Liberal Arts Final Report 1

Academic unit or major

Humanities and social science courses

Instructor(s)

Saori Okada

Class Format

Lecture/Exercise

Media-enhanced courses

-

Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

Class

1

Course Code

LAH.C301

Number of credits

110

Course offered

2026

Offered quarter

3Q

Syllabus updated

Mar 5, 2026

Language

Japanese

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

The aim of the class is to summarize one's thought into better essay through the following three activities: deliberating connections between student's major and the world and her/his own roles, responsibilities, and ethics in the connections, improving one's writing skill through understanding academic writing, and peer reviewing.

Course description and aims

By the end of this class, students will be able to identify the connections between student's major and the world and her/his own roles, responsibilities, and ethics in the connections, acquire academic writing and critical thinking skills, and provide appropriate peer review advice. Also they will be able to improve the evaluation and criticism of sentences.

Keywords

academic writing, peer review, critical thinking, online activity

Competencies

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

Class flow

Lectures for understanding academic writing and exercises for writing and revising papers through peer review will be given alternately. Lectures will be given via on-demand video and e-learning. Exercises will be conducted mainly through pair and group work in classes of 60 students.
In the first half of classes, students aim to acquire the writing skill. In the second half each student sets a theme of the "Final Report" and practices peer review while receiving assistance from graduate students, i.e., peer review practical class, to brush up the report through peer review and to improve writing skills.
Lesson progress may vary slightly from class to class.
The theme of the final thesis in English will be announced in the class.

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)

None

Reference books, course materials, etc.

戸田山和久『最新版　論文の教室』，NHK出版，2022.
Course materials are provided via Science Tokyo LMS.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Instructors score from the Final Report (60 points) and peer review activity (40 points).
Plagiarism is a cheating act. Instructors do not qualify for persons who plagiarized (planned to check with software).
Mid-term submissions are mandatory.
Unit approval is not possible with 3 or more absences. Two late arrivals count as one absence. Except for circumstances such as train delays, you will not be able to enter if you are late for more than 15 minutes (count as one absence).

Related courses

• LAH.C401 ： Leadership Workshop
• LAH.C101 ： Visionary Project
• LAH.C402 ： Peer Review Practicum

Prerequisites

Only students in their third year or above who have already earned credits for Visionary Project may take this course.

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

okada[at] ila.titech.ac.jp Notice: Please replace "[at]" with "＠".

Office hours

Contact by e-mail in advance to schedule an appointment.