8 Summer Course Programs in Japan

This action-oriented course makes the most of the short-term study abroad environment by focusing on the situations that students encounter while in Japan.

This course examines Japanese society, culture, and education from the viewpoints of Japan’s internal ethnic diversity in today’s rapidly globalizing and internationalizing world.

This course aims first to enable students to learn the basic perspectives and methodologies of Culture Studies in social science, and then to apply them to the understanding of contemporary Japanese cultural scenes.

By studying the history and development of Japanese management style, this course provides a broad overview of political, economic, technological, legal and ethical forces that influence international management.

The selected Asian business cases are interdisciplinary and application-oriented, which will help to critically address contemporary-related international management issues to be framed in their historical and geographic ecologies.

Drawing upon our vast experience in combining language and culture in multi-level classes, this course provides an opportunity to experience Japanese culture first hand with Japanese students.

Learn the process and methods to uncover people’s needs, opinions, and behaviors, and apply them to drive the development of successful products and services. People-centered research provides the hands-on skills to help you understand people’s opinions, behaviors, expectations, and goals for using a product or service, and how to apply these skills with empathy, honesty, and pragmatism.

The art of emulating life: design across biological scales! This course involves an active search and a responsive foresight; it does not involve extracting from nature, it implies learning from it. Human beings are not simply observers of nature, as if we were looking at it from a bubble. We are 100% in nature.