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- Academic unit or major
- Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership
- Instructor(s)
- Kobayashi Yoshinao Akasaka Kiyotaka
- Class Format
- Lecture (ZOOM)
- Media-enhanced courses
- Day/Period(Room No.)
- Fri7-8(S611, J234)
- Group
- -
- Course number
- TAL.S403
- Credits
- 1
- Academic year
- 2020
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- 2020/9/18
- Lecture notes updated
- -
- Language used
- English
- Access Index
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Course description and aims
This course aims to provide the lectures to give the students the ability to design the process for solving the global issues
such as population explosion, widening disparity, and global warming which are eminent in the current globalization and international development.
Student learning outcomes
（１）To understand the cause and results of the global issues such as population explosion, global warming, disparity and environmental issues.
（２）To suggest concrete countermeasures to these global issues in viewpoint of process designing.
Keywords
population explosion, global warming, disparity, global issue, environment
Competencies that will be developed
| Specialist skills | ✔ Intercultural skills | Communication skills | ✔ Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Class flow
Lectures will be given with handouts prepared by lecturers.
Course schedule/Required learning
| Course schedule | Required learning | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Current global issues | Comprehension check |
| Class 2 | Cause of global warming and its forecast | Comprehension check |
| Class 3 | Population explosion and future situation | Comprehension check |
| Class 4 | Widening disparity and coutermeasures | Comprehension check |
| Class 5 | Food problem and possible counteraction | Comprehension check |
| Class 6 | Philosophy for the solution of global issues | Comprehension check |
| Class 7 | Process designing for solution of global issues | Comprehension check |
Out-of-Class Study Time (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 specified.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
None specified.
Assessment criteria and methods
Evaluation by comprehesion check and small quiz distributed in each lecture to evaluate the comprehension of the causes of global issues and proposing ability to solve these issues.
Related courses
- TAL.S601 ： Policy-making Workshop
Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)
Not especially.
Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from "[at]" to "@"(half-width character).
Yoshinao KOBAYASHI
kobayashi.y.at[at]m.titech.ac.jp
03-5734-3075
Office hours
North Build. No.2 Room 328
Friday afternoon.
Send the e-mail to the address above.
