Studium Generale 2024 Spring

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.

Videos

Learning a Foreign Language is simple: tips from a multilingual biologist

Date: April 26
Lecturer: Maria Vassileva
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Working in International Organizations

Date: May 10
Lecturer: Yukio Yokoi
Handout: handout
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Five things to consider when talking to people from other countries

Date: May 17
Lecturer: David Barker
Handout: handout
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Law and Literature: The Japanese legal system as seen through literary sources.

Date: May 31
Lecturer: Giorgio Fabio Colombo
Handout: handout
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Exchanging Local History: Maine and Aomori

Date: June 21
Lecturer: Briar Pelletier
Handout: handout
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The challenges, joys and heartbreak of giving presentations

Date: June 28
Lecturer: Mark Weeks
Handout: handout
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Perceived Stress and Sleep Quality Among University Students

Date: July 5
Lecturer: Josh Brunotte
Handout: handout
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Corporate Law and Economic Inequality: A Beginner's Guide

Date: July 19
Lecturer: Sean McGinty
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Syllabus

Date	Topic	Lecturer
4/12	COURSE INTRODUCTION
4/19	Forms of address at University	Maria Vassileva (Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences)
4/26	Learning a Foreign Language is simple: tips from a multilingual biologist	Maria Vassileva (Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences)
5/10	Working in International Organizations	Yukio Yokoi (Global Multi-Campus Initiative)
5/17	Five things to consider when talking to people from other countries	David Barker (Gifu University)
5/24	Being Good at Money	Ben Shearon (Tohoku University)
5/31	Law and Literature: The Japanese legal system as seen through literary sources.	Giorgio Fabio Colombo (Graduate School of Law)
6/14	Projects workshop
6/21	Exchanging Local History: Maine and Aomori	Briar Pelletier (Graduate School of Humanities)
6/28	The challenges, joys and heartbreak of giving presentations	Mark Weeks (Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences)
7/5	Perceived Stress and Sleep Quality Among University Students	Josh Brunotte (Aichi Prefectural University)
7/12	The Invisible Rainbow: Being LGBTQIA+ in Japan	Yoshi Joanna Grote (Kyoto Sangyo University)
7/19	Corporate Law and Economic Inequality: A Beginner's Guide	Sean McGinty (Graduate School of Law)
7/26	Project presentations

This lecture is provided under Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International.

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