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| Courses offered in OUSSEP 1998-1999 |
The objective of this course is to introduce foreign students to theories developed by Japanese scholars in the field of human sciences, especially in psychology. The students will be provided with the opportunity not only to understand Japanese society through these theories, but also to scientifically discuss them.
Communication and interaction between Japanese and non-Japanese; framework and immediate application to Japanese.
This course will introduce various aspects of electronic engineering such
as electronic materials, semiconductor devices, atomic scale electronics,
opto electronics, microscopic engineering, and electronic systems and its
control.
This course covers two areas of general interest in physics and chemistry.
The first part will be concerned with dating archaeological and geological
objects by electron spin resonance and examining dosimetrically previous
histories of materials exposed to radiation in outer space. The second
part will deal with the concept of entropy as the key quantity connecting
the macroscopic properties of matter with the microscopic events hidden
behind them.
The rise and growth process of Japanese and American management; Some differences of investment management between Japan and USA; New industry's competition between Japan and USA for achieving the world leader of new industry; Some tentative conclusions in Japanese management.
The purpose of this course is to examine the structure and process of contemporary Japanese politics. The structure includes not only formal rules but informal ones. Some informal rules are often regarded as the source of the *Japanese miracle' in its political economy. Without understanding other rules and political processes, however, it is very difficult to judge whether this conventional wisdom is true. This course will lead you to know there are many possibilities for explaining the performance of Japanese political economy.
This course will provide international and domestic students with an opportunity to learn, together, what characterizes Japanese technology and industry. The lecturer will deal with subjects based on his own experience in Japanese and American industry. He will discuss examples of how new technologies grew into mature commercial technologies in the electronic and petrochemical industries. He will also discuss how the dynamics of society has affected the growth of technology and industry.
An introduction to chemical, biological, and environmental pharmaceutical sciences and their recent progress in Japan, is given. This course is primarily intended for international graduate students from other disciplines in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. This course can be somewhat modified to suit the needs of undergraduate students.
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.
Elementary Japanese is intended for students who have little or no background of Japanese. Students should become able to handle daily conversations, gain a basic understanding of sentence structure and vocabulary, and become familiar with hiragana, katakana and simple kanji.
Intermediate Japanese is intended for students who have studied Japanese for a year or two at colleges or universities. The objectives are to expand the repertoire of collocations for daily communications in both spoken and written Japanese, to become familiar with advanced structures, and to be fluent in comprehending written texts using hiragana, katakana and 1,000 kanji.
Advanced Japanese is intended for students who have studied Japanese for more than two years at colleges or universities. The objectives are to expand 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 written texts using hiragana, katakana and approx.1,500 kanji.
This course will provide an overview of systems of health service and medical care in this country, with special reference to rapid aging of the population, trends of epidemiology of major diseases, and characteristics of life style of the people.
This course is a continuation of Technical Japanese Part I. It will also provide the students with opportunities to actually practice their language skills acquired in Technical Japanese Part I. They will read several papers on current topics or science and will visit scientists and engineers at industrial and research institutions.
This course aims at giving important knowledge about interaction between
light and materials and to provide deep insight into the nature of light
and the essential role of light in our life. The materials are to be presented
in an easily understandable and qualitative form rather than to have the
strict form with mathematical framework.
This course examines various aspects in contemporary law in Japan, compared
with that of other countries. It will include visits to a court and a law
firm.
This course presents attractive and novel technologies related to energy and environment in reaction, separation, thermal and biochemical engineering together with introduction to these engineering sciences. It will include a study tour.
Music, dance, and theater forms originating in the Osaka area and its vicinity that later became traditional Japanese performing arts will be outlined with the use of audio-visual materials and, if possible, access to live performances and demonstrations.
The lectures will start with the story of elements and chemical substances, followed by global problems arising from ozone depletion and the green house effect. Some aspects of carbon compounds including fullerenes as a new allotrope will be introduced. Finally the lectures will extend to biological materials together with enzymes and metal ions in our life.
An introductory survey of classical Japanese literature from the perspective of Noh drama. Readings will focus first on poetic and prose classics from the eighth to the twelfth centuries, and then on famous Noh plays inspired by those classics (most composed in the fifteenth century and still frequently performed today), with supplementary lectures focusing attention on political, religious, and social contingencies influencing the formation and perpetuation of cultural tradition.
Topics of recent developments for the 21st century in the fields of mechanical, materials and manufacturing engineering will be presented. More detailed information about this subject will be given by individual lecturers through our home page later.
This course studies "culture" from various perspectives, using the issues and problems of the past and present in Japan and in other countries. This course aims to help broaden the understanding of "culture" and help students become better prepared for interacting with people of different backgrounds. Students are expected to participate actively in each class and share their views and experiences with each other.
This course is a continuation of 98f-EJ.
This course is a continuation of 98f-IJ.
This course is a continuation of 98f-AJ.
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