Since 2016, the Hokkaido University has started the Hokkaido Summer Institute (HSI), a summer program that brings together world-leading researchers with proven track records in education/research and Hokkaido University faculty members to provide educational experiences to students from across Japan and around the world.
For HSI2023, you can find over 349 courses at the undergraduate/graduate level in humanities, social sciences, science, engineering, agriculture, health, education, art and interdisciplinary studies.
This year, new courses for working adults to engage in re-leaning as well as the acquisition and development of expertise will be starting. Any student/adult interested in the program are welcome to apply.
Early(1st) Application for non Hokkaido University students, domestic and international, will be open from March 6 Monday 12:00pm (JST) and deadline is March 15 Wednesday 17:00 (JST), 2023.
For further details about applications, please check the HSI official website:
https://hokkaidosummerinstitute.oia.hokudai.ac.jp/en/
The School / Graduate School of Humanities and Human Sciences offers 7 courses below:
For Undergraduate Students:
U001[Cognitive Science] Frontiers in Cultural Psychology 2023
U002[Oriental History] Ibn Khaldûn, A Historian of Global History
U003[Social Change] Gender Studies
U004[Social Ecology] Principles of Invasion Ecology 2023
For Graduate Students:
G001[Philosophy] Topics in Modal Logic 2023
G002[Regional Sciences] General Theory of Invasive Alien Species Management 2023
For Students and Adults HSI extension / professional program in Japanese
R001[Recurrent Education] Inazo Nitobe and His Time
R001日本語リカレント科目: 新渡戸稲造とその時代
Report from HSI2022
[Social Ecology] Principles of Invasion Ecology 2022
[Cognitive Science] Frontiers in Cultural Psychology 2022
[European Literature] Armenian language and culture
[Social Change] New Sociological Imagination for 21st Century
[Regional Sciences] General Theory of Invasive Alien Species Management 2022
[Logic] Introduction to Logic 2022
[Philosophy] Topics in Applied Modal Logic 2022
Report from HSI2021
[Social Ecology] Principles of Invasion Ecology 2021
[Cognitive Science] Frontiers in Cultural Psychology 2021
Academic Paper-Writing Workshop for Cultural and Social Psychological Journals 2021
[Special Lecture on Sociology] Contemporary Sociology of Religion and Spirituality
[Regional Sciences] General Theory of Invasive Alien Species Management 2021
[Logic] Introduction to Logic 2021
[Philosophy] Topics in Applied Modal Logic 2021
*10 Courses scheduled for HSI2020 were cancelled due to COVID-19.
Report from HSI2019
[Social Ecology] Principles of Invasion Ecology 2019
[Cultural Psychology] Frontiers in Cultural Psychology 2019
Sociology of Language: Language and Wellbeing in Japan 2019
[Oriental History] Modern Arab History
Coptic Culture and Language
Academic Paper-Writing Workshop for Cultural and Social Psychological Journals 2019
[Philosophy] Introduction to Enactivism: Moving to Know, Knowing to Move
[Regional Sciences] General Theory of Invasive Alien Species Management 2019
[Logic] Introduction to Logic 2019
[Contemporary Philosophy] Dynamic Epistemic Logic and its Applications 2019
Report from HSI2018
[Social Ecology] Principles of Invasion Ecology
[Cultural Psychology] Frontiers in Cultural Psychology 2018
[Seminar in Sociology] Sociology of Language: Language and Wellbeing in Japan
Academic Paper-Writing Workshop for Cultural and Social Psychological Journals 2018
[Ethics] Self in Phenomenology and Japanese Philosophy
[Regional Sciences] General Theory of Invasive Alien Species Management
[Logic] Introduction to Logic
[Contemporary Philosophy] Dynamic Epistemic Logic and its Applications