Professionals and Value Creation C

Academic unit or major

Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership

Instructor(s)

Keisuke Yamada

Class Format

Exercise

Media-enhanced courses

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Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

Intensive

Class

-

Course Code

TAL.S507

Number of credits

010

Course offered

2025

Offered quarter

2Q

Syllabus updated

Mar 19, 2025

Language

Japanese

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

Further to the presentation to be made by the professionals who are creating leading edge of values (innovations) in various fields including enterprises, start ups, NPO/NGO, journalism, government and academic, students are going to be encouraged to derive their necessary information and/or answers from the professionals. Students are being expected to find (1) multidimensional perspective and (2) excitement for creating value to the society from the communication with such professionals. Basically, Guest Speakers are being changed in every term.

Course description and aims

Students are being expected to understand core and background of the social issues, solutions, ideas, suggestions and activities made by the guest speaker (or his/her belonging organization), and to think your opinions and possible actions to be taken as if the students are in the same situation with the guest speaker. Students are also being expected to understand the information concerning about the topic the guest speaker is presenting in advance, to set problems and issues and think their possible solutions in advance(as hypothesis) , and test if such possible solutions should be appropriate through communication with the guest speaker.

Keywords

diversity, networking, value creation, hypothesis verification

Competencies

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

Class flow

The schedule and guest speakers will be announced at the orientation for ToTAL's intensive courses. Please see details at the following web page.
https://www.total.titech.ac.jp/en/news/openprogram/

For Hitotsubashi University students (a briefing before the course enrollment deadline)
https://www.total.titech.ac.jp/en/aboutus/hit-u/

All students who want to apply this course should attend the 1st round(12/Jun(Mon) 18:15-19:45), in which “person(s) in charge” for each round will decided.
Professionals are presenting the leading edge of information about their business, development, vision of their activities, and problems to be overcome to the students and the students, then try to drive answers/necessary information from the guest speakers. Students are being requested to engage in preparation work; to research outline of the organization the professionals are belonging and to clarify aims for having communication with them, in advance.
In the meantime, person-in-charge(PIC) of each class will be decided in the orientation. Each class will take 1.5-2 hours. Students are also being requested to submit a report about each class to which the guest speaker attend.
Note 1: Actual schedule and guest speakers( and theme) will be presented by the end of Sep/2023 via web site of Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership(ToTAL)/Open Programs.

This course will be a blended format (primarily face-to-face, with a few live online classes), such as when lecturers are invited from abroad, but the face-to-face workshop classes will be the main focus. In the case of online lectures, instructors will provide appropriate feedback. External tools such as chat and Slack will be used to ensure interactivity and check the learning progress.

Announcements will be open at the webpage below:
http://www.total.titech.ac.jp/news/

Note that some classes will be held on Saturdays and Sundays occasionally to allow for a coherent time frame, or when instructors are invited from outside.

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 theme for the Advanced Information Sharing and other course material.

Textbook(s)

None

Reference books, course materials, etc.

None

Evaluation methods and criteria

1. 30%; Attendance
2. 20%; contribution to Advanced Information Sharing
3. 20%; asking questions and presenting opinions proactively to the guest speaker(s)
4. 20%; efforts to try to pull-put information and/or comments, which the student want to hear, from the guest speakers
5. 10%; Reports for the classes to which the guest speakers attend.

Related courses

• TAL.S502 ： Professionals and Value Creation A

Prerequisites

This course can be applied by the students who completed TAL.S502; Professionals and Value Creation A.

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

Prof. Keisuke Yamada, Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership(ToTAL) : yamada.k.be[at]m.titech.ac.jp

Office hours

Personal meetings can be booked upon request; we also have drop-in virtual office hours on Friday, 13:00-14:00, except for holidays. For detail please submit a request from the form below:
https://forms.gle/kCDtXz2NcwHy8kSC9

Other

1. Depend on the guest speakers’ convenience, the venue (either O-okayama or Suzukaked-dai) would be decided. If, however, students can access by remote system from O-okayama or Suzukake-dai.
2.Presenting your idea about Guest Speaker would be welcome.
3. Graduate Attribute: GA0M