2024 Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Department of Social and Human Sciences Graduate major in Social and Human Sciences
Course Assistance in Social and Human Sciences S4
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Social and Human Sciences
- Instructor(s)
- Takashi Takao / Takeo Suzuki / Takeshi Nakajima / Fumie Wakamatsu
- Class Format
- Experiment
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Intensive
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- SHS.L672
- Number of credits
- 002
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 1-2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 17, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course provides students with opportunities to be research or teaching assistants. The students are required to apply their research capabilities and expertise utilization capacities to the research or teaching practices and to gain transformational and transactional leaders’ abilities.
This course aims to cultivate the students’ ability to promote research and teaching activities through the experiences of the teaching assistants of core courses of master program.
Course description and aims
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
1) Know research capabilities necessary to promote research or teaching activities;
2) Know expertise utilization capacities necessary to promote research or teaching activities; and
3) Gain transformational and transactional leaders’ abilities necessary to promote research or teaching activities.
Keywords
research capability, expertise utilization capacity, transformational ability, transactional ability
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Each student assists the instructors of exercises, projects, or workshops of master program courses and writes and submits the pre- and post-report.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Based on their activities as assistants and evaluation of them, students consider how to improve their activities and make plans of their next activities. | Consider how to improve the activities as assistants. |
| Class 2 | Attend the course as teaching assistant. | Meeting before lesson, assistance in the lesson, and review after meeting should be conducted for each lesson. |
| Class 3 | Based on the activities as assistants, students self-evaluate their own development and consider how to improve their activities as well as making revised TA manual for future TA students. | Write and submit “Final report” and revised TA manual after the last lesson. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
Textbook(s)
Not required.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
TA manual for each core course of master program.
The specified format file of the activity plan and the final report.
Evaluation methods and criteria
The activity plan should be submitted in the specified format and permitted by a week before starting the activities. After conducting the activities, the report in the specified format should be submitted. Based on that report, pass or miss will be judged.
Related courses
- SHS.L412 ： Trans-disciplinary Exercise in Social and Human Sciences S1B
- SHS.L432 ： Transnational Workshop in Social and Human Sciences S1B
- SHS.L451 ： Translational Project in Social and Human Sciences S1
- SHS.L551 ： Translational Project in Social and Human Sciences S2
- SHS.Z491 ： Colloquium in Social and Human Sciences S1
- SHS.Z591 ： Colloquium in Social and Human Sciences S2
Prerequisites
Students must be a member of one of the laboratories in the Department of Social and Human Sciences.
Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).
tnakajima[at]ila.titech.ac.jp
Office hours
As needed