A lecture by Mr. Iida of ISEP
Sophia Winter School is a short term program for Chinese students enrolled in universities in China. This program started last year with an aim to help them gain wider perspective and deeper understanding of Japan. This program is also an attempt to provide access to strengthening our globalization activities. This year 42 students from 15 universities attended the program that took place from January 21 to 29.
The two-part curriculum consisted of courses that taught Japanese language and those that gave an overview of contemporary Japanese situation. All the lectures were given in Japanese. The language course was held in two levels with a goal to enable students to learn skills for simple everyday communication, such as, making a good first impression or making a proposal.
Chinese student learning Japanese in a classroom
Mr. Tetsuya Iida, Director of ISEP, Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies, who is actively involved in dealing with energy problems, gave a special lecture on the subject of post-nuclear accident issues concerning energy and environmental policies. Furthermore, lectures were held on the topics such as “Japanese constitutional law in the post WWII political system” “Japanese Culture made by the Media” “International Migration of Labor and Japan” “Macro Economics of China and Japan” “Japan’s Contemporary Politics.” On the 24th Professor Yuga Suzuki of Faculty of Humanities, Department of Journalism took the students to a sightseeing tour of Fuji Television Network.
On the first day, there was a campus tour organized by Sophia students. At the welcoming party, Japanese students who are studying Chinese and Chinese students who have been studying here on a long term basis joined Winter School students to spend few hours of fun and talk together.
