| 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 | 01fy1002N | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 渋谷 淳 [SHIBUTANI Makoto] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Faculty of Agriculture | Office | Email address | ||
| Course description |
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Course description This course aims to develop minds for knowledge creation and autonomous learning, and is designed as an introductory course for the Liberal Arts and Fundamental Studies. Students will experience different styles of lectures and classes depending on the contents. It consists of two parts. Part I : Common Introductory 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 encouraging students to engage in university study and to understanding the importance of designing their individual university life. Part II : Faculty-Specific Program Theme: Food chemicals and their risk assessment There are many kinds of chemicals, such as food additives, pesticides and animal medicinal drugs, contained in daily ingested foods. In this class, we learn what kind of toxic property is harmful to human health by collecting necessary information for analysis with regard to long-term exposure effects including carcinogenicity in experimental animals and humans. During the course of investigation, we learn the relationship between the concept of risk assessment and risk management against hazardous factors. There are many questions that are necessary to be solved before appropriate understanding of risk of food chemicals, such as food additives, pesticides and animal medicinal drugs. Following are the examples of questions. 1. What kinds of animal studies are conducted for evaluation of human risk of food chemicals? How these chemicals are approved for use with the study data set obtained? 2. How about the use of chemicals that have previously been reported to show strong or irreversible toxicity? Are these chemicals banned or still used until now? 3. How about the evaluation scheme of food chemicals in foreign countries and international agencies. 4. How about the possibility for cancer risk of commercially used pesticides and food additives that have previously proved to show carcinogenicity? 5. Are chemically induced cancers genetically inheritable? In this class, students are asked to collect toxicity information that can be used for assessment of human health risk of theme chemicals. By means of oral presentation and group discussion, appropriate answers to solve the questions will be obtained. Moreover, students will experience the methodologies to make histological tissue specimens necessary for histopathological assessment that are used for risk evaluation of chemicals. |
| Expected Learning |
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To understand the autonomous learning in the University, and be able to design individual's academic life at University from broad perspectives. 2) Acquire the ability to investigate voluntarily issues and solve problems by drafting a human health impact assessment plan for the theme chemical. 1. Understand the concept and methodology for risk assessment of representative toxic substances on human health. 2. Understand the risk assessment of toxicants in Japan, foreign countries and international agencies. 3. Investigate comprehensively the results of voluntary surveys of theme chemicals. 4. Learn good presentation skill. Competency Development： Initiative and Autonomy, Leadership and Facilitation, Knowledge Creation, Presentation Skills, Mission-Oriented Research and Problem Solving, Academic Ethics |
| Course schedule |
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Part I: Common Introductory Program 1. About the University (I) Brief 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 university. Designing your academic life at the University from broad perspectives. 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. Your action to ensure own and others' safety. Risks of harmful chemicals and proper ways of their 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. Orientation (questionnaire, presentation method, explanation of terms, introduction of laboratory), theme setting. 7. Commentary of evaluation example. 8. Presentation 1-1 (first group), flow of ADI setting, commentary on evaluation cases. 9. Commentary on pathological anatomy, lecture on pathological specimen preparation, and autopsy of normal animals. 10. How to put together evaluation, first-second presentation (second group), Tissue trimming. 11. Thin sectioning, staining, microscopic inspection. 12. Presentation 2-1 (4 persons), pathological specimen microscopic examination. 13. Presentation 2-2 (the remaining 4 persons), Pathological examination. 14. Presentation 3-1 (1st group). 15. Presentation 3-2 (second group), summary. |
| Prerequisites |
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Part I: In addition to 10 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. Part II: It is necessary to have an ability to make presentation file using Power Point Software. There is nothing necessary, if students have knowledge of biology class at the level of senior high school. In addition to the 10 times of class time, refer to the distributed lecture materials and the materials you searched uniquely, construct a presentation plan, and create a presentation material. |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
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Part I: Handouts and exercise materials are provided during the class. Part II: Nothing is necessary, because all the published data are obtained from internet service or e-journal search in the library. |
| 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: “Drug Safety” Edited by Taku Nagao, Nanzando. |
| 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%)： More than 80% of the attendance to the class is prerequisite for the assessment. Degree of activeness in doing research, presentation and discussion: 50%, final report evaluation: 50%. |
| Message from instructor(s) |
| Part II: When you finish this class successfully, your thought on food safety will tremendously be changed. |
| Course keywords |
| Part I: Questioning mind, Autonomous learning; Part II: Carcinogenicity, Genotoxicity, Carcinogens, Toxicology, Pathology. |
| Office hours |
| Part I: It will be announced during the class. Part II: 13:00〜18:30. Your visits are always welcome. |
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| Related URL |
| Part II: https://tat-lvp.amebaownd.com |
| Lecture Language |
| Japanese |
| Language Subject |
| Last update |
| 2/2/2020 5:51:42 PM |