Interdisciplinary Research Fundamentals I of STM 1

Academic unit or major

Graduate major in Science and Technology for Health Care and Medicine

Instructor(s)

Katsunori Tanaka / Marie Tabaru / Eizo Miyashita

Class Format

Lecture (Livestream)

Media-enhanced courses

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Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

Intensive

Class

1

Course Code

STM.C402

Number of credits

100

Course offered

2025

Offered quarter

1Q

Syllabus updated

Mar 19, 2025

Language

English

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

In order to develop technologies for “Science and Technology for Health Care and Medicine” research filed, it is very important to integrate knowledge and technologies of different fields. In other words, researchers in “Science and Technology for Health Care and Medicine” field are required to have deep and wide knowledge of both their specialized areas and different field related to life science.
In this course, students attend a lecture in a different department, gain wide expertise knowledge, and understand the relationship between the lecture and their specialized field.

Course description and aims

By completing this course, students will be able to:
1) Understand fundamental expert knowledge of other fields.
2) Discuss the relationship and synergistic effect for the integration of knowledge of different fields.

Keywords

Integration of different fields

Competencies

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

Class flow

Students select one of the class 1, 2 or 3. In the class 1, students select and attend a lecture (course number: 200 or 300) in a
different field from the department of the students.
In the class 2 and 3, students attend the dedicated lecture in English.

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)

Text book specified by the instructor.

Reference books, course materials, etc.

These materials specified by the instructor.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Learning achievement is evaluated by reports in the standpoint of integration of different fields. If misconduct, such as plagiarism or misappropriation of someone else's work is committed, we will treat it strictly： The grade of the subject will be 0.

Related courses

• STM.C403 ： Interdisciplinary Research Fundamentals Ii of STM

Prerequisites

Students from the other courses and graduate students cannot take this class.

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

class-1: Marie Tabaru（tabaru.m.ab[at]m.titech.ac.jp）・Eizo Miyashita (eizo[at]dis.titech.ac.jp)・Katsunori Tanaka（tanaka.k.dg[at]m.titech.ac.jp）

Office hours

Anytime, Contact by e-mail in advance to schedule an appointment.