Advanced Liberal Arts Course

Global Resource Management

2024

Program Guide
For students enrolled in
AY2023 & 2024

Ⅰ. What is GRM (Global Resource Management) Program?
GRM program is a graduate education program for all graduate students in themaster’s and doctoral degree programs.
The GRM courses constitute the Advanced Liberal Arts Courses (see below), which
are taken separately from studies at the graduate school. The main feature of thisprogram is that graduate students from various backgrounds and nationalities are
studying together in English.
In today's uncertain world, you may envision a future with a positive perspective,
but there is also a future that can only be seen by overcoming difficult circumstances.
We can learn a lot from the difficulties that the world faces and that will in turn helptransform our society.
This is a program that enables students to acquire basic knowledge beyond theirown fields of specialization and "advanced literacy at the graduate level", in addition
to the "wisdom" to think and overcome difficulties together with others.

Fostering "Con Engineers and Innovators"

1．Developing Human Resources
The GRM program nurtures "Con Engineers and Innovators": who not only have theskills to apply science and make it useful in human life, but also have "Wisdom" thatcombines science and technology, as well as "Conscience" to support people. The
technology includes practical skills for building relationships and managing
organizational projects.
2．What is Global Resource Management?
This course originated from our graduate school's educational program, which was
adopted as a "Leading Program for Doctoral Education" by the Ministry of Education,
Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan.
In this program, GRM defines "resources" broadly, encompassing not only natural
resources but also human resources and social capital. The essence of GRM is tobuild and improve infrastructure as a common resource for sustainable development
1and peace through appropriate and fair management and operation of these"resources".
3．What is "Advanced Liberal Arts" Course
The Advanced Liberal Arts (ALA) course was developed as a part of the reform ofgraduate education to provide "cross-disciplinary and cross-field education". It is aselection of courses that aim to provide basic skills appropriate for graduate students
from perspectives other than their specialization.
GRM courses are designated as Advanced Liberal Arts courses by the Graduate
School of Doshisha University. The ALA courses will develop individuals who can play
an active role in modern society with "conscience" as their backbone, in accordancewith the philosophy of liberal arts education. In particular, the courses aim to impartthe following abilities:-Ability to overview from a universal perspective-Comprehensive ability to deal with issues by combining multiple specialized
knowledge-Imagination to interpret the future-Proposal ability to show the future of a conscientious human society
The ALA courses consist of three programs with different themes which include"Environment" and "AI data science". You can cultivate knowledge, skills, and amultifaceted viewpoint to help you choose a career path or develop a career after
completing graduate school.
◆ Features of the course/program consists of ALA Course

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Ⅱ. Enrollment of GRM Program
1. Eligibility to take GRM courses
The GRM courses are open to all students of Graduate Schools in the master’sand doctoral degree programs.
Each graduate school has its own regulations on the handling of GRM course
credits. Check the course registration guide of each graduate school for the
maximum number of credits that can be earned in this program, and whether thosecredits will be counted to complete the master’s/doctoral degree programs.
2. Registration of GRM courses
You may register from a single course in this program. Register the courses on
DUET during the designated course registration period each semester. There are no
additional procedures other than course registration.

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Ⅲ. Overview of GRM ProgramThis program consists of three stages and a total of 17 subjects as in the table below.
GRM program is based on the principle of "designing your own study plan". The firststage and the third stage are required courses while in the second stage, the courses
can be freely selected. With this, students can further develop their own strengths
or deepen their studies in their weak fields.
◆The 1st Stage
This program provides on-site practice (either overseas or in Japan) to experience"local conditions and issues" on chosen topics. Through learning in the field,
students will recognize knowledge to be acquired, abilities to be developed, andnecessary perspectives, and design their own learning plans for the future.
◆The 2nd Stage
Based on a self-designed study plan, students will learn a wide range of crossfield knowledge and perspectives necessary to solve problems, without distinction
between the humanities and the sciences.
◆The 3rd Stage
Students will review and develop practical proposals for problem-solving in groups.
In the process, the students will also confirm the growth in their own performance
as a result of taking the GRM program.

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GRM Program Course List
Category
1st Stage

Course Name
Compulsory

On-site Group Work
Resource

Managementfor

Coexistence

andCulturalDiversity
Mathematics and Physics as Liberal Arts
Infrastructure Design for Human Communities
Environmental Earth Science as Liberal Arts
Global Resource Management: Interdisciplinary Approach1
Global Resource Management: Interdisciplinary Approach2
Global Resource Management and Sustainable Development
2nd Stage

Selective

Goals1(3 courses

Global Resource Management and Sustainable Development

or more)Goals2Global Resource Management and International Relations
Research Methods of Social Sciences
Global Society in the Modern WorldGRM Topics 1
GRM Topics 2
Capacity Development for Coexistence and Cooperative
Works
Introductory Laboratory of Infrastructures

3rd Stage

Compulsory

Seminar for Advanced Liberal Arts・Each course is worth 2 credits.
・GRM classes will be conducted primarily in English. In consideration of the language
ability of the students, some classes may be partially conducted in Japanese.
・In order to register and take “Seminar for Advanced Liberal Arts”, "On-site GroupWork" must have been completed in previous years or registered during the same
year.

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Ⅳ. Requirements for Completing GRM Program
1. Credit requirement
The number of credits required for completion of this course is 10.
・The first stage and the third stage courses are Compulsory.
・The second stage courses are Selective. At least 3 courses (6 credits)of your choice are required.
Category

Course Group

Required Credits

1st Stage

On-site Group Work

1 course (2 credits)

2nd Stage

Selective courses

3 courses (6 credits) or more

3rd Stage

Seminar for Advanced Liberal Arts

1 course (2 credits)Total

5 courses (10 credits) or more

2. Program period
This program can be completed in one year, or it can also be completed overmultiple years. Students may enroll the program in any year of the master's or
doctoral program.
3. Review for the completion of the program
Students who have registered for the "Seminar for Advanced Liberal Arts" will be
asked if they wish to complete the GRM program. Only those students who wish tocomplete the program will be reviewed for the completion.

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Ⅴ. AY2024 GRM Program Course List

・All courses can be registered from M1.
・ In consideration of the language ability of the students, GRM classes will be
conducted primarily in English.
・Face-to-face classes will be held on either campus (I = Imadegawa /T = Kyotanabe).
・In order to register “Seminar for Advanced Liberal Arts”, "On-site Group Work"
must have been completed in previous years or registered during the same year.
・【※】On-site Group Work in AY2024: Participation in an overseas on-site practice isrequired. The schedule and destination will be announced later, and the number ofstudents will be limited to about 10. In addition, some lectures/report sessions may
be held on Imadegawa or Kyotanabe campus before and after the on-site practice.

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Ⅵ. Overview of AY2024 GRM Program Courses
1st Stage（Compulsory）
On-site Group Work（Instructors）
Yuko ONISHI(Institute forAdvanced Research and Education)（Overview）
This course aims at constructing the concept of solution
building through the combination of lectures, field visits andgroup work. Lectures from the angles of both social scienceand engineering provide basic insight and knowledge inpursuing field visits and group work. Field visits give students
the practical experience, while group work, made up of
students from different specialties, offers students theplatform for sharing ideas, seeking problems and discussing
views based on knowledge gained in the class and experience
gained on the field.
-Necessary expenses incurred during the field visit will becovered by the GRM program.
-Prescreening may take place based on individual English
competency levels.

2nd Stage（Selective: At least 3 courses are required）
Resource Management for Coexistence and Cultural Diversity
Eiji OYAMADA(GS)（Overview）

Tadashi YAGI(Economics)

In this course, students will learn the interpretation of

Shinichiro HAMA（Law）“resource” and how we can translate problems with thisNaoto NAGAOKA(S&E)

concept. Lectures will be delivered by all different professors

Jiro SENDA(S&E)

in each time and explain how the concept of “resource” canMinoru INABA(S&E)

be adapted in each field. Lectures will also explain how the

Yuko ONISHI(Institute forproper management of “resources” could contribute to solve

Advanced Research and Education)

problems of their field.
The course is delivered with the relayed lecture style in*GS: Global Studies

order to cover wide range of topics: both social and natural

S&E: Science & Engineeringscience.

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2nd Stage（Selective: At least 3 courses are required）
Mathematics and Physics as Liberal Arts（Instructors）
Camille Faith PASCUAROMERO(Contract Instructor）（Overview）
The course aims at giving students enough knowledge inphysics to understand artificial social infrastructure andnatural environment. It puts particular emphasis on electricalenergy explaining how electrical power is generated，
transported，distributed and utilized by people.
Demonstration employing small scale models of electricalgenerators， fluid machines and motors should enhance
students’ understanding of energy conversion. Simple
mathematical formulations of fundamental physics rules are
given， but the course does not necessarily require highmathematical skills and abilities of students.

Infrastructure Design for Human Communities（Instructors）
Camille Faith PASCUAROMERO(Contract Instructor）（Overview）
Infrastructure is the foundation of any kind of activities ofhuman community. Knowledge on how these components ofinfrastructure are integrated provides a viewpoint
indispensable to make further study on resource
management for non-engineering major graduate students.
As a basic level course, this course puts more emphasis on
how to understand the logics and basic methodologies
required for planning and designing of infrastructures,
rather than obtaining individual knowledge. The course puts
more emphasis on actually solving problems, rather than justmemorizing formulae, for a student to obtain some idea of
thinking as an engineer.

Environmental Earth Science as Liberal Arts（Instructors）
Yuko ONISHI(Institute forAdvanced Research and Education)（Overview）
This course introduces graduate students, regardless of
their background, to scientific perspectives on environmental
systems of the earth. It will cover fundamental and importantconcepts in understanding the physical processes that areshaping the Earth and its resources, including the climate,surface, and biological processes. It will take a closer look atfunctioning and variations of biological resources through fieldobservations in Kyoto City and provide computer-based
practice using geographical information systems (GIS).

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2nd Stage（Selective: At least 3 courses are required）
Global Resource Management: Interdisciplinary Approach1-Natural Science（Instructors）
Yuko ONISHI(Institute forAdvanced Research and Education)（Overview）
This course introduces the students to the interdisciplinary
approach to global resource management, illustrated by acase of climate change and biological conservation. The
course will first look at how the climate has been changing
and how it is affecting the biological resources. It will thenprovide some details about climate change modelling and thefuture projected impacts. Finally, the course will cover
approaches to manage the resources in light of changing
climate.

Global Resource Management and Sustainable Development Goals1（Instructors）
Yuko ONISHI(Institute forAdvanced Research and Education)（Overview）
The Sustainable Development Goals were adopted by theUnited Nations in 2015, which include 17 goals
encompassing natural, social, and economic sectors. This
course introduces various topics related to SDGs on natural
resources, which are considered as a basis for social andeconomic goals. It is structured as an interdisciplinary
course, with lectures consisting of scientific backgrounds tothe problem, international/national measures (e.g. policies,
legislations, assessments), and case studies ofprojects/actions by researchers and communities.

Global Resource Management and International Relations（Instructors）
Seifudein ADEM(Institute forAdvanced Research and Education)（Overview）
This course reviews contending theories of International
Relations (IR) by scrutinizing the basic concepts of eachtheory, its core, and auxiliary propositions, and its underlying
assumptions. The course also applies each theory tocontemporary history.

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2nd Stage（Selective: At least 3 courses are required）
Research Methods of Social Sciences（Instructors）
Seifudein ADEM(Institute forAdvanced Research and Education)（Overview）
Theoretical perspectives about the social sciences had forlong viewed cultures and civilizations through a vertical
divide—as stratified and hierarchical. Culture had been thus
marginalized as an important variable for understanding
relations between societies. We join the growing intellectual
trend by highlighting the relevance of cultural forces for a
deeper understanding of the dynamics within societies andthe relationships among them.

Global Society in the Modern World（Instructors）
Eiji OYAMADA(GS)（Overview）
This course will look at the global issues of today (gap
between the rich and poor, migration across national
borders, religious and cultural coexistence, refugees, humansecurity and others), examine the causes and impact ofthese issues, and find possible measures. Furthermore, indepth understanding on key perspectives needed in the
study of global issues will be gained. While developing
knowledge through actual case studies and insights frompractitioners, analysis of corrective measures will be done.

Global Resource Management: Interdisciplinary Approach2-Humanity and Social
Science（Instructors）
Yuko ONISHI(Institute forAdvanced Research and Education)（Overview）
This course introduces the students to interdisciplinary
approach to global resource management, with a focus onpractical methods for collaboration. Global resource crisis isoccurring and continues to be unsolved because a wide rangeof people are involved in various ways. To address the issue,
it is important that we collaborate with various stakeholders
and work out effective and appropriate solutions together,
but the collaboration is often very difficult. This course will
provide overviews and hands-on exercises for enhancing
interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary (working with people
with no scientific expertise) approach for problem-solving.

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2nd Stage（Selective: At least 3 courses are required）
Global Resource Management and Sustainable Development Goals2（Instructors）
Yuko ONISHI(Institute forAdvanced Research and Education)（Overview）
The Sustainable Development Goals were adopted by theUnited Nations in 2015, which include 17 goals
encompassing natural, social, and economic sectors. This
course introduces various topics related to SDGs, with afocus on social and economic sectors. The course covers theinstitutions related to SDGs and various case studies oncommunity or scientific efforts in addressing the societal
problems. The course ends by the group exercises on actionsfor SDGs.

GRM Topics 1 （Natural Hazards and Disaster Management）（Instructor）
Anna MATSUKAWA(Contract Instructor）（Overview）
Disasters are social phenomena, and the magnitude of thedamage and the process of recovery and reconstruction
resulting from them are influenced by the vulnerability ofsociety, pre-disaster measures taken by society and legal
systems, and the response during disaster occurrence. This
lecture aims to examine the current state of disaster-related
legislation in Japan and disaster preparedness and response
based on it, using recent examples and issues from disasters.

GRM Topics 2 (Topics in Mathematics for Information and Data Sciences)（Instructor）（Overview）

Takeshi TOKUYAMA

Learn how mathematics is used to develop information(Contract Instructor）

technology and data science. The lecturer will talk his own
experiences in his career, give some puzzles, and solve
problems together in the class to understand howmathematics is useful in real life.
Mathematical knowledge is not required, but students aresuggested to study (say, search Wikipedia) about the topics
given in the lectures after each lecture to have deeper
understanding. Students are requested to write short reportof their study.

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2nd Stage（Selective: At least 3 courses are required）
Capacity Development for Coexistence and Cooperative Works（Instructor）（Overview）

Mitsuaki UEDA
(Contract Instructor）

This course is designed to design their own career paths in
the globalized world， and obtain necessary skills which might
be needed when searching jobs.
Besides the lectures which will be given by the lecturer
who is in charge of this class, there will be guest speakers
and trainers. The guests will talk about not only their firsthand work experiences， but also share their personal
insights about how PhD students could make best use of
their time in university in terms of career path and how they
can design their own career.

Introductory Laboratory of Infrastructures（Instructor）（Overview）

Yoki IKEDA(Contract Instructor）

A knowledge and technics about an electrical construction,a plumbing construction, and road construction are useful toengage for some work such as a restoration of
infrastructures and a construction of life line at a country
with insufficient infrastructure, such as disaster-stricken
areas or conflict areas.
In the class, learn about the tools and equipment which
can be use in individual level, and the basics of electricalconstruction, by experiment using actual equipment.

3rd Stage（Compulsory）
Seminar for Advanced Liberal Arts（Instructor）
Masanori NAITO(GS)（Overview）
This seminar will be a wrap-up for students who have

Yuko ONISHI(Institute fortaken GRM-related courses. In addition, consider about

Advanced Research and Education)

contemporary issues surrounding society and explore how tosolve them.
In

this

seminar,

speciallectures

will

be

given

by

distinguished visiting professors. The guest lecturers areindividuals who have been active at the forefront of the world
for many years. Through discussions with them, students will
acquire the literacy and broad perspective to understand what
is happening in the "current" world.

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Ⅶ. Others◆ GRM Common Rooms
GRM Common Rooms, one located on the second floor of Shikokan building at
Karasuma Campus and another one on the first floor of Hochikan building at
Kyotanabe Campus, are open to the GRM students to improve students’ learning
environment. The two common rooms are connected online to enable students toremotely take lectures offered at the other campus. In addition, the GRM students
can use laptop computers and A4 printers (black and white) in the common rooms.
Please note the following points when using the Common Rooms.
・ Student ID card is required to enter the Common Rooms.
・ The Common Rooms are open from 9:00 to 17:00, Monday through Friday during
the office hours.
・ When classes or lectures are held in the Common Rooms, you cannot use theCommon Rooms personally.
・ Eating and drinking are prohibited in the Common Rooms for the purpose of
equipment maintenance.
If you have any questions, please contact the Office of the Institute for Advanced
Research and Education.

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