2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses Liberal arts and basic science courses Entrepreneurship courses

Global Problem Based Learning Foundation 2

Academic unit or major: Entrepreneurship courses
Instructor(s): Rie Murakami / Eri Ota
Class Format: Lecture/Exercise (Face-to-face)
Media-enhanced courses: -
Day of week/Period (Classrooms): 5-6 Fri (M-374(H131), M-278(H121))
Class: 2
Course Code: ENT.G102
Number of credits: 110
Course offered: 2025
Offered quarter: 4Q
Syllabus updated: Oct 6, 2025
Language: Japanese

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Syllabus

Course overview and goals

With continuing globalization, students are expected to develop a global perspective with respect to creating their career. In order to understand current situation of globalization, this course will conduct problem-based learning (PBL).

The course aims at following;
1) Student will consider about “multicultural society” from following 4 perspectives
①differences and similarities between one’s own society and others;
②Relationship between society and one’s area of specialization;
③Impact of one’s action to global problems;
④causes of and solutions to problems in other countries.

2) Based on 1)above, consider one’s career path related to one’s field of interest, and start necessary preparation. Based on PBL, it is expected that students will equip with problem finding and solving skill and multicultural teamwork skill.

This course is divided into 2 classes.
Class 1: 4Q Normal Course on Tuesday.
Class 2: 4Q Normal Course on Friday.

Contents are same. Please register your available class.
Lecture is held in Japanese, Groupwork is basically held in English.
No requirement for English proficiency.

Course description and aims

This course is composed of orientation by the instructor, group work, final presentation, and final pitch. International students participate in the group work as a TA (teaching assistant) of each group, and provide basic information and information related with issues of their home countries. Based on information provided, students conduct group work through PBL (Problem Based Learning), to understand the issues in other countries, and propose solutions. Students gain experiences such as sharing of opinions, adjustment of ideas, task sharing to develop skills necessary for teamwork.

Keywords

Globalization, multicultural society, social issues, problem solving, multicultural teamwork, PBL

Competencies

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

Class flow

In a group, students will work on selected topic referring characteristics of the selected country (issues and matters of pride), with international students as TAs. Based on information from TAs, students will collect relevant information and data, then clarify the background and characteristics, and propose solution.
Group work should be held weekly outside of class time.

Symposium on 2/10 (Tue) is part of this class. All registered students both for class 1 and 2 should attend.

Course schedule/Objectives

	Course schedule	Objectives
Class 1	12/5 (Fri.): Introduction and lecture 1) Briefing of the group work project and research methods 2) Examples of information and data collection	1)On-line Self-learning, answer questions and submit essay 2)Fill questionnaire form about country of interest
Class 2	12/12 (Fri.): Lecture and group work 1) Announcement of group work members 2) Introduction about citation and references 3) Start group work	1)Submit group work report outside of the class 2)Preparation for topic presentation
Class 3	12/19 (Fri.): Topic presentation, Lecture, and group work 1)Group topic presentation 2)Briefing about data comparison and analysis/on-line interview method 3)Group work: Task sharing, research and data collection method	1)Submit group work report outside of the class 2)Submit data comparison and analysis sheet
Class 4	12/26 (Fri.):Lecture and group work 1) Briefing about problem solving on social issues 2) Group work: Basic data about the country; Research results, Sharing of the issues, Discussion	1) Submit group work report outside of the class 2) On-line Self-learning, answer questions and submit essay
Class 5	1/9 (Fri. ）Lecture and group work 1) Briefing towards preparation for final presentation 2) Group work: Proposal for the topic, Relationship with the target country and Japan	Submit group work report outside of the class
Class 6	1/23 (Fri.）Final Group presentation 1	1)Submit group work report outside of the class 2)submit comments for Final Group presentation 1
Class 7	1/30 (Fri.）Final Group presentation 2	1)Submit group work report outside of the class 2)Submit comments for Final Group presentation 2
Class 8	2/10 (Tue) 17：30～19：10 online Symposium held by Global Education Section, Center for Entrepreneurship Education	Submit essay

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.
Students should hold groupwork for each class, and person in charge of reporting should report what they did at the groupwork.

Textbook(s)

None

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Handouts by each lecture (A/N)

Evaluation methods and criteria

1) Group work performance (individual assessment) 10%
2) Group work reporting (group evaluation) 10%
3) Group presentation (group evaluation) 20%
4) Personal essays (individual assessment) 30%
5) Personal idea (individual assessment) 30%

Related courses

ENT.G201(LAW.X201) ： Global Problem Based Learning Practice
ENT.G101 ： Global Problem Based Learning Basic
ENT.G301(LAW.X360) ： Global Problem Based Co-Learning

Prerequisites

Have a motivation for learning about social issues from global perspective and for improving English communication skill through communication with TA

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

Global Education Section, Entrepreneurship Education Center (attn: MURAKAMI, OTA)
global_edu[at]cee.isct.ac.jp

Office hours

By appointment

Other

[Schedule]
1)Class materials, contents and structure are the same between class 1 and class 2. Please resister either one of the class.
2) 2/10 (Tue.) Symposium held by Global Education Section, Center for Entrepreneurship Education is part of this class. All registered students both for class 1 and 2 should attend.