Studium Generale 2023 Spring

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LecturerMultiple Instructors
DepartmentG30, 2023 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.

Learning a Foreign Language is simple

Date: April 28
Lecturer: Maria Vassileva
Handout: handout
Video:

Five things to consider when talking to people from other countries

Date: May 12
Lecturer: David Barker
Handout: handout
Video:

Understanding and Managing Stress

Date: May 19
Lecturer: Takashi Sakai
Handout: handout

Video:

Date: May 26
Lecturer: Giorgio Fabio COLOMBO
Handout: handout
Video:

Exchanging Local Histpry; Maine and Aomori

Date: June 2
Lecturer: Briar Pelletier
Handout: handout
Video:

Challenges, Joys, Heartbreak of Presenting

Date: June 23
Lecturer: Mark Weeks
Handout: handout
Video:

Perceived Stress and Sleep Quality Among Japanese University Students

Date: June 30
Lecturer: Josh Brunotte, Debbie Broadby
Handout: handout
Video:

Corporate Law and Economic Inequality: A Beginner's Guide

Date: July 7
Lecturer: Sean McGinty
Handout: handout
Video:


Syllabus

Date Topic Lecturer
4/14 COURSE INTRODUCTION
4/21 Forms of address at University Maria Vassileva (Institute of Liberal Arts and Science)
4/28 Learning a Foreign Language is simple Maria Vassileva (Institute of Liberal Arts and Science)
5/12 Five things to consider when talking to people from other countries David Barker (Gifu Univerity)
5/19 Understanding and Managing Stress Takashi Sakai (Nagoya University)
5/26 Law and Literature: The japanese legal system as seen through literary sources Giorgio Fabio COLOMBO (Graduate School of Law)
6/2 Connecting Maine and Aomori Briar Pelletier (Nagoya university)
6/16 Project Workshop
6/23 Challenges, Joys, Heartbreak of Presenting Mark Weeks (Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Academic Writing Education)
6/30 Perceived Stress and Sleep Quality Among Japanese University Students Josh Brunotte, Debbie Broadby (Aichi Prefectural University, Nanzan university)
7/7 Corporate Law and Economic Inequality: A Beginner's Guide Sean McGinty (Nagoya University Graduate School of Law)
7/14 The Invisible Rainbow: Being LGBTQIA; in Japan Yoshi Grote (Kyoto Sangyo University)
7/21 Being Good at Money Ben Shearon (Tohoku University)
7/28 Project Presentations

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

Last updated

May 19, 2023