Science Tokyo Academic Affairs News (December 2024 issue)

This newsletter is posted on the Science Tokyo website and on Slack around the first week of every month, providing updated information on academic affairs useful for all current Science Tokyo students.

1.[Science and Engineering]Academic Calendar
The courses of 2025 will begin on Saturday, January 4.
January 17(Fri), January 18(Sat)
No classes are held due to the University Admission Common Test and its preparation

2.[Science and Engineering]Course addition and Course cancellation period <4Q>
[Addition] October 17(Thu)～January 20(Mon)
[Cancellation] October 17(Thu)～December 26(Thu)
For details, please see
<Undergraduate school>
Course registration
<Graduate school>
How to register/add/cancel courses
*It is not allowed to cancel the courses after above canncellation period.(except intensive courses)

3.[Science and Engineering]Closure of Student Service Desks
Service desks at the following offices will be closed for the year-end and New Year’s holidays, from Monday, December 30, 2024 through Friday, January 3, 2025:
Student Division on Ookayama and Suzukakedai Campuses, Student Support Division on Ookayama and Suzukakedai Campuses, Global Education Division, Admissions Division
Contact information: General inquiries

4.[Science and Engineering]Automated Certificate Issuance Machines Out of Service
Automated certificate issuance machines will be out of service from Saturday, December 28, 2024 to Sunday, January ５, 2025.
Machine locations and operating hours
Ookayama Campus:Hisao & Hiroko Taki Plaza (Taki Plaza), B1 Fl, B2 Fl.
Weekdays (excluding holidays) from 9:00 to 21:00
Suzukakedai Campus: J1 Bldg. lobby, Fl. 1
Weekdays (excluding holidays) from 8:30 to 17:30
Information:Certifications Issued by automated certificate issuance machines

(1) ToTAL/Open Programs:
Academy for Leadership (ToTAL) is offering more than 20 kinds of workshops annually for fostering and developing leadership and entrepreneurship mindset and skills. Regardless of whether you are in ToTAL or not, or whether you are an undergraduate or a graduate student, any student can apply to participate in these workshops.
In addition, graduate students can register for ToTAL's courses that consist of a combination of those workshops to acquire credits and GAs.
[Details and application]

[Call for participants!!]

1. <Debate Club>
(An event of Science Tokyo SPRING (for Science and Engineering fields))
All classes to be held from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
[English Class]
-Date and time: Wednesdays, Dec. 18, 2024 and Jan. 22, 2025
-Venue: Room S6-309A, Ookayama Campus and Room J3-309B, Suzukakedai Campus
[Japanese Class (Tentative - depending on the number of registrants)]
-Date and time: Wednesdays, Dec. 11, 2024 and Jan. 15, Jan. 29, 2025
-Venue: Room S6-309A, Ookayama Campus
-Outline: In this class, you will be able to:
a. Learn how to prepare a structured defense as a team
b. Learn how to attack an idea without attacking the person
c. Practice improvisational skills in arguments
d. Practice public speaking to an audience e. Experience in trying to understand perspectives that are different from your own
-Details and application

2. <Book dialogue for leadership>
(An event of Science Tokyo SPRING (for Science and Engineering fields))
Japanese Class:
-Date and time etc.: Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., Room J3-309B, Suzukakedai Campus (in-person only)
English Class:
-Date and time etc.: All classes to be held from 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
[Day 1] Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, Room J3-309B, Suzukakedai Campus and online
[Day 2] Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, Room S6-305, Ookayama Campus and online
*Participants may attend one day out of the above dates.
-Outline: Students will read books on leadership development or insights on future society following a unique book club style called "Active book Dialogue". In these classes, students grasp main idea of the book quickly and discuss ideas with other students intensively. It can be a language training for students who would like to improve Japanese/English skills.
-Details and application

3. <Project Reflection>
(An event of Science Tokyo SPRING (for Science and Engineering fields))
-Date and time etc.: All classes to be held from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
＜Ookayama Class＞ Mondays, Dec. 23, 2024 and Jan. 20, 2025
-Venue: Room S6-309A, Ookayama Campus
＜Suzukakedai Class＞ Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025 and Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025
*Participants may attend one day out of the above dates.
-Venue: Room J3-309B, Suzukakedai Campus
-Facilitators: K. Hasebe, S. Yagi, N. Kagawa, Copilot Inc.,
-Outline: In your busy research life, have you been able to stop your hands to identify issues and derive improvement measures? If you are short on time, it is easy to get caught up in the task at hand. If so, please join this class for your own research. Not only will you have the opportunity to reflect on your own work, but you will also receive personalized support, be stimulated by other students, and exchange ideas.
-Details and application

4. <System Thinking & Leadership>
(An event of Science Tokyo SPRING (for Science and Engineering fields))
-Date and time etc.: Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024, 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., Room S4-202, Ookayama Campus
-Facilitator: A. Fukutani, Systems-thinking educator
-Outline: Systems Thinking is a way of thinking that delves into the “connections” between the complex events we experience in reality, and improves our insight to create the results we really want to from a deeper level than simply dealing with problems. In this class, we will focus on Systems Thinking, touching on ideas such as “learning organizations” and “mental models”, and we will also explore the nature of leadership in this complex society.
-Details will be posted on Academy for Leadership website.

5. <Future Foresight (series of 2 classes)>
(An event of Science Tokyo SPRING (for Science and Engineering fields))
-Date and time etc.: Monday, Dec. 9, 2024 and Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024, 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
-Facilitators: S. Matsuki, K. Fujimoto, Y. Kayauchi, K. Awata, The Japan Research Institute, Limited
-Outline: “Future Insight” has spread in Europe and the US as a way of thinking about future prediction and uncertainty management in the VUCA era. In Japan, “Future Foresight” is being used by private companies, government and local governments as a methodology for generating innovations together with “Design Thinking”. By using horizon scanning methods that capture the signs of uncertain change and forced thinking (brainstorming), we will proactively design futures 10-15 years from now that nobody has yet to be conceived. In this class, you will experientially learn how to use future insight as a thinking tool for this purpose.
-Details will be posted on Academy for Leadership website.

6. <Design Practice and Material Study - Idea generation with your hands and brains>
(An event of Science Tokyo SPRING (for Science and Engineering fields))
-Date and time etc.: Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024, 2:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m., Room S4-202, Ookayama Campus
-Facilitator: A. Isomura, CEO, Fukufkuplus Inc.
-Language: Japanese
-Outline: In this class, we will foster psychological safety to generate ideas through interactive art appreciation. From there, participants will spontaneously identify problems and create prototypes on the spot. Additionally, by experimenting with different material functions, you’ll create a second, brand-new prototype. You can experience a variety of approaches to design and idea generation.
-Details and application

7. <Social Implementation of Science and Technology: Deep-tech Startups x Legacy Industries>
-Date and time etc.: Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024, 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m., Room S4-201, Ookayama Campus
-Guest speaker: T. Iwamoto, CEO, Polyuse Co., Ltd.
-Outline: Professionals who are developing new value and establishing it in society, such as in the academia, large enterprises, startups, financial institutions, legal professions, the media and government, will talk about the outline of their work, issues they face, and their way of thinking. Then, students will then hold a Q&A session and discussion on certain topics with those professionals.
-Details will be posted on Academy for Leadership website.

8. <Leadership in Innovation at Airport Ground Handling>
-Date and time etc.: Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m., Room S4-201, Ookayama Campus
-Guest speaker: T. Kikuchi, Manager, Ground Handling Planning, All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd.
-Outline: Professionals who are developing new value and establishing it in society, such as in the academia, large enterprises, startups, financial institutions, legal professions, the media and government, will talk about the outline of their work, issues they face, and their way of thinking. Then, students will then hold a Q&A session and discussion on certain topics with those professionals.
-Details will be posted on Academy for Leadership website.

9. <Peer-Coaching: Workshop to get to know yourself through dialogue with others (series of 2 classes)>
-Date and time etc.: Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025 and Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m., Room S4-202, Ookayama Campus
-Facilitators: M. Sakuramoto, CEO, CoachEd Inc.
-Outline: Peer coaching is a communication method that draws out the strengths of others through dialogue. This class is recommended for students who want to improve their communication skills and coaching skills among peers, fostering a sense of community and shared learning.
-Details will be posted on Academy for Leadership website.

10. <IdeaThon Workshop>
(An event of Science Tokyo SPRING (for Science and Engineering fields))
-Date and time etc.: Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025, 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., Room S4-202, Ookayama Campus
-Facilitators: T. Tsutsumi, Director & CEO, Startup Brain, Co., Ltd.
-Outline: 1-day training for creating “business idea” using the Design Thinking methodology.
-Details and application

11. <Enneagram: workshop to deepen self-awareness through diagnostic testing>
-Date and time etc.: Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025, 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., Room S4-202, Ookayama Campus
-Facilitator: H. Matsuda, Adjunct Researcher, Research Organization for Open Innovation Strategy, Waseda University
-Outline: Enneagram is a diagnostic test to help you learn about yourself and explore what you want to achieve in life. It divides a person’s innate temperament into nine personality types and illustrates the potential and essential traits that each possesses. It is an ideal workshop for students who wish to learn more about themselves.
-Details will be posted on Academy for Leadership website.

12. <Driving Innovation though Entrepreneurship>
-Date and time etc.: Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m., Room S4-201, Ookayama Campus
-Guest speaker: A. Kurabayashi, Managing Partner/Head of Japan, DNX Ventures
-Outline: Professionals who are developing new value and establishing it in society, such as in the academia, large enterprises, startups, financial institutions, legal professions, the media and government, will talk about the outline of their work, issues they face, and their way of thinking. Then, students will then hold a Q&A session and discussion on certain topics with those professionals.
-Details will be posted on Academy for Leadership website.

13. <Design Practice Workshop: Telling the Future Like Telling about the Past>
(An event of Science Tokyo SPRING (for Science and Engineering fields))
-Date and time etc.: Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., Online (Zoom)
-Facilitators: T. Iijima, Founder, Chief Design Officer, Persistence of Vision
-Outline: Mr. Iijima will invite you to a practice of design thinking by a unique workshop: “Anticipating the future as a past”. He will also give you some tips about making a visual prototype of your idea.
-Details will be posted on Academy for Leadership website.

14. <Capturing Multi-perspectives (series of 2 classes)>
-Date and time etc.: Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025 and Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
-Facilitators: Y. Mizukami and N. Higa, Co-Founders, Mesh Network, LLC.
-Outline: In this class, using an anthropological approach, we will concretize the image of the “future” that was created in the “Future Foresight” class in December 2024, and ultimately create and perform a script. What do the diverse individuals living in that “future” think, and how do they behave in that situation? Cultivating this kind of imagination will be an essential skill for developing new technologies and businesses in the future.
-Details will be posted on Academy for Leadership website.

(2) 【Science and Engineering】Looking for interesting courses to take?
ToTAL offers ALL students (including non-ToTAL students) various kinds of courses which enhance your abilities, and those curricula must be worthwhile to experience. The following are some of the courses to be offered in 4Q at ToTAL.
Join the classes if you are interested!

1. TAL.W401-04　Introduction to Leadership D
-Language: English
-Class day/period: Thursdays, Periods 7-8
-Venue: M-103, Ookayama campus
-Course description: Introduction to Leadership envisions the classroom as a community in which all members can develop their knowledge and skills via engagement with issues and interaction with each other. By the end of the course, students will have critically explored some of the most common theories of leadership, reflected on their concepts and experiences, and begun to articulate what leadership means for them. Students will also learn to develop intercultural competence and effective communication skills throughout the course. This course will be recognized as an Entrepreneurship Course with no GA.

2. TAL.C402　 Global Communication E, F
-Language： English
-Class day/period:
Thursdays, Periods 3-4, J2-304, Suzukakedai Campus (Global Communication E)
Tuesdays, Periods 5-6, M-156, Ookayama Campus (Global Communication F)
-Course description：The aim of this course is to provide comprehensive improvement to English communication skills on science and technology-related topics. Experienced instructors provide practical training of English communication using an original textbook developed for this course. Each class focuses on a specific skill, and key expressions essential for English communication in academic settings are presented.

3. TAL.C502-02 Multicultural Collaborative Leadership F*
*International students: Please take "Japanese culture 4（LAJ.C502）: Multicultural collaboration" of Japanese Language and Culture Courses.
-Language: Japanese 　
-Class day/period: Fridays, Periods 3-4
-Venue: W9-201, Ookayama campus
-Course description: Through text readings and discussion, students will learn the current situation of exchange between Japanese students and international students, and conditions and theories of cross-cultural contact for prejudice reduction. Students are also expected to deepen mutual understanding through exchange and collaborative experiences with Japanese students, and to acquire multicultural communication skills and leadership from cognitive, emotional, and behavioral perspectives through this course.

4. TAL. C603　The Psychology of Leadership
-Language: English
-Class day/period: Fridays, Periods 1-2
-Venue: M-103, Ookayama campus
-Course description: This course aims to educate students on cutting-edge research in the psychology of leadership. Students will learn the 5R (Readying, Reflecting, Representing, Realizing, and Reporting) tools of Identity Leadership and analyze a real-life world leadership situation through this lens, which they will report on in a short presentation and discussion at a symposium to which we will invite a leadership psychologist researcher as an online keynote speaker. This course will be recognized as an Entrepreneurship Course with no GA.

(Reference) Entire course syllabi of ToTAL
*Note: ToTAL students take precedence when the seats are being allocated. For more information and latest information, please check our website, Graduate Course Timetables and OCW.

[Contact]
ToTAL Office
e-mail:total.jim@total.titech.ac.jp

【Academy of Super Smart Society】

- Academy of Super Smart Society will accept additional applications for those who wish to enroll in this program in Fall 2024

Application period: December 6th to December 16th, 2024

Application for Registration in Fall 2024 (Additional Application)

Students' voice

---WISE program for Super Smart Society---

The program's objective is to help students develop competencies and skills they will need to become "knowledge professionals" integrating physical space technologies with cyberspace technologies as well as combining advanced sciences and technologies, such as quantum science and artificial intelligence.

Participant's Voice

Contact: WISE-SSS Office
E-mail： wise-sss@jim.titech.ac.jp

---On-demand Courses of SSS Innovation---
Learn about cutting-edge technologies, issues, initiatives, and implementations from lecturers who belong to leading companies and institutions in their respective fields. You can watch the lectures in your spare time between research projects.

[SSS.S406] Super Smart Society Innovation A6: Smart Ocean

Lecturers: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Ocean Policy Research Institute of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Koden Electronics Co., Ltd, ORNIS Corporation, Panasonic System Networks R&D Lab.Co.,

Additional Registration Period: You need to register for additional courses by 12/11 Lecture 1 delivery time.

Evaluation: Based on the online discussions between students and between students and lecturers on the assignments given in the video lectures.

Inquiries: SSS Online Education　<sss-online@wise-sss.titech.ac.jp>

1. [Science and Engineering] Looking for interesting courses to take?

The following is one of the courses to be offered in 4Q at Leadership and Innovation Section. Join the class if you are interested!

-- ENT.V602-02　Doctoral Introduction to Entrepreneurship 2 E
-Language: English
-Class day/period and venue: Thursday, Periods 3-4
-Classroom: W5-105 lecture room, Ookayama Campus
-Course description: This course provides fundamental skills and knowledge for launching new entrepreneurial projects. It covers the process from identifying customers to developing business models and products and explores the opportunities and challenges faced by modern entrepreneurs.
The course aims to deepen students' understanding of the fundamental theories and practical approaches of entrepreneurship, equipping them to form and develop unique ideas, whether as entrepreneurs or members of an organization.