This course introduces qualitative research methods and provides hands on opportunities to experience research practice, focusing on five major qualitative research approaches (narrative approach, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, case study). It involves thorough discussions of qualitative research methodology including its nature, design, data collection procedures, and conceptualization. The course further familiarizes students with and guides them through the process of conducting their own pilot study related to each student s discipline and interests. At the end of this course, students will be able to: 1. define what qualitative research and data are 2. design effective qualitative research in relation to their research questions 3. collect and organize qualitative data under ethical consent practices 4. analyze qualitative data and ensure its validity 5. report their conceptualization of qualitative data as research findings

This course introduces qualitative research methods and provides hands on opportunities to experience research practice, focusing on five major qualitative research approaches (narrative approach, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, case study). It involves thorough discussions of qualitative research methodology including its nature, design, data collection procedures, and conceptualization. The course further familiarizes students with and guides them through the process of conducting their own pilot study related to each student s discipline and interests. At the end of this course, students will be able to: 1. define what qualitative research and data are 2. design effective qualitative research in relation to their research questions 3. collect and organize qualitative data under ethical consent practices 4. analyze qualitative data and ensure its validity 5. report their conceptualization of qualitative data as research findings

This seminar aims to discuss the social / historical bases on which a modern legal system might operate in various East Asian societies, and to provide an introduction to some of those problems involving the integration of different legal traditions into a pluralistic yet coherent legal regime. We will focus on the tensions experienced by these societies, involving the importation of what were presented as "universal" values and norms, and the near-universal resistance to these values and norms, such resistance being based on the notions of custom and tradition. While the initial focus will be mainly on the experiences concerning the formation of legal institutions in China and Japan, students will be encouraged to bring in perspectives from other societies as well. The problems discussed will include: the difficulties regarding what exactly can be identified as East Asian legal traditions; how legal regimes were structured through the actions of actors exploiting the plurality of legal traditions; and how the relationship between legal arrangements and the political power-structure played out. Particular attention will also be paid to the issues of colonialism, and the uneasy relationship between Modernisation, Westernisation and Colonisation in these societies. The ability to read source materials written in Chinese and/or Japanese would be of much help, but will not be essential.

This course aims at helping students better understand current situations of education in Asia, particularly under the influence of globalization. We will discuss theoretical, institutional and practical dimensions of education, with particular interests of how education could contribute to the promotion and realization of more sustainable society.

This course focuses upon Australia’s historical relationships between settlers and Indigenous people in comparative perspective. In the first part of the course, students will consider how key terms like ‘settler colonialism’, ‘race’, ‘the civilising process’, and ‘treaty’ can be conceptualised in historical context. We will trace how colonial ideas about settlement, land tenure and law sat within a pre-existing European tradition of thought, and how these ideas might be rethought through an Indigenous worldview. We will investigate different practices of cross-cultural brokerage and co-existence on frontiers of British colonial settlement, and consider some of the triggers that gave rise to colonial violence. Through the latter part of the course, we will turn to twentieth-century policies of assimilation and consider how they were shared or divergent in different geographical settings of the British Commonwealth. Finally, students will engage with some of the ongoing legacies of the colonial past in the present, and investigate how debates about truth telling have evolved in Australia, as well as in connected settler nations of the former British Empire.

This course focuses upon Australia’s historical relationships between settlers and Indigenous people in comparative perspective. In the first part of the course, students will consider how key terms like ‘settler colonialism’, ‘race’, ‘the civilising process’, and ‘treaty’ can be conceptualised in historical context. We will trace how colonial ideas about settlement, land tenure and law sat within a pre-existing European tradition of thought, and how these ideas might be rethought through an Indigenous worldview. We will investigate different practices of cross-cultural brokerage and co-existence on frontiers of British colonial settlement, and consider some of the triggers that gave rise to colonial violence. Through the latter part of the course, we will turn to twentieth-century policies of assimilation and consider how they were shared or divergent in different geographical settings of the British Commonwealth. Finally, students will engage with some of the ongoing legacies of the colonial past in the present, and investigate how debates about truth telling have evolved in Australia, as well as in connected settler nations of the former British Empire.

This course aims to cultivate internationally competitive young researchers equipped with literacy and competency to become future leaders in industry and academia. The course deals with multidisciplinary application skills and the in-depth research in specialized fields so that students accomplish the ability to work in a broader spectrum and apply one’s skills to a multidisciplinary setting. The topics of the course include medical and biomedical robotics, medical high-tech industries, disease prevention, health care system, science technology and industrial policy, energy technology, and health security and community resilience.

本科目では、資本主義の比較史の構築にむけて、英語圏の文献を中心に最新の研究動向の検討をおこなう。経営史・西洋史の予備知識は前提しないが、受講者には英国の研究拠点大学と同等程度の課題を毎週こなしてもらう。 経済史はもちろん、政治史・文化史・社会史・科学史・西洋史・グローバルヒストリーなどの知見を動員し、学際的文献を多く扱うので、経済史に限らず異なるテーマを研究をしている受講者の参加を歓迎する。（昨年度に参加した大学院生の専攻は、ミクロ経済、現代経営、日本経済史、近代東欧史、イギリス経済史、インテレクチュアル・ヒストリーなど） The goal of this module is to take you to the frontiers of scholarship on the global and comparative history of market societies. For this year, we propose to conduct this discussion in English.

本科目では、資本主義の比較史の構築にむけて、英語圏の文献を中心に最新の研究動向の検討をおこなう。経営史・西洋史の予備知識は前提しないが、受講者には英国の研究拠点大学と同等程度の課題を毎週こなしてもらう。 経済史はもちろん、政治史・文化史・社会史・科学史・西洋史・グローバルヒストリーなどの知見を動員し、学際的文献を多く扱うので、経済史に限らず異なるテーマを研究をしている受講者の参加を歓迎する。（昨年度に参加した大学院生の専攻は、ミクロ経済、現代経営、日本経済史、近代東欧史、イギリス経済史、インテレクチュアル・ヒストリーなど） The goal of this module is to take you to the frontiers of scholarship on the global and comparative history of market societies. For this year, we propose to conduct this discussion in English.

This course will focus on the dynamics of museum collections in contemporary society. Particular attention will be paid to the meaning and politics of provenance--where the items on display come from and the socio-political-economic background behind that origin. The instructor's specialty is US cultural studies but the class will spend a considerable amount of time talking about museums in Japan. The class combines readings with exploring visits to actual sites.