Career Development Seminars

Academic unit or major

Graduate major in Life Science and Technology

Instructor(s)

Hideki Taguchi / Daisuke Asanuma / Fumitomo Noritake / Daigo Fujita / Yuri Holiday / Ken Fujiwara / Naoki Okamura / Masaru Takayanagi / Takashi Ebihara / Rie Sugaya / Kenichi Maruyama / Kenichi Hironaka / Takao Nakajima / Yuichi Yokochi / Takashi Mura

Class Format

Lecture (Blended)

Media-enhanced courses

-

Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

7-8 Fri (S2-202(S223), J2-203(J221))

Class

-

Course Code

LST.A413

Number of credits

200

Course offered

2026

Offered quarter

1-2Q

Syllabus updated

Apr 16, 2026

Language

Japanese

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

Lecturers from non-academic societies will share focused subjects regarding the knowledge required in the society, the way of research development, risk managements, and ethics, and the process of policy making in industry and the government. The course aims to widen the students' perspectives on the study, research, and their own future, supporting the students' carrier designs. The course provides students with a lot of opportunities to participate in discussions, so that they can realize the importance of communication through the bidirectional lectures.

Course description and aims

By the end of this course, students will have the abilities illustrated by the following behaviors and tendencies: accepting a variety of values and exploiting them in the students' own future designs, not persisting with values based only on their own experiences, enthusiastically expressing their own values on acceptance of the new values from experienced people, flexibly revising a deficit in your own values on admitting the valid points of others, and understanding that communication is important in the development of their own careers.

Keywords

communication skills, activeness, flexibility, value, career design

Competencies

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

Class flow

The lectures will be held through Zoom (Live) or at lecture rooms. Each lecture will take about 60 min, focusing on a subject of the lecture's selection. After that, students are invited to speak in a couple of minutes about "what do the students lack with regard to the subject of the lecture", "how to get the ability", and "what they should do right now for career designs". Once in each month, an alumnus of TokyoTech (Science Tokyo) will lecture for 1 hour.

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)

N/A

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Essentially N/A.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Reports and Active participation in discussion

Related courses

• N/A

Prerequisites

The maximum number of attendees is limited to about 200.
Only the students who attended the first class (orientation) are in principle qualified to take this course.

Other

If the number of attendees does not exceed 200 in the first class, all of them will be accepted to take this course.
When the number of attendees exceeds 200, the students from the "Graduate major in Life Science and Technology" have priority to join the class.
Students belonging to the other graduate major courses will be selected by a draw.
In principle, students absent from the first class cannot get the permission to take the course.