2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses Liberal arts and basic science courses Humanities and social science courses
Essence of Humanities and Social Sciences51:Studies on Future Society
- Academic unit or major
- Humanities and social science courses
- Instructor(s)
- Renge Jibu
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 3-4 Wed
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- LAH.S443
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 1Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course focuses on a future society from the perspective of leader. For the last 10 years, Japanese society has been experiencing decreasing population and labor force which are serious economic issues. In this course, we will learn governmental institutions, corporations and NPOs which tackle the issue.
The aim of this course is to learn practical skills such as effective communication by using statistical data and cases.
Course description and aims
By the end of this course, students will be able to: 1) Listening to team members' voice with diversified background. 2)Communication skills which enables to share goals and risks. 3) Understand social issues. 4) Integrate their science knowledge to social issues.
Student learning outcomes
実務経験と講義内容との関連 (又は実践的教育内容)
The instructor of this course has 20+year experience of journalist covering corporate executive and young leaders. Based on the experience, I deliver the practical knowledge about good and bad leadership．
Keywords
care work, policy, family, comparison between countries
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
In addition to lectures, students will have opportunities to talk in group works and in the whole class. This course encourage to attend international students. Instructor speaks in Japanese but the students can speak both in Japanese and English. A part of reading materials can be access by English.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Orientation | What is Care or unpaid care work? |
| Class 2 | Children and care work(1) | Talk about young adult and children who provide care work for their family members based on reading assignment. |
| Class 3 | Children and care work(2) | Talk about young adult and children who provide care work for their family members based on reading assignment. |
| Class 4 | Guest lecture(tentative) | Research about care based on psychological experiments. |
| Class 5 | Discussion | Discussion in a classroom based on a guest lecture. |
| Class 6 | Learn about global policy framework | Discussion in a classroom based on a report by UN Women. |
| Class 7 | Care in future | Think about care between Living and inanimate objects such as human beings and robots. |
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)
(1) Books used for reading reports
Mainichi Newspaper Reporting Team. "Young Carers: Children in Care.” (2021) .
https://mainichibooks.com/books/essay/post-533.html
Either the paper version or the electronic version such as Kindle is acceptable, so please obtain it before the class starts.
(2) Paper on care based on psychological experiments
Takeru Miyajima and Hiroyuki Yamaguchi. (2017). "I want to but I won't: Pluralistic Ignorance Inhibits Intentions to Take Paternity Leave in Japan"
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01508/full
3) Reports used to inform international policy trends
UN Women. "A TOOLKIT ON PAID AND UNPAID CARE WORK: FROM 3Rs TO 5Rs."(2022).
https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/2022-06/A-toolkit-on-paid-and-unpaid-care-work-en.pdf
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Textbooks other than those specified will be distributed in class.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Evaluation will be based on assignments to be submitted prior to the start of the intensive course (30%), assignments to be submitted during the lecture period (30%), in-class presentations of assignments (30%), and comments made (10%). There will be no examinations.
Related courses
- LAH.T114 ： Studies on Future Society A
- LAH.T214 ： Studies on Future Society B
- LAH.T318 ： Studies on Future Society C
Prerequisites
None
Other
No classes will be given on April 9(Wed).
Seven total classes will be held for this course: April 16 (Wed), April 23 (Wed), April 30 (Wed), May 7 (Wed), May 14 (Wed), May 21(Wed), May 28(Wed).