2024 Special graduate degree programs Specially Offered Degree Programs for Graduate Students Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership
Fundamental Group Work for Leadership I S
- 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
- S
- Course Code
- TAL.W502
- Number of credits
- 020
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 1-2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course aims to cultivate the basis of students' abilities to recognize the role that they should play in a team of different expertise, to present vision by themselves or to share the vision of others, to build consensus with the community of stakeholders, and to make the consensus into a concrete shape by using his/her own expertise and abilities of others. In addition, each student will present in class what they have done so far with their own leadership and how they would like to develop these in the future, and will receive feedback from students and faculty with different specialties.
Course description and aims
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
(1) learn communication tools that work effectively in the multidisciplinary teams; set personal learning goals to be an effective team member.
(2) develop relationship-building skills to connect with people from different disciplines; logical explanation, effective presentation.
(3) develop practical skills to realize one's idea and present the new value; planning, concept-building, execution.
(4) set the long-term goal achieved by taking leadership, with clear motivation.
Keywords
Leadership/Followership, Consensus Building
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. Students can visit their preferable date on-site or book on the ToTAL's website.
Announcements will be open at the webpage below:
http://www.total.titech.ac.jp/en/news/openprogram/
For students of Hitotsubashi University:
We will have an orientation earlier than above because the due date for registration for the course is earlier.
https://www.total.titech.ac.jp/en/aboutus/hit-u/
This course consists of workshops aimed to learn personal goal setting, ideation process, logical thinking, prototyping, etc. Workshop themes are selected to help students' understanding of useful concepts and practical methods to develop leadership. The theme setting of each workshop/discussion depends on the students' intentions and the social situation at the time.
This course will be a blended format (primarily face-to-face, with a few live online classes). The live online session may be used in some cases (less than half of the total class), such as when lecturers are invited from abroad, but the face-to-face workshop classes will be the main focus. In the case of online lectures, instructors and TAs will visit each group work team to provide appropriate feedback. External tools such as chat and Slack will be used to ensure interactivity and check the learning progress.
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 | Select the workshops you are interested in from the wokshop list shown at the orientation session. (Example 1) Leadership core program Students will set their personal long-term goals by deepening their thoughts by sharing their opinions and giving/getting feedback on what they want to do with their leadership. The following menus will be offered in the class to learn through experience and reflection about how your leadership and growth is promoted and transformed through the relationships with others. ・ Team building practice ・ Goal setting by self-reflection and mutual interview ・ Presentation of your research theme or project ・ Project facilitation exercise ・ Theme discussion in small groups (Example 2) Design Thinking Workshop Learn idea generation, user-centered needs identification, task setting, and prototyping through group work. (Example 3) Book Dialogue on Leadership Participants engage in dialogue about books that enhance leadership and insight into future society. (Example 4) Creativity Restoration Program by Art Through appreciation and creation of art, students expand the boundaries of thinking and emotions, develop the imagination to create new value, and build confidence to express themselves through the creation of art. (Example 5) Interactive Art Appreciation Through the appreciation of art, students learn the value of listening to other people's various ideas and expand their frames of thinking. * We will provide additional workshops that contribute to improving students' leadership skills, as well as special workshops by external lecturers. | A mini-report at the end of each class about your discovery and what you would like to learn more using it |
Study advice (preparation and review)
Textbook(s)
Course materials will be provided during class.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Course materials will be provided during class.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Students will be assessed on the achievement of the learning outcomes as well as on the rationality of discussion and contribution to collaboration work.
Related courses
- TAL.W503 ： Fundamental Group Work for Leadership II
- TAL.W504 ： Master’s Practical Group Work for Leadership I
- TAL.W602 ： Doctoral Practical Group Work for Leadership I
- TAL.W612 ： Advanced Group Work for Leadership I
- TAL.W613 ： Advanced Group Work for Leadership II
- LAH.C401 ： Leadership Workshop
- TAL.W401 ： Introduction to Leadership
Prerequisites
None
Other
The Graduate Attribute of this course: GA0M, GA1M