2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses Liberal arts and basic science courses Entrepreneurship courses
Understanding of role models for future career development
- Academic unit or major
- Entrepreneurship courses
- Instructor(s)
- Koji Wakayama
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Class
- -
- Course Code
- ENT.C261
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 3Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
※ Courses with parentheses in the course number have different subject codes depending on the student's year of admission.
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
2nd and 3rd year students of undergraduate course will face various crossroads of career, such as laboratory selection, going on to graduate school, job hunting, etc. Decisions at these crossroads influence their future career after graduate from Science Tokyo. Therefore, it is important for students to understand what they should study and consider during undergraduate course and at graduate school.
The aim of this course is that students will be able to imagine their own future careers during undergraduate course and also to understand what is preferable to learn in addition to expertise.
The lecturers who are active in various business fields show what they considered and engaged assuming their future careers during their student days. They also show useful activities which they engaged or what they should engage in their student days from the viewpoint of their career paths. Students who take this course are able to acquire hints to consider their own careers.
Course description and aims
- Understanding of various career paths by listening experiences of lecturers who are active in various business fields, such as academia, industry, etc.
- Understanding what is desirable to learn and engage during undergraduate course
Student learning outcomes
実務経験と講義内容との関連 (又は実践的教育内容)
Lecturers who are active in various business fields provide classes on business development and career design based on their own practical experience.
Keywords
career design, career paths after graduation, role model
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Classes are composed of lectures and group discussions. The number of course registration may be restricted to operate group discussions.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction (Koji WAKAYAMA) - Aim of this course - Concept of career - Career paths after graduation from Tokyo Tech and Science Tokyo | - Understanding of concept of career, and finding what is useful to design careers - Understanding that there are various career paths after graduation from Science Tokyo |
| Class 2 | Role Model (Lecturers who are active in various business fields) - Future careers which lecturers envisioned in their student days - What lecturers considered and engaged during their student days to design their future careers - Selections at crossroads of careers: What they considered and how they decided - Career paths of lecturers - Useful activities during student days from the viewpoint of current career | Students are able to find out what are applicable to their own future career design as role models, and elaborate their own perspectives on them. |
| Class 3 | Role Model (Lecturers who are active in various business fields) - Future careers which lecturers envisioned in their student days - What lecturers considered and engaged during their student days to design their future careers - Selections at crossroads of careers: What they considered and how they decided - Career paths of lecturers - Useful activities during student days from the viewpoint of current career | Students are able to find out what are applicable to their own future career design as role models, and elaborate their own perspectives on them. |
| Class 4 | Role Model (Lecturers who are active in various business fields) - Future careers which lecturers envisioned in their student days - What lecturers considered and engaged during their student days to design their future careers - Selections at crossroads of careers: What they considered and how they decided - Career paths of lecturers - Useful activities during student days from the viewpoint of current career | Students are able to find out what are applicable to their own future career design as role models, and elaborate their own perspectives on them. |
| Class 5 | Role Model (Lecturers who are active in various business fields) - Future careers which lecturers envisioned in their student days - What lecturers considered and engaged during their student days to design their future careers - Selections at crossroads of careers: What they considered and how they decided - Career paths of lecturers - Useful activities during student days from the viewpoint of current career | Students are able to find out what are applicable to their own future career design as role models, and elaborate their own perspectives on them. |
| Class 6 | Role Model (Lecturers who are active in various business fields) - Future careers which lecturers envisioned in their student days - What lecturers considered and engaged during their student days to design their future careers - Selections at crossroads of careers: What they considered and how they decided - Career paths of lecturers - Useful activities during student days from the viewpoint of current career | Students are able to find out what are applicable to their own future career design as role models, and elaborate their own perspectives on them. |
| Class 7 | Role Model (Lecturers who are active in various business fields) - Future careers which lecturers envisioned in their student days - What lecturers considered and engaged during their student days to design their future careers - Selections at crossroads of careers: What they considered and how they decided - Career paths of lecturers - Useful activities during student days from the viewpoint of current career | Students are able to find out what are applicable to their own future career design as role models, and elaborate their own perspectives on them. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to do preparation and review (including assignments) of each class.
Textbook(s)
None
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Lecture materials are prepared by each lecturer.
Evaluation methods and criteria
An assignment is given in each class and the students are required to attend it in real time, and write and submit a report on it. The reports submitted by the due date will be evaluated with the same weight for each class on how deeply they consider the assignment and how well they describe the results of their consideration.
Related courses
- ENT.B101(LAS.F101) ： Frontiers of science and technology
Prerequisites
Classes are delivered in Japanese, so students should have Japanese language skills enough to understand the content of the classes.
Other
For inquiries regarding Entrepreneurship Courses, please contact us at: Center for Entrepreneurship Education (CEE) (e-mail: info@cee.isct.ac.jp )