TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Course description and aims

This course is a fundamental course in which master's students learn a comprehensive and condensed set of basic knowledge and skills that will be of practical use in building their future careers as well as in their job-hunting. This course corresponds to all career paths, including advancement to the doctoral course and entering private companies after completion of the master's degree program. The content of the course covers social rules, ethics, the flow of money in companies and universities, and entrepreneurship, and how to build a career in industry and academia which can be efficiently understood from a broader perspective.
The goal of the course is for students not only to acquire relevant knowledge, but also to regard the content of the lecture as their own personal issues, and to consider how it will be specifically valuable/applicable to their own future career development.
Classes are given by faculties and lecturers who have rich practical experience in central government offices, universities and private companies.
Classes are delivered in Japanese, so students should have Japanese language skills enough to understand the content of the classes.

This course is classified as a "livestream" with direct teaching by Zoom. Therefore, students are required to attend every lecture in real time. If students are unable to attend regularly due to other activities such as laboratory seminars or other lectures, do not take this course.

Prior to taking the course, please make sure that you have downloaded the latest version of the Zoom application. (Avoid connecting with browsers such as Chrome as it may be unstable or have limited functionality.) To maintain your concentration, the connected device is preferable to be the one with a larger display, such as a PC, and tablet.

In order to avoid being unable to attend lectures in real time once a class starts due to a poor communication environment, prior to taking the course, students must ensure an Internet environment with a speed of 600 kbps/1.2 Mbps (upload/download) or higher, without worrying about data volume during lecture time.

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.

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 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 and universities, as essential knowledge for job-hunting and building a future career.
3) Understand industry-academia collaboration and entrepreneurship.
4) With regard to 1) to 3) above, find out what is specifically valuable/applicable to your future career development and consider them.

Course taught by instructors with work experience

Keywords

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

Competencies that will be developed

Class flow

Classes will be on-line via Zoom. Students are required to participate in real time in principle, in order to make sure interactivity between the lecturers and students in the class.

In classes, PowerPoint presentations will be used, with many examples and charts to facilitate understanding. Students are encouraged to actively participate in the class by joining Zoom polling and asking questions.

An assignment will be given in each class, and students will be required to write and submit a report. The reports will be reflected in the evaluation and their contents should be something that students can refer back to in the future as they build their own careers.
Feedback on submitted reports that would be valuable for students to share will be provided at a later date, with comments from the lecturer when necessary.

lecturers;
　ITO Sachiko, Professor, Deputy Director, Student Support Center, Head, Student Success Support Section, Tokyo Tech.
　MORISHIMA Toshiko, Professor for Institute Management, Student Support Center, Tokyo Tech.
　SHINJI Chihiro, Associate Director, Innovation design Platform (IdP), Office of Research and Innovation, Specially Appointed Professor, Tokyo Tech.
　TANAKA Hidekazu, Professor Emeritus, Specially Appointed Professor, Career Development Section, Center for Entrepreneurship Education, Tokyo Tech.
　IZUMI Akira, Specially Appointed Professor, Career Development Section, Center for Entrepreneurship Education, Tokyo Tech.

※The order of classes may be changed due to the availability of external lecturers, or the content of the classes may be changed.

Course schedule/Required learning

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 course material.

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 attend it in real time, and write and 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

• ENT.C413(LAC.M413*) ： Master's Career Design Practice
• ENT.C527(LAC.M527*) ： Master's Social and Business Rules and Ethics
• ENT.C511(LAC.M511*) ： Master's Career Development Role Models

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

A device to connect to Zoom is necessary.(preferably a PC, tablet, or other device with as larger display.) Make sure you have downloaded the latest version of Zoom application.
Ensure an Internet environment with a speed of 600 kbps/1.2 Mbps (upload/download) or higher, without worrying about data volume, during lecture time.

Classes are delivered in Japanese, so students should have Japanese language skills enough to understand the content of the classes.
For assignment reports, both English and Japanese are acceptable.

Other

The corresponding GA for this course is GA0M.

For inquiries regarding Entrepreneurship Courses (for students enrolled in AY2024) ,and Career Development Courses (for students enrolled in or before AY2023), please contact us at: Center for Entrepreneurship Education (CEE) (e-mail: cee.info@jim.titech.ac.jp )