This course provides students with opportunities to be research or teaching assistants. The students are required to apply their research capabilities and expertise utilization capacities to the research or teaching practices and to gain transformational and transactional leaders’ abilities.
This course aims to cultivate the students’ ability to promote research and teaching activities through the experiences of the teaching assistants of core courses of master program.
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
1) Know research capabilities necessary to promote research or teaching activities;
2) Know expertise utilization capacities necessary to promote research or teaching activities; and
3) Gain transformational and transactional leaders’ abilities necessary to promote research or teaching activities.
research capability, expertise utilization capacity, transformational ability, transactional ability
Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | ✔ Communication skills | ✔ Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Each student assists the instructors of exercises, projects, or workshops of master program courses and writes and submits the pre- and post-report.
Course schedule | Required learning | |
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Class 1 | Prepare for lesson assistance with professors in charge of core courses for master program after reading the TA manual written by the former students. | Write and submit “Action and Plan” before the first lesson is held. |
Class 2 | Attend the course as teaching assistant. | Meeting before lesson, assistance in the lesson, and review after meeting should be conducted for each lesson. |
Class 3 | Based on the activities as assistants, students self-evaluate their own development and consider how to improve their activities as well as making revised TA manual for future TA students. | Write and submit “Final report” and revised TA manual after the last lesson. |
Not required.
TA manual for each core course of master program.
The specified format file of the activity plan and the final report.
The activity plan should be submitted in the specified format and permitted by a week before starting the activities. After conducting the activities, the report in the specified format should be submitted. Based on that report, pass or miss will be judged.
Students must be a member of one of the laboratories in the Department of Social and Human Sciences.
Your Advisory Teacher
As needed