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"Information and the Society" is an essential subject in order to acquire a teaching certificate of high school. This lecture is going to interpret the connection between technology of information and society. ?he whole lecture is divided into three parts. The first part is about the social communication of information contents (data, web information and image, etc.). The second part is about the development of electronic organizations (team, market and community) which enable using information network to communicate. Finally on the basis of the first and the second part, the third part is about how to interpret the influence given by the information media for the reformation of society.

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This course is consisted of correspondence between students and the professor by E-mail.This course is aiming at bringing society closer to the students and fostering the ability to think of it.

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This course is designed to help the students acquire a situated and contextualized knowledge framework in the domain of quantum mechanics. Embedded problem solving sessions will help them apply the framework to actual physical systems by developing necessary analytical skills.

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This course picks up the historical process leading to statistical mechanics, which is an important branch of modern physics. The lecture must also be very interesting even for the students who do not necessarily need statistical mechanics in their major but want to enjoy a part of essence of modern physics.

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This course comprises omnibus lectures provided by the faculty staff with the school of public health. In this class, health information literacy that is based on epidemiologic principles and evidence-based medicine is introduced with presenting examples.

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This is an elementary course of thermodynamics for physics, physical chemistry and engineering. The lecture purpose is to introduce the second law of thermodynamics and the important notion of entropy. Mathematical tools, especially formula on the partial differentiation are lectured in the first class to help beginner students.

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Students learn the concept and planning methods of EWSS which will be effective in the necessitation of a sustainable water environment and for the restoration of historical cities, maintaining beauty and safety, for future generations.

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The various professors at Kyoto University give the lectures relating to Korean history and the culture.

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This course prepares beginners to learn basic (not BASIC) computation skills required in many fields of science, engineering and statistics, etc… . Fortran programming exercise is imposed in each section of lectures.

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Acquiring fundamental knowledge concerning lifestyle-related diseases and the role of exercise and nutrition for prevention of these diseases.

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Don’t translate your Japanese thoughts, but think, write and debate in English. Let’s practice in a small class and improve our intercultural communication skills!

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Issues regarding modern university and university students are issues close to home, which you students cannot ignore as mere knowledge or general issues. In this course, we expect you to consider these issues with historical knowledge.

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This lecture is going to let the students master the necessary basics of information seeking during lectures and practices not provided by chief librarians but by teachers of specialized fields. The practices are worked out with the cooperation of the librarians.

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Genetics, the science of heredity, will be lectured from cell divisions to the mechanism and material basis of heredity so that students without the basic knowledge of biology can follow the entire course.

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This lecture is an introduction to part of the results of the researches called “An Interdisciplinary Study of Representation and Expression of Race” and made in collaboration with the Institute for Research in Humanities. Yet these results will be presented in a pleasant and intelligible manner. Why does the race still exist realistically even after such a long time the fact that a race does not exist biologically was elucidated? We will bring up the problem of the racial reality through the analysis of representation. This lecture will be relayed by lecturers who are playing active roles in history of art, literature, history, life sciences and anthropology.

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Since the birth of the euro in 1999, the international monetary system finds itself in a slow but historical transition from the uni-polar system of the US dollar hegemony to a bipolar or multi-polar system of the US dollar, euro and possibly Asian currencies. The purpose of the lecture is to understand current monetary issues in East Asia after the Asian crisis, and to search for a new monetary order in the region with the backdrop of the above-mentioned global change, drawing lessons from the European experience of regional integration in real and monetary economies. The autumn semester covers the history of European integration leading to the EMU (Economic and Monetary Union), and contemporary economic issues in the euro area. The spring semester concentrates itself upon monetary issues in East Asia such as the Chinese yuan (renminbi), Hong Kong dollar, Japanese yen and the Asian crisis. The two semesters are structured independently from each other, although students would obtain deeper insight by taking both.