International Understanding and Multi- cultural co- livingⅠ

International and Japanese students will be broken into groups of about 4–6. Group members will change after a month—each participant will be in three groups. After obtaining information about the week's theme in the first half of the class and in the pre-study period, students will discuss "multicultural coexistence" and "international understanding" in their groups to deepen their understanding by exchanging information and opinions. The course instructors, who have worked at companies in Japan, will also apply their professional experience to guide students.
After each session, students will be given an assignment regarding their opinion on the topic at hand. Moreover, students will also be asked to take multiple eALPS quizzes.
Students will also be split into groups for English discussions. Students who want to engage in discussions in English are welcome to take this
course.
In the first semester of 2024, there were a total of 54 participants, resulting in 13 groups of 4 or 5 students.

Group work, COIL, communication, identity, multicultural coexistence, immigrants

Class 1: Guidance, basics of multicultural coexistence
Class 2: Effective self-introduction, introduction to Matsumoto City
Class 3: Thinking about multicultural coexistence (1): People of foreign origin near you Class 4: Miscommunicating with people of foreign origin
Class 5: Multicultural coexistence (2): Why it is "good" for people of foreign origin to live together Class 6: Religion
Class 7: Multicultural coexistence (3): Education for children of foreign origin and related problems Class 8: Multicultural coexistence (4): Multicultural coexistence among young people in Korea and Japan Class 9: The environment and activities that we can do ourselves
Class 10: Multicultural coexistence (5): Alienation and English Class 11: Assumptions
Class 12 and 13: Multicultural coexistence (6): Improving education for children of foreign origin
☆ Group work focused on creating slides for presentations (7/12, no class)
Class 14: Thinking seriously about studying abroad
Class 15: Multicultural coexistence (7): Basic law, final assignment announced (due two weeks later)
☆ Course survey in the last 15 minutes

Syllabus (Japanese site only)