Application Guideline for Non-Degree Students
Taking e-Courses (With Credits)
(Fall Semester of Academic Year 2010)

• Outline of Non-Degree Students Taking e-Courses (With Credits) and Application Guidebook
  
• e-Courses Offered in Fall Semester 2010
  
• Schedule, Procedure for Course Registration and Application Forms (Fall 2010)
  
• e-Course System FAQ (Japanese)

Sep. 14 (Tue.) - 18 (Sat.) Application for Second Screening ("Web Kamoku Shutsugan")
Application Form

e-Courses Offered

TOTAL DESIGN OF PRIVATE AND PUBLIC PROFIT ( Faculty of Policy Management Ikuyo Kaneko Jiro Kokuryo, Masatoshi Tamamura, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies Hideyuki Yasui )		2 credits
	The course summary is Japanese only. Please refer to Japanese Page. * available only for students in Social Innovator Course * This course is the same content as Spring Semester 2010. * This course is conducted in Japanese.
MANAGEMENT OF EMERGING BUSINESSES ( Faculty of Policy Management Jiro Kokuryo, Graduate School of Media and Governance Masaki Umejima )		2 credits
	Intended to develop entrepreneurs capable of converting technologies into businesses. We cover basics of business planning, study business cases of real life venture companies, and listen to guest speakers. This course will be provided as part of SOI-Asia initiative that connect many Asian university class rooms via satellite system. Students will be asked to write their own business plans and are encouraged to take part in business plan contest hosted by SOI-Asia. * This course is conducted in English.
DESIGNING LOW-CARBON SOCIETY ( Faculty of Environment and Information Studies Hironori Hamanaka, Graduate School of Media and Governance Makoto Kato, Michie Kishigami, Naoki Matsuo, Yuji Mizuno )		2 credits
	You will study the fundamentals of designing a low-carbon society, including; -the science of climate change, such as climate change and its cause, its impacts, global CO2 emissions, future socio-economic scenarios and emission projections, science and policy interface, -political processes of building international climate regime, -corporate, local and national climate actions, and -carbon accounting and carbon management. * This course is the same content as Spring Semester 2010. * This course is conducted in English.
DESIGNING ENVIRONMENTAL BUSINESS ( Faculty of Environment and Information Studies Kazunori Tanji, Graduate School of Media and Governance Mari Yoshitaka, Naoki Matsuo )		2 credits
	The course summary is Japanese only. Please refer to Japanese Page. * This course is conducted in Japanese.
FAMILY BUSINESS MANAGEMENT ( Faculty of Policy Management Yoshinori Isagai )		2 credits
	The course summary is Japanese only. Please refer to Japanese Page. * This course is conducted in Japanese.
REGIONAL INFOMATIZATION ( Faculty of Policy Management Yoshinori Isagai )		2 credits
	The course summary is Japanese only. Please refer to Japanese Page. * available only for students in Social Innovator Course * This course is the same content as Spring Semester 2010. * This course is conducted in Japanese.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ( Faculty of Policy Management, Michio Umegaki )		2 credits
	The purpose of this course is to help students advance along the lines of their specific interests in the policy issues of International Relations. These issues include, among others, conflict-resolution, regional cooperation, poverty-reduction, and environmental protection. Equally important for students, however, is the establishment of firm theoretical footings. As in many other policy-related fields of inquiry, theories in International Relations are not context-free. The constraints of time often dictate theory formulation as they profoundly influence the theorists' normative commitments. Given these, the course consists of three major components. 1) A firm historical background, a common prerequisite for all issue-specific perspectives. 2) Critical examinations of selected empirical and normative theories. 3) Examinations of specific policy issues in light of normative perspectives. The course fuses these three major components into a narrative flow moving from "High Politics" to "Low Politics." Along the way, the course discusses a new framework for defining policy issues in need of solution, Human Security. * This course is conducted in English.
DEVELOPMENT AND THE LOCAL COMMUNITY ( Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Lynn Thiesmeyer )		2 credits
	This course is taught in English for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. We survey the main problems brought about by economic development in Asia, especially Southeast Asia. We also look at the kinds of solutions that the people living with the development process in these countries are attempting to implement themselves. The course will focus on the local and community levels of developing countries in order to provide a basic understanding of the history of international development theories and initiatives in Asia from the end of World War II to the present. In particular we will look at various kinds of successful and unsuccessful development projects in Southeast Asia and their sometimes unfortunate impacts on local people. Specifially, we will first seek a more thorough understanding of international development theory and its critiques as well as its initiatives. From this, we go on to consider the concepts and practices of participatory development, using micro-level qualitative data to consider the ways in which local people form their own responses and initiatives for the issues of their livelihood, rural environment, labor migration, and gender balance. * This course is conducted in English.
WORLD ECONOMY ( Faculty of Policy Management, Sayuri Shirai )		2 credits
	The objective of this course is to help students gain a better understanding of the nature of economic crises that had occurred in the low-income developing countries and emerging market economies from the 20th century to the early 21st century. Those economic crises are decomposed into the following two types: one is the "Current Account Crisis" that would generally take place in low-income developing countries and the other is the "Capital Account Crisis" that had taken place in emerging market economies in the past decade - particularly in East Asia. The crisis that had happened in other emerging market economies - such as Russia, Brazil, Turkey, and Argentina - could be categorized as the ones that shared the features of both the Current and Capital Account Crises (so-called "In-Between Crisis"). Also, the course will discuss about the post-crisis economic conditions and recent financial market moves (i.e. yen's carry trade, August 2007 financial turbulence, inflows of capital to emerging market economies). The course will also cover macroeconomic policy prescriptions applicable to the Current Account Crisis and Capital Account Crisis, as well as relevant policy issues that have been intensively discussed in the international community (such as IMF policy and its conditionality, sequence of liberalization, proper exchange rate regimes). * This course is conducted in English.
ADVANCED RESEARCH(CASE METHODS IN RESEARCH AND EDUCATION) ( Graduate School of Media and Governance, Akiko Orita )		2 credits
	The course summary is Japanese only. Please refer to Japanese Page. * This course is conducted in Japanese.