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2022　Master's Career Development Basics C

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Academic unit or major
Career development courses
Instructor(s)
Izumi Akira  Tanaka Hidekazu  Seino Chiaki  Kamoi Tatsuaki  Murakami Mariko 
Class Format
Lecture    (Livestream)
Media-enhanced courses
Day/Period(Room No.)
Fri5-6()  
Group
C
Course number
LAC.M401
Credits
1
Academic year
2022
Offered quarter
3Q
Syllabus updated
2022/9/20
Lecture notes updated
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Language used
Japanese
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Course description and aims

This course provides an overview of the career paths of Tokyo Tech students after completing the master's program, and teaches the essential knowledge necessary for building a career for the future, such as social rules, ethics, the flow of money in companies and universities, and entrepreneurship, and how to build a career in industry and academia. The content of the classes is practical and can be efficiently understood from a broad framework, and corresponds to all career paths, including advancement to the doctoral course and entering the industry after completion of the master's program. Classes are given by faculties and lecturers who have rich practical experience in central government offices, universities and private companies.

The aim of this course is to provide master's students with basic knowledge and skills that will be useful to them when they build their careers in society after completing the master's program. These knowledge and skills will also be useful in their Job-hunting. In order to be active in society in the future after completing the master's program, it is extremely important for students to acquire "how to live" in addition to what they have learned in the specialized courses.　This is the purpose of the career development education at Tokyo Tech, and this course provides fundamentals necessary for this purpose in a comprehensive and condensed manner..

Three courses are offered in the 1Q (A1, A2, A3), one in the 2Q (B), and one in the 3Q (C). Students are recommended to select one according to their own study plans.

If the number of students who register for each course offered in 1Q exceeds 300, the number of students who can take the course may be limited to ensure the quality of classes. If it is necessary to limit the number of students who can take a course, it will be posted on this syllabus and on the Innovator and Inventor Development Platform（IIDP）website （Japanese only）(https://www.titech.ac.jp/student-support/students/life/career-education). Students who have registered for the course by then will also be notified.

The name of this course is changed from "Master's Career Design," which was offered in AY2021. Students who have already taken "Master's Career Design","Master's Career Plan", "Master's Career Design I", and "Master's Career Design II", which had been offered until AY2020, cannot take this course.

Student learning outcomes

By taking this course, students will acquire the following;
1) Understand the various career paths available in the future by listening to lecturers who have extensive experience in academia and industry.
2) Understand the general framework such as social rules and the flow of money in companies, universities, as essential knowledge for job-hunting and building a future career.
3) Understand industry-academia collaboration and entrepreneurship.

Course taught by instructors with work experience

✔ Applicable How instructors' work experience benefits the course
Faculties and lecturers with rich practical experience in central government offices, universities, and companies teaches classes based on their own experience.

Keywords

Academia, Industries, Career development, Research & Development, Internship, Job-hunting, Entrepreneurship

Competencies that will be developed

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

Class flow

This course is a real-time, interactive, and direct-teaching live course via ZOOM. Therefore, students are required to attend all classes in real time.

The following measures are taken to ensure the quality of online lectures.
1.Use slides with examples and charts so that students can maintain their concentration.
2.Ask students to share their ideas by such means as actively using the voting function of ZOOM and setting a time for verbal or chat questions enable them to keep their concentration and better understand the ideas of other students in the classes.
3.Give an assignment to students in each class, and they are required to prepare and submit a report. The report assignment is designed for students to think about their own future career development based on the content of the class, so that the students will not only deeply understand the content, but also improve their report writing skills, and furthermore, the report can be used as a memorandum that can be reread in the future to help them build their careers.
4.Pick up the contents of the reports submitted by the students that would be helpful for them to share, and provide feedback to the students at a later date, with comments by the lecturers if necessary, so that they can understand what other students who listened to the same classes thought, and thus obtain even deeper learning effects.

lecturers;
KAMOI Tatsuaki, Senior Engineer, Schlumberger
MURAKAMI Mariko, Director for Housing Revitalization Division, Housing and Architecture Bureau, City of Yokohama
TANAKA Hidekazu, Professor Emeritus, Specially Appointed Professor, Innovator and Inventor Development Platform, Tokyo Tech.
SEINO Chiaki, Specially Appointed Professor, Office of Research and Innovation, Tokyo Tech. (Official of Japan Patent Office)
IZUMI Akira, Specially Appointed Professor, Innovator and Inventor Development Platform, Tokyo Tech. (Official of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)

The order of classes may be changed or the content of classes may be altered.

Course schedule/Required learning

  Course schedule Required learning
Class 1 Introduction, and career path after completion of the master's program students (IZUMI Akira) Students understand there are a variety of career paths available to them after completing their master's degree program, find what they consider valuable from the class toward building their own future careers, and develop their own perspectives on them.
Class 2 Social / business rules such as laws and standards, ethics, and social responsibility (IZUMI Akira) Students understand in society, there are various rules, including laws and standards, which are deeply related to technology, find what they consider valuable from the class toward building their own future careers, and develop their own perspectives on them.
Class 3 Industry-academia collaboration, and university-led startups (SEINO Chiaki) Students understand the promotion of industry-academia collaboration and entrepreneurship at Tokyo Tech in order to realize their research results in society, find what they consider valuable from the class toward building their own future careers, and develop their own perspectives on them.
Class 4 Career design for those who aim at academia (TANAKA Hidekazu) Students understand career paths to academia and jobs at the university, find what they consider valuable from the class toward building their own future careers, and develop their own perspectives on them.
Class 5 "Kuramae Seminar", KAMOI Tatsuaki Students understand the lecturer's experience and career path to date, find what they consider valuable from the class toward building their own future careers, and develop their own perspectives on them.
Class 6 "Kuramae Seminar", MURAKAMI Mariko Students understand the lecturer's experience and career path to date, find what they consider valuable from the class toward building their own future careers, and develop their own perspectives on them.
Class 7 Basic knowledge of money flow in companies, universities and research institutes, and wrap-up of the course (IZUMI Akira) Students understand how to gather and analyze information such as company earnings and how money flows through universities and research institutions, find what they consider valuable from the class toward building their own future careers, and develop their own perspectives on them.

Textbook(s)

No textbook. In principle, lecture materials prepared by the lecturers will be uploaded to T2SCHOLA in advance of each class.

Reference books, course materials, etc.

All reference books are written in Japanese, so please refer to the syllabus in Japanese.

Assessment criteria and methods

An assignment is given in each class and the students are required to submit a report on it. The reports submitted by the due date will be evaluated with the same weight for each class on how deeply they consider the assignment and how well they describe the results of their consideration.

Related courses

  • LAC.M413 ： Master's Career Design Practice
  • LAC.M527 ： Master's Social and Business Rules and Ethics
  • LAC.M511 ： Master's Career Development Role Models

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

Classes are delivered in Japanese, so students should have Japanese language skills enough to understand the content of the classes.
Students can write their reports in either Japanese or English.

Other

The corresponding GA for this course is GA0M.

If the number of students who register for each course offered in 1Q exceeds 300, the number of students who can take the course may be limited to ensure the quality of lectures. If it is necessary to limit the number of students who can take a course, it will be posted on this syllabus and on the IIDP website（Japanese only） (https://www.titech.ac.jp/student-support/students/life/career-education). Students who have registered for the course by then will also be notified.

For a list of career development courses offered at IIDP, please refer to the URL below.
(https://www.titech.ac.jp/english/student-support/students/life/career-education)

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