2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses Liberal arts and basic science courses Humanities and social science courses
Collaboration across STEM and Liberal Arts: Rethinking Population Issues through Collaboration in Liberal Arts and STEM [1]
- Academic unit or major
- Humanities and social science courses
- Instructor(s)
- Ryoichi Yamane
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Class
- -
- Course Code
- LAH.C657
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course is a 1-credit course.
Only students who meet the conditions ① and ② can enroll.
① Be enrolled before 2021.
② You must have already earned one credit in a liberal arts advanced subject.
Students enrolled in 2022 or later cannot take this course.
［Collaboration across STEM and Liberal Arts］are study group-type subjects that will start in 2024. Each time, students will engage in discussions with guest lecturers who are active leaders in their various fields. Together with participating doctoral graduate students, we will explore new developments and possibilities in convergence science.
The maximum number of students is 50 per class. If the number is exceeded, a lottery will be held.
Group work will be conducted in English, but Japanese may be used if consensus can be reached within the group. Moderators and instructors will give lectures in Japanese, to be translated by ZOOM's translation function.
Students will take an e-learning session on research ethics in the first class. Submission of the “session-completion certificate” is required.
Course description and aims
1. Learn the fundamentals of demography / population studies.
2. Study the relationship between population and culture.
3. Present your own thoughts on current population issues from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Keywords
Demography, city planning, philosophy, literature and culture
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
The students will attend lectures by external speakers at the beginning of each class, followed by a Q&A session and group discussions. The students will also create a portfolio during the first session to set their own tasks and goals, and based on that, they will submit their reflections on their learning experiences via Google Forms after each class. Finally, they will complete their portfolios to explain what they have learned throughout the course.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction Population and culture (Zoom on Dec. 9) Speaker: Ryoichi Yamane, Science Tokyo | Examine the future prospects of Japan's ageing society and develop your own thoughts on it. Submission of the “session-completion certificate” |
| Class 2 | Lecture and Discussion: city planning (Zoom on Dec. 16) Speaker: Mamoru Taniguchi, University of Tsukuba | Learn how to include city planning in population studies and develop your own thoughts on it through discussion. |
| Class 3 | Lecture and Discussion: Utopia (Zoom on Dec. 23) Speaker: Hisashi Ozawa (Movie), Hosei University | Learn a literary context of population in the world and develop your own thoughts on it through discussion. |
| Class 4 | Lecture and Discussion: dynamic trends in population (Zoom on Jan. 6) Speaker: Yohei Maruyama, Sapporo City University | Learn a demographic trend in Japan and develop your own thoughts on it through discussion. |
| Class 5 | Lecture and Discussion: philosophy and population (Zoom on Jan. 13) Speaker: Tetsu Hakoda, Kobe University | Learn philosophical ideas on population and develop your own thoughts on it through discussion. |
| Class 6 | Reading Demografiction, or literature on demography (Zoom on Jan. 20) (Tentative: Kurt Vonnegut and Demodystopia) Speaker: Ryoichi Yamane, Institute of Science Tokyo | Learn a literary context of population in the world and develop your own thoughts on it through discussion. |
| Class 7 | Review Reconsidering Population Literature (Zoom on Jan. 27) | Complete your portfolio |
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 required.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
None required
Evaluation methods and criteria
Students will be assessed by participation and assignment submissions.
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Prerequisites
N/A