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Students should download the Powerpoint file for the class lecture from the KULASIS 

class site before class. The midterm test will be based on the Powerpoint slide lectures.If 

students miss a class they should ask the instructor about class assignments. 

Please email the instructor to set up office appointment. Email: [e-mail]

Introduction to Globalization

Center for Southeast Asian Studies 

LOPEZ Mario Ivan 

Community culture

2

Fall

Tue/3

Mainly for 1st and 2nd grade 

All fields

H554002

Yoshida South

3A

This course introduces students to some core processes that underlie present day 

globalization. This is a seminar based course and will act as a stepping stone for students to 

learn and explore it what ways different aspects on globalization play out in Asia-pacific, 

Southeast Asia and other regions in the world. The course is organized under three 

umbrellas: Risk, Movement and Communication and Change. 

This is a contents based course taught in English.The main purpose of the course is to give 

students a critical introduction to the way global processes play out in the domains of the 

environment, economy, society and politics. The ultimate aim of the course is to stimulate 

discussion between students on current issues which impact upon their everyday lives in the 

present and future.

Week 1. Overview   

  Week one offers an overview of the entire course to students and explains the objectives 

and aims of the course. Weeks 2~14 will be explained with an overview of the materials.   

Week 2. The Politics of Enough     

 Over the last 200 years, the global economy has grown in size and new processes and 

scales have arisen to meet the needs of human societies. This week introduces students to 

sustainable economic scales with reference to the global economy and its impact on 

ecosystems.  

Week 3. Growth/Degrowth   

  This week focuses on modern theories of growth/de-growth. The past 10 years has seen a 

growing discussion on what are the limits of economic growth in the present global system; 

biodiversity loss, land degradation and conflict over resources have led to criticisms of the 

concept of growth. In this week we look at the discussions and arguments concerning 

growth/de-growth.  

Week 4. The Rise of Neoliberal Economies   

  Since the 1970s, in some regions, neoliberalism has come to define global economic policy. 

As a series political economic practices, it proposes that human well-being can best be 

advanced by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills. This week looks at 

how neoliberal practices have re-organized economic and social practices and the effects that 

have on everyday life through a number of case studies.   

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Week 5. Financial Crises   

  In 2008 the world economy underwent one of the worst global recessions since the 1930s. 

This week examines the underlying causes of the recession and looks at the historical role of 

crises in the global economy. Students will be asked to discuss how future crises may impact 

upon the global economy.   

Week 6. Global Movement   

  The deep connectedness of the present global economy has meant that more people than 

ever have opportunities to move. This week critically introduces the structural causes that 

compel movement and the types of migrations and the impact of migration from the “Global 

South” to the “Global North.”   

Week 7. Global Movement: Case Studies from Southeast Asia   

 This week introduces two case studies of nations who send and receive immigrants. It 

comparatively examines two Southeast Asian nations to highlight state policies toward 

immigrants, and their strategies they use to cope with daily life.   

Week 8. Global Movement: Traversing Regions   

  Students will watch and discuss “In this World” directed by Michael Winterbottom.   

Week 9. The Globalization of Ageing   

 Many industrialized countries are now facing the challenge of how to care for growing 

elderly populations. This week explores aging at a global level. It takes Europe, Japan and 

Southeast Asia as examples to explore the ways societies are dealing with global aging 

issues.  

Week 10. Case Studies: Integrating Global Care. Germany, Japan, Philippines, and Vietnam 

  This week looks at the different ways developed nations and regions are reshaping their 

structures to deal with their ageing populations. It present two case studies which both 

intersect in Southeast Asia’s labor market.   

Week 11. Consumption (1)   

  Bio-resources, bio-capacity and the environmental carrying capacity are under great strain 

at  present.  What  kind  of  future  economy  is  viable  to  support  future  mankind?  This  class 

looks at the ways global society can shift from a "production-oriented" to 

"livelihood-oriented" sustainable humanosphere. It introduces students to arguments that 

critique GDP as a de-facto measurement of human progress.   

Week 12. Consumption (2)   

 This week continues to look at alternative ways to measure human well-being and 

prosperity. It critically examines how it is used as a measurement of progress in the context 

of global forms of consumption.   

Week 13. Regional Interconnectivity: The Rise of ASEAN   

  This week deals exclusively with Japan and looks at it relationship to the Association of 

Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and other surrounding nations. The focus of this lecture 

is to give students an understanding of ASEAN and ASEAN + 3 (APT) in the context of 

trade, development and cultural contact within the region. 

Week 14. Competing Claims and Rivalries: ASEAN and the + 3 Nations (China, Japan, 

Korea).  

  As a regional political and economic entity ASEAN will become one of the world’s largest 

economic blocks in 2016. Some of the challenges it faces are over access to marine 

resources. This final week looks at how ASEAN and surrounding nations in East Asia are 

diplomatically dealing with strategic rivalry over the South China Seas issue.   

Week 15. Summary of Course   

  This week is a re-cap of the course content and will be a class based discussion to evaluate 

what students gained from the course.   

The final semester grade will be decided upon by participation in class lectures and an 

online forum (45%), participation (35%) and a written essay (20%) to be submitted at the 

end of the course.

Each week will consist of materials to be prepared in advance for class discussion. After 

each week an online forum will be used for students to share ideas and comments that arise 

from questions in the class.

Students must attend all lectures. If students miss more than three classes (in any order) 

they will receive a fail grade. Students who miss classes due to illness require signed official 

exemption provided by a doctor or hospital. 

This is a seminar based course. Student’s must be willing to read set readings and other 

audio visual materials to prepare for discussions in class, engage with other members, and 

write a final academic essay in English. 

Introduction to Anthropology 

Center for Southeast Asian Studies 

LOPEZ Mario Ivan 

Community culture 

2

Fall

Mon/3 

Mainly for 1st and 2nd grade 

All fields 

H555002 

Yoshida South 

3A 

Anthropology is the comparative study of culture and human societies and examines the 

general principles of social and cultural life. This course offers an introduction to the 

discipline of anthropology and its practical relevance to understanding societies. It 

introduces the different ways we can examine human societies and understand exchange 

processes, kinship and family, marriage, culture, nature, gender, nation building, and religion 

and ritual. 

This is a contents based course taught in English.The main purpose of the course is to 

provide students a critical introduction and understanding to cultural diversity and processes 

of change within and between societies. Its ultimate aim is to offer a conceptual framework 

that can help students recognize the preconceptions and assumptions of their own social and 

cultural environments.   

Week 1. Overview   

  Week one offers an overview of the entire course to students and explains its objectives.   

Week 2. Exchange and Reciprocity   

 This week focuses on reciprocity: the human act of exchange. Exchange is one of 

humankind's most fundamental forms of behavior and can take place as interaction not only 

between individuals, but also between groups. This week looks at different forms of 

reciprocity as a social activity in different social contexts.   

Week 3. Kinship and Family (1)   

 This week introduces students to kinship and family structures. In all societies, families 

form the basic units of societies and have different expressions in kinship terms. Yet, kinship 

is a “social relationship” that may or may not correspond with a biological one. Students will 

be introduced to a number of case studies from around the world to think about how people 

in different societies relate to each other.   

Week 4. Kinship and Family (2)     

  Families are not static units, but innovative and evolving in the face of social and cultural 

change. This week looks at how the Japanese family and how ‘idealized’ forms of the family 

have undergone change in the late 20th century. Students will be asked to think about the 

differences between family and household and consider the co-existence of both 

"conventional” and “unconventional” family models in society.   

Week 5. Marriage     

  Marriage is a social institution that on various levels, makes and confirms a union between 

two persons. But, is marriage just between men and women, or can it be extended to other 

types of union? Is the aim of marriage to have offspring who can carry their ancestors’names 

and inherit their wealth? Marriage is one of the most important areas of study in 

anthropology, since it is a social event practiced widely within all cultures. This seminar will 

ask students to think about marriage in a number of contexts through case studies.   

Week 6. Human Societies and Nature   

  This week focuses on an issue that is known as the “nature-culture divide.” All cultures 

have their own worldviews of nature. How we see ourselves in our natural environments, in 

our relations to our resources, and to males and females greatly influences how we perceive 

the world around us. In this seminar, students will be introduced some basis discussions 

concerning nature and culture and will be asked to think about their own cultural concepts of 

nature and compare them to the examples introduced in the seminar.   

Week 7. Gender (1)   

  The distinction between female and male is one common to all known human cultures. Yet, 

how cultures distinguish between male and female bodies, the role of each in reproduction 

and work, understandings of the biological basis of difference, definitions of 

masculine/feminine, and the importance attached to differences, vary greatly. This week 

looks how gender is interpreted in a Western cultural context and then juxtaposed with 

examples from the Asia-pacific region.   

Week 8. Gender (2)   

  This week continues from week 7. A number of short documentaries from Southeast Asia 

will be discussed to closely analyze the way gender influences social relations.   

Week 9. Identifying “Others”   

  This week looks at how the concept of race developed as an cluster of categories which 

fixed cultural worth, intelligence, beauty, body types, tastes and other sensorial aspects of 

humanity through case studies from Southeast Asia and the Asia-pacific region.   

Week 10. Nation building and nationalism (1)   

  What is a nation? What is nationalism? What does it mean when we say we are Japanese or 

Chinese? Particular nations have differing views about their “characters.” How and why do 

modern nations use the current nation-state models to organize people within their borders 

and beyond them? This seminar introduces students to how modern nations arose over the 

past 200 years and will ask them to think about the categories used to define‘nationals.’   

Week 11. Nation building and transnationalism (2)   

  This week continues from week 10 and ask students to consider how modern day migration 

has produced transnationalism; a form of nationalism that extends across countries through 

the economic, political, and social-cultural activities of migrants outside their homelands. A 

number of case studies will be presented for discussion in class and ask students to think 

about belonging and place. Two different readings on Japan's interactions with the 

Philippines and China will be used to discuss the way transnational links are created between 

nations.  

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Week 12. Religion and Ritual   

 This week focuses on religion and ritual. How do religious practices, beliefs and rituals 

shape our modern lives? Anthropology clearly shows that there are no societies that are free 

of religion, that is, purely secular. This week looks at how religion provides explanations that 

satisfy human needs and maintain social structures, and how doctrine (teachings) and ritual 

support cultural adaptations to the environment. This week will not look at nor discuss the 

origins of religious belief, but ask students to consider it through case studies involving 

Christianity and human migration.   

Week 13. Confronting Conflicting Values   

  In this week we examine how the“veil”used by Muslim women is interpreted in a number 

of different contexts. Students will be asked to think about how, over the last 20 years, 

different nations have reacted to the use of the veil. Students will explore how the veil is 

perceived in some European and Southeast Asian countries.   

Week 14. Societies in Contact: Japan and the Philippines   

  This penultimate week brings together a number of themes introduced across the course 

and examines interactions between Japan and the Philippines. This class will draw together a 

number of different themes that appear in previous classes to show how we can use 

anthropology to analyze and comprehend different aspects of social, cultural and religious 

life.  

Week 15. Re-cap   

The final semester grade will be decided upon by participation in class lectures and an 

online forum (45%), attendance (35%) and a written essay (20%) to be submitted at the end 

of the course. 

Each week will have a series of materials that must be read prior to the class. As the course 

is geared to facilitating in-class discussion, students should take the time to prepare the 

readings. Materials for all weeks have been prepared in advance. These include articles and 

class notes. Some weeks will also have visual materials which should be watced in advance.

Students must attend all lectures. If students miss more than three classes (in any order) 

they will receive a failing grade. Students who miss classes due to illness require signed 

official exemption provided by a doctor or hospital.   

They must also be willing to talk in class, engage with other members and write a final 

essay in English. Students will do group work to engage with various contemporary issues.

Introduction to Asian Societies 

Center for Southeast Asian Studies 

Julius BAUTISTA 

History, Civilization 

2

Fall

Tue/2

All grades

All fields

H256001

Yoshida South

3D

This course will introduce students to Asian history and civilization, with a focus on East 

and Southeast Asia. While each of these regions has its own distinctive identities, we shall 

consider how overlapping historical, political and cultural experiences has engendered a 

shared sense of heritage and common destiny. We shall examine the struggles of Asians to 

protect or regain their sovereignty, and establish their identities in a rapidly arising and often 

volatile world order. We will look at how individuals in Asia respond to significant issues 

and challgenges in four distinct historical themes: “Pre-modern cosmopolitanism in Asia”, 

“Euro-American Imperialism”, “War and Conflict in Asia” and the “Era of the modern state 

and regionalism.”

This course has two main learning goals. By the end of the course, students will (1) be able 

to provide a historical portrait of the interrelationships between Asian societies and the wider 

global forces that have shaped the region. This will form the basis for cultivating (2) an 

ability to engage in critical discussion and debate on some of the most pressing regional 

issues, including those in the areas of politics, the environment, history, culture and security.

Lecture 1 will be an introduction to the course and its assessment tasks.     

Lectures 2,3 and 4 will be devoted to a discussion of pre-modern forms of Asian 

civilization including patterns of social and civilizational exchange, trade, travel and mutual 

influence. 

  Lectures 5, 6 and 7 will be dicuss the impact of Euro-American incursion in the region 

from the sixteenth century, particularly in the pursuit of natural resources and trading routes. 

We shall discuss Asian responses to changing power relations, as well as how resistance to 

foreign incursion cultivated ethnic and religious identity in this period.   

  Lectures 8, 9 and 10    will examine the major modern conflicts in the region, particularly 

the two world wars, and how this impacted upon the pursuit of soverignty and self 

determination among Asians.   

  Lectures 11, 12 and 13 will examine the era of the nation state, including the formation of 

cultural nationalism in the region in the post-war period.    We shall examine the formation 

of various forms of governance and how this relates to national identity.  We shall then 

discuss the moves towards regional integration among Asian nations, and how Asians hare 

looking to the future in light of globalization. 

Lecture 14 will be a conclusion and summary of the major themes of the course. 

  Lectures 15 and 16 will be devoted to examinations, and feedback for the course.

Students are evaluated by the exam provided after the course as well as by their mid-term 

essays, presentations and discussions in class. 

No prior knowledge of Asian societies is required. Students should be able to participate in 

discussions with their classmates in English. This may be face-to-face small group 

discussion or online forum and class blog postings. Students may also be aske 

Consultation and Discussion time is set once per week or by appointment via email to 

[e-mail] 

Religion in Contemporary Society 

Center for Southeast Asian Studies 

Julius BAUTISTA 

Community culture

2

Fall

Wed/2

All grades

All fields

H564001

Yoshida South

34

This course is an exploration into how religion impacts upon some of the major social, 

cultural, political and economic issues of today's world. We shall be focusing on the theme 

of secularization by considering specific case studies relating to religious fundamentalism, 

religious pluralism, new religious movements and spirituality from around the world. 

Specific attention will also be paid to considering how the rise of information technology 

and social media impact religious belief and practice. We consider case studies in inquiring 

into how religion influences the pursuit of knolwedge and scientific inquiry, including 

questions of ethics and morality in a rapidly globalizing world.

This course has two main learning outcomes for students: (1) the ability to assess how 

religion has figured as a critical factor in some of the major political and social issues facing 

the world today and (2) the ability to express an informed opinion on the themes of science 

and modernity, religious violence, extremism, radicalization and revivalism among others.

Week 1    Introduction and Course Queries 

  Week 2    Religion and the Contemporary New Order 

    Week 3    Globalization and Religious Belief 1   

    Week 4    Globalization and Religious Belief 2 

    Week 5    Secularization and Modernity 1 

    Week 6    Secularization and Modernity 2 

  Week 7  Religion and Technology 

    Week 8    Religion, the Internet and Social Media 

    Week 9    Faith, Knolwedge and Scientific Reason 1 

  Week 10    Faith, Knowledge and Scientific Reason 2 

  Week 11    Spirituality and New Religious Movements 1 

  Week 12    Spirituality and New Religious Movements 2 

 Week 13  Conclusion and Recap 

 Week 14  Reading Week 

 Week 15  Examination 

 Week 16  Feedback Week 

Students are evaluated by the exam provided after the course as well as by their mid-term 

essays, presentations and discussions in class. 

Students should be able to participate in discussions with their classmates in English. This 

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may be face-to-face small group discussion or online forum and class blog postings. 

Students may also be asked to make short presentations in English based on the class 

readings.

Consultation and Discussion time is set once per week or by appointment via email to 

[e-mail] 

Calculus B

Graduate School of Science 

Karel SVADLENKA 

Mathematics

4

Fall

Mon/3 Mon/4

Mainly for 1st grade

Science

N108001

Yoshida South

38

Calculus and linear algebra form the essential mathematical background necessary for 

understanding and developing modern science and technology. In this lecture, basics of 

calculus required for further pursuing of studies majored in science are explained. 

The course Calculus B explains differentiation and integration of functions of several 

variables based on the knowledge obtained in “Calculus A”.