Junior Seminar II

YAMAZAKI, Naoya
Compulsory  2 credits
【Department of Language Studies】
15-1-1410-4158-04

1. Course Description
This seminar-style course is designed for students who are interested in society, culture, politics, foreign relations of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and other ethnic Chinese societies. A wide variety of topics are accepted as long as they are academically and/or socially important.
Students in this course have to write a 6000-to-8000-word research paper at the end of the second semester. To complete a research paper with originality, students are required to meet the following criteria:
1. To know important rules of social science research
2. To read academic articles based on one's interest and know what other researchers have already discussed
3. To find a topic that is academically and/or socially important
4. To pose a hypothesis and prove it using empirical data
5. To express one's opinion effectively both in oral presentations and in written reports