2024 Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Department of Social and Human Sciences Graduate major in Social and Human Sciences
Translational Project in Social and Human Sciences S5
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Social and Human Sciences
- Instructor(s)
- Koichiro Mitsubori / Hiroichi Yanase
- Class Format
- Experiment
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Intensive
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- SHS.L655
- Number of credits
- 001
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 1-2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 17, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course is a project based learning which introducing writing a research proposal, creating academic articles, and having individual presentations and group presentations. The purpose of the course is aimed at improving academic performance and capabilities necessary for writing a doctoral thesis through group activities. At the same time, it is aimed at in the following four points: 1) familiarising with various areas of social scienced and humanities other than your own; 2) understanding general features of research methodology and the particularity of each specific areas; 3) broadening your own research area; and 4) enhancing leadership to younger generations.
Course description and aims
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
1) Ability to dialogue and declare
2) Interdiscipnary knowledge over several specialized fields
3) Ability to solve problems
Keywords
Research methods, presentation, group work
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
At the beginning of the course, students are required to submit a research proposal. Register for the course at the earliest time so that you can obtain the announcement on the way of submission and its deadline. At the end of the course, you are also required to actively participate in all sessions of the presentation meeting by making questions and comments upon the presentations. Those students who have not acted as a moderator are possibly asked to take up the role.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Write a research proposal. Discuss it with the supervosor and sub-academicadvisor. | Write a research proposal and revise it. |
| Class 2 | Explore the ways to realise the contribution to society and diffusion of research results, which are required for a PhD holder. Write and submit an academic paper. Accumulate know-hows to pass the peer-review process with supervisor’s support. | Practice of each method |
| Class 3 | Self-evaluation on your academic performance (i.e., progress of research) by comparing with the research proposal. Write the final report in which the causes of success and failure and the improvement policy shall be included. Based on that report, students are required to such activities as presentations, discussions, and reflections. | Submit the final report and revise it. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
Textbook(s)
Nothing required
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Specified as necessary.
Evaluation methods and criteria
After submitting all research plans, presentations, reports, and study portfolios, grades will be determined on a pass/fail basis.
Related courses
- SHS.L651 ： Translational Project in Social and Human Sciences S3
- SHS.L652 ： Translational Project in Social and Human Sciences F3
- SHS.L653 ： Translational Project in Social and Human Sciences S4
- SHS.L654 ： Translational Project in Social and Human Sciences F4
- SHS.L656 ： Translational Project in Social and Human Sciences F5
Prerequisites
Social and Human Science course students who obtained the credit of S4 can only register.
The students are required to participate in all activities listed in the course schedule and to submit all assignments by the deadline.
Other
This course includes the content of science.