Doctoral Career Design A

Academic unit or major

Entrepreneurship courses

Instructor(s)

Hidekazu Tanaka / Akira Izumi / Koji Wakayama / Sachiko Ito / Mana Toma / Hidetoshi Umida / Masaru Ogawa

Class Format

Lecture (Livestream)

Media-enhanced courses

-

Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

3-4 Mon

Class

A

Course Code

ENT.C601(LAC.C601)

Number of credits

100

Course offered

2025

Offered quarter

1Q

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

This course will be done in the Japanese language, so it requires Japanese ability at a daily conversation level. This course is designed for doctoral students to acquire basic ways and various viewpoints for thinking about his/her career. Students aiming at industrial positions and those at academic positions need common and respective preparations. However, the chance to touch the reality in the industry is much less than in academia. Thus, this course effectively teaches about reality in both industry and academia. Then, this course discusses some issues related to technology management and human resource management in a broad sense. Through this course, a relationship between your quality, ability, and interest will be learned.

Course description and aims

・To be able to understand viewpoints and thought processes when considering your future career
・To be able to form an image of the future career.
・To Understand the quality, capability, and way of thinking of engineers and research scientists.
・To Understand the reality of human resource and technology management and various positions in academia and industry.

Keywords

Academia, Industries, Innovation, Career path, Research & Development, Technical capability, Doctorate course, Internship

Competencies

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

Class flow

1) The course is executed using many PowerPoint slides with figures, tables, and pictures.
2) One home assignment is given through this course.
3) All the students are required to submit a report, the content of which will be shown at the end of each class.
4) All the students will receive the information on Zoom URLs, can download instructors' lecture materials, and can upload their reports through T2SCHOLA.

Course schedule/Objectives

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)

No textbook. Each lecturer will upload lecture materials on the T2SCHOLA before or after each class.

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Lecture materials will be uploaded to the LMS in advance.

Evaluation methods and criteria

・Each report related to each class (70%)
・One home assignment (30%)
・When a student is absent in a class, his/her grade point may be reduced.

Related courses

• Master's Career Design
• Master's Career Career Design Practice

Prerequisites

1) International students need at least a Japanese-language ability at a daily conversation level.
2) The students, who have already taken either Doctoral Career Plan or Doctoral Career Design II, cannot take this course.

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

An e-mail should be sent to the Center for Entrepreneurship Education, Career Development Section at the following e-mail address:
career_edu[at]cee.isct.ac.jp

Office hours

9 am to 5 pm.

Other

There is a possibility of a change in lecture contents and dates due to non-permanent lecturers' schedules.
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