Politics & Economics

Course Information

College	Toyama College	Year	2022
Course Title	Politics & Economics
Course Code	0040	Course Category	General / Elective
Class Format	Lecture	Credits	School Credit: 2
Department	Department of Mechanical Engineering	Student Grade	3rd
Term	Year-round	Classes per Week	2
Textbook and/or Teaching Materials	“最新政治・経済新訂版”（Jikkyo Shuppan Co.Ltd.,2021）　“2021新政治・経済政治資料三訂版” （Jikkyo Shuppan Co.Ltd.,2021）
Instructor	Yokoyama Kyoko

Course Objectives

Students can understand the principle and schema of the democracy and point out its problems.
Student can understand the establishment process and principles of the Constitution of Japan and point out its problems.
Students can understand the garanteering fundamental human rights, a system of National Diet and a system of Diet election in Japan and point out their problems.
Students can understand the characteristics of the economy in japan as to the family budget, the market and the enterprises and point out their ploblems.

Rubric

	Ideal Level of Achievement	Standard Level of Achievement	Unacceptable Level of Achievement)
Evaluation 1	Appropriate understanding of the principles and schema of the democracy and consideration of the solution of its problems.	Appropriate understanding of the principles and schema of the democracy.	Inadequate understanding of the principles and schema of the democracy.
Evaluation 2	Appropriate understanding of the establishment process and principles of the Constitution of Japan and consideration of the solution of its problems.	Appropriate understanding of the establishment process and principles of the Constitution of Japan.	Inadequate understanding of the establishment process and principles of the Constitution of Japan.
Evaluation 3	Appropriate understanding of the guaranteeing fundamental human rights, a setup of National Diet and a setup of Diet election in Japan and consideration of the solution of its problems.	Appropriate understanding of the guaranteeing fundamental human rights, a setup of National Diet and a setup of Diet election in Japan.	Inadequate understanding of the guaranteeing fundamental human rights, a setup of National Diet and a setup of Diet election in Japan.
Evaluation 4	Appropriate Understanding of the characteristics of the economy in japan as to the family budget, the market and the enterprises and consideration of the solution of its problems.	Appropriate understanding of the characteristics of the economy in japan as to the family budget, the market and the enterprises.	Inadequate understanding of the characteristics of the economy in japan as to the family budget, the market and the enterprises.

Assigned Department Objectives

Diploma policy 3 （豊かな教養と倫理観を身につけ，社会に貢献できる。）

Teaching Method

Outline:

In this lecture the characteristics of the democracy, politics and economy in Japan are investigated. Students will be required to cultivate their understandings and senses of modern Japanese society as citizens.

Style:

Lecture (100%)

Notice:

Can take makeup exam in need aid up to maximum of 60 points.

Characteristics of Class / Division in Learning

Applicable to Remote Class

Course Plan

			Theme	Goals
1st Semester
	1st Quarter
		1st	Guidance	Understanding of the aim and method of this lecture.
		2nd	Politics, nation and sovereignty	Understanding of the key concepts such as the politics, powers, nation and sovereignty,
		3rd	stablishment of the democracy	Understanding of the history of the European democracy and the thought of fundamental human rights.
		4th	Theory of social contract	Consideration of the basis of the theory of social contract through understanding of the thought of Hobbes and Locke.
		5th	Significances of the theory of social contract	Consideration of the epoch-making significance of the theory of social contract.
		6th	Main principles of democracy	Understanding the main principles of democracy such as the rule of law, the constitutionalism and the sovereignty of the people.
		7th	Setup of democracy	Understanding of the setup of the democracy i.e. parliamentary democracy democracy and the separation of powers.
		8th	Setup of democracy: U.K. and U.S.A	Understanding of the setup of the democracy in U.K and U.S.A.
	2nd Quarter
		9th	Midterm Examination
		10th	Comments to the Examination. Introduction to the Constitution of Japan.
		11th	The Constitution of the Great Empire of Japan	Understanding of the Constitution of the Great Empire of Japan.
		12th	Establishment of the Constitution of Japan	Understanding of the political history of the establishment of the Constitution of Japan.
		13th	Principle of the Constitution of Japan : the sovereignty of the people	Understanding of the sovereignty of the people as a Principle of the Constitution of Japan.
		14th	Principle of the Constitution of Japan : the guaranteeing fundamental human rights	Understanding of the guaranteeing fundamental human rights as a Principle of the Constitution of Japan.
		15th	Term examination
		16th	Comments to the Examination. Introduction to the fundamental human rights in Japan
2nd Semester
	3rd Quarter
		1st	The fundamental human rights in Japan: the rights of civil liberties	Understanding of the rights of civil liberties in Japan.
		2nd	The fundamental human rights in Japan: the rights of equality	The fundamental human rights in Japan: the rights of equality
		3rd	The fundamental human rights in Japan: the social rights	Understanding of the social rights in Japan.
		4th	Power of the legislation in Japan	Understanding the setup of the National Diet in Japan.
		5th	Power of the administration in Japan	Understanding the setup of the cabinet in Japan.
		6th	Party politics and the setup of Diet election in Japan	Understanding the Party politics and the setup of Diet election in Japan.
		7th	Power of the judicature in Japan	Understanding the setup of the judicature in Japan.
		8th	Midterm Examination
	4th Quarter
		9th	Comments to the Examination. Introduction to the economy in Japan.
		10th	Market and Enterprise	Understanding of the market mechanism of demand and supply.
		11th	arket and Enterprise	Understanding of the activity of enterprises and the joint-stock companies.
		12th	Finance and tax systems	Understanding of the loaning money.
		13th	Finance and tax systems	Understanding of the finance and the tax systems
		14th	National income and economic growth	Understanding the Japanese economy from the point of view of the national income and GDP.
		15th	Term examination
		16th	Comments to the Examination

Evaluation Method and Weight (%)

	Examination	Presentation	Mutual Evaluations between students	Behavior	Portfolio	Other	Total
Subtotal	100	0	0	0	0	0	100
Basic Ability	100	0	0	0	0	0	100
Technical Ability	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Interdisciplinary Ability	0	0	0	0	0	0	0