Studium Generale 2020 Fall

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.

Fossil reefs and sea-level change: diving into the past to predict the future

Date: October 9
Lecturer: Marc Humblet
Handout: handout
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Online Courses: Learning and Artifical Intelligence

Date: October 23
Lecturer: Jeffrey Cross
Handout: handout
Video:

The science of shampoo

Date: October 30
Lecturer: Nicola Skoulding
Handout: handout
Video:

*Reposting from Studium Generale 2016 Fall

Contemporary Diets: Between Sustainability & Wastefulness

Date: November 6
Lecturer: Christina Wenzl
Handout: handout

From Playstation to Hospitals: Hidden mathematics in our daily life

Date: November 27
Lecturer: Henrik Bachmann
Handout: handout
Video:

*Reposting from Studium Generale 2019 Fall

Five things to consider when talking to people from other countries

Date: December 11
Lecturer: David Barker
Handout: handout
Video:

How does bacteria swim?

Date: December 18
Lecturer: Seiji Kojima
Handout: handout

Introduction to the world of scientific publishing

Date: January 8
Lecturer: Florence O. Ene
Handout: handout
Video:

Some basic biology to help us understand the COVID

Date: January 22
Lecturer: Maria Vassileva
Handout: handout
Video:

Syllabus

Date	Topic	Lecturer
10/2	COURSE INTRODUCTION
10/9	Fossil reefs and sea-level change: diving into the past to predict the future	Marc Humblet (Graduate School of Environmental Sciences)
10/16	The Invisible Rainbow: Being LGBTQIA+ in Japan	Yoshi Joanna Grote (Kyoto Sangyo University)
10/23	Online Courses: Learning and Artifical Intelligence	Jeffrey Cross (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
10/30	The science of shampoo	Nicola Skoulding (Graduate School of Science, Department of Chemistry)
11/6	Contemporary Diets: Between Sustainability & Wastefulness	Christina Wenzl (Graduate School of Humanities)
11/13	Understanding the wealth and development of nations	Carlos Mendez (Graduate School of International Development)
11/20	Discussion Session
11/27	From Playstation to Hospitals: Hidden mathematics in our daily life	Henrik Bachmann (Graduate School of Mathematics)
12/4	Meiji Restoration - From a Country of Samurai to a Country of High Technology	Yukio Ishida (Nagoya University emeritus professor, School of Engineering)
12/11	Five things to consider when talking to people from other countries	David Barker (Gifu University)
12/18	How does bacteria swim?	Seiji Kojima (Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University)
12/25	Being Good at Money	Ben Shearon (Tohoku University)
1/8	Introduction to the world of scientific publishing	Florence O. Ene (The University of Tokyo)
1/15	Discussion Session
1/22	Some basic biology to help us understand the COVID	Maria Vassileva (Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University)

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*Some lectures used past materials due to the coronavirus countermeasures.

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