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- Graduate major in Technology and Innovation Management
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- Graduate major in Technology and Innovation Management
- Instructor(s)
- Ikegami Masako
- Class Format
- Lecture (Livestream)
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- Day/Period(Room No.)
- Wed9-12()
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- Course number
- TIM.B519
- Credits
- 1
- Academic year
- 2023
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- Syllabus updated
- 2023/9/6
- Lecture notes updated
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- Language used
- Japanese
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Course description and aims
Globalization has made the highly industrialized society vulnerable to various risks, e.g. natural disasters, disasters of technology/infrastructure/systems failures such as nuclear power accidents, power/cyber system blackouts, pandemics, and man-made disasters such as terrorism, bio-terrorism, riots, and cyber-attacks. This course aims at understanding critical risks of advanced industrial society through case studies.
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Student learning outcomes
To understand risk analysis and crisis management through case studies to get better prepared for crisis management.
Keywords
risk analysis and crisis management, security
Competencies that will be developed
| Specialist skills | ✔ Intercultural skills | ✔ Communication skills | ✔ Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Class flow
Lectures, independent research and pre-lecture discussion, active participation to the lectures and active discussion, final essay
Course schedule/Required learning
| Course schedule | Required learning | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Engineering Ethics and Risk Management (1) Prof. M. Nakamura (former Professor of Tokyo Tech) | Engineering Ethics and Risk Management (1) |
| Class 2 | Engineering Ethics and Risk Management (2) Prof. M. Nakamura (former Professor of Tokyo Tech) | Engineering Ethics and Risk Management (2) |
| Class 3 | Prof. T. Narabayashi, Tokyo Tech, Laboratory for Advanced Nuclear Energy | Lessons of the Fukushima F1 Accident crisis management; Energy Security |
| Class 4 | Presentation of Working Group research | Presentation of Working Group research comments by Prof. M. Nakamura |
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.
Each class consists of discussion based on reading materials (17:00-18:00), thereafter lecture and Q&A by specially invited lecturers (18:00-20:00).
Textbook(s)
Ulrich BECK (1992) RISK SOCIETY: Towards a New Modernity, SAGE
Beat HABEGGER (ed.) (2008) INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK ON RISK ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
Reference books, course materials, etc.
A compendium of articles and book chapters as hand-outs for pre-class readings
Assessment criteria and methods
The evaluation is based on the followings:
• Regular class attendance and active participation: 50%
• Essay work (final paper) of independent research: 50%
Related courses
- TIM.C532 ： Research, Development, Test & Evaluation of Advanced/Defense Technology
- TIM.C510 ： Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Analysis I：The Politics of Nuclear Non-Proliferation
- TIM.A403 ： Methodology of Political Science and Economics I
Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)
This course is a semi-intensive course scheduled on Wednesday evenings (9-12 Tamachi-time slots) in 3Q-4Q in coordination with two other courses (Lectures by Innovation Policy Makers and Entrepreneurs Seminar) in the same Tamachi-time session (9-12) so that the students can register and complete the three courses simultaneously.
Other
Details TBD
