Studium Generale 2019 Spring
| Lecturer | VASSILEVA Maria Niko, Associate Professor |
|---|---|
| Department | Institute of Liberal Arts & Sciences, 2019 Spring |
| Recommended for: | All Nagoya University Students, faculty members and staff |
Course Overview
Studium Generale is a unique immersion program into an English-based lecture environment. The course offers exposure to various academic topics presented in an accessible way, and in English.
Classical Chinese Poetry: Wonderland of Chinese Characters
Date: May 14
Lecturer: Kayoko Tamura
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Ingrained Habits: Kitchen Cars, Koppe Pan, and Dietary Transformation in Postwar Japan
Date: May 21
Lecturer: Nathan Hopson
Handout: handout
Seeing the sky through funnels - the challenges of X-ray astronomers
Date: May 23
Lecturer: Hideyo Kunieda
Handout: handout
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Five things to consider when talking to people from other countries
Date: June 4
Lecturer: David Barker
Handout: handout
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Fossil reefs and sea-level change: diving into the past to predict the future
Date: June 18
Lecturer: Marc Humblet
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Syllabus
| Date | Topic | Lecturer |
|---|---|---|
| 5/14 | "Classical Chinese Poetry: Wonderland of Chinese Characters" | Kayoko Tamura (Graduate School of Humanities) |
| 5/16 | Things that they do and do not tell you about graduate school | Cheen Aik Ang (Shiseido Co., Ltd.) |
| 5/21 | Ingrained Habits: Kitchen Cars, Koppe Pan, and Dietary Transformation in Postwar Japan | Nathan Hopson (Graduate School of Humanities) |
| 5/23 | Seeing the sky through funnels - the challenges of X-ray astronomers | Hideyo Kunieda (Emeritus Professor, School of Science, Department of Physics) |
| 5/28 | Why is there so much bullsh*t in politics? | Matthew Linley (International Education and Exchange Center) |
| 5/30 | Markets and Incentives: What They Can Do and What They Can't Do | Akihiro Okumura (School of Economics) |
| 6/4 | Five things to consider when talking to people from other countries | David Barker (Gifu University) |
| 6/6 | The best advice I never got as a student: how to study with less worry, more fun - and how some basic economics can help you along the way | Daniel Marszalec (University of Tokyo) |
| 6/11 | What is Chance? | Tohru Uzawa (Graduate School for Mathematics) |
| 6/18 | "Fossil reefs and sea-level change: diving into the past to predict the future" | Marc Humblet (Graduate School of Earth and Planetary Sciences) |
| 6/20 | The fats: friend or enemy? | Ayaka Ito (Research Institute of Environmental Medicine) |
| 6/25 | Nineteenth-century Instagram | John Shillaw (Nanzan University) |
Last updated
December 12, 2019