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- Academic unit or major
- Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership
- Instructor(s)
- Yamada Keisuke Matsuzaki Yuri Watanabe Mayu
- Class Format
- Exercise (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- Day/Period(Room No.)
- Intensive ()
- Group
- -
- Course number
- TAL.S505
- Credits
- 1
- Academic year
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- 2024/3/14
- Lecture notes updated
- -
- Language used
- English
- Access Index
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Course description and aims
ToTAL understands that recognizing and understanding issues which are occurred in current society and in the field of academic, business, politics, technology and art would be fundamental for the course category of “Leadership, followership and consensus building” which aim for fostering capabilities to proactively solve such issues with no correct answers. During the course of “Recognition of Social Issues Workshop A”, students will acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote communication and negotiation process necessary in complex situations with multiple stakeholders.
This course will give you an opportunity to increase your self-awareness and diagnostic capability as a negotiator. Students groups will be arranged for the group discussions about such as conflict resolution cases. The groups will be arranged to include students from various backgrounds.
Student learning outcomes
Learn about the process of negotiating and discussing with people in different positions, and train through practice.
Keywords
Consensus building, Issue identification, Communication
Competencies that will be developed
| Specialist skills | ✔ Intercultural skills | ✔ Communication skills | ✔ Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Class flow
Schedule and policy of the course will be explained in an orientation session held at the beginning of each semester.
Announcements will be open at the webpage below:
http://www.total.titech.ac.jp/en/news/openprogram/
Note that some workshops will be held on Saturdays and Sundays to allow for a coherent time frame, or when instructors are invited from outside.
Course schedule/Required learning
| Course schedule | Required learning | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Please attend one of the following briefing sessions and send your attending plan to the instructors. If you missed attending the orientation, please contact the instructors. ■Orientation (Same contents) ・＃1（Japanese） 9/Apr (Tue.) 18:00-19:30 @Ookayama S6-309B & online ・＃2（English） 11/Apr (Thu.) 18:00-19:30 @Ookayama S6-309B & online ・#3（Japanese & English） 23/Apr (Tue.) 18:00-19:30 @Ookayama S6-309B & online ■Students will select and attend workshops from below: (Date TBD) Trading game - a simulation of international cooperation 20/Jul (Sat.), 27/Jul. (Sat.), Negotiation and consensus-building workshops 13/Jul (Sat.), System x Design Thinking workshop (Date TBD) Debate Club | Presented on site |
Textbook(s)
None
Reference books, course materials, etc.
None
Assessment criteria and methods
1. 50%: attendance to the workshop and pro-active attitude for idea generation and for contribution to consensus building
2. 50%: the level of logical acceptance about the solution(s) (ideas) to be presented as the result of discussion
Related courses
- TAL.S509：Recognition of Social Issues Workshop C
Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)
None
