2021 Faculty Courses Liberal arts and basic science courses Humanities and social science courses
Communication B
- Academic unit or major
- Humanities and social science courses
- Instructor(s)
- Tamio Nakano
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 1-2 Mon (W933) / 1-2 Thu (W933)
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- LAH.H207
- Number of credits
- 200
- Course offered
- 2021
- Offered quarter
- 3Q
- Syllabus updated
- Jul 10, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course facilitate students' ability of face to face communication. Today, facing to a lot of issues, we need to collaborate and co-create. Not only becoming a good speaker and a good listener, but also learning the basic skills of facilitation to create a meaningful dialogue.
This course aims to cultivate live communication and facilitation ability through fun workshop experience.
Course description and aims
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
１）enjoy the creative dialogue even in the first meeting.
2）make a chance to get together and facilitate an playful and effective meeting.
Student learning outcomes
実務経験と講義内容との関連 (又は実践的教育内容)
I had worked for the advertising company for 30 years, and I have facilitated workshops for 25 years. Based on these experiences, I try to raise students' s ability for collaboration and co-creation in this complex age. I would like to nurture the power of dialogue based on listening, expression which can be transmitted, and the practical skill of facilitation to construct good atmosphere to talk and learn each other.
Keywords
communication, facilitation, dialogue, collaboration, co-creation, workshop
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
This course is not one way lecture style but participatory workshop style. In the first half, students experience various kind of communication such as self introduction, interview, dialogue, world cafe etc. In the second half, they learn how to facilitate a small group. In the end each participant facilitate a small group and return feedback each other.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Overview of the course. | Reflecting experiences and writing mini report. |
| Class 2 | Introduction of the workshop for communication. Practicing how to listen and talk. | Reading the text and writing mini report. |
| Class 3 | Mutual interview. Active listening and writing an article.Introducing a partner to others by using the article. | Reflecting experiences and writing mini report. |
| Class 4 | World cafe part one. Experience of large scale dialogue. | Reflecting experiences and writing mini report. |
| Class 5 | Reflection of world cafe. Introduction of facilitation. | Reading the text and writing mini report. |
| Class 6 | Basic skill 1: Creating the space and the atmosphere. | Reflecting experiences and writing mini report. |
| Class 7 | Basic skill 2:Group size, and making good questions. | Reflecting experiences and writing mini report. |
| Class 8 | Basic skill 3: Visualizing the process, and program design. | Reflecting experiences and writing mini report. |
| Class 9 | Basic skill 4: Reflection of basic skills. What kind of workshop do you want to facilitate? | Reflecting experiences and writing mini report. |
| Class 10 | Preparation for Next three practices of the facilitator. | Planning the own workshop and designing program. |
| Class 11 | Practice of the facilitator part one. | Reflection and Preparation. |
| Class 12 | Practice of the facilitator part two. | Reflection and Preparation. |
| Class 13 | Practice of the facilitator part three. | Reflection and writing final report. |
| Class 14 | Reflection of the whole process. | Reflection on the whole process. |
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.
Nakano, Tamio. How to make a collaborative learning community.
Nakano, Tamio. Workshop. Tokyo:Iwanami shoten; ISBN4-00-43710-4
Nakano, Tamio. Facilitation Revolution. Tokyo:Iwanami shoten; ISBN4-00-700069-7
Kawashima, Tadashi and Nakano, Tamio. Entakun Revolution. Tokyo:Mikuni Publishing; ISBN978-4-8403-0714-7
Evaluation methods and criteria
Active participation of every classes including home works:70%, Facilitation practice and self and others' evaluation:10%, Final report:20%
Coming late and less concentration will not be accepted.
Related courses
- LAH.H107 ： Communication A
Prerequisites
Active participation is indispensable. No being late because of the group work.
In case of online, please use PC, and video on.