2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Department of Social and Human Sciences Graduate major in Social and Human Sciences
Graduate Methodologies in Education, Welfare and Health S1A
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Social and Human Sciences
- Instructor(s)
- Masaki Takahashi / Madoka Ogawa
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 3-4 Thu
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- SHS.D466
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 1Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course covers the methodology and assessment of health promotion.
The goal of this course is to facilitate students' understanding of methodology and assessment for physiological and psychological parameters.
Course description and aims
Students will be able to understand several methodology and assessment of health sciences, and based on the concept, evaluate the validity of health related parameters.
Keywords
exercise, nutrition, sleep, biological rhythms
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
1) The instructor lectures using slides.
2) At the end of each lecture, students write a short report related to that day's lesson content.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Research Design | Understand research design of health sciences |
| Class 2 | Basic statistics based on research design | Understand basic statistics based on research design |
| Class 3 | Assessment of body composition | Understand the methods and techniques for body composition assessment |
| Class 4 | Assessment of skeletal muscle | Understand the methods and techniques for skeletal muscle assessment |
| Class 5 | Assessment of adipose tissue | Understand the methods and techniques for adipose tissue assessment |
| Class 6 | Assessment of nutrition/diet, and sleep | Understand the assessment of nutrition/diet, and sleep |
| Class 7 | Summary | Review and discuss methodology and assessment of health sciences |
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 required
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Materials used in class can be found on T2SCHOLA.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Students are evaluated on their understand of each course by reports.
60％ are given for the short reports in each class, and 40％ for the final presentation.
Related courses
- SHS.D441 ： Graduate Lecture in Education, Welfare and Health S1
- SHS.D442 ： Graduate Lecture in Education, Welfare and Health F1
Prerequisites
None required
Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).
takahashi.m.bp[at]m.titech.ac.jp
ogawa.m.as[at]m.titech.ac.jp
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