Summer Festivals
(October 1, 2007 - February 18, 2008)
| 07f-01 | Gender Studies in Theory and Practice |
| Beverley Anne YAMAMOTO (School of Human Sciences) | |
| When we study human relations or social institutions, gender emerges as an extremely important analytical category along with socioeconomic status, socially perceived categories of race or ethnicity, age and disability. In this course we will begin by taking a theoretical approach to gender as a category of analysis and then move on to looking at how gender operates in social institutions and human relationships. A key question raised in the course is how has gender been constructed in modern/contemporary Japan. | |
| 07f-02 | Electrical Engineering in the 21st Century |
| Toshifumi ISE, et al. (School of Engineering) | |
| This course explores two categories of electrical engineering in the 21st century, that is, 1) systems, control and power engineering, and 2) electromagnetic energy engineering. In this course, professors and associate professors of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Systems, Division of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University will give lectures to the OUSSEP students every week about topics of present research, so that they will be exposed to wide areas of electrical engineering in the 21st century. | |
| 07f-03 | Introduction to Global Architecture
and Environmental Engineering Nature & Human Activity and Sustainable Development |
| Masahiro TAMAI, et al. (School of Science) | |
| The 21st Century will be an era of Global partnership, and all nations and organizations in the world have to make best effort for sustainable development. In order to enable this sustainable development, the effect of human activities on nature should be predicted with enough understanding of the global environment and the human culture. The topics of this course are technology and design concept for the sustainable development. For example, biotechnology, resources, transport system, structures, human and atmosphere for sustainable develop will be presented. | |
| 07f-04 | Modern Japanese Literature (Pre-war) |
| Andrew MURAKAMI-SMITH (Graduate School of Language and Culture) | |
| When we read contemporary Japanese writers like Murakami Haruki in English translation, the characters seem quite familiar, and the writing style not particularly ''Japanese.'' To overcome the greater cultural distance when reading writers from the pre-war period (1868-1945), however, we must understand the historical and cultural context. In this course, we will read some examples of classical Japanese literature from the pre-modern period, and in the modern era, Meiji experimenters like Kunikida Doppo, who forged a new literary style; Higuchi Ichiyo, who continued to be influenced by the classical tradition; Akutagawa Ryunosuke, who turned old legends and tales into modern fiction; modernist stylists like the early Kawabata Yasunari, and native Osaka writers like Oda Sakunosuke. Students will make group presentations, join in class discussions, and write a final paper. | |
| 07f-05 | Economic & Business History of Japan |
| Minoru SAWAI and Kenichi TOMOBE (School of Economics) | |
| The economic history of Japan and the business history of the Japanese firms from the Edo period to the end of the high-speed economic growth in the 1970s will be examined in this class. The developmental process of gJapanese-styleh economic systems and management in comparative perspective will be also the main targets for discussion. The topics such as the economic characteristics of Tokugawa Japan, the relationships between the government and the private companies in Meiji era, the historical legacy of planned economy, will be also taken into consideration as well in this class. | |
| 07f-06 | Frontier Chemical Engineering |
| Masayoshi NAKANO, et al. (School of Engineering Science) | |
| Frontier Chemical Engineering covers the phenomenological research in chemical conversion processes, which deal with material synthesis and separation, energy conversion and storage, and design and development of functional or green (environmental friendly) materials/catalyst with high conversion efficiencies, as well as the development of novel nano/bio/medical and industrial processes and contribution to solving energy and global environmental problems for sustainable society. Recent research topics in the division of Materials/Chemical Engineering Science and the Research Center for Solar Energy Chemistry are reviewed. | |
| 07f-07 | Language and Literature of Japan and China |
| Yoji ASAMI, et al. (School of Letters) | |
| The purpose of this course is to help students understand the outlines of Japanese language and literature. In addition, during the course students will acquire knowledge of ancient Chinese culture, which made a great impact on ancient Japan. The course will be divided into four parts. In the first part (Lectures 1-5), we will discuss the history of Japanese literature in a broad sense. In the second part (Lectures 6-8), we will give lectures on Japanese characters, writing and vocabulary. In the third part (Lectures 9), we will discuss Western and Japanese literature from a comparative perspective. The last part (Lectures 10 and 11) will be devoted to discussing ancient Chinese culture and literature. | |
| 07f-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 the times. The legal and political systems are closely reflected by the legal culture and legal consciousness of the citizens in each county. 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 comparison between Japan and other countries. No legal and political background is required. Students' opinions from the viewpoint of their own countries are expected. Students will be expected to participate actively in classroom discussions. Below are some of the topics and issues to be covered in the classes. Topics and the order of the issues may be changed after considering the interests of the students. | |
| 07f-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 'democratic' societies, and the problems the media faces. | |
| 07f-10 | Introduction to Pharmaceutical Sciences |
| Masatomo MAEDA, 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. | |
| 07f-J1 | Japanese: JA100 |
| Koji NAMBA and Tomoko SMITH (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. | |
| 07f-J2 | Japanese: JA200 |
| Shinya OTANI and Tomoko TAKAHASHI (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. | |
| 07f-J3 | Japanese: JA300 |
| Koichi NISHIGUCHI and Momoyo SHIMAZU (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. | |
| 07f-J4 | Japanese: JA400 |
| Yoko MIMAKI and Momoyo SHIMAZU (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. | |
| 07f-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 7, 2008 - July 28, 2008)
| 08s-01 | Health Services And Medical Care In Japan -Success And Unsolved Problems- |
| Kanehisa MORIMOTO, 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. | |
| 08s-02 | Japanfs Relations with Asian Countries after the Second World War |
| Kenichi NISHIMURA (International Student Center) | |
| This class discusses the development of Japanese relations with Asian countries after the Second World War. As one of the Asian countries, Japan has been keeping close contact with other Asian countries. However, its relationship with them had not always been friendly. The factors that affect Japanese relationship with its fellow Asian countries are historical, economic and political. We will explore how Japan reopened its diplomatic relations with Asian countries, the character of that relations and how that character has been evolving. We will discuss mainly on the diplomatic relations, but the scope of discussion wonft be limited on that sphere. | |
| 08s-03 | Innovative Japanese Technologies in 3M-based Engineering |
| Tomoyuki KAKESHITA, et al. (School of Engineering) | |
| The main theme of this course is ''Current Social Issues in Japan'', 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 ''Technical Japanese: B, Part 1'', students will have opportunities to read Japanese literature on the abovementioned issues. | |
| 08s-04 | Philosophical Thinking and Japanese Traditions |
| Yukio IRIE, et al. (School of Letters) | |
| The purpose of these lectures is to make clear various aspects of Japanese thoughts from the past to the present. The course will start from several origins of the ideas in Japan, then focusing on the thoughts of modern philosophers, some of which have been involved in disputes about their political effects and implications. The concluding hours will be spent on contemporary thinking in peoplefs life and the philosophical scene. | |
| 08s-05 | Approaches to Understanding Cultures |
| Tomoko ARIKAWA (International Student Center) | |
| This course studies ''culture,'' focusing on culture and learning from the relevant field of anthropology and psychology. This course aims to help broaden the understanding of ''culture'' and help students become better prepared for interacting with people of different backgrounds. Each class will be conducted through lectures and discussion | |
| 08s-06 | Selected Topics in Todayfs Biology |
| Satoshi OGIHARA, et al. (School of Science) | |
| Biology has been developing at an enormous speed for these years, and the field of interests has been expanding from basic classics to rather applied subjects that cover biochemical, bioengineering, and biomedical aspects of life. It is not a mere exaggeration to state that the coming century is the century of biology. Biology, under these ever-changing circumstances, has become more categorized and specialized so that it will meet the needs of every aspect of our society. Consequently, it has become a subject full of unfamiliar terminology, concepts, and so on, for most students. In this course, about 15 professors of the department of biological sciences, faculty of science will give lectures to the OUSSEP students every week, so that you will be exposed to a wide spectrum of today's 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. | |
| 08s-07 | Bioethics and Health Law -Legal Issues Concerning Biotechnology, Medicine and Health Care System- |
| Koichi SETOYAMA (School of Law) | |
| Rapid advancement of Biotechnology has begun to pose controversial ethical, social and legal issues. For instance, while the Human Genome Project brings about tremendous medical benefits such as the possibility of genetic therapy and prevention of human diseases caused by the defects of DNA, on the other hand, it also raises serious social problems such as genetic discrimination in employment and insurance, etc. Advancement of assisted reproductive techniques not only enable infertile couples to have a child by using such medical technology, but also enable couples who donft want to have a baby with handicaps to select fetus based on their preferences. The primary objective of this course is to provide a framework to identify and understand the legal and ethical issues in the present medicine and health care system in comparison between Japan and other countries, especially the USA. No legal and medical background is required. Studentsf opinions from the viewpoint of their own countries are expected. Students will be expected to participate actively in classroom discussions. Below are some of the topics and issues to be covered in the classes. Topics and the order of the issues may be changed after considering the interests of the students. | |
| 08s-08 | Contemporary Japanese Literature (Post-war) |
| Andrew MURAKAMI-SMITH (Graduate School of Language and Culture) | |
| When we read contemporary Japanese writers like Murakami Haruki in English translation, the characters seem quite familiar, and the writing style not particularly ''Japanese.'' To gain a fuller appreciation, however, contemporary Japanese literary works should be considered in the historical and cultural context of the post-war period. In this course, we will read writers like Dazai Osamu, who rose out of the ''scorched earth'' of the bombed cities of Japan to create a new literature; writers canonized and well-translated in the West, like Kawabata, Mishima, Abe and Oe; women writers from the 1960s to the present, from Tsushima Yuko to Uchida Shungiku; writers of Manga considered as literary works, like Matsumoto Taiyo; and native Osaka writers like Oda Sakunosuke and Tomioka Taeko. Students will make group presentations, join in class discussions, and write a final paper. | |
| 08s-09 | Joy of Doing Math |
| Kazunori KIKUCHI (School of Science) | |
| This course introduces students of any major to the joy of doing math. Doing math means using mathematical ideas to think fundamentally about things not only in academic studies but also in daily lives. Students will find that doing math is great fun even if they are not good at math at school, and that the included ideas in this course are very useful at any level in any field of their academic studies although the selected topics are quite elementary. | |
| 08s-10 | 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. This lecture is, in other words, designed for those who wish to learn how Japanese people have accommodated other members of society and the power structures. Ideology has tended to be thought as a political matter. However, from a social psychological and sociological point of views, we need to think about what determines our everyday lives. Through examinations of Japanese history, culture, religion, language, media and up-to-date social issues, students will formulate ideas on how 'ideology ' has worked to support modern 'democracy', even some of the social structures seem to be problematic from the view points of democracy. Those who wish to discuss 'democracy', 'conservatism', 'egalitarianism', 'liberalism', 'freedom', 'Constitutional monarchy' and modern Japanese history (mainly post-war period) are all welcome. | |
| 08s-J1 | Japanese: JA200 |
| Koji NAMBA and Tomoko SMITH (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. | |
| 08s-J2 | Japanese: JA300 |
| Shinya OTANI and Tomoko TAKAHASHI (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. | |
| 08s-J3 | Japanese: JA400 |
| Koichi NISHIGUCHI and Momoyo SHIMAZU (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. | |
| 08s-J4 | Japanese: JA500 |
| Yoko MIMAKI and Momoyo SHIMAZU (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. | |
| 08s-SJ | Seminar in Japanese Studies |
| Koichi NISHIGUCHI (International Student Center) | |
| In this seminar, supervisions for international students, who are preparing for their research reports in Japanese, are offered. The participants are expected to make their own presentations during the seminar. Details will be clarified at the beginning of the series of seminar. | |
| 08s-Ind | Independent Study |
| Refer to 07f-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 |
Gender Studies in Theory and Practice |
Modern Japanese Literature
(Pre-war) |
Language and Literature of Japan and China |
Media and Communications in Japan |
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| 12:15 | 12:45 |
OUSSEP Assembly | |||||
| 3 | 13:00 | 14:30 |
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Introduction to Pharmaceutical Sciences |
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| 4 | 14:40 | 16:10 |
Introduction to Global
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Economic & Business History of Japan |
Japanese Legal / Political
System and Culture |
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| 5 | 16:20 | 17:50 |
Japanese: JA400 | Frontier Chemical Engineering | |||
| 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 |
Philosophical
Thinking and Japanese Traditions |
Contemporary Japanese
Literature (Post-war) |
Japan: Society and Ideology | |
| Seminar in Japanese Studies | ||||||
| 12:15 | 12:45 |
OUSSEP Assembly | |||||
| 3 | 13:00 | 14:30 |
Japan's Relations with
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Approaches to |
Joy of Doing Math | ||
| 4 | 14:40 | 16:10 |
Innovative Japanese Technologies in 3M-based Engineering |
Selected Topics in Today's Biology |
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| 5 | 16:20 | 17:50 |
Japanese: JA500 | Bioethics and Health Law -Legal Issues Concerning Biotechnology, Medicine and Health Care System- |
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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.