Studium Generale 2026 Spring

Lecturer	Multiple Instructors
Department	G30, 2026,Spring
Recommended for:	All Nagoya University Students, faculty members and staff

Course Overview

Studium Generale is a unique immersion program that provides an English-based lecture environment. The course offers exposure to a variety of academic topics presented in an accessible way - all in English.

Videos

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

Date: April 17
Lecturer: Maria Vassileva
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Five things to consider when talking to people from other countries

Date: May 1
Lecturer: David Barker
Handout: handout
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Law and Literature: The Japanese legal system as seen through literary sources.

Date: May 7
Lecturer: Giorgio Fabio Colombo
Handout: handout
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Connecting Maine and Aomori

Date: May 15
Lecturer: Briar Pelletier
Handout: handout
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Date: June 5
Lecturer: Raquel Costa
Handout: handout
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Corporate Law and Economic Inequality: A Beginner's Guide

Date: June 19
Lecturer: Sean McGinty
Handout: handout
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Perceived Stress and Sleep Quality Among University Students

Date: June 26
Lecturer: Josh Brunotte
Handout: handout
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Labour Migration and Development

Date: July 10
Lecturer: Francis Peddie
Handout: handout
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Syllabus

Date	Topic	Lecturer
4/10	Course Introduction
4/17	Learning a Foreign Language is simple: tips from a multilingual biologist	Maria Vassileva (Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences)
4/24	Being Good at Money	Ben Shearon (Tohoku University)
5/1	Five things to consider when talking to people from other countries	David Barker (Gifu University)
5/8	Law and Literature: The Japanese legal system as seen through literary sources.	Giorgio Fabio Colombo (Graduate School of Law)
5/15	Connecting Maine and Aomori	Briar Pelletier (Graduate School of Humanities)
5/22	Project workshop
5/27	Project presentations
6/5	Attachment theory: what we can learn about the origins of social behavior from primates studies	Raquel Costa (Graduate School of Education and Human Development)
6/19	Corporate Law and Economic Inequality: A Beginner's Guide	Sean McGinty (Graduate School of Law)
6/26	Perceived Stress and Sleep Quality Among University Students	Josh Brunotte (Aichi Prefectural University)
7/3	The Invisible Rainbow: Being LGBTQIA+ in Japan	Yoshi Joanna Grote (Kyoto Sangyo University)
7/10	Labour Migration and Development	Francis Peddie (GSID)
7/17	Project workshop
7/24	Projects presentations

*The affiliations of the lecturers and the dates shown in the video are as of the time the lecture was given.

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Last updated

July 24, 2026