Course title
イノベーション推進講義Ⅳ   [Special Lecture for Innovation Advancement Ⅳ]
Course category   Requirement   Credit 1 
Department   Year   Semester 3rd 
Course type 3rd  Course code 96012
Instructor(s)
五味 高志   [GOMI Takashi]
Facility affiliation Graduate School of Agriculture Office afjgxte/L1151  Email address

Course description
November 4 (Wed), 5 (Thu) 2020 09:00〜16:00

* Day 1 will be held face-to-face in principle. Students from Ibaraki Univ. and Utsunomiya Univ. can participate by zoom.

face-to-face class room:The 2nd meeting room, 4th floor,Main building of United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, TUAT

Day 2 will be held online by zoom. The details will be informed to the registered students.
* Since this course includes group work, students need microphone and camera in principle, and they will be required to turn on the videos during the class to show their faces. They can use vertical backgrounds.

“Global Communication”
It is time now to communicate and expand your research globally. In this course, as a global Ph.D. human resources, students will train international communication skills in English, which is necessary for self-introduction and promotion, persuasive explanation of research, its appeal, obtaining of research fund, constructive discussion with others, and positive and comfortable collaboration with global partners, etc.

This course will be held in English.
Expected Learning
- Be able to think concretely the methods to communicate students’ own outcomes from research or other activities and to approach to the ideal future by understanding the concept of self-branding.
- Be able to consider the appropriate communication according to the audience and purposes, and put it into practice.
- Be able to notice about “Kaizen (improvement)” of your way of communication.
- Be able to flexibly improve your communication skill in English.

As a viewpoint of the diploma policy, please refer to the following curriculum map of HPU (Three Policies).
https://www.tuat.ac.jp/campuslife_career/campuslife/policy/
Course schedule

【Course schedule】

Lecturer: Misaki Matsui (photographer / film director / concierge for entrepreneurs at STARTUP HUB TOKYO TAMA)
After working as a marketing planner at the advertising agencies in Japan, she moved to New York and began her career as a photographer. She has exhibited in the U.S. and Japan. She started making films as well and her narrative and documentary films have been selected for the Raindance Film Festival, the Monaco International Film Festival, and the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia. And her photo book, “Tokyo Mindscapes” has been selected for the International Photography Awards and the London International Creative Competition. She is based in Tokyo and New York. She works as a concierge for entrepreneurs at STARTUP HUB TOKYO TAMA.
www.misakimatsui.com - no moment without hope -
Theme: Self-branding
Participants will work on the following three exercises:
- Analyze themselves and define originality and strengths of their personalities for self-branding
- Combine knowledge related to their academic study with business mind to develop new products / services, and to think about self-branding
- Brush up communication and presentation skills to communicate their personality and their business content to the general audience


Lecturer: Andrew Shaffer (Managing Director, HummingByrd Inc.)
Theme: Speaking with Impact
By the end of this session, participants will be able to use innovative communication tools to design communication strategies for global business, enabling them to speak more persuasively to a wider and non-academic online audience. Activities will feature best practices for designing more assertive and strategic approaches to selling your work & message.

Prerequisites
It conforms to standard time number of our university
Evaluate by attendance and presentation in the lecture
Required Text(s) and Materials
Lecturers will provide.
References
To be announced in the lectures.
Assessment/Grading
Evaluation will be comprehensively made according to students’ activeness in the class, presentations in the class, and comment sheets.
Message from instructor(s)
We will try to make interesting lectures even for the students who are not familiar with innovation. We believe that this course will be useful for your research activities in future since the lectures are
fundamental for realizing innovation.
Course keywords
Self-branding, English communication, English expression, Diversity, Cross-cultural understanding, Business and academic
Office hours
Students can ask questions during the class or through the email
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Lecture Language
English
Language Subject
Last update
10/6/2020 11:00:17 AM