2020 Special graduate degree programs Specially Offered Degree Programs for Graduate Students Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership
Challenging Global Issues
- Academic unit or major
- Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership
- Instructor(s)
- Yoshinao Kobayashi / Kiyotaka Akasaka
- Class Format
- Lecture (Zoom)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 7-8 Fri (S611, J234)
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- TAL.S403
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2020
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Jul 10, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course aims to provide the lectures to give the students the ability to design the process for solving the global issues
such as population explosion, widening disparity, and global warming which are eminent in the current globalization and international development.
Course description and aims
（１）To understand the cause and results of the global issues such as population explosion, global warming, disparity and environmental issues.
（２）To suggest concrete countermeasures to these global issues in viewpoint of process designing.
Keywords
population explosion, global warming, disparity, global issue, environment
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Lectures will be given with handouts prepared by lecturers.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Current global issues | Comprehension check |
| Class 2 | Cause of global warming and its forecast | Comprehension check |
| Class 3 | Population explosion and future situation | Comprehension check |
| Class 4 | Widening disparity and coutermeasures | Comprehension check |
| Class 5 | Food problem and possible counteraction | Comprehension check |
| Class 6 | Philosophy for the solution of global issues | Comprehension check |
| Class 7 | Process designing for solution of global issues | Comprehension check |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
None specified.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
None specified.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Evaluation by comprehesion check and small quiz distributed in each lecture to evaluate the comprehension of the causes of global issues and proposing ability to solve these issues.
Related courses
- TAL.S601 ： Policy-making Workshop
Prerequisites
Not especially.
Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).
Yoshinao KOBAYASHI
kobayashi.y.at[at]m.titech.ac.jp
03-5734-3075
Office hours
North Build. No.2 Room 328
Friday afternoon.
Send the e-mail to the address above.