Junior Seminar II |
YAMAZAKI, Naoya |
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【Department of Language Studies】
15-1-1410-4158-04 |
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Course Description |
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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
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