Classes on SDGs for 1st and 2nd year students
Terue Okada
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
(1) Specialized Seminar and Global Praxis “What UTokyo Students Can Do for Peace”
In this specialized seminar, students engage in research, analysis and discussion under the theme of sustainable development goals (SDGs) Goal 16 such as conflict and development, disarmament and non-proliferation, political systems and stability, development under authoritarianism. Global Praxis “What UTokyo Students Can Do for Peace” takes over the theme of the specialized seminar from the previous term. We visited a post-conflict Kyrgyz, Kazakhstan, which is providing leadership in global antinuclear movement, and Turkmenistan, which is home to the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia, and several other countries.
In 2015, students of this class translated the United Nations’ book titled Action for Disarmament: 10 Things You Can Do!.
(2) First-Year Seminar for Humanities and Social Sciences Students “Class on Sustainable Development”
In this class, students learn about global development agenda and actions by different actors to achieve or help to achieve SDGs, examine those projects, and write a policy recommendation paper.
In addition, the students have the opportunity to listen to lectures by officials from the UNDP Tokyo office and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and experts and officials on development issues.
In this specialized seminar, students engage in research, analysis and discussion under the theme of sustainable development goals (SDGs) Goal 16 such as conflict and development, disarmament and non-proliferation, political systems and stability, development under authoritarianism. Global Praxis “What UTokyo Students Can Do for Peace” takes over the theme of the specialized seminar from the previous term. We visited a post-conflict Kyrgyz, Kazakhstan, which is providing leadership in global antinuclear movement, and Turkmenistan, which is home to the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia, and several other countries.
In 2015, students of this class translated the United Nations’ book titled Action for Disarmament: 10 Things You Can Do!.
(2) First-Year Seminar for Humanities and Social Sciences Students “Class on Sustainable Development”
In this class, students learn about global development agenda and actions by different actors to achieve or help to achieve SDGs, examine those projects, and write a policy recommendation paper.
In addition, the students have the opportunity to listen to lectures by officials from the UNDP Tokyo office and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and experts and officials on development issues.
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- Terue Okada
- Email: okada[at]waka.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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