Course title
環境資源科学特別講義Ⅰ   [Special Lecture on Environmental Sciences and Natural Resources I]
Course category	specialized courses/ major subjects	Requirement		Credit	2
Department		Year	2～4	Semester	YearLong
Course type	YearLong	Course code	02a2660
Instructor(s)
渡邉 泉   [WATANABE Izumi]
Facility affiliation	Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering	Office		Email address

Course description

This course gives the introduction to socio-informatics studies. Students will grasp the human history of communication and find how different media shape the way people communicate and social systems operate. This course helps students enlarge their views on their specialty areas.

Expected Learning

Students can understand differences between human communication and machine communication. Students can understand historical transformations of social structures and how different media affected them. Students can understand how information works in current society. * As for the diploma policy, see the Curriculum maps.

Course schedule

Part 1: Information and Communication Class 1: guidance Class 2: non-natural meaning, speech act, communicative action Class 3: text and context Class 4: media and thought Class 5: mass media and society Class 6: communication and body Part 2: The History of Information and Society Class 7: consciousness in primitive societies Class 8: the history of media Class 9: capitalism and media in 20th century Class 10: from hiper-consumptive society to network society Part 3: Changes in Information and Society Class 11: networked individualism Class 12: consumerization of information Class 13: individualization of information Class 14: personal information and privacy Class 15: the future of information

Prerequisites

This course is elective. Students should make adequate preparations before each class spending the standard amount of time as specified by the university to achieve the credit as well as 30 hours of class attendance. Students must attend at least two-thirds of all classes to get credit. If a student does not fully attend the class (i.e. is present for less than the full 90 minutes) on two occasions, it should be counted as one absence.

Required Text(s) and Materials

Ichiro Okano, "Socio-Informatics for Building a Better Future, Norin Tokei Shuppan.

References

References are shown to students in class.

Assessment/Grading

class participation (40%), quizzes (40%), final report (20%): Students' degree of understanding of differences between human communication and machine communication, historical transformations of social structures and media, and how information works in current society are evaluated.

Message from instructor(s)

Course keywords

communication, capitalism, information, media

Office hours

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Lecture Language

Japanese

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Last update

2/7/2023 10:54:23 AM