2020 Faculty Courses School of Life Science and Technology First-Year Courses
Bio-Creative Design 1【School of Life Science and Technology】
- Academic unit or major
- First-Year Courses
- Instructor(s)
- Hiroyuki Ohta / Chair Of First-Year Studies / Noriyuki Asakura / Yoshitaka Ishii / Hiroshi Ichinose / Takehiko Itoh / Hiroshi Iwasaki / Takafumi Ueno / Yuichi Hongoh / Shinji Masuda / Atsushi Maruyama / Masayasu Mie / Toshiaki Kamachi / Eizo Miyashita / Toshiaki Mori / Rie Yatsunami / Takuji Yamada / Naoyuki Yamamoto / Hideya Yuasa / Masaaki Wachi / Toru Hisabori / Ken-Ichi Wakabayashi
- Class Format
- Exercise (Zoom)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 5-6 Fri (M113,H102,W832,W931)
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- XLS.B102
- Number of credits
- 010
- Course offered
- 2020
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Jul 10, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
Students will be participated in the activity in a small group. They propose and try to complete their own "MONOTSUKURI" plan related to bioscience and biotechnology. The examples of the products may be easy tools to teach bioscience and technology or any other which will be useful for human society. Taking both Bio-creative design 1 and 2 is strongly recommended. advisory teachers will monthly make advises appropriately. Students who also take Bio-creative design 2 will continue their "MONOTSUKURI" and will presents their activity and products in a public contest.
Course description and aims
The goal is for students to learn basic bioscience and biotech knowledge, while also developing creative potential, and acquiring independent skills and an inquisitive spirit. Students will also develop teamwork skills (leadership, listening skills, flexibility, situation assessment skills, discipline, and stress control skills) through small-size group learning, as well as develop presentation skills for presenting creation ideas and findings.
Keywords
Bioscience, Biotechnology, Creation of bio-related products, Group work, Presentation skills
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
The main activity in class is group discussion and group work. Students will submit an activity report for each activity, and report on their progress monthly to their advisers in a report session.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction | The purpose and flow of this course will be explained. |
| Class 2 | Group discussion | Each group will start to plan each subject. Discuss the planning in each group. |
| Class 3 | Group discussion | Each group will continue to discuss their possible subject(s) to solve some social issue(s) and decides to tackle in this course, and obtain feedbacks from advisory professors. |
| Class 4 | Group presentation (goal setting) | Each group will make a 3 min presentation on social issue(s) that the group decides to tackle in this course, and obtain feedback from advisory professors. |
| Class 5 | Discussion of concrete approaches | Based on the feedback obtained, each group promotes the group work. Each group will design experiments or research documents to decide concrete approaches toward goals of the group work. |
| Class 6 | Experiments, document research, and their evaluation | Each group will start experiments and re-evaluate its goal setting by interpreting the experimental data and/or by researching documents related to the social issues. |
| Class 7 | Experiments, document research, and their evaluation | Each group will continue to do experiments and re-evaluate its goal setting by interpreting the experimental data and/or by researching documents related to the social issues. |
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
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Not suggested
Evaluation methods and criteria
Students will be evaluated and scored by advisory professors. Student's attitude and performance in this course will be considered for scoring.
Related courses
- LAS.B101 ： Fundamental Life Science 1-1
- LAS.B102 ： Fundamental Life Science 1-2
- LAS.B103 ： Fundamental Life Science 2-1
- LAS.B104 ： Fundamental Life Science 2-2
- ZUW.A221 ： Basic Bioscience Laboratory I
- ZUW.A221 ： Basic Bioscience Laboratory I
- XLS.B103 ： Bio-Creative Design 2【School of Life Science and Technology】
- XLS.B104 ： International Bio-Creative Design【School of Life Science and Technology】
Prerequisites
All students who take this course should also take the course of Bio-Creative Design 2 in 3Q.