カリキュラム

1. Corporate finance – goals of financial management, approaches, theories, and practices;
2. Corporate social responsibility - motivation, CSR theories, CSR programs, and measurement of social performance;
3. The relationship between corporate performance and social performance.
4. Other related business problems.

1. Introduce students to the concepts, analyses, and activities that comprise marketing management,
2. Help students sharpen their analytical skills and show them how to use these skills to assess and solve marketing problems, and 
3. Give students an opportunity to refine their oral and written communication skills.

Europe in the 19th century saw the period of enlightenment when people believed in unlimited progress through a rational conviction and material gain. The dramatic growth of science, industry, and democratic social systems in Western Europe also gave Europeans an unwavering belief that they had a "Civilizing Mission" to bring Western civilization what they perceived as "backward" and "primitive" peoples living in different cultures. 

In reality, this kind of ethnocentric supremacism (Eurocentrism) was a rationale for colonization and Westernization of indigenous people; the 19th century actually saw imperialistic ambitions and expansion. Thus, a few great powers with a "Civilizing Mission" ruled the world. What awaited humankind was not "unlimited progress" but the cataclysm of the First World War and the Second World War.
In studying modern world history, therefore, it is essential to consider the reasons behind and consequences of imperialistic world-orders in the late 19th and early 20th century. This is the main theme of this course, stimulating discussion on World Wars as the historical origin of globalizing world in our time.

The module is an introduction to International Political Economy (IPE), a branch of International Relations, which focuses on the interaction between states and markets, and between power and wealth in the international system. The module is constructed around current debates and approaches in IPE with a strong empirical element in order to assess the merit of these various approaches. In particular, the module investigates the differential impact that globalization is having on the economic development of the various types of state that exist in the world economy. In addition, it investigates the policy responses, both by states and by global institutions, to the increasing degree of globalization that we are currently witnessing. The module seeks:

1.  To introduce students to the major approaches to IPE;
2. To give students a thorough grounding in the main debates (past and current) in international economic relations; 
3. To provide students with a good theoretical and empirical understanding of the interaction between political and economic factors in international relations; 
4. To foster a critical and informed awareness of the academic literature in IPE.

1. To introduce students to the systematic study of countries other than their own and to the use of the comparative method;
2. To survey the principal current systems of government and introduce key terms and concepts;
3. To place their study in a developmental perspective and to illustrate the main approaches used in the comparative study of politics;
4. To develop understanding of the processes involved in development, liberalization, and democratization in recent politics.