2025 (Current Year) Special graduate degree programs Specially Offered Degree Programs for Graduate Students Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership
Master’s Practical Group Work for Leadership I F
- 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) - Class
- F
- Course Code
- TAL.W504
- Number of credits
- 020
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 3-4Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
In this course, students will practice the abilities they learned in "Fundamental Group Work for Leadership” (TAL.W501), “Fundamental Group Work for Leadership I” (TAL.W502), and “Fundamental Group Work for Leadership II” (TAL.W503) by pursuing long-term group projects such as idea generation and application development. The projects will be executed by following a methodology (e.g., Lean Launchpad) introduced in the lectures.
In addition, students will describe their 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) Propose practical ideas for solving social issues by utilizing the skills and knowledge of the major field.
(2) Explicate the ideas properly, and build consensus in the group by respecting the opinion of others.
(3) Improve the proposing idea appropriately based on feedback from the society.
(4) Accomplish the group work as the project.
Keywords
Leadership/Followership, Consensus Building, Social Issues
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
All students who want to apply this course should refer ToTAL web page (https://www.total.titech.ac.jp/) , and apply either round of the briefing meeting.
The process of this course consists of students’ group work for problem setting, presentation of the concept of solutions, and improvement of the ideas by the feedback from the society. The theme of the workshop/discussion depends on the students’ intentions and the social situation at the time.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | By the group work over seven weeks, students are required to propose a solution of social issues and to improve it by obtaining criticism from those who have the expertise. In this class, the course instructors will provide a known framework for the group work process; for example, Lean Launchpad and Programming Boot Camp. The presentation session will be held in the eighth week. | Assignments will be announced in each class. Students may be required to have out of the class meetings to accomplish the project. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
Students may be required to have out of the class meetings to accomplish the project.
Textbook(s)
Course materials are provided during class.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Course materials are provided during class.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Students will be assessed on the achievement of the learning outcomes such as proposing the practical ideas for solving the social issues, consensus building in the group, dealing with the feedback from the society, and so on, as well as on the rationality of discussion and contribution to collaboration work.
Related courses
- TAL.W502 ： Fundamental Group Work for Leadership I
- TAL.W503 ： Fundamental Group Work for Leadership II
- TAL.W505 ： Master’s Practical Group Work for Leadership II
Prerequisites
Registered students of ToTAL should have successfully completed either one of the Fundamental Group Work for Leadership (TAL.W501) or Fundamental Group Work for Leadership I (TAL.W502) before taking this course. There are no restrictions for all students besides the above.
Other
The Graduate Attribute of this course: GA0M, GA1M