" is characterized by its focus on the problems that occur in our daily lives in relation to the environment and society, from the perspective of ordinary people, to explore better ways of living. Furthermore, the faculty of "Transdisciplinary Engineering" is to create new meanings and values for the future environment, society, and culture while utilizing the knowledge of data science. Especially in modern society, while the development of science and technology and globalization have made our lives more convenient, we, as ordinary people, are required to adapt to various changes that affect our lives, such as environmental problems and social conditions. The creation of a future society will require the realization of a sustainable society that takes into account the diversity of human. In this course, we aim to explore and create fuller and healthier human life from a scientific perspective on themes related to our life in modern society, crossing the boundaries between the humanities and the sciences.

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Sub-course 2: Diverse Fields and Key Ideas of Natural Science

Nowadays, natural sciences cover a wide range of fields, making it difficult to understand other fields. However, a comprehensive knowledge of these fields will help you deepen your own specialty, even if the understanding is shallow. This course offers a variety of lectures from five fields of natural science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and information, as an introduction to the wide range of natural science. These lectures will be arranged to explain key ideas of natural science in plainer language by professors of our university who are on the cutting edge of their own field of natural science. We hope that these lectures will contribute your future development.

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Sub-course 3: Current Issues in Japanese Culture and Society under Globalization

This course examines the ways that globalization and other dynamics are shaping contemporary Japanese society and culture from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives. How is Japan adapting to the political, economic, social and cultural challenges of the 21st century, and what challenges remain going forward? Some of the lectures will pay particular attention to the impacts of these challenges and changes from perspectives of gender, diversity, equity and inclusion, while others will focus on other dimensions of contemporary Japanese culture and society.