2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses Liberal arts and basic science courses Humanities and social science courses
Liberal Arts Final Report 9
- Academic unit or major
- Humanities and social science courses
- Instructor(s)
- Kenichiro Isozaki
- Class Format
- Lecture/Exercise
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Class
- 9
- Course Code
- LAH.C301
- Number of credits
- 110
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 3Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
The aim of the class is to summarize one's thought into better essay through the following three activities: deliberating connections between student's major and the world and her/his own roles, responsibilities, and ethics in the connections, improving one's writing skill through understanding academic writing, and peer reviewing.
Course description and aims
By the end of this class, students will be able to identify the connections between student's major and the world and her/his own roles, responsibilities, and ethics in the connections, acquire academic writing and critical thinking skills, and provide appropriate peer review advice. Also they will be able to improve the evaluation and criticism of sentences.
Keywords
academic writing, peer review, critical thinking, online activity
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Lectures for understanding academic writing and exercises for writing and revising papers through peer review will be given alternately. Lectures will be given via on-demand video and e-learning. Exercises will be conducted mainly through pair and group work in classes of 60 students.
In the first half of classes, students aim to acquire the writing skill. In the second half each student sets a theme of the "Final Report" and practices peer review while receiving assistance from graduate students, i.e., peer review practical class, to brush up the report through peer review and to improve writing skills.
Lesson progress may vary slightly from class to class.
The theme of the final thesis in English will be announced in the class.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction / What is a thesis? / Pursuing the main subject | Watch videos and submit reflection reports |
| Class 2 | Creating 'BA' in class / Look back over learning contents from Tokyo Tech Visionary Project / Group work on the main subject | Reflection |
| Class 3 | Paragraph writing and easy-to-understand sentences | Watch videos and submit reflection reports / write outline ver.1 |
| Class 4 | How can we do peer review? | Reflection |
| Class 5 | Peer review for Outlines | Write contents to outlines. |
| Class 6 | How to find literature and make a bibliography | Watch videos and submit reflection reports / Write contents to outlines. |
| Class 7 | Outline-Based Peer Review | Write the first version of Kyouyo Sotsuron. |
| Class 8 | Composition of a paper 1 | Watch videos and submit reflection reports / Revise the first draft of the Final Report until next class (assignment) |
| Class 9 | Quotation and Appearance | Watch videos and submit reflection reports / The draft should be revised by the next class. |
| Class 10 | Peer-Review of the draft | The second version of Kyouyo Sotsuron. |
| Class 11 | Composition of a paper 2 | Watch videos and submit reflection reports / The draft should be revised by the next class. |
| Class 12 | Peer Review / Preparing for the presentation | Submit reflection sheet. |
| Class 13 | Online peer review | Online peer-review and revise the essay accordingly. |
| Class 14 | Short presentation of the essay | Submit the Final version of the Report. |
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)
戸田山和久『最新版 論文の教室』，NHK出版，2022.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Course materials are provided via Science Tokyo LMS.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Instructors score from the Final Report (60 points) and peer review activity (40 points).
Plagiarism is a cheating act. Instructors do not qualify for persons who plagiarized (planned to check with software).
Mid-term submissions are mandatory.
Unit approval is not possible with 3 or more absences. Two late arrivals count as one absence. Except for circumstances such as train delays, you will not be able to enter if you are late for more than 15 minutes (count as one absence).
Related courses
- LAH.C401 ： Leadership Workshop
- LAH.C101 ： Visionary Project
- LAH.C402 ： Peer Review Practicum
Prerequisites
Only students in their third year or above who have already earned credits for Visionary Project may take this course.
Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).
isozaki.k.ac[at]m.titech.ac.jp
Office hours
Contact by e-mail in advance to schedule an appointment.