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| Title | Course Description |
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| Writing for Researchers (English) | This course will help graduate students successfully engage in the research publication requirements of their chosen disciplines. Students will learn about the aspects of professional writing that are common to most academic fields. These will include reader expectations, required content, information ordering, logical aspects of argumentation in writing, data commentary, and qualification of claims. In addition, students will analyze examples of writing to identify discipline specific models of style, content and format. Students will be given writing assignments to practice and apply what they learn in the course. |
| Writing for Researchers (Japanese) | This course will 1)explain the structure of academic writing including the formats and styles commonly used in Japan and 2) allow students to choose the specific theme, write the paper, and receive feedback on corrections, deletions and additions, in order to learn how to write an academic paper in Japanese. |
| Computing for Researchers | This course will help graduate students from many academic fields develop computing skills for research. Students will learn computing techniques and basic tools for data processing, statistical analysis, charting, graphing, as well as the TeX/LaTeX software for typesetting research articles in professional style. |
| Field Research and Professional Learning | This course provides students with opportunities and skills to link their fields of interest or specialization to personal and professional life outside the university, with the expectation that these links will provide enhanced academic motivation and new perspectives on learning and work. In this course students will be encouraged to find a way to make contributions to society by performing internship/ service in sites related to their respective fields of specialization. Students will share their experiences and findings in class and learn to communicate effectively with people in different fields. Students provide services at NPOs/NGOs,Governmental Organization, International Organization,museums,schools,and companies. |
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| POLITICAL THEORY | A study of fundamental theories in relation to the problems and other realities of politics. | |
| PUBLIC LAW | Historical development of public laws; the current status of public law studies. | |
| PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION | This is a foundation course to give the students basic theories and analytical skills in modern public administration. Such topics as the relationship between politics and administration, organizational development and dynamics, change in management, the controversy concerning administrative responsibility and control will be examined through the readings of the intellectual history of public administration. Also, such contemporary issues as outsourcing of public services, privatization, transparency, or policy evaluation which have developed since 1980s in UK or US will be discussed. Based on the understanding of these, we will examine the characteristics of the Japanese bureaucracy in an international comparison. | |
| PUBLIC POLICY | This course is a graduate seminar designed to introduce basic approaches in studying public policy. This course will offer an analytical survey of various theoretical approaches in studying public policy and will read classic literature as well as recent empirical studies. Throughout reading literature and class discussions, this course is designed for students to obtain conceptual and analytical knowledge in studying public policies at the graduate level. We will mainly cover topics such as agenda setting, policy formation, decision making, and policy evaluation as well as theoretical approaches such as advocacy coalition framework. | |
| INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND GLOBAL ORDER | This is an advanced foundation course on international relations and global order studies. It provides students with a better understanding of global order and governance in the rapidly changing today's international relations. It examines critically various theoretical approaches and empirical issues in the field. | |
| INTERNATIONAL LAW I | The concept and history of international law; analysis of the present situation and the perspective for the future. | Given in alternate years |
| INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION I | The fundamentals of international organization phenomena, its historical development and methodology for theorization. | |
| SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND POLICY | A theoretical and empirical study of sociological mechanisms which produce social deviates. Analysis of social structure as the basis of an evaluative framework concerning the pathological phenomena. | |
| SOCIAL STRATIFICATION | The structure of modern industrialized society is examined, especially focusing on the stratified structure of society. | |
| THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF VIOLENCE | This course will examine the ways in which the discipline of anthropology has researched and conceptualized the origins, practice and consequences of violence in human societies. It will deeply explore the questions of whether violence is something that is innate in the human species or fostered through social and cultural mechanisms and what the social, cultural, and personal consequences of violence have been in human societies. | |
| QUALITATIVE METHODS IN SOCIAL SCIENCE | Students will learn and critically discuss qualitative methods of social science researches through lectures, fieldwork and class presentations. | |
| QUANTATIVE ANALYSIS FOR POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY | In this class, students will learn to employ advanced statistical techniques to analyze political/sociological survey data. Based on such data analyses, each student will write a research paper on a chosen topic. | |
| INTERCULTURAL RELATIONS AND COMMUNICATION | The course covers theories and research in the field of communication and intercultural communication. It also examines how communication studies engage in various issues in contemporary society. More specifically, it deals with such issues as identity and media representations related to globalization, and examines them critically. | |
| INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND MASS MEDIA | This is to study the influence of mass communication upon international relations. Issues such as characteristics of the flow of foreign news, images of other nations they create, their impact on foreign policy, public opinion and foreign policy will be discussed and analyzed. | |
| MEDIA AND POWER | A comparative investigation of how is media involved in the “places” where power operates is the primary focus of this class. While studying latest ideas and research methods in the fields of media theory and cultural studies, themes are assigned and research projects are carried out in which new perspectives and methodologies that do not fit within existing frameworks are introduced. Additionally, in order to investigate directions in actual practice, the class deepens investigations into the limitations and possibilities in new forms of media such as the Internet. | |
| LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS | This course highlights the fundamental concepts in general linguistics. Topics include the nature of language; language and the mind; folklinguistics; language and writing; dialects, language contact, and language change; bilingualism; discourse analysis; propaganda; and language and nation. The course examines the foundation for the contemporary study of linguistics, sociolinguistics and language in society. | Given in alternate years |
| LANGUAGE EXCHANGE IN HISTORY | This course aims to develop a basic level of reading proficiency and analytical skills in order to understand the various changes in the languages of different cultures and societies through the analysis of documents. Students will adopt a practical approach to learning how to analyze documents in the language exchange in history, for instance Japanese translations, considering the character and age of each document, learning how different cultures were received and the manner in which they influenced people’s thoughts and lifestyles in relation to contemporary culture. | |
| MICROECONOMICS | To promote basic understandings of microeconomic theory and analysis. | Given in alternate years |
| MACROECONOMICS | To promote basic understandings of macroeconomic theory and analysis. | |
| STATISTICAL ANALYSIS | This course covers basic statistical methodogies required in economics and business management. The coverages are probabiltiy theory, sampling theory, sampling distribution, hypothesis test, and regression analysis. | |
| ADVANCED MICROECONOMICS | Advanced micro-economic theory: I. Theory of prices, wages, rent, interest, and profits in the framework of general equilibrium. II. Normative economic theories for the planning and evaluation of economic policy. | Given in alternate years |
| ADVANCED MACROECONOMICS | Advanced macro-economic theory: This course studies theories of consumption, investment, money demand, money supply, economic growth, economic fluctuations, and economic policy. | Given in alternate years |
| ADVANCED ECONOMETRICS | Advanced econometric theory: Panel regression analysis, nonlinear regression analysis, and time series model. In addition, we cover one of the most modern Bayesian tool kits of today, the Gibbs sampler. Other random variable simulation techniques in the MCMC (Markov Chain Monte Carlo) may be covered. Not only the Bayesian techniques but also sampling theory simulation techniques will be discussed. | |
| MODERN THEORY OF BUSINESS | Special studies in business administration, as related to the modern corporation, with special reference to top management function, business objectives, policy decisions, public and international aspects and others. | |
| PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES I | This is a foundation course into peace and conflict studies. It will give students an overview of a variery of theories, approaches, and methodology in order to better understand the current international and domestic environment in war-prone countries and regions in order to develop solutions for conflicts. The course will also imrpove methodological and report writing skills. | |
| PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES II | This part of Peace Studies will cover in more depth the theory and practice of conflict resolution and transformation as well as peacemaking and changing security conceptions at various levels of the international community. It will examine the underlying ethical dilemmas and challenges posed by peacemaking in its complementary approach to the mechanisms of global governance and state relationships on the one hand, and civil society and local actors on the other. The application of peacemaking theory to case-studies will be scrutinized by closely reading scholarly and practitioner contributions to the public debate on peacemaking and conflict resolution. The course will be structured in seminar/discussion style and students' creative thinking on peacemaking will be encouraged as they learn to develop their critical thinking skills and closely engage with debates on different issues. A significant amount of reading will be required each week but group work will also allow for students in-depth focus on different theoretical readings, case-study analyses, and policy debates. |
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| Politics and International Studies | ||
| POLITICS AND ADMINISTRATION | Study of theory, institutional dynamism, and comparison of the relationship between politics and public administration. In focuses on the relationship between politicians and administrators, and among the Diet, the Cabinet and the bureaucracy. | Given in alternate years |
| COMPARATIVE POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT | This graduate seminar course examines the major approaches, concepts, and cases explaining the comparative politics of political development. Using the key comparative concepts of interests, identities and institutions, this course seeks to explain the contested process of political development. Appropriate cases from both the developed and developing regions will be examined to further understand the process of political development from a comparative perspective, particularly the role of government and political institutions. | |
| POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS | This course is a graduate reading seminar which aims to provide analytical and theoretical perspectives in study political institutions. This course will examine whether and how political institutions have impacts on economic growth and policy outcomes. This course will cover the following topics: democracy versus non-democracy, a variety of authoritarian institutions, presidentialism versus parliamentarism, electoral rules, and coalition governments. We will mainly explore the cases of developing countries but also the cases of developed countries will also be covered. The impact of international organizations such as IMF, WB on policy outcomes will be also examined. | Given in alternate years |
| PLANNING AND PARTICIPATION | This course will deal with the theory and practice of planning focusing mainly on the issue of participation in the planning processes. As a theoretical basis, students will understand the meaning of planning in modern society through the readings of Karl Manheim, etc., and then examine the postwar Japanese comprehensive development plans, local government long-term plans and citizens’ participation since 1970s. They will also learn the balance of policy thinking and institutional thinking on the understanding of prediction and coordination, scientific mind and political compromise, objective criteria and its political aspects, and environmental change and flexible implementation of the plan. | Given in alternate years |
| CITY ADMINISTRATION | This course will observe and examine the contemporary city administration on the spot. It will help students to understand such issues as urban planning, social welfare, environmental protection or community development, and to analyze these issues in terms of local needs and citizens’ participation. The cases to study will be large or medium cities in Japan or abroad, focusing on long-range planning and collaboration of citizens and administration. A more holistic, problem solving approach will be taken as well as analytical ones. | Given in alternate years |
| AMERICAN POLITICS IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE | America is the world's oldest democracy, but is it the most effective? This is the question that will frame this seminar, an effort that will concentrate on the two primary institutions in the American system -- the Presidency and the Congress-- and their role in crafting domestic and foreign policy. Through weekly readings and presentations, we will endeavor to understand the evolution of these institutions as well as the peculiar electoral process to which they are held accountable. By placing the US experience in frequent juxtaposition to other democracies, we will learn its systemic flaws, as well as its unique strengths, and develop the skills to critically assess its political future – a future that promises dramatic changes internally and challenges to its global hegemony. |
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| POLITICAL THOUGHT | This course will deal with the study of the ideas of politics elaborated in Western countries and Asia. It will study some important subjects such as democracy, civil society, ecology, justice, and human rights. At the same time, the course will take up some classics written, for instance, by Aristotle, Augustine, Locke, Weber, and other major thinkers. An attention will be also paid to the more recent important works by theorists such as Arendt, Maruyama, Habermas, Wolin, and Taylor. The course aims at reading and examining carefully these texts so as to deepen our understanding the significance of political themes and ideas. | Given in alternate years |
| HISTORY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION | Historical development of administrative organization and civil servant administration with special reference to Japan. | Given in alternate years |
| PUBLIC MANAGEMENT | This course will examine the change in governance from old public administration since around 1900 to new public management (NPM) since around 1980s in multiple perspectives. The students will learn, as a theoretical basis, such topics as government and market, public administration and business administration, controversy on the size of the government, or ways of public service delivery. They will also learn practical, institutional design for outsourcing, privatization or public and private partnership (PPP). Based on such knowledge, they will analyze the applicability of the US or UK model to European countries of to Japan through case studies of more concrete policy domains. | Given in alternate years |
| INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY | In this course, how economic policies such as trade and finance can be explained from the viewpoint of political science is examined. Namely, the degree to which trade and financial policies are influenced by domestic political institutions and interest groups would be assessed based on theoretical and empirical literature. Readings included quantitative studies as well as case studies. In addition, this course covers the topics on international financial institutions such as IMF and World Bank as well as regional trade agreements. | |
| SPECIAL STUDIES IN PUBLIC POLICY I | To provide to properly qualified students the opportunity for special advanced study. | Given in alternate years |
| SPECIAL STUDIES IN PUBLIC POLICY II | To provide to properly qualified students the opportunity for special advanced study. | Given in alternate years |
| INTERNATIONAL POLITICS AND DIPLOMACY | The course examines various issues in international politics, such as diplomacy, security, conflict resolution, and peace-building. Selected cases, mainly in Europe, may be analyzed from both theoretical and policy perspectives. |
Given in alternate years |
| INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION II | Deepening the study of international organizations on the basis of the achievements acquired in International Organization I. | Given in alternate years |
| INTERNATIONAL LAW II | Deepening the study of international law on the basis of the achievements acquired in International Law I. | Given in alternate years |
| INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW | Study of international environmental policy, law and institutions. | Given in alternate years |
| INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW | Study of international law and institutions trade, services and transactions. | Given in alternate years |
| GLOBAL ATTITUDES | In an increasingly "flat" world, are the attitudes of mass publics changing? Has the spread of democracy resulted in "the people"having a greater say in the decisions of government? We will attempt to answer these questions by giving meaning to the idea of "public opinion" and considering its role in domestic and global affairs. We begin by discussing how global attitudes are measured -- and by giving consideration to the challenges of doing so in the face of national and cultural barriers. We then consider a series of weekly questions, such as: How much do people know about international affairs? What constitutes a "national identity"? How does development shape political values? How does public opinion affect regimes we would consider "non-democratic"? How, if at all, do the attitudes of one nation-state shape the actions of another? |
Given in alternate years |
| Social and Cultural Analysis | ||
| GLORBALIZATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE | Critical review of classical and contemporary theories of social change; analysis of social forces shaping Japanese society and culture. | |
| SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER | To understand the concept "gender"(socially constructed knowledge of maleness/femaleness), and to examine theoretical and empirical studies on gender relations in the field of the family, workplace and sexuality. | |
| POLITICS AND CULTURE | (1) Social system and power system; (2) value system of the culture and political institution; (3) culture change and political phenomena. | |
| SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS SPECIAL COURSE I | To provide to properly qualified students the opportunity for special advanced study. | Given in alternate years |
| SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS SPECIAL COURSE II | To provide to properly qualified students the opportunity for special advanced study. | Given in alternate years |
| ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS | We will examine socio-demographic problems from anthropological points of view. The class emphasizes holistic approaches, both theoretically and methodologically, and encourages students to analyze social issues from multiple perspectives. | Given in alternate years |
| Media and Languages | ||
| COMMUNICATION RESEARCH | This class covers basic communication research methods and enables students to conduct social science research. Each student will choose a topic of interest and develop a research proposal. The instructor will evaluate the research proposal and provide guidance to students. This class will focus on individual or group research projects, particularly on how to choose appropriate research methods, how to analyze data, and how to translate research processes into publishable research papers. |
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| MANAGEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE | People of diverse backgrounds convene with a specific intention for an international conference. This course examines communication and implementation issues that arise in such a conference. How can those issues and difficulties be solved and overcome for a successful conference? The course first re-examines what are international conferences and studies ways to plan, implement and conduct conferences successfully. Learning from discussions and analysis will benefit from the experience of actually implementing an international conference as the course project. |
Given in alternate years |
| MISSIONARY LINGUISTICS | Languages have always been dynamic as a medium between persons, thoughts, religions and cultures in society. This course aims to teach students to positively consider the changes in and the functions of languages in the context of cultural exchanges mainly through the analysis of missionary documents in the Age of Discovery. Another goal is to improve the students’ practical research skills, for instance collection and examination of documents and previous research, academic presentations and discussions, and the writing skills requisite for each research activity. | Given in alternate years |
| COMMUNICATION ORIENTED PROJECT MANAGEMENT | In this rapidly globalizing world, an increasing number of projects are employed in a variety of fields to achieve collective objectives. The course analyzes how such projects can be managed effectively, particularly from their communication perspective. Project-management science, traditionally developed for industrial purposes, will be re-adopted to the organic goal achievement processes of international teams such as NGO’s and governmental bodies. Students will conduct an actual project and learn from its experience as well as from class discussions and analysis. | Given in alternate years |
| SOCIOLINGUISTICS | Sociolinguistics is traditionally the study of language in social context, including ways that language reflects economic class, gender, ethnicity, geography, and other important social variables. More recently, sociolinguistics has also examined the organization of social life through language. How are the identities and practices of individuals, groups, and institutions formed, sustained, and transformed through language? This course investigates such questions, using a variety of research methods, in order to explore the implicit yet fundamental role of language in society. The course emphasizes the interdisciplinary study of language, drawing on related research in sociology, cultural studies, policy studies, and discourse analysis. |
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| LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY | Language exists in time and space. The goal of this course is to consider the change and variation in language in social contexts. Such considerations will be made within the framework of "variation theory". Students will first make a survey of the representative research to have come forward in this field since the mid-1960s. With a full understanding of preceding research,within the linguistic community each student has chosen, they will collect voice recordings primarily through interviews, and use various methods to analyze such data. Students will then assemble the results of their analysis into a written thesis and acquire effective techniques for presenting their papers. |
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| Public Economics | ||
| JAPANESE ECONOMY | This course will provide issues and problems on the economic development of Japan by making critical review on analytical hypotheses and quantitative information. | |
| INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY | Specialized analysis of the central international economic issues in the context of the structural changes of the world economy; including problems of internationa l trading arrangements, flow of international investment, international aspects of the development of less developed countries and of problems of resources and environmental disruption. | Given in alternate years |
| INTERNATIONAL FINANCE POLICY | In this course students will develop analytic tools that can be used to analyze international financial policy. The focus of this course will be on the international implications of macroeconomic policies under differing exchange rate regimes. Specific topics may include European financial integration and the forming of the European Monetary Union; the movement for financial integration in Asia and the arguments for and against a potential Asian Monetary Union; the costs and benefits of financial globalization and how they differ for developing and developed countries; policy lessons from recent financial crises in Latin America, East Asia and Russia. | Given in alternate years |
| INTERNATIONAL MONEY AND BANKING | Study of monetary and banking systems with special emphasis on their effect on national economy, as developed by modern economic policies and theory. | Given in alternate years |
| INTERNATIONAL TRADE POLICY | In this course students will develop analytic tools that can be used to analyze international trade policy. Grounded in theoretical models of international trade and the empirical evidence supporting or refuting those models, the focus of the course will be on exploring issues related to trade policy. These may include questions such as the following. What is strategic trade policy and what are its insturments (tafiffs, subsidies and voluntary export restraints)? What are the national welfare arguments for or against free trade that go beyone traditional gains from trade to include the political economy? How may the role of international trade and trade policy differ between develped and developing countries? What are some of the controversies in the current Globalization Debate? | Given in alternate years |
| ECONOMIC HISTORY | Study of economic history of societies and of basic methodology in historical studies of economy. | Given in alternate years |
| PUBLIC FINANCE | Discussion of modern governmental finance with special regard to the policies and systems of finance, as related to modern economic theory. | Given in alternate years |
| SPECIAL STUDIES IN ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS | To provide properly the opportunity for special advanced study. | |
| MULTI-NATIONAL BUSINESS | Study of multi-national business activites, including such aspects as labor relations, host country responses, local capital procurement. | Given in alternate years |
| GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS | Comparative analysis of the relation between government and business, especially public utility and antimonopoly problems, from the view of consumer administration. Regional environment problems are also taken up, as regional plnanning, city administration and local autonomy. | Given in alternate years |
| BUSINESS DECISION-MAKING | Study of basic theory of decision-making with emphasis on the theoretical framework and its application to business problems. | |
| DISTRIBUTION ECONOMY I | Study of the distribution of goods and services as one of the fundamental functions in modern economics system, with special emphasis on its significance, problems and administrative policies. | Given in alternate years |
| DISTRIBUTION ECONOMY II | Study of the distribution of goods and services as one of the fundamental functions in modern economics system, with special emphasis on its significance, problems and administrative policies. | Given in alternate years |
| CORPORATE FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING I | The corporations of today exist individually as organization that seek profit, while at the same time their existence is also a social one that seeks the welfare of the public. From this perspective, this course considers generally and organically contemporary corporations as economically and financially active bodies primarily from the perspective of accounting but also various other perspectives including finance, investment and corporate values. Additionally, the course seeks to consider new aspects of corporate evaluation that focus not only on simple profit seeking but also environmental protection and corporate social responsibility (CSR). "Corporate Finance and Accounting I" looks at essential and basic issues. | Given in alternate years |
| CORPORATE FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING II | The corporations of today exist individually as organization that seek profit, while at the same time their existence is also a social one that seeks the welfare of the public. From this perspective, this course considers generally and organically contemporary corporations as economically and financially active bodies primarily from the perspective of accounting but also various other perspectives including finance, investment and corporate values. Additionally, the course seeks to consider new aspects of corporate evaluation that focus not only on simple profit seeking but also environmental protection and corporate social responsibility (CSR). "Corporate Finance and Accounting II" looks at more practical and contemporary issues. | Given in alternate years |
| DECISION ANALYSIS | Study on decision making problem by individual or organization, and "under certainty" or "under uncertainty". | Given in alternate years |
| INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE FINANCE I | The main focus will be on the diversified measures of international corporate finance, the development of zone strategy, cash management, M&A and its related strategies such as LBO. | Given in alternate years |
| INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE FINANCE II | This course aims at describing the general principles of corporate risk management. It includes the foreign exchange risk, the country risk analysis, project risk management, and project finance. | Given in alternate years |
| DEVELOPMENT POLICY | Theoretical analysis of economic and social development planning and policies of the developing countries, with a view to exploring specific policy issues relating to selected development fields. | |
| OPERATIONS RESEARCH | Features, methods, and applications of operations research as policy science. (1) Features: problems of decision-making, interdisciplinary approach; (2) methods: use of mathematical approach; (3) applications: for business enterprise, for public administration. | Given in alternate years |
| Peace Studies | ||
| ADVANCED STUDIES ON PEACE AND SECURITY I | This course will give students the chance to participate in the United Nations University (UNU) Global Seminar which is held in Shonan International Village in September. This course introduces current international problems and the role of the United Nations in working towards a solutions. The concrete theme of the course is different every year. Students have the opportunities to hear lectures from experts in the fields and discuss with these experts and fellow students from a large number of universities. | |
| ADVANCED STUDIES ON PEACE AND SECURITY II | This course will give students the chance to participate in one of three courses of the United Nations University (UNU) Joint Graduate School Seminar held at the UNU headquarter in Tokyo. The three courses in (a) Peace and Conflict Studies, (b) Human Rights, and (c) Development Studies consist of a series of about 15 lectures by reknown experts in their specific field, and give students the chance to discuss with practionioers and fellow students from other participating universities. | |
| SECURITY AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION | This is an area major course intended to develop a deeper knowledge in the area of security studies as a foundation to analyze actual and potential conflict areas. The course will introduce traditional security problems, but will mainly focus on new security problems such as environmental security, economic security, societal security and human security. It will include an introduction of the various security issues as well as approaches and means, whether institutional, legal, military, political, diplomatic or informal, to deal with security and insecurity in today's world. | Given in alternate years |
| DEVELOPMENT, CONFLICT AND PEACEBUILDING | Interface between development and conflict will be studied, with a special emphasis on peacebuilding. A participatory and seminar-type approach is taken. | |
| GENDER AND PEACE | This course examines gender relations during and after conflict. It explores the gendered dimensions of conflict resolution, peace operations reconstruction and development. | |
| THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PEACE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION | This course focuses in general on the mutual interactions between human beings and their environments, physical and social(including economic, political and religious contexts), natural and built. As this course is also designated as a core component of the Rotary World Peace Programme, the course focuses in particular on how the environmental contexts in which people live relate to basic issues of peace, security and conviviality(kyosei). Environmental determinants of attitudes and behaviour which relate to issues of peace, security, and conflict are the major focus. Issues of group dynamics as they relate to prejudice, discrimination, racism, and conflict are explored. The psychological and physiological impacts of conflict and violence are examined. Strategies for avoiding or managing conflict are considered and ways of educating for a more peaceful world are evaluated from various psychological perspectives. | |
| IDEAS ON PEACE | This course aims at reading together the classics in the field of the history of the ideas of peace. We will read and examine together such works as written by Immanuel Kant, Lev Tolstoi, Kanzo Uchimura, Mahatoma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Johan Galtung, and more recent thinkers. | |
| HUMAN RIGHTS I | A historical study of the origin and development of the understanding of different human rights in various societies and their application in the fields of law, politics, economics and social relations. It is primarily concerned with Human Rights in Japan and Asia. | |
| HUMAN RIGHTS II | A historical study of the origin and development of the understanding of different human rights in various societies and their application in the fields of law, politics, economics and social relations. It is primarily concerned with Human Rights in the West, and with special reference to Christianity. | |
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