Domestic Training A

Academic unit or major

Career development courses

Instructor(s)

Hirofumi Akagi

Class Format

Experiment

Media-enhanced courses

-

Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

Internship

Class

A

Course Code

LAC.A639

Number of credits

001

Course offered

2021

Offered quarter

1Q

Syllabus updated

Jul 10, 2025

Language

Japanese

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

As a domestic training course within the Academic Leader Program (ALP), this course encourages students to undertake practical training in off-campus research activities and various other opportunities. One credit will be granted for conducting practical research training at a domestic university, a governmental research institution like RIKEN and AIST, or equivalent for two weeks or more under the guidance of their supervisor professor (Lab.'s Sensei). It should be noted that the domestic university or the governmental research institution has already made an internship contract with, or has been specially approved by, Tokyo Tech. Participation in domestic conferences, schools, etc. may be included in the training. This course is also available in English only when training is conducted in English.

Course description and aims

The goal of this training is to get the skills of building new networking or relationships among researchers.

Keywords

Research training in domestic universities and research institutes, Domestic conference and/or summer school participation.

Competencies

• Specialist skills
• Intercultural skills
• Communication skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

Students taking this course should submit a "domestic training application form" to the ALP curriculum committee after consulting well with the academic advisor, and receive travel approval. Within two weeks of completing the travel, a training report should be submitted to the ALP curriculum committee.
Please note that one-time domestic training can be registered ONLY for one regular subject. Duplicated enrollment with other subjects such as seminars is not allowed.

Course schedule/Objectives

Study advice (preparation and review)

Textbook(s)

None

Reference books, course materials, etc.

None

Evaluation methods and criteria

Implementation of domestic training, and submission of a domestic training report on a given format (100%).

Related courses

• Other career courses

Prerequisites

1) Duplicated enrollment with other training subjects or programs is not allowed.
2) As a general rule, each of doctoral students, who belongs to his/her doctoral course for less than six months, cannot register for this course.