TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Course description and aims

This course is designed for students with work experience as a working adult who have acquired the Graduate Attributes (GAs) that master's degree students are required to fulfill through their past work activities (including those at their past employers). The course certifies that the student has already acquired the Graduate Attributes (GA) that master's degree students are required to fulfill, based on the student's work experience (including ongoing work experience at past employers), and the student is awarded credits and GA (GA0M and GA1M).
In view of the content of the GAs, students who have at least two years of work experience in a company, etc. are required to take the course in principle. However, this does not apply to those with less than two years of work experience, if they are deemed to have experience and achievements that meet the GA requirements.
The maximum number of credits that can be earned through the Master's Recurrent Training Program is 2 credits in total. It is possible to take two Master's Recurrent Training 1 courses for a total of 2 credits, and two Master's Recurrent Training 2 courses for 2 credits, etc. In such cases, the maximum number of credits that can be earned through each course is limited to 2 credits. In this case, the experience and achievements for each course must be different.

Student learning outcomes

Students with work experience as a working adult can earn credits by having courses, etc. certify that they have already acquired the GAs that master's degree students are required to fulfill, based on their past and current work experience and achievements.
GA0M: To be able to clearly draw one's own career design and recognize the abilities necessary to realize it, including the relationship with society and ethics.
GA1M: Acquire the knowledge, skills, and ethics necessary to realize their own career design and contribute to problem solving in collaboration with others.

Keywords

master's recurrent program, work experience and achievements

Competencies that will be developed

Class flow

The student's experience and achievements (including those at past employers) in previous work activities as a working adult (including those that have continued to the present). The student shall confirm in advance with his/her advisor the policy on the preparation of documents objectively proving that the student has already fulfilled GA0M and GA1M and the number of credits to be earned through the experience and achievements of the student. Examples of experiences and achievements that may be considered for credit in this course are as follows.
・Business experience in the company
・Activities related to standardization (*)
・Experience in charge of events, etc. that can be shown externally
・Presentations at academic conferences (*)
・Past academic conference activities, international conference organizing committee members, etc.
・Writing experience in journals and papers (*)
・Reviews, commentary articles, etc. (*)
・Patent applications (*)
(*) Do not take the same course as the "Seminar" course.
Based on the above confirmation with the academic advisor, the student should prepare documents and submit them to the course via the academic advisor. In doing so, the student should not only describe his/her experience and achievements, but also explain in detail how he/she has acquired each of the GA0M and GA1M items in his/her experience and achievements.
The materials should be submitted to the course via the student's faculty advisor. The course will approve the credits earned and the number of credits to be earned in this course based on the materials submitted by the student.
If the student is approved for the credits earned and the number of credits to be earned in this course, the student shall submit a course registration report at the most recent Q for which a course registration can be submitted. Thereafter, the course grade report will be made based on the said approval.
Students who wish to enroll in this course should make sure to do so as early as possible to allow enough time for the course to be approved.

Course schedule/Required learning

Textbook(s)

None

Reference books, course materials, etc.

None

Assessment criteria and methods

The course will approve the credits earned and the number of credits to be earned through this course based on whether or not it is objectively recognized that the student has already mastered the specific items of GA0M and GA1M based on the data submitted by the student regarding his/her experience and achievements as a member of society.
This course will not be graded on the basis of points, but on a pass/fail basis.

Related courses

• None

Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)

Master's students with work experience as a member of society
Students who wish to enroll in this course must declare their enrollment after the course has been approved and credit can be granted.

Other

The corresponding GAs for this subject are GA0M and GA1M.