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2021　Social and Business Rules and Ethics B

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Academic unit or major
Career development courses
Instructor(s)
Izumi Akira  Sugou Shigeo  Nishio Taku 
Class Format
Lecture     
Media-enhanced courses
Day/Period(Room No.)
Tue5-6()  
Group
B
Course number
LAC.M527
Credits
1
Academic year
2021
Offered quarter
2Q
Syllabus updated
2021/3/19
Lecture notes updated
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Language used
Japanese
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Course description and aims

・This lecture is one of career development courses for master's course students, and its purpose is to understand the outline of social and business rules that are greatly influence on them when they will be developing their career in industry and academia after graduation.
・In this course, after taking a bird's-eye view of social and business rules such as law and standards, intellectual property rights (patent law, trademark law, design law, copyright) and standards that are considered to have many opportunities to touch with in the real world are instructed. In addition, students also learn compliance, ethics, and crisis management, which are practices of social and business rules, with case studies. Furthermore, students learn how the rules are specifically influenced through new plant construction cases overseas.
・Through this lecture, students understand the outline of social and business rules, which they have not always had a chance to know, and realize that they can actively utilize them, if necessary, when job-hunting and developing a career in the real world.
・Distribution of lecture materials, submission of reports, and communication related to lectures will be done using the OCWi system.

Student learning outcomes

・ Understand that there are various rules in society and business.
・ Understand that you can actively utilize rules if necessary when job-hunting and building a career in the real world.

Course taught by instructors with work experience

✔ Applicable How instructors' work experience benefits the course
Lecturers with abundant experience in the Japanese government and private companies will give lectures based on their own experience.

Keywords

Rules, laws, standards, compliance, crisis management, intellectual property rights

Competencies that will be developed

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

Class flow

・Lectures will be conducted online by ZOOM. Students are required to participate in real time to ensure interactivity of the lectures.
・The instructor will use PowerPoint presentations in each lecture, make use of tables and charts with many examples, and advance the lecture in an easy-to-understand way.
・In each lecture, an assignment will be imposed and request the preparation and submission of reports later. The report will be reflected in the evaluation and will be useful for the students to develop their own career in the future.

Lecturers:
SUGOU Shigeo, Intellectual Property Officer, Research and Innovation Promotion Headquarters, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (former Chief Patent Officer, Central Research Laboratory, NEC Corporation)
NISHIO Taku, Director of Production Management Department, International Division ,Lion Corporation
IZUMI, Akira, Specially Appointed Professor, Innovator and Inventor Development Platform, Tokyo Tech. (Official of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)

※The order and contents of lectures may change due to the convenience of lecturers from outside organizations.

Course schedule/Required learning

  Course schedule Required learning
Class 1 Introduction, overview of social and business rules, need to study rules (IZUMI Akira) Instructed in the lecture.
Class 2 Risk reduction and crisis management (IZUMI Akira) Instructed in the lecture.
Class 3 Practice of safety management, compliance, ethics, etc. in the company (NISHIO Taku) Instructed in the lecture.
Class 4 Compliance and ethics (IZUMI Akira) Instructed in the lecture.
Class 5 Patent Act (SUGOU Shigeo) Instructed in the lecture.
Class 6 Copyright Act, Unfair Competition Prevention Act, Trademark Act, Design Act, etc. (SUGOU Shigeo) Instructed in the lecture.
Class 7 International standardization and summary of lectures (IZUMI Akira) Instructed in the lecture.

Textbook(s)

No textbook. The lecture materials will be prepared by the lecturer and will be uploaded on the OCW-i in principle .

Reference books, course materials, etc.

None.

Assessment criteria and methods

・In each lecture, students are required to submit a report on the given assignment. In that report, how deeply they understand and consider the assignment from the perspective of developing their future career will be evaluated.　

Related courses

  • LAC.M401 ： Master's Career Design
  • LAC.M413 ： Master's Career Design Practice

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

Daily conversation level of Japanese language is recommended.

Other

Please see the URL below for a list of career development courses offered at IIDP and lecturers' introduction.
(https://www.titech.ac.jp/english/enrolled/career/career_education/)

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