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Course Code etc
Academic Year 2023
College Graduate School of Social Design Studies (MSDA)
Course Code VP211
Theme・Subtitle
Class Format Face to face (all classes are face-to-face)
Class Format (Supplementary Items)
Campus
Campus Ikebukuro
Semester Fall semester
DayPeriod・Room Tue.5・6409
Credit 2
Course Number SDM6211
Language English
Class Registration Method Course Code Registration
Grade (Year) Required 配当年次は開講学部のR Guideに掲載している科目表で確認してください。
prerequisite regulations
Acceptance of Other Colleges
course cancellation
Online Classes Subject to 60-Credit Upper Limit
Relationship with Degree Policy
Notes
Text Code VP211

【Course Objectives】

This coursework examines history of Japanese modernity and development by contextualizing it into the global debate on postdevelopment, the Anthropocene, and transition designs. Major objectives are threefold: (1) Critically exemplifying competing social design paradigms (especially state vs people) and related social conflicts in the process of modernization and development; (2) Re-examining alternative development theories that emerged in response to human and ecological disasters; (3) Exploring the diversity of social innovations in the contemporary Japan and designing just transition towards a post-growth society.

【Course Contents】

The coursework divides into three parts. The first part (Sessions 2 to 5) introduces history and examines conflictual nature of Japanese modernization and development by focusing on its human and environmental damages such as industrial pollutions and destruction of commons. The second part (Sessions 6 to 8) discusses alternative development theories that reevaluate the dimensions of ecology and culture and the role of commons and community as opposed to the society of mass consumption. The third part (Sessions 9 to 12) introduces socio-economic crises in the 21st century and explores the diversity of social innovations and policy agendas that support just transition towards post-growth.

Each class consists of lecture and discussion, with short presentation (based on reading) being included. At the end of the course, it is expected that students are able to find problems and perspectives of Japanese society and to investigate their own research.

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