| Course title | |||||
| 農学基礎ゼミ [Basic Seminar of Agricultural Science] | |||||
| Course category | Liberal Arts and Fundamental Studies | Requirement | Credit | 2 | |
| Department | Year | 1～1 | Semester | 1st | |
| Course type | 1st | Course code | 01fy1002E | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 辰己 賢一 [TATSUMI Kenichi] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Faculty of Agriculture | Office | 3-211 | Email address | |
| Course description |
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This course aims to develop minds for knowledge creation and autonomous learning, and is designed as an introductory course for the Liberal Arts and Foundamental Studies. Students will experience different styles of lectures and classes depending on the contents. It consists of two parts. Part I : Common Intoroductory Program In this program that is common to all first-year students, students will learn about our university and think how they would pursue their academic life here. The university history and TUAT principals are described as well as our research activities, with the aim of encouraing students to engage in university study and to understanding the importance of desigining their individual univeristy life. Part II : Faculty-Specific Program In order to understand the production process of Japanese rice from an academic point of view, we conducted a rice growth survey to find out the characteristics of paddy rice according to the growth stage and to know the minimum knowledge of production and cultivation techniques as students of the Faculty of Agriculture. The purpose of this is to gain an overview of the survey method and its processing method. |
| Expected Learning |
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1) To Understand the aunomous learning in the Univesrsity, and be able to design individual's academic life at Univesity from broad prospectives. 2) To understand how to the rice growth measurement and can estimate the rice growth quantitatively. Moreover, Competency Development： Initiative and Autonomy, Leadership and Facilitation, Knowledge Creation, Presentation Skills, Mission-Oriented Research and Problem Solving, Academic Ethics https://www.tuat.ac.jp/campuslife_career/campuslife/policy/ |
| Course schedule |
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Part I : Common Intoroductory Program 1. About the University (I) Brife history of the University. Talks from the President, the Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, and the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. 2. About the University (II) Talks from the Heads of the Departments. 3. Studying at the University Differences between studying at high school and studying at univesity. Desigining your academic life at the University from broad prospectives. Questioning minds that lead you to the depth of academic study and research 4. Energy-saving and Safety in university life Global warming and emission of green house gas. Our effort in reducing CO2 emission. Risk management in laboratories. You action to ensure own and others' safety. Risks of harmful chemicals and proper ways of thier disposal. 5. Research ethics Code of conduct for research integrity, and scientific misconducts. Falsification, fabrication, and plagiarism are discussed. Part II : Faculty-Specific Program 6. About rice growth measurement 7-11. Growth meaurements 12. Yield survey 13. Yield survey and yield component survey 14. Yield component survey 15. Presentation and discussion |
| Prerequisites |
| In addition to 30 hours you spend in the class, you are recommended to review the classes spending the standard amount of time as specified by the University for each class, to plan out the courses to take and design how you would pursue your academic activities ahead. |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
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Part I :Handouts and exercise materials are provided during the class Part II :Handouts and exercise materials are provided during the class |
| References |
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Part I : ・アカデミック・スキルズ 大学生のための知的技法入門 （慶應義塾大学出版会） 佐藤望(編著)、湯川武、横山千晶、近藤明彦 ・思考を鍛える大学の学び入門ー論理的な考え方・書き方からキャリアデザインまで（慶應義塾大学出版会）井下千以子 Part II : introduce at First class. |
| Assessment/Grading |
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Part I (25%)：Marks are given based on worksheets collected at the end of each class. Part II (75%)：Marks are given based on motivation, cooperativeness and presentation. |
| Message from instructor(s) |
| Deeper understanding about rice growth and the field. Plese enhance your own specialization. |
| Course keywords |
| Part I : Questioning mind, Autonomous learning Part II : Rice, measurement technology, Cooperativeness, Field work |
| Office hours |
| Part I : It will be announced during the class. Part II : By appointment |
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| Lecture Language |
| Japanese |
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| Last update |
| 2/20/2020 1:01:14 PM |