Doctoral Academic Literacy D

Academic unit or major

Entrepreneurship courses

Instructor(s)

Hidekazu Tanaka / Dan Ricinschi / Hazel Bantolino Gonzales / Amane Koizumi / Yoshikazu Kobayashi / Yoshihiro Okuno / Tomohiko Uyematsu

Class Format

Lecture

Media-enhanced courses

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Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

Class

D

Course Code

ENT.A621

Number of credits

100

Course offered

2026

Offered quarter

4Q

Syllabus updated

Mar 23, 2026

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 aims to learn a broad range of research methodologies for front-line researchers, including budget acquisition, English paper writing, grant application, and research ethics. This course targets mainly D1 and D2 students. It allows the students to hold in advance the researchers' literacy required for students who will get academic positions.

Course description and aims

To acquire a paper writing capability for transmitting academic achievements to society.
To acquire a broad range of literacy in research project planning and management to deepen your academic field and budget acquisition.

Keywords

Researcher's attainments, Research grant acquisition, English paper writing, Research grant proposal, Research ethics

Competencies

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

Class flow

1) International students need the ability to understand the Japanese language to understand the lecture contents.
2) According to the application situation of each student to the JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2), the third and fourth classes are slightly different in the four quarters as follows:
1Q: for the students who will apply for their DC2 proposal to the JSPS by the middle of May.
2Q: for the students planning to apply for the JSPS Research Fellowship DC2 next year.
3Q: for the students planning to apply for the JSPS Research Fellowship DC2 next year.
4Q: for the students planning to apply for the JSPS Research Fellowship DC2 next year.
3) This course may limit the total number of students each quarter. At that time, faculty members will make selections based on the student's grade and specialty. Students who are not selected can register for another quarter.
4) All the students will receive the information on Zoom URLs, can download instructors' lecture materials, and can upload their reports through LMS.

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.

None.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Reports submission.
When a student is absent from a class, his/her grade point may be reduced.

Related courses

• other career development courses

Prerequisites

1) A student who has already taken the Pre ALP Practice course with one credit in the master's program cannot register for this course.
2) In principle, a student who will have been enrolled in the doctoral program for less than six months cannot register for this course.

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

career_edu[at]cee.isct.ac.jp
(Indicate the name and affiliation)

Office hours

Weekday　9：00-17：00

Other

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