2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Department of Social and Human Sciences Graduate major in Social and Human Sciences
Translational Project in Social and Human Sciences F2
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Social and Human Sciences
- Instructor(s)
- Takashi Takao / Takeo Suzuki
- Class Format
- Exercise
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Class
- -
- Course Code
- SHS.L552
- Number of credits
- 010
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 3-4Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This lecture is intended for students enrolled before 2023. If you wish to take this class, please contact instructor (Takao or Suzuki) by email in advance. Students enrolling in 2024 or later cannot take this course.
In this class, students will gain an understanding of the entire master's research process and acquire the basic research skills necessary for their research activities. After confirming what a thesis or science is, students will understand a series of research processes such as selection of a subject/object, review of previous research, selection of methodology/methods, creation of a research plan, making up a structure, data collection and analysis, writing, and presentation, using their own research as material.
The aim is for students to understand the research process and to formulate their own research interests into a research plan. In addition, through discussions among students from different fields of expertise, the course aims to broaden their perspectives and cultivate their communication skills to communicate their research to people from different fields of expertise.
This course aims to cultivate the students’ abilities to: analyze and synthesize; create values; solve problems; dialogue and declare; bridge different specialized fields. Moreover this course aims to cultivate the humanity.
Course description and aims
Understand the entire master's research process.
Acquire the basic skills necessary for research activities.
Formulate one's own research interests into a research plan.
Communicate one's research to people in different fields of expertise.
Keywords
research skills, research, previous research, research methods, research plans, presentations, group work
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Classes will be conducted in Japanese, with English supplementation as necessary. The first half of each class will be group work, and the second half will be a lecture.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Each academic activity | Preparation for each academic activity |
Study advice (preparation and review)
Textbook(s)
Eiji Oguma, Kiso Kara Wakaru Rombun No Kakikata, Kodansha Gendai Shinsho, 2022.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
The information will be introduced in class as appropriate.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Attendance and assignments for each session 50%
Final presentation and final assignment 50%
Related courses
- SHS.L451 ： Translational Project in Social and Human Sciences S1
- SHS.L452 ： Translational Project in Social and Human Sciences F1
- SHS.L551 ： Translational Project in Social and Human Sciences S2
Prerequisites
This lecture is intended for students enrolled before 2023. If you wish to take this class, please contact instructor (Takao or Suzuki) by email in advance. Students enrolling in 2024 or later cannot take this course.
Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).
Takashi Takao takao [at] ila.titech.ac.jp
Takeo Suzuki t.suzuki [at] ila.titech.ac.jp
Office hours
At any time. Contact by e-mail.
Other
None in particular.