2024 Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Undergraduate major in Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering
Basic theory of regional and global environment 1
- Academic unit or major
- Undergraduate major in Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Takashi Nakamura / Manabu Kanda / Tsuyoshi Kinouchi / Takehiko Murayama / Shinjiro Kanae / Hiroshi Takagi / Takashi Nakamura / Manabu Fujii / Chihiro Yoshimura / Atsushi Inagaki / Rie Seto
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 5-6 Tue / 5-6 Fri
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- TSE.A335
- Number of credits
- 200
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 1Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
Research fields related to the environment have a very wide variety. Therefore, to analyze the environment or address environmental issues, a transdisciplinary approach is necessary. This course focuses on how to apply a variety of basic knowledge in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, etc., which you have already learned, to environmental analysis and solving environmental problems. For this goal, lecturers who are specialists of environmental fields will give omnibus type lectures focusing on the above-mentioned points, while also including some cutting-edge research results.
Course description and aims
By the end of this course, students will be able to understand how to apply previously learned basic knowledge about mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, etc., to actual environmental research fields.
Keywords
atmospheric environment, water environment
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Omnibus style lectures, where one topic is explained by one lecturer in 3 classes
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Understand the phenomena of regional scale water and mass transport | Understand the phenomena related with the regional scale water and mass transport |
| Class 2 | Understand the principles in regional scale water and mass transport | Understand the principles governing the regional scale water and mass transport |
| Class 3 | Understand emerging issues and solutions in regional scale water and mass transport | Understand emerging issues and solutions related with regional-scale water and mass transport |
| Class 4 | Global carbon cycle | Understand the global-scale carbon cycle |
| Class 5 | Coastal ecosystem responses to environmental changes | Understand coastal ecosystem responses to global and local environmental changes |
| Class 6 | Paleo- to future-climate changes and their driving forces | Understand pareo- to future-climate changes and their driving forces |
| Class 7 | History of Water, Wastewater and Aquatic Environments | Understand and review the history of water, wastewater and aquatic Environments |
| Class 8 | Tasks and future vision of Water, Wastewater and Aquatic Environments | Understand and discuss the tasks and future vision of water, wastewater and aquatic Environments |
| Class 9 | How can we describe water flow? | Understand the phenomena related with the regional scale water and mass transport |
| Class 10 | What are caused by water flow? | Understand phenomena caused by water flow |
| Class 11 | How can we do flow simulation for actual environment? | Understand numerical simulation of water environment |
| Class 12 | Coastal disaster risk - tsunami | Understand tsunami and related coastal disaster risk |
| Class 13 | Coastal disaster risk - typhoon storm surge | Understand typhoon storm surge and related coastal disaster risk |
| Class 14 | Coastal disaster risk - development and environmental issue | Understand the development and environmental issues related to coastal disaster risk |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
None
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Handouts will be distributed before the start of the class via T2SCHOLA and others.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Learning achievement is evaluated by combining results from quizzes/reports given by the lecturers.
Related courses
- TSE.A336 ： Basic theory of regional and global environment 2
Prerequisites
None