Introduction and overviews
第1週：Introduction to the seminar, student interests and goals; our linguistic repertoires; overview of language issues in Japan and other societies: language diversity, standard languages, minority languages, nationalism
第2週：Overview: impacts of colonization, endangered languages, language protection
第3週：Overview: multilingual societies, language laws and policies, living multilingually, questions of identity
Research Cycle 1 Multilingual societies and living multilingually
第4週：Research cycle 1 - Getting started, individual stories and news stories, raising questions
第5週：Research cycle 1 - Developing basic knowledge and identifying issues
第6週：Research cycle 1 - Focusing on specific problems and making connections
第7週：Research cycle 1 - Exploring the positions of key actors
第8週：Research cycle 1 - Presentation-discussions; review; self-evaluation
Research Cycle 2 Impacts of colonization, endangered languages, and language revitalization
第9週：Getting started, individual stories and news stories, raising questions
第10週：Research cycle 2 - Developing basic knowledge and identifying issues
第11週：Research cycle 2 - Focusing on specific problems and making connections
第12週：Research cycle 2 - Exploring the positions of key actors
第13週：Research cycle 2 – Presentation-discussions
Review and feedback
第14週：Feedback and final reflections; semester review
Research and fieldwork
第1週：Student interests and goals for Autumn semester: Language issue case-study projects – discussing possibilities and getting started
第2週：Raising questions and planning your project
第3週：Developing your case study
第4週：Identifying issues and sharing ideas for fieldwork
第5週：Focusing on specific problems/doing fieldwork
第6週：Reviewing and making your research clear + agreeing day and time for individual consultations
Presentation-discussions
第7週：First round of case-study presentation-discussions
第8週：Second round of case-study presentation-discussions
Report planning
第9週：Sharing reflections; planning your research report
Report writing, development, and finalisation
第10週：Report writing: Reading and discussing first drafts
第11週：Report writing: Reading and discussing second drafts
第12週：Report writing: Reading and discussing final drafts
Video recording and semester review
第13週：Reviewing your research and development over the semester
第14週：Feedback and final reflections; semester review