2025 (Current Year) Special graduate degree programs Specially Offered Degree Programs for Graduate Students Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership
Advanced Group Work for Leadership I S
- Academic unit or major
- Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership
- Instructor(s)
- Keisuke Yamada / Yuri Matsuzaki / Mayu Watanabe
- Class Format
- Exercise
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Intensive
- Class
- S
- Course Code
- TAL.W612
- Number of credits
- 020
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 1-2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
In this course, students will develop further the abilities they learned in "Fundamental Group Work for Leadership" (TAL.W501), "Fundamental Group Work for Leadership" I, II (TAL.W502, TAL.W503), "Practical Group Work for Leadership" (TAL.W601) and "Practical Group Work for Leadership" I, II (TAL.W602, TAL.W603). Students are required to design, document a project plan, and pursue their own projects that have impacts on others and society. To design the projects, the goal and execution process should be discussed with instructors.
In addition, students will describe their own career plans and get feedback from their peers and instructors to realize how they can exploit their abilities in their future careers.
Course description and aims
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
(1) Derive solutions for creating novel value in society.
(2) Improve the solution so as to be more realistic by receiving feedback from the society.
(3) Achieve the project that implements the solution in the society with impact.
(4) Involving others, show leadership in the project.
Keywords
Leadership/Followership, Consensus Building, Social Issues, Accomplish Project
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
In this course, students develop and conduct a project that aims to implement the ideas and concepts proposed by themselves in society. The theme of the project depends on the students' intentions and the social situation at the time.
On registration to the course, students are required to reserve an orientation session with instructors.
Contact: total.tokunin@total.titech.ac.jp (Yamada, Watanabe, Matsuzaki)
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Students accomplish project planning, implementation, and improvement over seven weeks. The contents are determined through discussion with the instructors. Students will perform the project result presentations in the eighth week. | Project proposal and final presentation |
Study advice (preparation and review)
Textbook(s)
None
Reference books, course materials, etc.
None
Evaluation methods and criteria
Students will be assessed on the achievement of the learning outcomes such as planning and implementation of practical project that creates novel value and impact to society and improving it through communication with society and so on, as well as on the rationality of discussion and contribution of collaboration work.
Related courses
- TAL.W502 ： Fundamental Group Work for Leadership I
- TAL.W503 ： Fundamental Group Work for Leadership II
- TAL.W602 ： Practical Group Work for Leadership I
- TAL.W603 ： Practical Group Work for Leadership II
- TAL.W401 ： Introduction to Leadership
- LAH.C401 ： Leadership Workshop
Prerequisites
Students must have successfully completed either one of the Fundamental Group Work for Leadership (TAL.W501) or Fundamental Group Work for Leadership I (TAL.W502).
Other
The Graduate Attribute of this course: GA0D, GA1D