(October 2, 2000 - February 9, 2001)
| 00f-1 | Culture and Education in Japan |
| Yasumasa HIRASAWA (Faculty of Human Sciences) | |
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| A number of studies have pointed out that the high educational aspirations among Japanese people have driven Japan's rapid development. A range of historic, political and socio-cultural factors has formed such aspirations. This course will deal with the interrelations between culture and education in Japan. Also, in addition to basic structural analysis, we will focus on emerging concerns in Japanese education and how they reflect on-going changes in Japanese society. For example, recent reform initiatives by the government to change schools and their curricula, as well as globalization, which is taking place in many aspects of education, will be highlighted. This course will hopefully serve as a meaningful gateway to a comprehensive understanding of Japanese society today. | |
| 00f-2 | Precision Science and Technology |
| Mizuho MORITA, et al. (Graduate School of Engineering) | |
| This course will introduce various aspects of precision science and technology from the School / Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University and will expand into subject matters of current interest. The course is appropriate for students who are interested in atomic scale engineering at solid surfaces. | |
| 00f-3 | Invitation to Electronics |
| Masahiro KITAGAWA, et al. (Graduate School of Engineering Science) | |
| Electronics appears to be quite a popular technology in everyday life; getting up with an alarm clock, watching the morning news on TV, listening to music from CD, communicating by cellular phone or electronic mail on the Internet, to name a few. It is virtually impossible to imagine life without electronics. Yet not many people know what electronics is all about and what is going on inside the equipment. This course will invite you into the amazing world of electronics, revealing basic principles behind technology, showing how it works, and introducing the current trends and new frontiers. This course is intended for any students who are interested in electronics, regardless of their majors. | |
| 00f-4 | Japanese Contemporary Law and Politics |
| Ken-ichi YOSHIMOTO, et al. (Faculty of Law) | |
| Lectures on various aspects of law and politics in contemporary Japan. The course is designed to provide minimum information essential to understand the Japanese legal and political systems. The course will be taught by members of the Law Faculty. Specific subjects covered in this course will be subject to change. A detailed syllabus will be distributed at the first meeting. | |
| 00f-5 | History of Japan and the Western World |
| Toru TAKENAKA, et al. (School of Letters) | |
| The purpose of this course is to make clear the role the Western impact played in Japanese history and to pick out some topics from the (early-) modern era. The course of Japanese history in the last one and half a century was substantially influenced by the Western world with its economic and military dominance. The lectures of this course will help you understand how the Japanese have been digesting the Western impact and making use of it in the course of modernization. | |
| 00f-6 | Technical Japanese A: Part I - A Range of Current Science Topics in Plain and Simple Japanese - |
| Hideko KITAHAMA (International Student Center and Graduate School of Engineering) | |
| The objective of this course is to equip students with the skills required for reading Japanese technical literature and for communicating with engineers and scientists in Japanese industrial and research settings. | |
| 00f-7 | Technical Japanese B: Part I - A Variety of Current Cultural and Social Topics in Plain and Simple Japanese- |
| Hideko KITAHAMA: Coordinator (International Student Center) | |
| This course is intended for students of any majors who would like to acquire a basic proficiency in Japanese relating to cultural and social issues. | |
| 00f-8 | Current Topics in Modern Physics |
| Motohiko SAITOH, et al (Graduate School of Science) | |
| The purpose of this course is to outline briefly the current topics in modern physics emphasizing the condensed matter and the interdisciplinary area of studies. Everyone knows that the water takes three states: ice, ordinary liquid water and vapor. Microscopically, namely, at molecular level, there is no difference in these three "phases". The basic mechanism for the variety in the macroscopic state of the matter is, (1) vast number of components (molecules, etc) and (2) interaction between the components. Systems with these mechanisms are the targets of condensed matter physics. We know there are similar systems in other areas of discipline other than the traditional physics, where the component may not be a simple material like a molecule. These are the targets of interdisciplinary physics. | |
| 00f-9 | A Comparative Study of Technology and Industry |
| Shuzo NAKAMURA (International Student Center and Graduate School of Engineering) | |
| This course will let students look at various cross sections of the vast and complex subject of technology and industry. The lecturer will deal with the subject based on his own extensive experience in Japanese and American industries. He will discuss examples of how a new technology grew into a mature commercial technology in the electronic and petrochemical industries. He will also discuss how the dynamics of society has affected the growth of technology and industry. Students will also learn from a series of video programs dealing with Japanese technology and industry as well as with some successful entrepreneurs of postwar Japan. They will also go on a series of field trips to various industries. Students will also be asked to read books related to subjects in which they are interested. In this way students will come to understand more completely what technology and industry are, and what characterizes Japanese technology and industry. | |
| 00f-10 | International Relations in a Globalizing World |
| Nobuyuki KATAOKA (International Student Center) | |
| We are living in an increasingly globalized world today. This course will examine the effects of globalization on various (political, economic, cultural) aspects of contemporary international relations as well as provide basic knowledge on wide-ranging problems in the world today. Students will be encouraged to present their view on the issues and be stimulated by the view of others from different parts of the world in order to turn the class itself into "international relations in a globalizing world", which is a unique OUSSEP opportunity. | |
| 00f-11 | Introduction to Pharmaceutical Sciences |
| Yuji KOBAYASHI et al. (Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences) | |
| This course gives foreign students an introduction to chemical, biological, and environmental pharmaceutical sciences and their recent progress in Japan. This course is primarily intended for international graduate students from other disciplines in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, but we reform it suitable to undergraduate students in the short-term student exchange program. | |
| 00f-12 | Elementary Japanese: a |
| Shinya OTANI, et al. (International Student Center) | |
| Elementary Japanese is intended for students who have little or no background in the Japanese language. Students will be able to handle daily conversations, have a basic understanding of sentence structure and vocabulary, and become familiar with hiragana, katakana and simple kanji upon completion of this course. | |
| 00f-13 | Intermediate Japanese: a |
| Akiko NAKAYAMA, et al. (International Student Center) | |
| Intermediate Japanese is intended for students who have studied Japanese for a year or two at the college or university level. The objectives are to expand the student's repertoire of collocations for daily communications in both spoken and written Japanese. Furthermore students will become familiar with advanced structures, and to be fluent in comprehending texts written in hiragana, katakana and kanji approx. 1,000. | |
| 00f-14 | Advanced Japanese: a |
| Takako MURAOKA, et al. (International Student Center) | |
| Advanced Japanese is intended for students who have studied Japanese for more than two years at the colleges or university level. The objectives are to expand the student's repertoire of collocations for daily and academic communications in both spoken and written Japanese, to become familiar with more complicated structures, and to be fluent in comprehending texts written in hiragana, katakana and kanji more than 1,500. | |
| 00f-Ind | Independent Study |
| Independent Study is one of the unique features of OUSSEP. Students can propose a study topic and be assigned to a supervising professor in an appropriate faculty. Students may study a particular subject that is not found in the International Exchange Subjects (Individual Study) or conduct a research project on a particular theme (Independent Research). The study usually continues for two semesters. Refer to "Guide to Independent Study", found at the end of the OUSSEP Syllabus, for further details. | |