2020 Special graduate degree programs Specially Offered Degree Programs for Graduate Students Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership
Practical Group Work for Leadership I F
- Academic unit or major
- Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership
- Instructor(s)
- Keisuke Yamada / Yuri Matsuzaki / Kenshu Kamura
- Class Format
- Exercise
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Intensive
- Class
- F
- Course Code
- TAL.W602
- Number of credits
- 020
- Course offered
- 2020
- Offered quarter
- 3-4Q
- Syllabus updated
- Jul 10, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
In this course, students will practice the abilities they learned in TAL.W501 "Fundamental Group Work for Leadership”,
TAL.W502 “Fundamental Group Work for Leadership I”, and TAL.W503 “Fundamental Group Work for Leadership II” by pursuing long-term group projects such as idea generation and application development. The projects will be executed by following a methodology (e.g., Lean Launchpad by Steve Blank) introduced in the lectures.
In addition, students will describe their career plans and get feedback from their peers and instructors to realize how they can exploit their abilities in their future careers.
Course description and aims
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
(1) Propose the practical ideas for solving the social issues by utilizing the skills and knowledge of the major field.
(2) Explicate the ideas properly, and build consensus in the group by respecting the opinion of others.
(3) Improve the proposing idea appropriately based on feedback from the society.
(4) Accomplish the group work as the project.
Keywords
Leadership/Followership, Consensus Building, Social Issues
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
The process of this course consists of students' group work for problem setting, presentation of the concept of solutions, and improvement of the ideas by the feedback from the society. The theme of the workshop/discussion depends on the students' intentions and the social situation at the time.
Students are required to attend the orientation session (planned 1 – 2 months prior to the course start). The schedule will be announced at the following website:
http://www.total.titech.ac.jp/news/
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | By the group work over seven weeks, students are required to propose a solution to address social issues and to improve it by getting feedback from experts. In this class, the course instructors will provide a framework for the group work process; for example, Lean Launchpad and Programming Boot Camp. The presentation session will be held in the eighth week. | Assignments will be announced in each class. Students may be required to have out of the class meeting go accomplish the project. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
Textbook(s)
Course materials will be provided during class.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Course materials will be provided during class.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Students will be assessed on the achievement of the learning outcomes such as proposing the practical ideas for solving the social issues, consensus building in the group, dealing with the feedback from the society and so on, as well as on the rationality of discussion and contribution to collaboration work.
Related courses
- TAL.W502 ： Fundamental Group Work for Leadership I
- TAL.W503 ： Fundamental Group Work for Leadership II
- TAL.W603 ： Practical Group Work for Leadership II
- TAL.W612 ： Advanced Group Work for Leadership I
- TAL.W613 ： Advanced Group Work for Leadership II
- TAL.W401 ： Introduction to Leadership
- LAH.C401 ： Leadership Workshop
Prerequisites
Students must have successfully completed either one of the TAL.W501 "Fundamental Group Work for Leadership",
TAL.W502 "Fundamental Group Work for Leadership I", or TAL.W503 "Fundamental Group Work for Leadership II".