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Summer Courses offered by the

Graduate School of Letters/Faculty of Letters

June – August 2018 at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Hokkaido Summer Institute 2018

You can apply online fromFebruary 1～28, 2018!

Experience an Academic Summer at Hokkaido University

This course presents an introduction to a number of topics in experimental culturalpsychology, as well as research relevant to some of the major problems in this field.

Takahiko MASUDA

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology,University of Alberta, Canada

Professor, Department of Behavioral Science,Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University

Takahiko MASUDA

Masaki YUKI

Cultural PsychologyFrontiers in Cultural Psychology 2018 July 11 – July 13For Undergraduate Students

The sociology of language looks at social phenomena interrelated with questions oflanguage. In this course, we focus on the role of language in the modernization of Japan.We learn that modernity has an empowering and an oppressive side.

Patrick HEINRICH

Associate Professor, Department of Asian and NorthAfrican Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology,Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University

Patrick HEINRICH

Carola HOMMERICH

Seminar in SociologySociology of Language: Language and Wellbeing in Japan Aug. 6 – Aug. 9For Undergraduate Students

The course will cover how plants and animals become invasive, the economic, social andenvironmental damage they cause, and the population dynamics of invasion. This willinclude examples from Japan, New Zealand and around the world.

Al GLEN

Researcher, Landcare Research (Wildlife Ecology &Management), New Zealand

Professor, Department of Regional Sciences,Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University

Al GLEN

Tohru IKEDA

Social EcologyPrinciples of Invasion Ecology June 18 – June 22For Undergraduate Students

This course is designed to improve psychology graduate students' English writing skills foracademic papers.

Takahiko MASUDA

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology,University of Alberta, Canada

Professor, Department of Behavioral Science,Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University

Takahiko MASUDA

Masaki YUKI

Academic Paper-Writing Workshop forCultural and Social Psychological Journals 2018 July 8 - July 10For Graduate StudentsG27

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Nicolas DE WARREN

Associate Professor,Pennsylvania State University, USA

Nicolas DE WARREN

The aim of this seminar is to investigate different conceptions of the ”self” in the writings ofHusserl, Heidegger, Nishida, and Tanabe in order to address the questions: ”What is self? Howcan we obtain a better understanding of ourselves?”

Shigeru TAGUCHI Associate Professor, Department of Ethics and AppliedEthics, Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University

EthicsSelf in Phenomenology and Japanese Philosophy

Ching-yuen CHEUNG Lecturer, Department of Japanese Studies,Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Aug. 1 – Aug. 7For Graduate Students

Johan VAN BENTHEM

Contemporary PhilosophyDynamic Epistemic Logic and its Applications Aug. 27 – Aug. 31

Dynamic epistemic logic deals with dynamic changes in the cognitive states of agents broughtabout by their interactions with others and/or their environment. We discuss the modelupdating techniques that make this possible, the resulting logics, and their applications to otherbranches of logic.

Professor, Department of Philosophy, Stanford Univ.,USAUniversity Professor emeritus of pure and applied logic,University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Arts, School of Humanities,the University of Auckland, New Zealand

Johan VAN BENTHEM

Jeremy M. SELIGMAN

Tomoyuki YAMADA, Katsuhiko SANO, Yasushi NOMURAHokkaido University

For Graduate Students

Tomoyuki YAMADA

Aug. 20 – Aug. 24

Logic is a basic tool for evaluating a reasoning. A given reasoning may be evaluated in termsof truth of a sentence or correctness of the use of logical vocabulary. From these twoperspectives, this course provides basics of propositional, first-order and modal logics.

Professor, Department of Philosophy,Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University

Tomoyuki YAMADA

Yasushi NOMURA

LogicIntroduction to Logic

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy,Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University

For Graduate Students

Katsuhiko SANO Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy,Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University

The course will cover principles, legislation, control tools and technologies, and strategies forcontrolling and eradicating Invasive Alien Species (IAS), illustrated with examples ofmanagement from Japan, New Zealand and around the world.

Phil COWAN

Research Associate, Landcare Research(Wildlife Ecology & Management), New Zealand

Phil COWAN

Regional SciencesGeneral Theory of Invasive Alien Species Management Aug. 6 – Aug. 10

Professor, Department of Regional Sciences,Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University

Tohru IKEDA

For Graduate Students

-Collaboration with world-leading researchers and HU faculty members-Special programs you can experience only in Sapporo-Spend a pleasant and comfortable summer in Hokkaido-Tuition Fee is Free for students of HU’s partner institutions

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