Online Global Practice

Academic unit or major

Entrepreneurship courses

Instructor(s)

Eri Ota / Rie Murakami / Sachiko Ito / Toshiko Morishima

Class Format

Experiment (Livestream)

Media-enhanced courses

Courses specified

Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

Intensive

Class

-

Course Code

ENT.G331(LAW.X362)

Number of credits

001

Course offered

2024

Offered quarter

4Q

Syllabus updated

Mar 14, 2025

Language

Japanese

※ Courses with parentheses in the course number have different subject codes depending on the student's year of admission.

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

Globalization has affected our lifestyle in many ways to increase effectiveness on flow of information, goods, and people. On the other hand, globalization has also accelerated many notable problems such as climate change, economic gap and so forth. Socioeconomic activities and people's lifestyle will change very rapidly for many reasons. Keeping in mind that one of the higher institutions' missions is to increase global awareness and contribute to students' future career formation, global education in the new paradigm, it has shifted the pedagogy to "learn anywhere you stay", including traditional study abroad, interaction with students from different countries, and on-line communication with universities in the world.

Aim：
１）Understand higher education and career path related subjects in selected countries (for Spring 2025, Sweden, Sri Lanka, and United States).
２）Elucidate similarities and differences on study abroad concepts on "digital (on-line learning) " and "real (cross-border activities)"
３）Clarify goals and images of student's own global careers and necessary skills to prepare for the new paradigm. It is assumed that a new paradigm will accompany with rapid digitalization, no-mobility connection, and innovation through collaboration with people with multicultural background and diverse field of expertise.

Course description：
Students will draw their own future plan which includes study abroad and global career goals before and after the on-line global study program. On-line global study program includes mainly following four activities ①Comparative study on Japan and selected countries，② Lectures and discussions by young professors, graduates, and seniors with study abroad experiences，③On-line tour on campus, lab on selected countries，④ On-line students exchange with selected countries

For detail, please see the website below (Japanese Only)
http://www.ghrd.titech.ac.jp/2024/09/onlineglobal_2025sp/

Course description and aims

1) Actively participate in program to relate with student's own clear plan.
2) Participate in students exchange activities and discuss with people from different countries, languages, customs and cultures with diverse perspectives
3) To be able to explain general information about selected countries, such as their history and culture. Positively act to deepen the learning on selected countries to make references for his/her own study-abroad and career plan.

Keywords

Multicultural understanding, Intercultural co-learning, Understanding home country, Global awareness

Competencies

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

Class flow

The course is composed of following activities
１）Create future plan which includes study abroad and global career goals before and after the on-line global study program.
２）Conduct comparative studies with information and data collection about Japan and selected countries related to higher education and career (i.e. education system, STEM education, and others)
３）Submit assignment related to future of his/her career in relation to interested field.
４）Lectures and discussions by young professors, graduates, and seniors with study abroad experiences (about study abroad experience, current job, skills necessary for future society taking consideration of post COVID-19 world)
５）On-line tour on campus, lab as well as students exchange on selected countries
６）Submit final report (about on-line global training, career and life plan)
７）Final presentation session

Course schedule/Objectives

Study advice (preparation and review)

Textbook(s)

N/A

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Distribute as needed

Evaluation methods and criteria

Pre-study 10%
On-line training 60%
Report 20%
Final Presentation 10%

Related courses

• ENT.G131(LAW.X156) ： Online Global Practice Basic

Prerequisites

Detail of the program along with call for application will be sent through Slack Channel.
Please make course addition by Friday, 27th December 2024.

Refer to Schedule uploaded on following website. (Japanese Only)

http://www.ghrd.titech.ac.jp/gsec/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/2025SPschedule_re.jpg

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

Center for Entrepreneurship Education, Global Education Option

Office hours

By appointment

Other

This course is registered for
Global Education Option (GEO)
International Experience
Global Scientists and Engineers Course Study Abroad or International Internship Program (P4).