Trans-disciplinary Exercise in Social and Human Sciences F

Academic unit or major

Graduate major in Social and Human Sciences

Instructor(s)

Ryoichi Yamane / Kentaro Nagahara

Class Format

Exercise (Blended)

Media-enhanced courses

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Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

7-9 Mon

Class

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Course Code

SHS.L416

Number of credits

010

Course offered

2024

Offered quarter

3-4Q

Syllabus updated

Mar 14, 2025

Language

Japanese

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

We have determined five fields ("politics, law, administration", "education, welfare, health", "culture, art", "science technology and society", "cognition, math, information") and hope students to learn interdisciplinary basic knowledge and analysis methods, and methods for integrating interdisciplinary analysis results to solve problems concerned with science and technology in our society.
For this end, this course provides students with an occasion to brings together the learning ourcomes of extensively studying humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering, and to discuss integrated use of them to solve problems that each student is interested in better than conventional solutions as the preparation to conduct the master's thesis studies.
Moreover, students who belong to different filelds will form a group and discuss solutions of problems to promote mutual understanding and collaborative learning while bringing each other's experience and knowledge into workshops, exercises, and presentation sessions.

Course description and aims

Students will acquire the following skills from taking this course.
1) Be able to generate and explain concrete methods and their merits to use interdisciplinary research findings and methods in one's own master's thesis study.
2) Be aware of merits of learning interdisciplinary research findings and methods to heighten own competencies and abilities and be able to master self-learning methods and meta-cognitive skills for that purpose.
3) Be able to study and integrate interdisciplinary research findings and methods, share its merits with others, and execute it collaboratively in daily life.

Keywords

Trans-disciplinary, analysis methods, integration methods, insights, reflection, translation, bridging the gap

Competencies

• Specialist skills
• Intercultural skills
• Communication skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

We will hold a 2-hours guidance and four 3-hours workshops. The first and second classes will be held at the beggining of the term. The third and fourth classes will be held near the end of each quarter. The fifth class will be held at the end of the term. The portfolio used in this course is specially prepared for this course.

Course schedule/Objectives

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)

Not required.

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Not required.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Assessment will be based on exercises in the lessons (60%) and the final report (40%). Criteria will be clarified in the assessment portfolio. Students who did not attend the workshop more than once or be absent from the final presentation session cannot take the credit.

Related courses

• Graduate Lecture in Each Fields
• Graduate Methodologies in Each Fields
• SHS.L419 ： Special Lecture on Advanced Topics in Social and Human Sciences FA
• SHS.L420 ： Special Lecture on Advanced Topics in Social and Human Sciences FB
• LAT.A414 ： Internship Program at school Ⅰ
• TAL.S406 ： Introduction to Work Rules I produced by JTUC-RENGO
• LAT.A409 ： Educational Research on Teaching
• LAH.S405 ： Essence of Humanities and Social Sciences5:Literature

Prerequisites

Students required to take six credits or more from the above related couses in the same term.
Students who enter Tokyo Tech in and after the fiscal year of 2024 cannot take this course.

Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).

yamane[at]ila.titech.ac.jp

Office hours

Contact by e-mail in advance to schedule an appointment.

Other

This course is intended for students who will enroll in 2023, but students who enrolled from 2020 to 2022 and have not yet taken this course are strongly encouraged to do so this year.