上智大学国際教養学部公募推薦入試 傾向と対策 - revised -

☆傾向   身近な話題や時事問題に関連する普遍的テーマ、特に国際的な課題と大学の役割

 

出題年   　　　出題内容                                             

2025年　社会改革法案の具体的なアイディア

2024年　リベラルアーツの存在価値と今世紀に果たすべき役割

2023年　歴史的転換期における価値観の見直し          

2022年　格差社会と実力主義の問題点　       

2021年  グレタの様に情熱を持って取り組みたい課題

2020年　大学で作りたい学部                                     

2019年  過去4年間に行った重大な選択とその影響    

2018年　リベラルアーツと現代社会の課題                 

2017年　政府開発援助額17年ぶりに増加                   

2016年　OECD加盟国先進国中日本の留学率最下位   

2015年　大学改革                                                      

2014年　東京オリンピック招致      

 

☆対策   ○志望理由書に書いた目標と関連事項関連の記事を毎日読んでまとめる ○補助問題集および英検1級筆記試験エッセイとTOEFL iBT Writing のトピックを使用して実際に書く練習をする。（知識が足りない場合、英検1級エッセイの模範解答を読んで要約することと準1級エッセイを書くことを並行して行う）

 

 

☆Day 1 Homework 

The world has been experiencing a downturn in many aspects. What do you want to do during your college years to contribute to rebuilding the world or Japanese society? How would you do it?

Hints for Points

1.       Join Fridays for Future Japan and work to soften the impact of the climate crisis.

2.       Work to rebuild economy by reducing inequality by taxing the superrich and increasing public services.

3.       Run for a local public office or support female politicians or candidates.

4.       Start a study group on the coexistence of AI and humanity

5.       Work on international communication, mutual understanding, and cooperation to eliminate hate, protectionism, and fascism.

 

☆Day 2 Homework

Sub Textbook 2022年度 Questions: 1. How do you understand Dr. Sandel’s idea of the common good?  2. Is there anything problematic with the Mahood Rab “success story”?  3. Is there any problem with just emphasizing the ethos of individualistic merit, hard work, and competition in society?

Hints for Points

1.        We need to build a mature society of compassion, where the winner acknowledges their luck and pay respect to those who are less advantaged.

2.        The story attributes Mahood Rab’s success only to his hard work and misses the insight into his fortune such as his talent to make money or taking up a right job at a right time. This makes a false image that only people who make money deserve respect and losers can be left abandoned.

3.        It will dehumanize everyone and degrade the humanity.

 

☆Day 3 Homework

Read the following excerpt from the foreword, The Pain of Those Who Remember, written by a former war-correspondent Chris Hedges, from “Don’t Look Left: A Diary of Genocide” by Atef Abu Saif, and answer the following question. The first edition of this book was published in December, 2023.

 

The story of Christmas is the story of a poor woman, nine months pregnant, and her husband forced to leave their home in Nazareth in northern Galilee. The occupying Roman power has demanded they register for the census 90 miles away in Bethlehem. When they arrive, there are no rooms. She gives birth in a stable. King Herod – who learned from the Magi of the birth of the messiah – orders his soldiers to hunt down every child two years old and under in Bethlehem and the vicinity and murder them. An angel warns Joeseph in a dream to flee. The couple and infant escape under the cover of darkness and make the 40-ile journey to Egypt.

  I was in a refugee camp in the early 1980s for Guatemalans who had fled the war into Honduras. The peasant framers and their families, living in filth and mud, their villages and homes burned or abandoned, were decorating their tents with strips of colored paper to celebrate the Massacre of the Innocents.

  ‘Why is this such and important day?’ I asked.

  ‘It was on this day that Christ became a refugee,’ a farmer answered.

  The Christmas story was not written for the oppressors. It was written for the oppressed. We are called to protect the innocents. We are called to defy the occupying power. Atef, Refaat and those like them, who speak to us at the risk of death, echo this Biblical injunction. They speak so we will not be silent. They speak so we will take these words and images and hold them up to the principalities of the world ― the media, politicians, diplomats, universities, the wealthy and privileges, the weapons manufacturers, the Pentagon and the Israel lobby groups ― who are orchestrating the genocide in Gaza. The infant Christ is not lying today in straw, but a pile of broken concrete.

  Evil has not changed down the millennia.

  Neither has goodness.

Question: The writer says, “The infant Christ is not lying today in straw, but a pile of broken concrete”. Also, on December 25, 2023, Pope Francis said that children dying in Gaza are the “little Jesuses of today”. What exactly are they talking about?

 

 

For reference:

Both analogies refer to Palestinian refugee children in Gaza being killed in the Israeli genocide, which is the last phase of the 76-year-old ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the ongoing colonization by Israel, which was built and has been led by Zionists. Israel has been periodically and methodically killing Palestinian children as they call it, “lawn-mowing”, to reduce the Palestinian population, ignoring the two-state solution and keeping invasion into the Palestinian territories.

 

Even before the Hamas attack on the Israeli civilians on October 7, IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) had insulted, arrested, attacked, and killed innocent Palestinians, including women, children, elderlies, and the disabled, on a daily basis. They help Israeli citizens usurp houses and land of Palestinians, backed by the Israeli government. They also pour cement into wells and break water facilities in Palestinian territories. After Hamas was elected in Gaza, Israel built walls around Gaza and controlled food and materials that go in and out of this small strip of land, keeping 2.5 million Gazans even poorer than before. Israel had killed hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians daily and in wars. It had even killed peaceful marchers. It shot and killed a couple of thousand and injured thousands of Gazans, including children and a nurse, who marched, in the Martin Luther King Jr. style, towards the wall to show the world the brutality of Israel in 2018 - 2019. IDF targeted legs of the marchers so that they will be crippled for the rest of their lives, which is their routine.

 

Right after October 7, Israel stopped all the necessities from going into Gaza and started indiscriminate attacks, calling the people “human animals”. Since then, Israel has flattened almost all the buildings in Gaza, displacing 100% of Gazans and killed over 40,000 civilians, including 16,000 children, by bombs, bullets, and torture. IDF have bulldozed people alive with garbage, whose arms ziplocked, and burned those in tents alive. They target writers, medics, and doctors. They have destroyed all the universities in Gaza. Their latest powerful weapons tear the victims apart into small pieces, which are collected in plastic bags. After a recent bombing of a school used as a refugee camp that was done during morning prayer, people had to put unidentified pieces of victims together in bags and share them by weight to the families of victims, going 70 kg for an adult and 25-35 kg for a child. IDF also use internationally-prohibited white phosphorus bombs, which melt flesh and bones, producing corpses of children the contents of whose skulls are lost. If those who died of hunger or disease due to lack of nutrition and sanitation caused by the Israeli blockade, over 160,000 Gazans have been killed in this genocide. IDF also arrest innocent Palestinians, including children, in the West Bank more than before. They keep thousands of them in prison in horrendous conditions, torturing and raping them.

 

When they started the attack on Gaza, they ordered the people to evacuate to the southern area in Gaza and attacked them on the way and in the area. There is no place to flee in Gaza now. Like baby Jesus, children in Gaza are homeless, sleeping in camps or on the ground, or on the concrete of ruins, in the never-ending noise of killer drones above their head. They go to sleep fearing their oppressor’s attack at night, when bombing becomes more frequent than the day time, thinking this can be the last night of their short lives. Jesus, or rebels under Roman occupation who collectively became a legend as Jesus Christ, was a Jew, and Jews and Palestinians are of the same race, Semites. Jesus had wooly hair and dark skin, as the Bible describes him. In other words, Jesus could have looked like anyone in Gaza or vice versa. Ironically, now those who claim themselves as his descendants are relentlessly killing people who could be identical to Jesus.

(Written in 2024)