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This course provides basic understanding of research topics or methods of social and information studies. Students are expected to realize the meaning and significance of studying in our faculty.
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After completing this course, students will be able to:
1). Explain the aim and objects of social and information studies.
2). Understand the role of information media.
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This course follows the policy of the Faculty of Social and Information Studies in aiming to cultivate those students:
1) Have insights into the process of production, distribution, manufacturing, accumulation and utilization of information in society(Social-Information Process), and can identify problems with them.
2) Are concerned with organizations' and local communities' problems that have emerged in information society, and have intentions to solve them.
3) Can think and judge things in a scientific and critical way, as well as can explain and inform other obtained knowledge in an easy-to-understand way.
The evaluation weight of each index is as follows:
DP(1) [◎] Understanding of Social-Information process
DP(2) [◎] Concerns about problems in organizations or societies
DP(3) [〇] Ability of scientific analysis and persuasion
DP(4) [―] Ability of data collection and analysis
DP(5) [―] Foreign language skills
（◎：Especially important，〇：Important，△：Subject to evaluation，―：Not subject to evaluation）
Please note that the diploma policy is formally defined using Japanese terms. The above description is based on an unauthorized translation of it.
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Major perspectives and concepts are presented including objectives and methodologies of social and information studies, developing stages of information societies, roles of information or media, how the life-stages and values of people have changed according to the progress of information technologies. Knowledge and expertise of social sciences necessary to work and live in an information society will also be given.
Several teachers with various disciplines give lecturers in order to deepen the understanding to this research field.
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Lectures and question-and-answer sessions.
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1st Week: Introduction; What is the Information Society? (1)
2nd Week: What is the Information Society? (2)
3rd Week: Information Technology and Society (1)
4th Week: Information Technology and Society (2)
5th Week: Information Society in the World: Case Studies on Internet Cafes (1)
6th Week: Information Society in the World: Case Studies on Internet Cafes (2)
7th Week: Information Society in the World: Case Studies on Internet Cafes (3)
8th Week: Information Processing and Communication (1): Analog Data and Digital Data
9th Week: Information Processing and Communication (2): Basic Decision Making
10th Week: Week: Information Processing and Communication (3): Society and Communication
11th Week: Information and Decision Making (1): Modeling and Optimization
12th Week: Information and Decision Making (2): Social Simulation
13th Week: Information and Decision Making (3): Artificial Intelligence
14th Week: Symposium on Social and Information Studies (1)
15th Week: Symposium on Social and Information Studies (2)
16th Week: Final Examination
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Though students are not required to read some books in advance, related literatures are shown in every class for further study.
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Attendance of more than two-thirds of the classes is required. The grading is according to essays. Each teacher gives his own essay theme, and each student have to hand in two essays (2,000 letters each).
Each student is assigned a final grade as follows: Grade S (100-90%); A (89-80%); B (79-70%); C (69-60%); D (59- %).
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This course is introductory but some topics are at advanced level. Questions are welcome anytime. Please ask questions without hesitation.
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Information; Media; Information System; Social Information; Decision Making; Paradigm; Inter-disciplinarity; Synthesization; Mobility; International Comparison on the Internet Use; Analog/Digital; Share; Circulation; Operations Research; Social Simulation; Artificial Intelligence
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Related literatures are shown in every class.
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