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- Academic unit or major
- Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership
- Instructor(s)
- Yamada Keisuke Matsuzaki Yuri Watanabe Mayu
- Class Format
- Exercise
- Media-enhanced courses
- Day/Period(Room No.)
- -
- Group
- -
- Course number
- TAL.S506
- Credits
- 1
- Academic year
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- 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 is fundamental of students' leadership capabilities to proactively solve such issues with no correct answers. As tools for such fundamentals; capabilities for communication, issue identification, consensus building, designing future society, and approach from macro points of view will be trained through a variety of workshops.
“Recognition of Social Issues Workshop B” are going to concentrate on capabilities relating idea generation, and studying skills
including backcasting, horizon scanning and forced idea generaion.
Student learning outcomes
Understanding social issues as a part of history, social trend and technology trend and learning and executing methodologies of macro approach and designing future society, so that students can expect to increase their stock of skills for consensus building.
Keywords
Consensus building, Issue identification, Value creation
Competencies that will be developed
| Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | ✔ Communication skills | ✔ Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Class flow
This course offers several kinds of workshops. Details of schedule and contents of such workshops will be presented by ToTAL web page/ToTAL OPEN programs (http://www.total.titech.ac.jp).
Course schedule/Required learning
| Course schedule | Required learning | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Details about schedule and contents will be presented in ToTAL web page/ToTAL OPEN Programs by the end of September while 2 kind of workshops below are being considered to be offered; (1) Effectuation Workshop: Students are going to find that the studenst already have enough capability in generating "innovation" with exsisting idea generation capability and network. (2) Future Foresight Workshop: Students are going to design future society of 10-15 years later by methodologies of scanning, back casting and abduction. (3) Design Thinking for beginners (4) Debate club | Presented on site |
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
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.S510 ： Recognition of Social Issues Workshop D
Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)
None
Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from "[at]" to "@"(half-width character).
total.tokunin[at]total.titech.ac.jp
