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- 工学院，物質理工学院，環境・社会理工学院共通科目
- Liberal arts and basic science courses
- First-Year Courses
- School of Science
- School of Engineering
- School of Materials and Chemical Technology
- School of Computing
- School of Life Science and Technology
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School of Environment and Society
- Department of Architecture and Building Engineering
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering
- Department of Social and Human Sciences
- Department of Innovation Science
- Graduate major in Technology and Innovation Management
- Common courses
- Liberal arts and basic science courses
- Academic unit or major
- Humanities and social science courses
- Instructor(s)
- Kuwata Shigeki Fudano Jun Bektas Yakup Obara Toru Kasai Kazuhiko Kudo Fumitaka Tsukagoshi Youji Tateno Hiroaki Nakahara Masahiro
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- Day/Period(Room No.)
- Wed3-4(S221)
- Group
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- Course number
- LAH.T404
- Credits
- 1
- Academic year
- 2016
- Offered quarter
- 3Q
- Syllabus updated
- 2017/1/11
- Lecture notes updated
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- Language used
- Japanese
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Course description and aims
This course is designed and delivered to cultivate the following abilities, attributes, and perspectives which are appropriate and required for those students who study at one of the top leading comprehensive universities of science and technology in Japan.
By the completion of this course, the students will have
1) the ability to recognize and explain the nature and broadening scope of certain fields and/or disciplines in science and engineering,
2) the ability to examine the ELSI (Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications/Influences) of those fields and/or disciplines and what role they should play in society and for society,
3) the attitude to seek the broad and transdisciplinary perspectives on science and engineering, and
4) the ability to develop an attitude to examine one's own field of study with a multi-dimensional framework.
This course is designed, developed, and offered jointly by the respective School and the Institute for Liberal Arts.
Science and technology are one of the sources of the affluence in modern society. Its influence on the society simultaneously becomes enormous and the resulting risks also become larger. In this class, various kinds of risks and the risk avoidance are introduced in various fields of science and technology. Lecturers in various specialized fields will talk in the class.
The aim of this course is to understand what kinds of risks exist in the various fields of science and technology, and to understand the risk avoidance.
Student learning outcomes
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
1) Explain examples for risks in various kinds of scientific and technological fields
2) Explain examples for risk avoidance in various kinds of scientific and technological fields.
Keywords
Science, Technology, Engineering, Society, ELSI (Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications), Safety
Competencies that will be developed
| ✔ Specialist skills | ✔ Intercultural skills | ✔ Communication skills | ✔ Critical thinking skills | Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Class flow
As with all other courses in this category (400 Transdisciplinary Course), this course is offered in the "Active Learning" mode which requires students to take an active role in their own learning. Therefore, students are required to submit a summary report at the end of each session. (In case you are not able to attend a class, you should inform the instructor of your reason for absence in advance.) Class attendance is required and taken into account for grades.
Course schedule/Required learning
| Course schedule | Required learning | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Guidance and introduction | summary report |
| Class 2 | Safety of chemical plants | summary report |
| Class 3 | Safety of nuclear power system I. The concept of nuclear safety | summary report |
| Class 4 | Safety of nuclear power system II. Safety of radioactive waste disposal. | summary report |
| Class 5 | Aircraft safety and social systems. | summary report |
| Class 6 | Chemicals and safety | summary report |
| Class 7 | Science and technology and food safety | summary report |
| Class 8 | History of phytotoxicity and contemporary challenges | summary report |
Textbook(s)
None required.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Course materials are posted on OCW-i and/or provided during the classes.
Assessment criteria and methods
For the credits of this course, as with all other courses in this category (400 Transdisciplinary Course), students must submit an original paper which addresses "the nature and scope" of a given field/discipline and its "societal role." An important part of the assessment is based on the quality of the paper. The instructor will explain details of the requirements for the paper in the first class meeting.
Related courses
- CHM.A201 ： Chemistry for Safety
- NCL.F454 ： Safety and Regional Symbiosis for Nuclear Energy
- LAS.E101 ： Environment and Safety
- ZSK.D430 ： Human Safety Engineering
- MEC.C434 ： Sciences of Structural Safety and User's Security
Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)
Not required.
