| Course title | |||||
| 工学府特別講義（国際コミュニケーションⅠ） [Engineering(International Communication Ⅰ): Special Lecture] | |||||
| Course category | common courses | Requirement | Credit | 1 | |
| Department | Year | ～ | Semester | 1st | |
| Course type | 1st | Course code | 1080009 | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| ONWONA-AGYEMAN SIAW [ONWONA-AGYEMAN Siaw] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Prevention Research | Office | afjgxte/L1151 | Email address | |
| Course description |
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（Lecture outline） This course is designed to provide graduate students with numerous opportunities to use English for scientific communication. The ultimate goal is to prepare students to write reports based on their own research work and to effectively communicate with other researchers and scientists in English. In addition to the topics below, there will also be discussions on global issues to deepen the understanding of students interested in working in a multicultural environment. There will also be discussions on the search for sustainable ways of utilizing global resources to satisfy our energy, food and fiber needs. |
| Expected Learning |
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At the end of the lecture, students should be able to acquire enough communication skills to enable them to: (1) present their research work orally in English. (2) participate in seminars, workshops, discussions, and express their opinions and comments in English. (3) write reports based on their own research work and to effectively communicate with other researchers and scientists in English. (4) write research proposals in English. See the curriculum maps. |
| Course schedule |
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(Course schedule) Week Topics Week 1: Orientation: Explanation of the course content and grading criteria. Week 2: Communicating in multi-cultural/racial societies. Week 3: Scientific journals and writing styles. Week 4: Choosing attractive research titles. Week 5: A brief explanation of the main components of a scientific report (Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, References, Acknowledgement). Week 6: Connectors mostly used by native English writers in scientific reports. Week 7: Identifying and correcting errors in scientific reports. Week 8: Writing reports based on “model experiments", Questionnaire-based surveys, Laboratory and Field experiments. Week 9: Writing Research proposals. Week 10: Ethical and legal issues in Scientific Communications. Week 11: Citing references in scientific reports and captions for figures and tables. Week 12: Presenting data and statistical results in scientific reports. Week 13: Sexist expressions in English reports. Week 14: Commonly used expressions in oral/poster presentations. Week 15: Presentation and submission of final reports. |
| Prerequisites |
| In addition to 30 hours that students spend in the class, students are recommended to prepare for and review the lectures, spending the standard amount of time as specified by the University and using the lecture handouts as well as the references specified below. |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
| Handouts will be provided during each lecture. |
| References |
| To be given during the lectures. |
| Assessment/Grading |
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Assessment of students will be done on the following basis. Evaluation of Assignments (80%): Ability to clearly express opinions, completion of assignments and a final presentation at the end of the course. Class Participation (20%): Class attendance and group discussion |
| Message from instructor(s) |
| This is a communication class so I expect all students to participate actively in the discussions. |
| Course keywords |
| Office hours |
| Thursdays (13:00-14:30) |
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| Lecture Language |
| English |
| Language Subject |
| English |
| Last update |
| 1/27/2020 4:19:02 PM |