2024 Faculty Courses Liberal arts and basic science courses Humanities and social science courses
Essence of Humanities and Social Sciences11:Law
- Academic unit or major
- Humanities and social science courses
- Instructor(s)
- Kanako Inokuchi
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 3-4 Wed
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- LAH.S411
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 3Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
I will demonstrate the basic concept of the Constitution and explain it according to specific cases. Students learn about the Constitution while holding a concrete image.
Course description and aims
You acquire minimum constitutional knowledge in social life. You will be able to understand the news you watch on TV and what is written in the newspaper correctly.
Keywords
human right, constitutionalism
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Specific examples will be given to complement the learning.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Constitution and Constitutionalism, popular sovereignty, pacifism | to understand, what is constitution, what is law and basics of constitution |
| Class 2 | Basic Human Rights and their limitation | to understand human rights and their limitation. |
| Class 3 | General basic rights and equation under the constitution | using some cases to gain understanding of the right to pursuit of happiness and the equality before the law. |
| Class 4 | The right to spiritual freedom | to understand freedom of thought and moral, to understand spiritual fteedom including freedom of expression. |
| Class 5 | The right to economical freedom and other rights | to understand human rights other than the spiritual freedom |
| Class 6 | Government - power division - | to understand the government |
| Class 7 | General discussion | Summary and understanding the lecture contents |
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)
Nobuyoshi Ashibe, Kazuyuki Takahashi Supp, Kenpo 8 ed. (Iwanami-Shoten) ISBN978-4000616072
Reference books, course materials, etc.
select as needed
Evaluation methods and criteria
daily assignment(20%)+report(80%)
Related courses
- Law (Constitutional Law) A
- Law (Constitutional Law) Ｂ
- Law (Constitutional Law) C
- Essence of Humanities and Social Sciences 9
Prerequisites
none
Other
Lectures will be given in Japanese, so students must have sufficient Japanese language ability to understand the content of the lectures.