Doctoral Developing Career Adaptability for Global Competitiveness

Academic unit or major

Entrepreneurship courses

Instructor(s)

Mayumi Ando / Hazel Bantolino Gonzales

Class Format

Lecture (Livestream)

Media-enhanced courses

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Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

5-6 Tue

Class

-

Course Code

ENT.C643(LAC.C643)

Number of credits

100

Course offered

2024

Offered quarter

3Q

Syllabus updated

Mar 17, 2025

Language

English

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Syllabus

Course overview and goals

In this course, doctoral students are introduced to the typical and exceptional challenges arising in a workplace out of their comfort zone, and students are consequently trained to cope with these challenges. Several in-class activities will urge students to demonstrate and enhance their adaptive skills. These activities are expected to foster new strategies and ideas that will help prepare students in facing the global environment.
Lectures on global competitiveness (with some actual examples from interviewed professionals) will further expose students to the increasing workplace diversity and the inevitability of the heightening international competition. The course aims to help students determine possible career paths, explore and enhance professional skills, and develop adaptive skills in a challenging professional world. To help attain these goals, doctoral students will undergo some career assessment tests/exercises through a workshop/in-class activity that simulates the actual work scenario.

Course description and aims

At the end of this course, doctoral students are expected to:
1. understand the importance of adaptability in career development;
2. develop work attitude in respective career paths and broaden work perspective; and
3. be ready for the possible career-related challenges in the future.

Keywords

adaptability; career management; skill development; personal assessment; global environment

Competencies

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

Class flow

Classes will be given for 7 weeks, either in Ookayama or Suzukakedai campus. The course will cover preparations for an actual workplace scenario. As the course progresses, there will be some in-class activities or exercises exemplifying actual situations in a working environment that will help evaluate students' skills and foster these skills for a number of career opportunities in the future. A final report will be required for the completion of the course and the topic will depend on students' capabilities demonstrated during the lectures.

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)

None

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Suggested Books:
1) Developing Cultural Adaptability: How to Work Across Differences (by Jennifer J. Deal and Don W. Prince)
2) Quick Skills: Managing Change (by Career Solutions Training Group)
3) Self-Assessment and Career Development (3rd ed.) (by John P. Kotter, Victor A. Faux and James G. Clawson)

Evaluation methods and criteria

Attendance and In-Class Participation (30%); In-Class Exercises and Homework Assignments (30%); Final Report (40%)

Related courses

• Other Career Design Courses

Prerequisites

None

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

gonzales.h.aa[at]m.titech.ac.jp

Office hours

Weekdays 9:00 - 17:00 (Consultation hours are by appointment and may be outside of the office hours.)

Other

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