Introduction to Social and Economic Sciences 　 K51-1101
第３学期　火曜 ４・５時限（２単位）	対象： ２年生
担当教員： Stephen Turnbull　3C306 　電話853-5027 E-mail: turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp　　　　Office hour: see home page
教科書：なし。資料を授業で配布予定
授業概要・教育目標：This course is a short walk through topics of social and economic science which interest me, at a level appropriate to this course, taught mostly in English. It is not an English course, although I hope to help you improve your English. Nor is it a technical course. Although I plan to present new and interesting ideas to you, there is not going to be a coherent focus, nor will I try to do a comprehensive survey. Short readings will be distributed to be read with written assignments as homework, then read orally and discussed in class. In case of large attendance, it is likely that class discussion will be deemphasized.

授業計画：Each lecture will be self-contained, based on a topic of current interest. “Standard” lectures are described below. In the rest, a reading will be taken from a recent issue of a newspaper or serious general interest periodical. Other past topics include: “Sharon’s Big Gamble” (Asahi Weekly), “Stock Market Manipulation and Regulatory Oversight” (no reading).
第1週	Technology and Language: Email and Personal Telephone Messaging.
第2週	Parallelism in Rhetoric: “Yasser Arafat’s Voids (Asahi Weekly).
第3週	(to be announced)
第4週	(to be announced)
第5週	(to be announced)
第6週	(to be announced)
第7週	What is “Research”? The profession that solves puzzles.
第8週	Research Topic Choice and Project Planning.
第9週	Thomas Kuhn’s “Paradigms”. There is no “right” answer!
第10週	(to be announced)

成績評価： Attendance = 20%, weekly assignments = 50%, final report = 30%.

備考：See also the course home page: http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/Teach/IntroSES/

Attendance and active participation are required. Approximately weekly homeworks will be assigned with some team work in class, and there will be a more extensive final report.

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