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

International Experience Basic 1AB

Academic unit or major: Entrepreneurship courses
Instructor(s): Eri Ota / Rie Murakami
Class Format: Experiment (Face-to-face)
Media-enhanced courses: -
Day of week/Period (Classrooms): Intensive
Class: -
Course Code: ENT.G121
Number of credits: 001
Course offered: 2025
Offered quarter: 1-2Q
Syllabus updated: Apr 17, 2025
Language: Japanese

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Syllabus

Course overview and goals

This course is to make assessment for actual overseas training experience (including study abroad) of more than 10 days (abroad 8 days and home 2 days) to less than 20 days.　Pass/fail judgment.
It will be evaluated through study abroad plan, report, and recorded final presentation (in English and Japanese).
It is aimed that through oversea experience, one can obtain skills mentioned in the goal below.

Course description and aims

1) Actively participate in program to relate with student's own clear plan.
2) Participate in students exchange activities and discuss with people from different countries, languages, customs and cultures with diverse perspectives
3) To be able to explain general information about selected countries, such as their history and culture. Positively act to deepen the learning on selected countries to make references for his/her own study-abroad and career plan.
The above-mentioned goals are expected to achieve at more basic level than in the course "ENT.G321 International Experience 1AB".

Keywords

Risk Management, Practical Skill, Decision Making, Problem Finding and Solving, Multicultural Understanding

Competencies

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

Class flow

Through short-term overseas training programs provided by the university or partner institutions, the student will conduct activities related to their academic research. Prior to visiting overseas, the student is requested to submit the study abroad plan. Upon return, the student is requested to submit the report and recorded final presentation (in English or Japanese).

Course schedule/Objectives

	Course schedule	Objectives
Class 1	[Before] ■Submit study abroad plan (Submit as soon as the schedule is fixed, in Japanese or English) A4 size, 1-2pages, should be included, 1）Country, city, destination 2）Schedule, period 3）Motivation, purpose 4）How to spend time (planned courses to take, lab., etc.) 5）Accomodation（dormitory, home stay...etc.） [On-site activities] ■Through preparation and actual on-site activities, one should be able to deepen own learning and develop skills for proposal making, planning, and implementation of the activities. One should also develop international perspective through the study abroad experience. [After study abroad] ■Submit Report (In two weeks after finishing study abroad, in Japanese or English) A4 size, 5-10 pages (including pictures and tables), should be included, 1) Outline of the program, 2) Program schedule, 3) Your purpose to participate the program 4) Details of the activities (Lectures, Research activities, Discussion, Communication with lab. members, Cultural exchange with local students, Extracurricular activities, site visits, etc）, 5) Explanation on how your field of expertise and this study-abroad experience has developed your skills described in course objectives, how you act for developing such skills in your near future, (Please mention applicable parts) 6) Personal essay (Episode that can describe your own growth, new findings, and others) ※Ability sould be acqure -Actively participate in the program with clear goals, and can keep make effort to future career plans after returning -Can consider things from new global perspectives -Can provide new ideas and proposals to organizations, and groups. -Can collaborate with experts in related and other fields to formulate, execute, evaluate, and improve new proposals for better society with based on their own expertise. -Can explain the overview, history, culture, etc. of the country visited, and can act to deepen their own learning, and can utilize the experience as a reference for careers. -Always practices health management and methods for avoiding risk during study abroad. -Knows the contact information (medical institutions, embassies, police, etc.) in case of illness or encounters an incident or accident, and can resolve to the issue by their own. ■Submit presentation slide (In three weeks after finishing study abroad, in Japanese or English) 10-15 min. make slides and record the presentation, submit mp4. file, Based on your report,contents should mainly focus on 4), 5), 6), that can descicbe your growth cleary. Please note that your reports and presentations may be used in a wide range of PR and reporting materials for global education after personal information has been removed. If you do not wish for this to be the case, please contact us in advance.	Submit study abroad plan and report, and submit recorded final presentation.

Course schedule

Objectives

Class 1

[Before]
■Submit study abroad plan (Submit as soon as the schedule is fixed, in Japanese or English)
A4 size, 1-2pages, should be included,
1）Country, city, destination
2）Schedule, period
3）Motivation, purpose
4）How to spend time (planned courses to take, lab., etc.)
5）Accomodation（dormitory, home stay...etc.）

[On-site activities]
■Through preparation and actual on-site activities, one should be able to deepen own learning and develop skills for proposal making, planning, and implementation of the activities.
One should also develop international perspective through the study abroad experience.

[After study abroad]
■Submit Report (In two weeks after finishing study abroad, in Japanese or English)
A4 size, 5-10 pages (including pictures and tables), should be included,
1) Outline of the program,
2) Program schedule,
3) Your purpose to participate the program
4) Details of the activities (Lectures, Research activities, Discussion, Communication with lab. members, Cultural exchange with local students, Extracurricular activities, site visits, etc）,
5) Explanation on how your field of expertise and this study-abroad experience has developed your skills described in course objectives, how you act for developing such skills in your near future,
(Please mention applicable parts)
6) Personal essay (Episode that can describe your own growth, new findings, and others)

※Ability sould be acqure
-Actively participate in the program with clear goals, and can keep make effort to future career plans after returning
-Can consider things from new global perspectives
-Can provide new ideas and proposals to organizations, and groups.
-Can collaborate with experts in related and other fields to formulate, execute, evaluate, and improve new proposals for better society with based on their own expertise.
-Can explain the overview, history, culture, etc. of the country visited, and can act to deepen their own learning, and can utilize the experience as a reference for careers.
-Always practices health management and methods for avoiding risk during study abroad.
-Knows the contact information (medical institutions, embassies, police, etc.) in case of illness or encounters an incident or accident, and can resolve to the issue by their own.

■Submit presentation slide (In three weeks after finishing study abroad, in Japanese or English)
10-15 min. make slides and record the presentation, submit mp4. file,
Based on your report,contents should mainly focus on 4), 5), 6), that can descicbe your growth cleary.

Please note that your reports and presentations may be used in a wide range of PR and reporting materials for global education after personal information has been removed. If you do not wish for this to be the case, please contact us in advance.

Submit study abroad plan and report, and submit recorded final presentation.

Study advice (preparation and review)

Textbook(s)

N/A

Reference books, course materials, etc.

A manual and the like will be distributed.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Pass and fail based on following assessments;
Study-abroad plan: 10%
Report: 50%
Final Presentation: 40%
In the report and final presentation, along with the actual implementation of the study abroad plan, student should clearly explain how the skills described in learning outcomes are obtained with actual cases and examples.

Related courses

ENT.G321(LAW.X303) ： International Experience 1AB

Prerequisites

Before registering the course, student should have specific overseas training program provided by the university or partner institutions to participate and be accepted, and should gain agreement with his/her supervisor.
Students should submit the study abroad plan and obtain the acceptance for its plan from instructors of this course.

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

Global Education Section, Center for Entrepreneurship Education
cee.info "＠" jim.titech.ac.jp

Office hours

By appointment