Advanced Group Work for Leadership II 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.W613

Number of credits

020

Course offered

2025

Offered quarter

1-2Q

Syllabus updated

Mar 19, 2025

Language

English

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

This course is for students who have taken "Advanced Group Work for Leadership" (TAL.W611) or "Advanced Group Work for Leadership" (TAL.W612) to further improve their skills and capabilities. This course can be taken only by students who have completed any of the above courses.

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

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.

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.W612 ： Advanced Group Work for Leadership I
• TAL.W401 ： Introduction to Leadership
• LAH.C401 ： Leadership Workshop

Prerequisites

1. 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).
2. Students must have successfully completed either one of the Advanced Group Work for Leadership (TAL.W611) or Advanced Group Work for Leadership I (TAL.W612).

Other

The Graduate Attribute of this course: GA0D, GA1D