2024 Special graduate degree programs Specially Offered Degree Programs for Graduate Students Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership
Recognition of Social Issues Workshop D
- 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.S510
- Number of credits
- 010
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course is for students who have taken TAL.S506 "Recognition of Social Issues Workshop A" to further improve their skills and capabilities. This course can be taken only by students who have completed the TAL.S506.
Course description and aims
By utilizing the methodology and experiences learned in Recognition of Social Issues Workshop B, students are being expected to practice proposing new solution ideas and suggestion about social design with higher possibility, and accumulate experiences about exploring consensus building with different background people than yours.
Keywords
Issue identification, Consensus building, Diversity, Networking, Value creation
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/
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/
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 | Details about schedule and contents will be presented in ToTAL web page/ToTAL OPEN Programs by the end of September while 2 kind of workshops below are being considered to be offered; (1) Effectuation Workshop: Students are going to find that the studenst already have enough capability in generating "innovation" with exsisting idea generation capability and network. (2) Future Foresight Workshop: Students are going to design future society of 10-15 years later by methodologies of scanning, back casting and abduction. (3) Design Thinking for beginners (4) Debate club | Presented on site |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
None
Reference books, course materials, etc.
None
Evaluation methods and criteria
1. 40%: attendance to the workshop and pro-active attitude for idea generation and for contribution to consensus building.
2. 40%: the level of logical acceptance about the solution(s) (ideas) to be presented as the result of discussion
3. 20%: submitting reports
Related courses
- TAL.S506 ： Recognition of Social Issues Workshop B
Prerequisites
This course can be applied by the students who completed TAL.S506 Recognition of Social Issues Workshop B.
Other
The Graduate Attribute of this course: GA1M