Course title
地域環境社会学   [Environmental Sociology]
Course category   Requirement   Credit 2 
Department   Year 3  Semester 1st 
Course type 1st  Course code 01RN3256
Instructor(s)
藤井 紘司   [FUJII Koji]
Facility affiliation Graduate School of Agriculture Office   Email address

Course description
This course is going to mainly talk about two issues. The first one is how environmental sociology approaches to the life of regional community as well as environmental issues to which it has been paying attention. The second one is what kind of achievements have environmental sociology made on it.
Expected Learning
Students are supposed to acquire the basic knowledge and thinking of environmental sociology, as well as master the researching and analyzing methods when they are actually to be in a field through studying specific cases of environmental problems and environmental use. Meanwhile, students are also expected to understand the difference between “the perspective of insect” and “the perspective of bird” on the level of epistemology.

Corresponding criteria in the Diploma Policy:
See the Curriculum maps.
(URL: https://www.tuat.ac.jp/campuslife_career/campuslife/policy/ )
Course schedule
1. Guidance
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2. Borneo forest and its development Ⅰ――Watching documentaries
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3. Borneo forest and its development Ⅱ
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4. Borneo forest and its development Ⅲ――Group presentation
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5. Borneo forest and its development Ⅳ
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6. Borneo forest and its development Ⅴ
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7. Borneo forest and its development Ⅵ――Discussion
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8. Commons theory
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9. Social dilemma
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10. Regional experiences and the building of mutual agreement
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11. “The Perspective of Insect” and “The Perspective of Bird”
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12. The principle of environmental pollution
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13. The theory of Victimization’s Social Structure
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14. Summary――Story built up by “the perspective of insect”
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15. The term-end written test

※ PS: Above contents may be changed.


Prerequisites
Not in particular.
Required Text(s) and Materials
Not in particular.
References
Hiroyuki Torigoe & Hiroaki Obitani, 2009. “Easy-understanding environmental sociology (Yawaraka academy・understanding series)”. Minerva publishing.
References will be introduced each time.
Assessment/Grading
o assess from three parts as below. 1. The result of term-end test based on lectures【50 points】2. Group presentation & Discussion【25 points】3. Response paper etc.【25 points】.
Message from instructor(s)
Please feel free to write down your questions and impression about lessons on reaction or paper which is going to be distributed during class.
Course keywords
Forest, Indigenous peoples, Living, Development, Commons, Public-common-private, Pollution, Perspective of bird & Perspective of insect.
Office hours
Remarks 1
Remarks 2
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Lecture Language
Japanese
Language Subject
Last update
3/28/2019 11:11:55 AM