2022 Faculty Courses Liberal arts and basic science courses Career development courses
Master's Social and Business Rules and Ethics B2
- Academic unit or major
- Career development courses
- Instructor(s)
- Akira Izumi / Shigeo Sugou / Taku Nishio
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 5-6 Fri
- Class
- B2
- Course Code
- LAC.M527
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2022
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Jul 10, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course provides students with an overview of the rules of society and business that will be relevant when they build their careers in industry and academia after completing the master's program. In particular, the course covers intellectual property rights such as the Patent Act, the Trademark Act, Design Act, and the Copyright Act, as well as standards, following an overview of laws, standards, and other rules in society and business. Compliance, ethics, crisis management, and SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) will also be covered with case studies.
The aim of this course is to acquire an overview of the rules of society and business, which many students have not had much opportunity to know before, and to understand that the rules are closely related to technology in society, and that it is necessary to actively understand the broad framework of the rules in order to build their career in the real world.
This course will be offered in 2Q and 3Q. Since the content is the same, students are advised to select the course according to their own study plan.
The name of this course is changed from "Social and Business Rules and Ethics," which was offered in AY2021.
Course description and aims
By taking this course, students will acquire the following
1)Understand there are various rules in society and business, and that they play a major role in utilizing technology, find what they consider valuable from the class toward building their own future careers, and develop their own perspectives on them.
2)Understand it is necessary to know a basic framework of rules when building a career in the actual world, find what they consider valuable from the class toward building their own future careers, and develop their ownperspectives on them.
3)Understand compliance, ethics, crisis management, and the SDGs, find what they consider valuable from the class toward buildingtheir own future careers, and develop their ownperspectives on them.
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)
Lecturers with extensive experience in the Japanese government, a public organization and private companies deliver classes on various rules and regulations they have been involved with in their work based on their own experiences.
Keywords
Rules, laws, standards, compliance, crisis management, intellectual property rights, ethics, SDGs
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Classes will be on-line via ZOOM. It is important to ensure interactivity between the lecturers and students in the class, so students should participate in real time in principle.
In classes, PowerPoint presentations will be used, with many examples and charts to facilitate understanding. Students are encouraged to actively participate in the class by joining polling and asking questions.
An assignment will be given in each class, and students will be required to write and submit a report. The reports will be reflected in the evaluation and their contents should be something that students can refer back to in the future as they build their own careers.
Feedback on submitted reports that would be valuable for students to share will be provided at a later date, with comments from the lecturer if necessary.
Lecturers:
SUGOU Shigeo, Intellectual Property Officer, Research and Innovation Promotion Headquarters, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (former Chief Patent Officer, Central Research Laboratory, NEC Corporation)
NISHIO Taku, Director of Production Management Department, International Division ,Lion Corporation
IZUMI, Akira, Specially Appointed Professor, Innovator and Inventor Development Platform, Tokyo Tech. (Official of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)
※The order of classes may be changed due to the availability of exernal lecturers, or the content of the classes may be changed.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction, overview of social and business rules, need to study rules (IZUMI Akira) | Students are able to understand an overview of the rules in society and, as an example, the legislation on the safety of household products. |
| Class 2 | Risk Management, Fair Research and Ethics (IZUMI Akira) | Students are able to understand the necessary efforts to reduce risks, such as safety, as well as the rules and ethics of conducting fair research. |
| Class 3 | Practice of safety management, compliance, ethics, etc. in the company (NISHIO Taku) | Students are able to understand how safety management is carried out in the company as well as its approach to the SDGs. |
| Class 4 | Patent Act (SUGOU Shigeo) | Students are able to understand an overview of the Patent law. |
| Class 5 | Copyright Act, Unfair Competition Prevention Act, Trademark Act, Design Act, etc. (SUGOU Shigeo) | Students are able to understand an overview of the Copyright Act, the Unfair Competition Prevention Act, the Trademark Act, and the Design Act. |
| Class 6 | Incidents of fraud and impropriety and the SDGs (IZUMI Akira) | Students are able to understand the occurrence and causes of quality and other inappropriate incidents in companies, as well as the challenges of addressing the SDGs. |
| Class 7 | International standardization and summary of lectures (IZUMI Akira) | Students are able to understand that international standards can be developed by private sector engineers themselves. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
Textbook(s)
No textbook. In principle, lecture materials prepared by the lecturers will be uploaded to T2SCHOLA in advance of each class.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
All reference books are written in Japanese, so please refer to the syllabus in Japanese.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Basically, an assignment is given in each class and the students are required to submit a report on it. The reports submitted by the due date will be evaluated with the same weight for each class on how deeply they consider the assignment and how well they describe the results of their consideration.
Related courses
- LAC.M401 ： Master's Career Development Basics
- LAC.M413 ： Master's Career Design Practice
- LAC.M511 ： Master's Career Development Role Models
Prerequisites
Classes are delivered in Japanese, so students should have Japanese language skills enough to understand the content of the classes.
Students can write their reports in either Japanese or English.
Other
The corresponding GA for this course is GA1M.
For a list of career development courses offered at IIDP, please refer to the URL below.
(https://www.titech.ac.jp/english/student-support/students/life/career-education)