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About the Program
Striving for global citizenry competence in the VUCA world.
This program is designed to give students opportunities to consider global citizenship with regard to key contemporary social issues in international settings, taking international and domestic perspectives. Students will examine a range of broad themes relating to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, including topics on foreign policy, international affairs, trade and finance, and defense and security. In addition, we will explore more specific areas of contemporary interest, for example aspects of health and wellbeing, international approaches to education, and business innovation and development. The course is designed to be responsive to topical and immediate global concerns and will draw upon themes and materials as they develop.
このプログラムでは、VUCA(*) world で活躍できるグローバル人材に必要な能力の育成を目指しています。国際環境における現代の主要な社会問題に関して、国際的および国内的な視点からグローバル・シチズンシップについて考える機会を提供することを目的としています。このプログラムでは、国連の「持続可能な開発目標」（SDGｓ）に関連して、外交政策、国際情勢、貿易・金融、防衛・安全保障などの幅広いテーマを取り上げます。さらに、現代の関心事である健康と福祉、教育への国際的アプローチ、ビジネスの革新と発展など、より具体的な分野についても学びます。本プログラムは時事的かつ即時的な国際問題に対応できるように設計されており、最新のテーマや教材が取り入れられます。
(*:Volatility(変動)、Uncertainty(不確実)、Complexity(複雑)、Ambiguity(曖昧)の頭文字をつなぎ合わせた造語)
2021 SCHEDULE
The UMAP-COIL 2021 main online program will run for approximately 7 weeks. Details are outlined below.
*schedule is subject to change
weeks 3 & 4: independent group project
August 10th - August 29th
*asynchronous
Content TBA
week 5: lecture #4
August 30th
10:00 - 11:30 AM (JST)
Lecture 4: "Business for SDGs"
Instructor: JY Wu
Learn WHY business needs to change its mindset and HOW business can do more to address SDGs and generate business ideas out of SDGs.
week 6: lectures #5 & 6
September 6th
10:00 - 11:30 AM (JST)
Lecture 5: "Learning with Indigenous Cultures through Transboundary Environmental Field Schools"
Instructor: Dr. Nick Stanger, Western Washington University
SDGs #5, 10, 13, 14, 15, 17
This lecture will focus on my experience of running two environmental field schools in the Salish Sea, a shared ecosystem among two countries and 65 tribes and First Nations. Using the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework, these field schools seek to engage students in working collaboratively with local governments, non-governmental organizations, First Nations and Tribes, and two universities on wicked problems within the Salish Sea.
Lecture 6: "Social Justice in the Context of COVID-19"
Instructor: Dr. Don Bysouth, Kansai University
SDGs #1, 10, 16
The COVID-19 pandemic has further highlighted and in many cases exacerbated a range of social inequalities in developed and developing countries, ranging across domains such as employment, education and training, political representation, access to basic health and related services, in addition to many others. Categories of personhood, such as gender, age and ethnicity are also associated with poorer economic and social outcomes in managing pandemic related change. In this lecture we will consider how social justice initiatives relating to pandemic impacts can be understood with reference to several SDGs: 1 (No Poverty), 10 (Reduced Inequalities) and 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions).
pre-program workshop
OPEN until
August 1st
(on-demand)
On-boarding for ImmerseU
Pre-program assignments and introductory tasks
BEVI Test (T1)
*OPIc T1 (Kansai University students only)
week 1: lecture #1
August 2nd
10:00 - 11:30 AM (JST)
Lecture 1: "Overview of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)"
Instructor: Don Bysouth
week 2: lectures #2 & #3
August 9th
10:00 - 11:30 AM (JST)
Lecture 2: "Languages and Wellbeing"
Instructor: Dr. Yumiko Ohara, University of Hawaii at Hilo
SDGs #1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 16
In many parts of the world, people are stratified and marginalized according to their race, ethnicity, religious belief, social class, sex, gender, and sexual orientation, etc., and their languages are similarly stratified and marginalized. Although UNESCO declared 2019 as the year of International Indigenous languages and 2022-2032 as the decade of Indigenous languages, linguists still point to the dire situation throughout the world as half of the world’s languages are predicted to be extinct within this century. The main objective of this lecture is to discuss the overall linguistic situation of the world and consider how the linguistic situation is closely relate to the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the UN.
Lecture 3: "Gender and Social Change"
Instructor: Dr. Diana Fox, Bridgewater State University
SDGs #5, 8
Sustainable Development Goals 5 (Achieve Gender Equality and Empower all Women and Girls) and 8 (Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all) are intimately related. Since the emergence of first wave feminisms across the globe in the mid-19th century, great strides have been made in equality for women and girls. However, women and girls also remain among the world’s poorest, disempowered and marginalized. In addition, gender is itself an inclusive term that rejects biological determinist notions of girlhood, womanhood, boyhood and manhood, and also embraces transgender identities. This lecture will explore the impact of feminist, gender and queer theories on activism and social change around gender equality with specific respect to economic well-being. It also identifies the ongoing challenges rooted in ideologies, belief systems and power dynamics from interpersonal to global levels. We close with a hopeful vision rooted in equity, equality and a sustainable planet.
week 7: final presentations
September 13th
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM (JST)
Content TBA
Guest Panel of Judges: Keiko Ikeda, Don Bysouth, JY Wu, Atlantic Pacific, X-Crop, UMAP
post-program workshop
Closes on
September 20th
Post-program assignments
BEVI Test (T2)
*OPIc T2 (Kansai University students only)
PROGRAM
instructors
UMAP-COIL program lectures will be led and facilitated by Kansai University IIGE faculty members.
Jiun-Yan (JY) Wu, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor
KANSAI UNIVERSITY
PRINCIPAL INSTRUCTOR
Don Bysouth, Ph.D.
Specially Appointed Associate Professor
KANSAI UNIVERSITY
PRINCIPAL INSTRUCTOR
Keiko Ikeda, Ph.D.
Professor
KANSAI UNIVERSITY
MODERATOR
GUEST
speakers
This program will also feature lectures by leading academics
in the fields of linguistics, gender studies, and environmental studies from U.S. institutions.
Yumiko Ohara, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO
Yumiko Ohara is an Associate Professor of the Linguistics Program in Ka Haka ʻUla o Keʻelikōlani, College of Hawaiian Language, at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo. Ka Haka ʻUla o Keʻelikōlani is internationally known for its successful revitalization of the indigenous language of the region and is a part of the education system that offers education through the Hawaiian language from pre-school to the doctoral level. At the college, Yumiko teaches courses in semantics, pragmatics, phonology, gender and language, and critical applied linguistics. She is especially interested in the relationship between language ideology and language revitalization. Her recent publications include the 2019 co-edited book with Patrick Heinrich, “The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics.”
Diana Fox, Ph.D.
Professor
BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY
Diana J. Fox is Professor of Anthropology, Department Chair and founding editor of the Journal of International Women’s Studies at Bridgewater State University. Her feminist decolonial scholar-activism is predicated on partnerships with social movement actors in Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Japan working on issues of gender and sexual diversity, women’s social movement activism for ecological sustainability, women's human rights and transnational feminisms. She is the recipient of four Fulbright fellowships, has published a number of books and articles, is a frequent speaker at conferences and other venues, and has produced and co-directed two documentary films.
APPLY
*Students must be officially nominated for this program through their home institutions prior to application.
After student endorsements have been received, IIGE will send an application link to nominated students. Please refer to the application timeline below.
DEADLINE for University Endorsement: 12:00pm June 18, 2021 (JST)
Student Applications open: June 18, 2021 (JST)
Student Application deadline: June 27, 2021, 12:00 pm (JST)
Program selection results will be sent directly to students’ home institutions by July 9, 2021 (JST).
UMAP pledged institutions should send student applications to your National Secretariat contact or the UMAP International Secretariat by July 1, 2021. Please contact umap-is@umap.org for more information.
*Kansai University students only (Opened from June 3, 2021 to 12:00 PM June 18, 2021)
Nick Stanger Ph.D.
Associate Professor
WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
Nick works as an associate professor of environmental education at Huxley College of the Environment at Western Washington University. He completed his Doctorate at the University of Victoria in 2014 and was a Social Sciences and Humanities Council Doctoral Fellow. The main focus of his doctoral research revolved around the learning that occurs from revisiting significant childhood places (www.transformativeplaces.com), and their lasting effects on our lives. His research uses an educationalist lens and participatory techniques to understand environmental sociology, ecological identity, transformative places, and Indigenous responses to climate change. He pursues projects that utilize his unique background as an ecologist, conservationist, educator, and knowledge mobilizer, and look for ways to support participants and provide nuance and complexity to pressing issues. He aims to understand, mobilize, and help create space for Indigenous communities to tell their stories of resurgence, cultural adaptation, and sovereignty all while helping find pathways, protocol, and critical understandings amongst settler-colonial communities.
COLLABORATING ORGANIZATIONS
The UMAP-COIL 2021 online program will also feature guest speakers from Atlantic Pacific and X-Crop. *tentative
Atlantic Pacific
Lifeboats where there are none.
Atlantic Pacific International Rescue is an NGO with a simple vision; to combat global drowning.
Atlantic Pacific supply preventative lifesaving assets including bespoke rescue boats, mobile lifeboat stations and a complete training package for the local crew through our unique Atlantic Pacific Lifeboat in a Box stations.
This empowers local communities by providing rescue assets, training and boat-building expertise to areas vulnerable to drowning, flooding and natural disasters.
X-Crop
On a mission to make cities, organisations, and people better by design.
At X-Crop, we specialise in Human-Connected Design (bringing together human insights, advanced intelligence, and design futures) and apply cutting-edge design knowledge (thus, technologies) to find answers; we frame, predict and forecast problems and opportunities concerning cities, organisations, and people.
In the process, we inclusively craft circular design solutions and make the case for bold actions with a focus on policy, equity, sustainability and climate change to help our partners transition into a 'positive future'.
