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2021　Essence of Humanities and Social Sciences23:Contemporary Society Viewed from Medical Care

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Academic unit or major
Humanities and social science courses
Instructor(s)
Kagawa Yumi 
Class Format
Lecture     
Media-enhanced courses
Day/Period(Room No.)
Wed3-4()  
Group
-
Course number
LAH.S501
Credits
1
Academic year
2021
Offered quarter
3Q
Syllabus updated
2021/11/18
Lecture notes updated
-
Language used
Japanese
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Course description and aims

This course focuses on contemporary social challenges viewed from healthcare. We will discuss about 3 main topics - chronic disease, physical disability, and cancer- through lectures and group work.
The aims of this class are:
1) To learn various point of views on medicine and patient care.
2) To make opportunities on communicating with others about the offered topics.
3) To facilitate students’ ability to setting agenda for problems crying out for solutions.

Student learning outcomes

By the end of the course, students will be able to:
1) Understand contemporary social challenges viewed from medical care.
2) Discuss about social challenges in a logical way and propose plural solutions.
3) Explain one’s own opinion logically to others
4) Understand others’ way of seeing, communicate and facilitate consensus-building
5) Understand the process of “consensus-building” and “value-creation”, and learn how to apply the skills to other topics.

Course taught by instructors with work experience

✔ Applicable How instructors' work experience benefits the course
As a patient myself, I have experiences in the activities of a patients' association and in the management of a non-profit organization where patients and people with disabilities give lectures about their experiences. In this class, I would like to introduce the diversity of opinions surrounding medical care in the real world in a more concrete way by introducing the stories of actual patients.

Keywords

Healthcare, Medical Sociology, Sociology, Medical Engineering, Biotechnology, Medical Ethics, Science Communication

Competencies that will be developed

Specialist skills ✔ Intercultural skills ✔ Communication skills ✔ Critical thinking skills Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

Class 1: Guidance
Class 2-4: Lectures on topics and group discussion.
Class 5-7: Group-work on social agenda and solution for people living with healthcare.
Class 8: Case-study discussion and report writing.

Course schedule/Required learning

  Course schedule Required learning
Class 1 Class guidance 1) Understanding the social problems in healthcare. 2) Understanding the value of “consensus-building” and “value-creation” with others.
Class 2 An interactive discussion (1): Chronic disease and medical technics 1) Understanding the he challenges and difficulty for people living with chronic disease and recent progress on technics and medicine. 2) Discussing the impacts of technological innovation on patients’ life and further patients’ needs.
Class 3 An interactive discussion (2): Physical disability and ancillary technology 1) Understanding the challenges and difficulty for people living with physically disability. 2) Discussing the impacts of ancillary technologies for people with physically disability and society.
Class 4 An interactive discussion (3): Cancer treatment and social life 1) Understanding the cancer treatment and challenges and difficulty for people living with cancer. 2) Discussing the social agenda and solution for people living with cancer.
Class 5 Group-work: Further discussion on the topics and preparing for the presentation 1) Discussing further about offered topics through group work.
Class 6 Group presentation 1) Discussing further about offered topics through group work.
Class 7 Overview 1) Discussion and report writing.

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 required

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Reference books: None required.
Course materials: course materials are provided during class.

Assessment criteria and methods

submitting report after each class: comprehension, logicality and originalty(50%)
submitting report after group presentation: comprehension, logicality and originalty (50%)

Related courses

  • LAH.S401 ： Essence of Humanities and Social Sciences1:Toward Our True Nature

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

There is no particular medical expertise or skill that you should have acquired in advance.
Japanese will be used in class and group discussions. Reports will be accepted in English.

Other

This course is 500-level course.
Tokyo Techʼs “wedge-shaped style education” enables students to pursue liberal arts education in a phased manner throughout undergraduate and graduate programs. Students are encouraged to take courses in the sequence of 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, and 600 levels. As such, masterʼs students entering in September must begin from 400-level liberal arts courses in 3Q and 4Q of the first year, then proceed to 500-level courses. Students can register for 500-level Humanities and Social Science courses six months after their entrance (i.e. students admitted in April can register in 3Q and 4Q, and those admitted in September can register in 1Q and 2Q).

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