Summer Festivals
(October 2, 2006 - February 9, 2007)
| 06f-01 | Current Social and Cultural Topics -Technical Japanese B: Part I- |
| Kenichi NISHIMURA (International Student Center) | |
| This course is designed to provide an opportunity for students to acquire Japanese language proficiency in the field of social sciences. The objective of this course is to equip students with the basic skills required for reading newspaper articles and technical reports written in Japanese. The topic of this course is gRecent Social and Cultural Issues in Japanh including the Japanese politics and economy. This course is for students who have taken Japanese courses and are more or less in the intermediate level for the reason that the medium of instruction as well as reading materials are in Japanese. | |
| 06f-02 | Innovative Japanese Technologies in 3M-based Engineering |
| Tomoyuki KAKESHITA, et al. (School of Engineering) | |
| This course studies innovative Japanese technologies that have drastically changed the world in the principal engineering fields: Mechanical, Materials, and Manufacturing (3M-based) Engineering. This series of lectures given by six professors is also concerned with the basic principles and backgrounds of their respective fields. | |
| 06f-03 | Current Topics in Modern Physics |
| Yutaka HOSOTANI, Kensaku MATSUTA, Keith SLEVIN, and Setsuko TAJIM (School of Science) | |
| This course provides an introduction to basic notion and technique in modern physics. First, magnetic, electronic, and transport properties of matter are explained, including the phenomenon of superconductivity. Secondly the nuclear magnetic resonance technique is introduced to explore the world of atoms and nuclei. Students will conduct simple experiments as well. Thirdly, students are guided to particle physics of quarks and leptons, with which the history of the universe is clarified. | |
| 06f-04 | Introduction to Management |
| Tomoki SEKIGUCHI (School of Economics) | |
| The aim of this course is to introduce students to the basic framework for managing people in organizations. In order to effectively manage people in organizations, one should understand the principles of individual behaviors, group dynamics, and organizational characteristics as a whole. Therefore, this course covers broad topics on the human side of organizations such as individual dispositions, motivation, decision making, groups, leadership, organizational structure, and human resource practices. Upon the successful completion of this course, you will be able to analyze people problems in organizations appropriately and demonstrate your managerial skills behaviorally. | |
| 06f-05 | History, Manners and Customs, and Interchange - Asia and Japan - |
| Tsuyoshi KATAYAMA, et al. (School of Letters) | |
| Asia (including Japan) is a pluralistic world which consists of multiple ethnic groups and cultures. Each ethnic group has their own history and has developed characteristic manners and customs in the course of history. At the same time, each of them does not exist selfcompletedly; they have accumulated close interchanges on the political, economical and cultural matters not only with others in Asia, but, occasionally, with the outer world of Asia. The history as well as the manners and customs of each ethnic group have been formed on that sort of various interchanges. This course provides an introduction to the history of Japan, China and Central Asia, the manners and customs which have been developed in the societies of ethnic groups in each region, and the various phases of diverse interchanges. | |
| 06f-06 | Japanese Literature, Modern and Contemporary |
| Andrew MURAKAMI-SMITH (Graduate School of Language and Culture) | |
| This course is a survey of Japanese short fiction since 1868. Readings include a wide variety of authors, from Meiji period writers like Higuchi Ichiyo (whose face is on the \5,000 bill) to the present day (even including comics, or manga). Lectures will provide background information on Japanese history, language and literature, on each writer, and on the various literary schools. Students will make group presentations on the works and authors read, also referring to relevant literary criticism. Group presentations will stimulate discussions in class. A final paper will be due at the end of the semester. | |
| 06f-07 | Current Scientific and Engineering Topics -Technical Japanese A: Part I- |
| Hideko KITAHAMA (International Student Center and Graduate School of Engineering) | |
| The International Student Center will offer a "Technical Japanese Program" to overseas students who expect to acquire a proficiency in and knowledge of technical Japanese. This course is especially intended for students who have studied basic science or engineering. The objective of this course is to equip students with the basic skills required for reading scientific and technological papers written in Japanese and for communicating with scientists and engineers in Japanese research and industrial settings. | |
| 06f-08 | Japanese Legal / Political System and Culture |
| Koichi SETOYAMA (School of Law) | |
| What is law? Why do we have to keep the law? What is Liberty, Equality and Justice in law? All of the answers to these questions vary according to the country and times. The Legal and political systems are closely reflected by the legal culture and legal consciousness of the citizens of their own countries. The primary objective of this course is to provide a framework to understand the characteristics of the Japanese legal and political system and culture by looking into the contemporary legal and political issues in a comparison between Japan and other countries. No legal background is required but studentsf opinions from the viewpoint of their own countries are expected. | |
| 06f-09 | Media and Communications in Japan |
| Sachihiko KONDO (International Student Center) | |
| This lecture is designed for students who wish to study critical readings on news stories (i.e. media literacy). In this series of lectures, not only theories of communication, but also the history of mass media in modern (Japanese) society will be discussed. In so doing, several aspects of the mass media will be studied, such as newspapers, broadcast (TV), magazine journalism, and so on. Also students are expected to make brief presentations concerning the media in their own countries. Based on lectures, presentations and discussions, students will be asked to formulate ideas about the contribution of the media to the maintenance of edemocraticf societies, and the problems the media faces. | |
| 06f-10 | Introduction to Pharmaceutical Sciences |
| Tadayuki UNO, et al. (School of Pharmaceutical Sciences) | |
| This course provides an introduction to pharmaceutical sciences from chemical, biological and environmental perspectives and includes a review of recent advances in Japan. This course consists of lectures, demonstration of experiments and discussions with teachers and graduate students. | |
| 06f-11 | Introduction to Information Systems Engineering |
| Takao ONOYE, et al. (School of Engineering) | |
| To review state-of-the-arts and recent trends of ICT (Information and Communication Technology), this course explores 15 topics in information systems engineering field. Each topic covers from its fundamental techniques and principals through practical system implementation. | |
| 06f-J1 | Japanese: JA100 |
| Tomoko SMITH and Yozo OKAZAKI (International Student Center) | |
| JA100 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 structures, grammar, and vocabulary, and become familiar with hiragana, katakana, and simple kanji upon completion of this course. | |
| 06f-J2 | Japanese: JA200 |
| Momoyo SHIMAZU and Juri MAYUYAMA (International Student Center) | |
| JA200 is designed to teach the basic skills necessary for successful communication in both the spoken and written language in campus situations. Students will master basic grammar and vocabulary, and develop all four language skills. About 250 kanji will be introduced during the course. | |
| 06f-J3 | Japanese: JA300 |
| Koichi NISHIGUCHI and Koji NAMBA (International Student Center) | |
| JA300 is intended for students who have studied Japanese for a year or two at college or university level. The objective is to develop their four language skills further building on the foundation of their Japanese abilities which they have acquired. | |
| 06f-J4 | Japanese: JA400 |
| Mioko YOSHINAGA and Yoko MIMAKI (International Student Center) | |
| JA400 is intended for students who have studied Japanese for more than two years at college or university level. The objective is to develop their communicative fluency in all four language skills further building on the foundation of their Japanese skills which they have acquired. | |
| 06f-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 gGuide to Independent Studyh, found at the end of the OUSSEP Syllabus, for further details. | |
Summer Festivals
(April 12, 2007 ? August 8, 2007)
| 07s-01 | Health Services And Medical Care In Japan |
| Hiroyasu ISO, et al. (School of Medicine) | |
| Japan has achieved the longest life expectancy in the world along with socioeconomic development, mainly due to reduction of acute and chronic infectious diseases and cardiovascular diseases. However, the most rapid aging of our society casts new health and medical problems. This course will provide an overview of health service and medical care, and highlight of their success and unsolved problems in health promotion and medical care. | |
| 07s-02 | Perspectives from Inside and Out: An Introduction to Contemporary Japanese Culture and Society |
| not assigned (School of Human Sciences) | |
| This course will look into aspects of Japanese culture and society in three parts. The first will deal with the Japanese social structure including family and kinship and examine some key concepts such as seniority, verticality and groupism. The second part will focus on contemporary issues and discuss topics such as changing family, male-female relationship, and social homogeneity. The last part will offer an insight into the Japanese society by reviewing its history of contact with outside world. | |
| 07s-03 | Technical Communication for Understanding Social and Cultural Issues -Technical Japanese B: Part II - |
| Kenichi NISHIMURA (International Student Center) | |
| The main theme of this course is gCurrent Social Issues in Japanh, focusing the environmental issues. The topics discussed in each class will be the historical background of the environmental issues, social aspects of the environmental problems, and environmental policy and so on. In order to develop the skills acquired in gTechnical Japanese: B, Part 1h, students will have opportunities to read Japanese literature on the abovementioned issues. | |
| 07s-04 | Inside Japanese Arts |
| Tsuneyuki KAMIKURA, et al. (School of Letters) | |
| A variety of arts created and/or performed in Japan from the distant past through the recent past up to the present will be presented. In addition, discussion will be made as to how the foreign influences were, have been, and are being seen. Furthermore, Japanese influences over foreign countries will be dealt with. The art forms discussed will cover paintings, sculpture, literature, theater and music. All the staff members (professors and associate professors) belonging to the departments of art history and the science of arts will take turn for the lectures. | |
| 07s-05 | Selected Topics in Modern Biology |
| Satoshi OGIHARA, et al. (School of Science) | |
| Biology has been developing at an enormous speed for the last 20 years. It is not an exaggeration to state that the 21st century is the century of biology. In this course, 15 to 20 professors of the biology department of the faculty of science will give lectures to the OUSSEP students every week, so that you will be exposed to a wide spectrum of todayfs biology. The topics will be selected and arranged in an order that the course will have sufficient coherence when it finishes. Lectures will focus on topics of biology closely related to our everyday life. | |
| 07s-06 | Technical Communication for Understanding Scientific and Technological Issues -Technical Japanese A: Part II- |
| Hideko KITAHAMA (International Student Center and Graduate School of Engineering) | |
| The main theme is gCurrent Energy and Environmental Issues in Japanh, in the fields of science and technology. Students will read several Japanese literatures on the above-mentioned issue, and will visit scientists and engineers at industrial and research institutions. It will provide students with opportunities to actually practice Japanese communication skills acquired in gCurrent Science and Engineering Topics in Japanese -Technical Japanese A: Part I-h. | |
| 07s-07 | Approaches to Understanding Cultures |
| Tomoko ARIKAWA (International Student Center) | |
| This course studies gcultureh from various perspectives, using the issues and problems mainly in Japan. This course aims to help broaden the understanding of gcultureh and help students become better prepared for interacting with people of different backgrounds. Each class will be conducted through lectures and discussion. | |
| 07s-08 | Probability Theory |
| Arturo KOHATSU-HIGA, et al. (School of Engineering Science) | |
| Course objective: This course introduces basic elements of Probability Theory for use in various applications. In particular, we@will concentrate on some related aspects of Monte Carlo@simulation methods and Mathematical Finance. Prerequisites: A basic multivariate calculus course. In@particular we will use integration theory. | |
| 07s-09 | Japan: Society and Ideology |
| Sachihiko KONDO (International Student Center) | |
| This class explores the relationship between the modern Japanese social structure and the modern Japanese ideology, which determines the life of ordinary democratic minded people. Through detailed examinations of Japanese history, culture, religion, language, media and up-to-date social issues, students will formulate ideas on how eideologyf has worked to support modern edemocracyf. Those who wish to discuss edemocracyf, econservatismf, eegalitarianismf, eliberalismf, efreedomf, eConstitutional monarchyf and modern Japanese history are all welcome. | |
| 07s-10 | Precision Science and Technology |
| Kazuto YAMAUCHI, et al. (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. | |
| 07s-J1 | Japanese: JA200 |
| Koichi NISHIGUCHI, et al. (International Student Center) | |
| This course is a continuation of JA100 in the previous semester. JA200 is designed to teach the basic skills necessary for successful communication in both the spoken and written language in campus situations. Students will master basic grammar and vocabulary, and develop all four language skills. About 250 kanji will be introduced during the course. | |
| 07s-J2 | Japanese: JA300 |
| Koichi NISHIGUCHI, et al. (International Student Center) | |
| This course is a continuation of JA200 in the previous semester. JA300 is intended for students who have studied Japanese for a year or two at college or university level. The objective is to develop their four language skills further building on the foundation of their Japanese abilities which they have acquired. | |
| 07s-J3 | Japanese: JA400 |
| Koichi NISHIGUCHI and Koji NAMBA (International Student Center) | |
| This course is a continuation of JA300 in the previous semester. JA400 is intended for students who have studied Japanese for more than two years at college or university level. The objective is to develop their communicative fluency in all four language skills further building on the foundation of their Japanese skills which they have acquired. | |
| 07s-J4 | Japanese: JA500 |
| Mioko YOSHINAGA and Yoko MIMAKI (International Student Center) | |
| JA500 is intended for post-advanced students to develop academic language skills in all four areas of speaking, listening, reading and writing. The overall content of JA500 is a combination of JG500, JW500 and JC500. Students enrolled in the OUSSEP program who wish to take JA500 are required to take all these three classes. | |
| 07s-Ind | Independent Study |
| Refer to 06f-Ind . |
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| Courses offered in each semester and the class schedule may change without notice. |
| CAMPUS | Suita Campus | Toyonaka Campus | Toyonaka Campus | Suita Campus | ||
| DAY / TIME | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| 1 | 8:50 - 10:20 |
Japanese:
JA100 Japanese: JA200 Japanese: JA300 |
Japanese:
JA100 Japanese: JA200 Japanese: JA300 |
Independent
Study & Field Trips |
Japanese:
JA200 Japanese: JA400 |
Japanese:
JA100 Japanese: JA300 Japanese: JA400 |
| 2 | 10:30 - 12:00 |
Current Topics in Modern Physics | Japanese Literature, Modern and Contemporary |
Media and Communications in Japan |
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| 12:15 - 12:45 |
OUSSEP Assembly | |||||
| 3 | 13:00 - 14:30 |
Current Social and Cultural
Topics |
Introduction to Management | Current Scientific and Engineering
Topics -Technical Japanese A: Part I- |
Introduction to Pharmaceutical Sciences | |
| 4 | 14:40 - 16:10 |
Innovative Japanese Technologies
in 3M-based Engineering |
History, Manners and Customs,
and Interchange -Asia and Japan - |
Japanese Legal / Political System and Culture |
Introduction to Information Systems Engineering |
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| 5 | 16:20 - 17:50 |
Japanese: JA400 | ||||
| CAMPUS | Suita Campus | Toyonaka Campus | Toyonaka Campus | Suita Campus | ||
| DAY / TIME | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| 1 | 8:50 - 10:20 |
Japanese:
JA200 Japanese: JA300 Japanese: JA400 |
Japanese:
JA200 Japanese: JA300 Japanese: JA400 Japanese: JA500 |
Independent
Study & Field Trips |
Japanese:
JA300 Japanese: JA500 |
Japanese:
JA200 Japanese: JA400 |
| 2 | 10:30 - 12:00 |
Health Services And Medical Care In Japan |
Technical Communication for
Understanding Scientific and Technological Issues -Technical Japanese A: Part II- |
Japan: Society and Ideology | ||
| 12:15 - 12:45 |
OUSSEP Assembly | |||||
| 3 | 13:00 - 14:30 |
Japan In and Out -Introduction to
|
Inside Japanese Arts |
Approaches to Understanding Cultures | Precision Science and Technology |
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| 4 | 14:40 - 16:10 |
Technical Communication for
Understanding Social and Cultural Issues -Technical Japanese B: Part II- |
Selected Topics in Modern Biology | Probability Theory | ||
| 5 | 16:20 - 17:50 |
Japanese: JA500 | ||||
Footnote: The classes meet for two days a week at both the Suita and the Toyonaka Campuses. Wednesday is reserved for Independent Study and field trips. Independent Study may take place at either Campus.