Japanese

Academic Year	2024Year	School/Graduate School	School of Integrated Arts and Sciences Department of Integrated Arts and Sciences
Lecture Code	ADO02001	Subject Classification	Specialized Education
Subject Name	総合科学概論
Subject Name （Katakana）	ソウゴウカガクガイロン
Subject Name in English	Introduction to Integrated Arts and Sciences
Instructor	SAKATA KIRIKO
Instructor (Katakana)	サカタ　キリコ
Campus	Higashi-Hiroshima	Semester/Term	1st-Year,  Second Semester,  4Term
Days, Periods, and Classrooms	(4T) Tues9-10,Thur9-10：IAS K202,IAS K203,IAS K204,IAS K206,IAS K207,IAS K208,IAS K209,IAS K210,IAS L102
Lesson Style	Lecture	Lesson Style (More Details)
			Lecture, Group Works, Discussion and Presentation
Credits	2.0	Class Hours/Week		Language of Instruction	J : Japanese
Course Level	1 : Undergraduate Introductory
Course Area（Area）	21 : Fundamental Competencies for Working Persons
Course Area（Discipline）	01 : Introductory Seminar for First-Year Students
Eligible Students	Undergraduate Students of the Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences
Keywords	Inter-discipline, Integration, Creativity, Different Fields
Special Subject for Teacher Education		Special Subject
Class Status within Educational Program (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)	This enables the attending students to understand the characteristics of interdisciplinary and integrated approach.
Criterion referenced Evaluation (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)	Integrated Arts and Sciences （Knowledge and Understanding） ・The knowledge and understanding  to fully recognize the mutual relations and their importance among individual academic diciplines. （Abilities and Skills） ・The abilities and skills to summarize one's own research in reports or academic papers, and to deliver presentations at a seminar or research meetings, and to answer questions.
Class Objectives /Class Outline	This course aims to understand the siginificance of interdisciplinary approach in the analysis of problems which our contemporary society faces. They learn  it through lectures on concrete cases as well as discussions. These course works should bring up  an attitude and ability to find out  a problem and seek for its solution, which would become a basic condition to proceed to major courses starting from the second year. The class contens consist as follows: understadning the curriculum of the program in our faculty, learning some concrete cases of integrated arts and sciences, practicing interdisciplinary approach, and clarifying the aim of  integrated arts and sciences as a student of our faculty.
Class Schedule	Lesson 1　Guidance and explanation of research, presentation and essay (T. Aoki) Lesson 2 Learn an interdisciplinary approach to a certain shared theme from each educational field Lesson 3 Learn an interdisciplinary approach to a certain shared theme from each educational field Lesson 4 Learn an interdisciplinary approach to a certain shared theme from each educational field Lesson 5 Introduction of student original projects Lesson 6 Group work to decide a theme for group work and role Lesson 7 Group work for presentation meeting Lesson 8 Group work for presentation meeting Lesson 9 Group work for presentation meeting Lesson 10  Group work for presentation meeting Lesson 11 Group work for presentation meeting Lesson 12 Group work for presentation meeting Lesson 13 Group work for presentation meeting Lesson 14 Presentation Lesson 15 Presentation After the presentations,students are required to write a short research article on the theme which each student decides.
Text/Reference Books,etc.	The Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences (ed.),  Integlare Series (Maruzen) Hiroshima University Committee, 101 Books for Newcomers to University (Iwanami Shoten)
PC or AV used in Class,etc.
	(More Details)	power point slides
Learning techniques to be incorporated
Suggestions on Preparation and Review	Lesson 1: After listening to the explantion of research division, let's describe your opinion about what academic field or discipline you are interested in and think the reasons. Lesson 2-5: Let's describe the interdisciplinary approach of your interest and how to further develop it as well. Lesson 6: Let's think about the serious issues which our contemporary society has faced. Lesson 7-13: Let's investigate the sub-themes you are in charge in. And let's make a preparation for the presentation Lesson 14-15: Let's cooperate with other members of your same group to have a presentation.
Requirements	Only the students belonging to the Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences are allowed to attend this course.
Grading Method	Writing and submitting a short article is required for all the students. The score is decided based on the quality of the papers as well as active participation in the group works and presentation. Also, the most excellent article award and several excellent article awards will be selected.
Practical Experience
Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it
Message	must have own PC
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