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This course seeks to promote the sort of environment literacy necessary for cultivation of responsible global citizens. It seeks to help students understand the basic relationship between humans and the natural environment and introduces pressing issues, ranging from environmental pollution, global warming, conservation of biological diversity, and extending to the relationship between the environment and societal changes. It encourages students to envision what they can do to promote environmental health and sustainability

This course comprehensively analyzes the mutually-influencing relationship between humans and their environment.

Environmental Science is the scientific study of the influence of human activities on the natural environment, and seeks to establish desirable relations between human activities and the natural environment, especially through a focus on energy consumption.

Examines the key conceptual frameworks and selected case studies in global environment and sustainable development.

This course will examine socioeconomic and cultural factors that create environmental problems; and also explores environmental and ecological forces that influence our society.

This course will introduce service-learning by lectures and give opportunities to engage in its process. Students will learn about,search and experience service activities in the local community or NPO followed by reflection and sharing. Language of instruction differs by term.

In this course, students will become familiar with principles, values and practices of sustainable development as well as numerous theories predicting resource depletion and environmental disaster.

Business enterprises today are faced with many contradictions; they not only seek profit but also seek to fulfill their social responsibilities in areas such as environmental conservation. This course will study the meaning and method of environmental conservation from a management point of view.

In this course we apply a liberal arts approach to looking at environmental problems, looking at the issues from various standpoints such as from that of natural science and social science. Students develop the principal skills related to environmental issues through proposing their own methods to the solution of these issues. In order to acquire a systematic understanding of the benefits society receives from the environment, students will acquire fundamental knowledge of the natural sciences that is part of ecology-related services. Additionally, in order to grasp environmental issues as societal issues, analysis methods from a sociological perspective, such as that of the analysis of society’s interested groups, will be studied through case studies. Finally, in order to propose their own methods for solving environmental issues, students will look at methods of forming and operating environmental projects and programs. Students will then take real environmental issues in society (e.g., nature on the ICU campus) and propose projects that may solve them.

The purpose of this course is to give academic credits to those who deepen learning through serving in the local community or Japan. The course consists of one-month (or the equivalent) domestic service activity.

General and basic concepts (theories) and methods of ecological studies.

This course explores the philosophy and politics of food and agriculture from international and comparative perspectives. It will examine global food systems, their role in the transformation of agrarian societies, and their environmental effects. The politics portion of the course will focus on governance, development, and the role of key institutions in shaping food systems. The philosophical portion of the course will explore the values underlying food and agriculture in the United States and Japan, along with efforts to develop more just and sustainable food systems. The course will also discuss genetically modified plants, food safety, agricultural intensification/Industrialization.

Society makes use of various chemicals today, and while these substances offer convenience in our daily lives, some have hazardous effects on humans and wildlife. This course is designed to discuss the present situation and future problems pertaining to risk management of hazardous chemicals. This is done by deepening our understanding of the behavior of hazardous chemicals (mainly in an aquatic environment), mechanisms of hazardous effects to aquatic organisms, and the conventional methodology of risk assessment in the aquatic environment. The aim of this course is to develop students'' interests in water pollution caused by hazardous chemicals and relevant countermeasures.

The purpose of this course is to give academic credits to those who deepen learning through overseas service activities. The course consists of one-month (or the equivalent) overseas service activity.

Provides a survey of environmental policy from the perspective of economics. Topics include principles of environmental economics, air pollution and waste management. Prerequisite: PRINCIPLE OF MICROECONOMICS.

This course focuses on various aspects of an environmental education curriculum and its delivery. Aspects of the environmental curriculum may include current global and local environmental risks, the ecosystem dynamics of water, trees and wildlife, and a reverence for nature. Instructional issues will touch on environmental education for learners of various developmental and educational levels. Methods will be considered for engaging learners in understanding and acting on environmental problems, exploring commonly proposed solutions, as well as plausible drawbacks of these solutions.　

The purpose of this course is to examine various social phenomenon surrounding food and agriculture. Along with examining macro social structure such as laws and regulations hinging on food and agriculture, the course also explores micro dimensions such as the implications of social movements upon food systems. Language of instruction differs by year.