2024 Special graduate degree programs Specially Offered Degree Programs for Graduate Students Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership
Recognition of Social Issues Workshop A
- Academic unit or major
- Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership
- Instructor(s)
- Keisuke Yamada / Yuri Matsuzaki / Mayu Watanabe
- Class Format
- Exercise (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Intensive
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- TAL.S505
- Number of credits
- 010
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
ToTAL understands that recognizing and understanding issues which are occurred in current society and in the field of academic, business, politics, technology and art would be fundamental for the course category of “Leadership, followership and consensus building” which aim for fostering capabilities to proactively solve such issues with no correct answers. During the course of “Recognition of Social Issues Workshop A”, students will acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote communication and negotiation process necessary in complex situations with multiple stakeholders.
This course will give you an opportunity to increase your self-awareness and diagnostic capability as a negotiator. Students groups will be arranged for the group discussions about such as conflict resolution cases. The groups will be arranged to include students from various backgrounds.
Course description and aims
Learn about the process of negotiating and discussing with people in different positions, and train through practice.
Keywords
Consensus building, Issue identification, Communication
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Schedule and policy of the course will be explained in an orientation session held at the beginning of each semester.
Announcements will be open at the webpage below:
http://www.total.titech.ac.jp/en/news/openprogram/
Note that some workshops will be held on Saturdays and Sundays to allow for a coherent time frame, or when instructors are invited from outside.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Please attend one of the following briefing sessions and send your attending plan to the instructors. If you missed attending the orientation, please contact the instructors. ■Orientation (Same contents) ・＃1（Japanese） 9/Apr (Tue.) 18:00-19:30 @Ookayama S6-309B & online ・＃2（English） 11/Apr (Thu.) 18:00-19:30 @Ookayama S6-309B & online ・#3（Japanese & English） 23/Apr (Tue.) 18:00-19:30 @Ookayama S6-309B & online ■Students will select and attend workshops from below: (Date TBD) Trading game - a simulation of international cooperation 20/Jul (Sat.), 27/Jul. (Sat.), Negotiation and consensus-building workshops 13/Jul (Sat.), System x Design Thinking workshop (Date TBD) Debate Club | Presented on site |
Study advice (preparation and review)
Textbook(s)
None
Reference books, course materials, etc.
None
Evaluation methods and criteria
1. 50%: attendance to the workshop and pro-active attitude for idea generation and for contribution to consensus building
2. 50%: the level of logical acceptance about the solution(s) (ideas) to be presented as the result of discussion
Related courses
- TAL.S509：Recognition of Social Issues Workshop C
Prerequisites
None
Other
The Graduate Attribute of this course: GA1M