9th Keio-Yonsei-Fudan Global Governance Symposium
05 December 2011On December 3rd, Keio-Yonsei-Fudan graduate students met together at Fudan University in Shanghai, China for attending the 9th Japan-China-Korea Global Governance Symposium. This annual symposium is a highlight event of the distance-learning (DL) course jointly organized by Keio, Yonsei and Fudan University.
SFC graduate courses in Fall Semester ---"Regional Strategy Studies (East Asia)" (Tuesday) and "Global Governance Studies (Globalization and Regional Transformation)" (Wednesday)--- are connected with classes of Yonsei and Fudan University via high-resolution Internet. Out of 15 weeks in Fall Semester, we jointly offer 7 weeks for the DL class communicating via video screens. In these 7 weeks, there are lectures offered by professors of each campus in rotation for 6 weeks followed by students' presentation in the final week. All lectures and discussions are conducted in English.
One of the unique features of this DL course is to require all students to organize joint research groups composed by Keio-Yonsei-Fudan students. Students are divided in groups such as political-security, economic integration, society-culture and environment. In this semester, they met together face-to-face in Keio University SFC in November for planning of their research designs (we call it "pilgrim workshop"). After three weeks of intensive joint researches, students are required to make their final presentations at the global governance symposium in December.
Students who took this joint DL course came from all around the world. In addition to Japanese, Korean and Chinese students of hosting universities, there are students from 21 countries across the globe including the Indonesia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, the United States, France, and Bulgaria etc… This wide-variety of foreign students who belong to Keio-Yonsei-Fudan are products of campus-internationalization including establishment of international courses (English courses) and the Double Degree Programs. These efforts have made a fantastic multinational phenomenon of Japan-Korea-China university collaboration.
At the global governance workshop, 8 groups of students offered the presentation on various topics including North Korea's nuclear crisis, trans-pacific economic partnership (TPP), mutual perceptions of Japan-Korea-China, 'green campus' initiatives, UN PKO, regional disaster relief activities, soft-power in Asia, and climate change issues. This year, the TPP team, the mutual-perception team and the UN PKO team have obtained best-presentation award.
In 2012, we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the DL course. As a front-runner of Japan-Korea-China university collaboration, we are looking forward to attracting more students to participate our joint endeavors.
(By Ken Jimbo, Associate Professor, Faculty of Policy Management)
(This information is released by the Public Relations Section)