Master's Career Development Role Models D

Academic unit or major

Career development courses

Instructor(s)

Akira Izumi / Masahiro Aoki / Yoshihiro Akiyama / / Takahiro Hamada / Chisa Yamada / Joe Yoshimura / Takayasu Fukui

Class Format

Lecture (Livestream)

Media-enhanced courses

-

Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

7-8 Thu

Class

D

Course Code

LAC.M511

Number of credits

100

Course offered

2023

Offered quarter

4Q

Syllabus updated

Jul 8, 2025

Language

Japanese

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

This course provides a series of classes by lecturers who are active at the forefront of various professional fields, such as entrepreneurs, management consultants, persons in large corporations, foreign-affiliated companies, and public institutions, giving an overview of their careers, introducing major businesses they have been involved in, what impressed them about those businesses, their experiences overcoming difficulties, and the reasons they decided to pursue careers or major career turning points.

The aim of this course is for students to find role models for their own future career development from the content of the classes, regardless of whether the lecturers' field is related to the students' field of study or interest, and to find what are applicable for their future careers. Therefore, it is important for students to actively ask questions to the lecturers and be motivated to utilize the classes for their own career development, not just to passively listen to the classes.

This course will be offered in 3Q and 4Q respectively. Since the lecturers are basically different from each other, Students are recommended to choose one according to their own study plans.

The name of this course is changed from "Smart Business Career Development," which was offered in AY2021.

Course description and aims

By taking this course, students acquire the following;
1) Learn lessons that they can use as role models for their own future careers by listening to the real-life experiences of people active in various industries.
2) Broaden their horizons regarding future careers and concretely imagine the direction of self-development for career building by touching information on unique careers and professional activities.

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 who are active in the front lines of a wide range of business fields provide classes on business development and career building based on their own practical experience, which cannot be covered by general courses.

Keywords

Career development, Role model, Entrepreneur, Large-scale company worker, Strategic management consultant, Lawyer/Patent attorney, Start-up accelerator, Foreign-affiliate company worker, Public organization worker,

Competencies

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

Class flow

This course provides a series of classes by lecturers with extensive experience in a variety of fields. Among them, students are required to discover content that they can be applicable or beneficial toward their own future career development.

Classes will be on-line via ZOOM. Students are required to participate in real time in principle, in order to make sure interactivity between the lecturers and students in the class.
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 ZOOM 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 helpful for students to share will be provided at a later date, with comments from the lecturer when necessary.

The order of classes may be changed or the content of classes may be altered.

Course schedule/Objectives

Study advice (preparation and review)

Textbook(s)

None

Reference books, course materials, etc.

None

Evaluation methods and criteria

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.M527 ： Master's Social and Business Rules and Ethics

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 Innovator and Inventor Development Platform(IIDP), please refer to the URL below.
(https://www.titech.ac.jp/english/student-support/students/life/career-education)