Professionals and Value Creation C

Academic unit or major

Academy for Leadership

Instructor(s)

Keisuke Yamada / Yuri Matsuzaki / Mayu Watanabe

Class Format

Exercise (Blended)

Media-enhanced courses

-

Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

Intensive

Class

-

Course Code

TAL.S507

Number of credits

010

Course offered

2026

Offered quarter

1-2Q

Syllabus updated

Apr 6, 2026

Language

Japanese

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

Further to the presentation to be made by the professionals who are creating leading edge of values (innovations) in various fields including enterprises, start ups, NPO/NGO, journalism, government and academic, students are going to be encouraged to derive their necessary information and/or answers from the professionals. Students are being expected to find (1) multidimensional perspective and (2) excitement for creating value to the society from the communication with such professionals. Basically, Guest Speakers are being changed in every term.

Course description and aims

Students are being expected to understand core and background of the social issues, solutions, ideas, suggestions and activities made by the guest speaker (or his/her belonging organization), and to think your opinions and possible actions to be taken as if the students are in the same situation with the guest speaker. Students are also being expected to understand the information concerning about the topic the guest speaker is presenting in advance, to set problems and issues and think their possible solutions in advance(as hypothesis) , and test if such possible solutions should be appropriate through communication with the guest speaker.

Keywords

diversity, networking, value creation, hypothesis verification

Competencies

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

Class flow

1. An orientation will be held in conjunction with other intensive courses, during which the schedule and guest speakers will be explained. For details, please see below.
https://www.total.titech.ac.jp/news/openprogram/
2. All students interested in enrolling in this course must attend ＃1; orientation. Person(s) in charge for each guest speaker session will be determined at the orientation.
3. Each guest speaker will provide topics such as the latest work topics, the latest developments, current work issues, and activity goals and overviews. Based on these topics, the guest and students will engage in discussion.
I4. n addition, a few days before each guest speaker's session, person(s) in charge for each guest speaker session will share the result of their research on the subject proposed in advace by tutors with other students. Each session is typically scheduled to last two hours.
Note 1: The schedule and guest speakers (topics) vary each term and will be announced on the ToTAL website (https://www.total.titech.ac.jp/en/) .

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 theme for the Advanced Information Sharing and other course material.

Textbook(s)

None

Reference books, course materials, etc.

To be presented during lectures

Evaluation methods and criteria

1. Because participation and communication between the instructor and students are important, attending all sessions ishould be stringly recommended.
2. Grades (pass/fail decision) will be determined based on a comprehensive assessment of attendance at each session, contribution to group work and discussions, and completion of the reflection sheet.

Related courses

• TAL.S502 ： Professionals and Value Creation A
• TAL.S503 ： Professionals and Value Creation B
• TAL.S508 ： Professionals and Value Creation D
• TAL.W502 ： Fundamental Group Work for Leadership I
• TAL.W504 ： Master’s Practical Group Work for Leadership I

Prerequisites

1. Be a registered ToTAL student
2. This course can be applied by the students who completed TAL.S502; Professionals and Value Creation A.

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

Prof. Keisuke Yamada: yamada.k.9f82[at]m.isct.ac.jp

Office hours

Personal meetings can be booked upon request; we also have drop-in virtual office hours on Friday, 13:00-14:00, except for holidays. For detail please submit a request from the form below:
https://forms.gle/kCDtXz2NcwHy8kSC9

Other

1. Depend on the guest speakers’ convenience, the venue (either O-okayama or Suzukaked-dai) would be decided. If, however, students can access by remote system from O-okayama or Suzukake-dai.
2.Presenting your idea about Guest Speaker would be welcome.
3. Graduate Attribute: GA0M