| Academic Year |
2025Year |
School/Graduate School |
Liberal Arts Education Program |
| Lecture Code |
63851001 |
Subject Classification |
Area Courses |
| Subject Name |
地球とその環境 |
Subject Name
（Katakana） |
チキュウトソノカンキョウ |
Subject Name in
English |
Introduction to Earth Science |
| Instructor |
SAITO MITSUYO,ONODERA SHINICHI,YOKOYAMA TADASHI,ISHIDA TAKUYA,KAWAGUCHI KENTA,HIRAYAMA YASUYUKI,OZAWA HISASHI |
Instructor
(Katakana) |
サイトウ ミツヨ,オノデラ シンイチ,ヨコヤマ タダシ,イシダ タクヤ,カワグチ ケンタ,ヒラヤマ ヤスユキ,オザワ ヒサシ |
| Campus |
Higashi-Senda |
Semester/Term |
1st-Year, Second Semester, Second Semester |
| Days, Periods, and Classrooms |
(2nd) Tues11-12：Higashi-Senda Lecture Rm M303 |
| Lesson Style |
Lecture |
Lesson Style
(More Details) |
Face-to-face, Online (simultaneous interactive) |
| lecture and discussion |
| Credits |
2.0 |
Class Hours/Week |
2 |
Language of Instruction |
J
:
Japanese |
| Course Level |
1
:
Undergraduate Introductory
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| Course Area（Area） |
25
:
Science and Technology |
| Course Area（Discipline） |
03
:
Natural Environment |
| Eligible Students |
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| Keywords |
Earth, Material, Tectonics, Atmosphere, Water, Disaster, Environment |
| Special Subject for Teacher Education |
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Special Subject |
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Class Status within
Liberal Arts Education | Area Courses（Courses in Natural Sciences) Category：Natural Environment / Civil Infrastructure |
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| Expected Outcome | 1. To be able to explain the formation and development processes and contemporary issues of each academic discipline.
2. To be able to explain historical and contemporary issues that span multiple academic disciplines from multifaceted perspectives. |
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Class Objectives
/Class Outline |
This class aims to understand the current state and constituents of the earth and their changes, and comprehensively learn about the atmospheric environment, water environment, natural disasters, disaster prevention, etc., which are closely related to human life. |
| Class Schedule |
lesson 1: Introduction: Human activity impacts on global environment (Onodera)
lesson 2: Inner structure of the earth, rocks and minerals (Yokoyama)
lesson 3: Mineral-water interaction (Yokoyama)
lesson 4: Geotectonic structure of the Japanese Islands and accretionary complexes (Kawaguchi)
lesson 5: Past climate change and sea level change (Saito)
lesson 6: Global radiation balance (Ozawa)
lesson 7: Vertical temperature distribution (Ozawa)
lesson 8: Water and nutrient cycling (Ishida)
lesson 9: Impact of human activities on the water environment (Ishida)
lesson 10: Earth's surface changes (Hirayama)
lesson 11: Coastal area formations and its environmental issues (Saito)
lesson 12: History of the utilization of metallic resources (Hirayama)
lesson 13: Carbon cycle and acidification in ocean (Saito)
lesson 14: Resources and energy (Onodera)
lesson 15: Summary (Saito) |
Text/Reference
Books,etc. |
Text books will be introduced in each lecture, if necessary. |
PC or AV used in
Class,etc. |
Handouts, Visual Materials, Microsoft Teams, moodle |
| (More Details) |
PPT, DVD |
| Learning techniques to be incorporated |
Discussions, Quizzes/ Quiz format, Fieldwork / Survey, Post-class Report |
Suggestions on
Preparation and
Review |
Review the content of each lecture and read associated books. |
| Requirements |
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| Grading Method |
Quiz in each lecture (total about 40%) and two reports (about 30% x 2) |
| Practical Experience |
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| Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it |
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| Message |
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| Other |
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Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes.
Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching. |