Seminar Activities of the Faculty of Liberal Arts

Akihiro Hosoda Seminar "Deepening your understanding of" entertainment "from traditional Japanese performing arts to familiar music"
In this seminar, students conduct research, analysis, presentations, and asks and answers about Japanese music and entertainment. Since the theme of the presentation is set by the student who is the presenter, we handle a wide range of music and entertainment, including traditional Japanese music and entertainment, as well as rock music and horror movies. In addition, as an extracurricular activity, we offer opportunities which they can see traditional performing arts in person for seminar students who are interested in traditional Japanese performing arts. So far, students went and saw the Ningyo Joruri (Bunraku) performance at the National Theater, and we have held a party to watch rakugo and storytelling at the vaudeville. When we watched Bunraku, it was very popular that students could experience a simple backstage tour and puppet operation with the cooperation of the performers.

Nobuaki Takagi Seminar "Learning the basic knowledge and techniques necessary for archeology through excavation"
This seminar has so far conducted excavation surveys of the Arakawadai site in Niigata Prefecture, which is a Paleolithic site. In addition, in collaboration with Research Institute of Cultural Properties, Teikyo University, we conducted excavation surveys of the Oso Yashiki ruins in Yamanashi Prefecture, which are the ruins of a residence in the Middle Ages, and the Kikkozuka Tumulus, Yamanashi Prefecture. Through excavation surveys, you can learn the basic knowledge and techniques necessary for archaeology, such as surveying, judging soil layers, and analyzing and examining excavated relics. The excavation survey will be carried out over a period of about two weeks, and students will participate in the survey in a training camp format. By living in a community like this, you can not only learn archaeological knowledge and techniques, but also acquire communication skills with senior and junior students.

Keiko Urano Seminar "Learn while acting on various problems in urban space"
In this seminar, students make use of our knowledge of sociology to grasp society from multiple perspectives, discover various problems that occur in local communities and urban spaces, and think about concrete measures to solve them, and then we develop skills and desire to contribute to society. Classes include individual research presentations, general discussions, and group presentations.
It is also important to go out of the university and "learn while acting". For example, we carry out environmental consevation volunteer activities at the National Sports Festival to support the operation of the tournament, and conduct group-based research on problems / improvements and developments of inside about stations and around stations in the Tokyo metropolitan area. We are actively engaged in various activities. For research on urban space, we also hold a joint session for 2nd and 3rd grade students in the Kasumigaseki Campus, which is located in the center of Tokyo. The purpose of this activity is to promote emergent learning that creates new ideas and problem-solving through exchanges between different grades. Students prepare this joint session by themselves.

Hiroko Yoshino Seminar "Everyone moves their eyes, hands and head in a small group work"
In this seminar, we consider the relationship between media such as mass media and the Internet, society, and people. Seminars are conducted on group work, in which about 5 people make discussions and presentations as a group, and menbers in this seminar aim for a class that "moves eyes, hands, and head." The content of lesson varies from year to year according to the needs and abilities of the students. In the first semester of 2014, students read"Tomorrow's Advertising" (Naoyuki Sato) and "New Edition Strategy PR" (Tetsuya Honda) and divided into four groups, make a presenation, and disscuss in order to think about the current situation that people could not move just by advertising. . In the second semester, there are students who are good at video production, so we elaborated the scenario and composition based on what we considered in the first semester, and produced a promotional video for the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Teikyo University. By acquiring a sociological perspective through practical training in seminars, students will be able to discover and analyze various phenomena. It will be the backbone for a lifelong "view of your own".

Kumiko Kihara Seminar "Study" play "while playing with children"
In the Department of Psychology there is a playroom for observing and studying how children play with the cooperation of Teikyo University Kindergarten. In the special psychology experiment, we invite children from kindergarten to this playroom to observe the play and learn about human development. Students are divided into a group to observe while playing with the children and a group to observe from the monitor room, and at the same time, the situation of playing is recorded in the video.
At a later date, while watching the video, students transcribe the meaningful behavior seen in "play" and learn "behavioral observation", which is the basic method of psychology. Students are proactively involved in observation and analysis, such as by preparing for what kind of toys the children are interested in, and by considering the recording method how to describe the story when designing the observations of the children from considering the environment settings of the playroom. 

Takuro Motonaga Seminar "Find research themes through volunteering"
This seminar is a practice-oriented seminar that finds research themes through volunteer activities, and the purpose is to utilize the psychological ideas learned in the first and 2nd year in clinical practice. Students choose one from five fields: orphanages, public elementary schools, junior high schools, facilities for people with intellectual disabilities, and dementia support, and make research plans while being involved as volunteers.
At each site, students encounter people with various concers, accept the reality of those concers, and proactively learn clues to solve problems. Volunteer activities are reported in the weekly class, and the lessons learned in the field are shared throughout the seminar. Students actively participate in mutual discussions in other fields that they do not participate in. In the seminar, students carefully read the dissertations, collect and analyze the data related to each field, and discuss the philosophy, basic attitude, and risk management as a student volunteer.