2025 (Current Year) 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
Class Format: Lecture (Face-to-face)
Media-enhanced courses: -
Day of week/Period (Classrooms): 5-6 Tue (M-135) / 5-6 Fri (M-135)
Class: -
Course Code: TSE.A335
Number of credits: 200
Course offered: 2025
Offered quarter: 1Q
Syllabus updated: Apr 4, 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 LMS 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