Date: Wednesday 14:40-16:10
Room: Bungakubu Dai Kougi Situ
Title: Basics of Academic Writing
Contents: An academic paper, such as a term paper or bachelor's thesis,
must fulfill some requirements.
(1) It must be based on facts and on logics.
(2) Sections and paragraphs must be arranged with well-structured organization.
(3) Descriptions must be correct and can hardly be misunderstood.
(4) Author's opinions must be distinguished from findings of others' works.
(5) It must follow the rule to give appropriate citations.
In this class students learn rules and techniques for academic writing
through writing term papers.
Main topics are
Students also learn how to comment other's writing through a peer review.
[Materials for this class (in Japanese)]
Date: Thursday 10:30-12:00
Room: Kansatu Situ
Title: Reading seminar on contemporary Japanese culture
Contents:
Papers on contemporary Japanese culture are criticized from the four viewpoints:
(a) logics,
(b) structure,
(c) tables and figures, and
(d) key concepts.
One paper is read around two weeks.
The goal of this class is
(1) to learn how to search and get papers,
(2) to learn how to read papers, and
(3) to acquire skills in visual presentation.
[Materials for this class (in Japanese)]
Date: Friday 10:30-12:00
Room: Computer Room on the 7th floor
Title: Basics of Statistical Analysis
Contents:
Students learn basic concepts and methods of statistical analysis.
Using the statistical package SPSS, they learn such methods as
crosstabulation and comparison of mean between two groups.
[Materials for this class (in Japanese)]
Date: 3, 10, 17, 24 in October (Thursday) 10:30-12:00
Room: C-200 in Kawauti Kita Campus
Title: Gender Studies
Contents: A part of a class taken by some teachers [in preparation]
[Materials for the first four lectures by Tanaka (in Japanese)]
Date: Tuesday 14:40-16:10
Room: Computer Room on the 7th floor
Title: Basics of Statistical Analysis
Contents:
Students learn basic concepts and methods of statistical analysis.
Using the statistical package SPSS, they learn such methods as
crosstabulation, comparison of mean between two groups, and statistical estimation of sampling error.
[Materials for this class (in Japanese)]
Date: Wednesday 10:30-12:00
Room: Kansatu Situ
Title: Reading seminar on contemporary Japanese studies
Contents:
Papers (in Japanese or English) of contemporary Japanese studies chosen by students are criticized from the four viewpoints:
(a) logics,
(b) structure,
(c) tables and figures, and
(d) key concepts.
One paper is read around two weeks.
The goal of this class is
(1) to learn how to search and get papers,
(2) to learn how to read papers, and
(3) to acquire skills in visual presentation.
[Materials for 2001 class (for 3rd grade students; in Japanese)]
Date: Friday 10:30-12:00
Room: Computer Room on the 7th floor
Title: Statistical analysis in practice
Contents:
We must make proper use of
a variety of statistical methods according to the focus of the analysis and properties of data.
In this class, students learn characteristics of and tips about some statistical methods,
using the statistical package SPSS.
[Materials for this class (in Japanese)]
Created: 2002-03-22. Updated: 2003-03-31.
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