F1000004 Introductory Seminar for First-Year Students

Hiroshima University Syllabus

Japanese

Academic Year 2025Year School/Graduate School School of Law Law Day Course

Lecture Code F1000004 Subject Classification Liberal Arts Education (day)

Subject Name 教養ゼミ

Subject Name
（Katakana）キヨウヨウゼミ

Subject Name in
English Introductory Seminar for First-Year Students

Instructor EGASHIRA DAIZOU

Instructor
(Katakana) エガシラ　ダイゾウ

Campus Higashi-Senda Semester/Term 1st-Year,  First Semester,  First Semester

Days, Periods, and Classrooms (1st) Weds7-8：Higashi-Senda Group Work Rm

Lesson Style Seminar Lesson Style
(More Details) Face-to-face

Credits 2.0 Class Hours/Week 2 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 1st year students

Keywords

Special Subject for Teacher Education 　 Special Subject 　

Class Status
within Educational
Program
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
Criterion referenced
Evaluation
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students) Program in Elementary Education
（Abilities and Skills）
・Being able to collect, critically analyze, and examine infomration related to elementary education. (Information collection and analysis ability)

Program in Special Needs Education
（Knowledge and Understanding）
・Having basic knowledge and understanding of liberal arts education, which is academic base needed to receive technical or professional education.

Program in Science Education
（Comprehensive Abilities）
・As an individual or in a group, being able to organize plan and effectively carry out research activities(the ability of research).
・With regard to investigation, educational practices and its presentation, to be able to communicate with others, organize results, opinions and contetns, and give a presentation (Communication and presentation skills).

Medicine
（Knowledge and Understanding）
・Acquire the intellectual abilities which serve as a basis for conducting research activities and social activities at a university.

Nursing
（Knowledge and Understanding）
・Knowledge, understanding about knowledge, the understanding basic education about the basic education

Occupational Therapy
（Comprehensive Abilities）
・Acting power based on an ethical judgment in the health medical care
・  An inquisitive mind for medical and health care, welfare, and education, and the ability to get things done in occupational therapy
・The abilities and attitude required to cooperate with others and experts in other professions as a member of a medical team
・An ability for creative and scientific problem solving

Pharmaceutical Sciences
（Attitudes）
・Self-betterment of character formation as a medical professional : the appropriate action and attitude being aware of that a pharmacist is a professional relating to human life.  The knowledge and understanding to have communication not only with ailing people but with other medical staff in a medical team.  ●quality ①　②　③　⑧　⑨
・Ability to be a pharmacist who is relied on not only by a medical team but also by citizens; the ability to be considerate of patients. ●quality ①　②　⑨
（Comprehensive Abilities）
・Comprehensive problem-solving ability and educational ability: Concerning the influences caused by numerous chemical substances existing on the earth, to be able to analyze and argue about the survival  of the human race. Also, to have the ability and skills to give instruction to youth.●quality ③ ④
・Self-betterment of character formation as a medical professional : the appropriate action and attitude being aware of that a pharmacist is a professional relating to human life.  The knowledge and understanding to have communication not only with ailing people but with other medical staff in a medical team.  ●quality ①　②　③　⑧　⑨
・The research ability: the ability to select issues to be solved in the professional field of pharmacist and carry out measures and research to solve the issues.  ●quality ④ ⑤ ⑦

Medicinal Sciences
（Attitudes）
・Having ability to act as member of a research team.
（Comprehensive Abilities）
・1. The active attitude of dealing with issues on drug development and environmental hygiene.  2. The social responsibility as a specialist of drug development and environmental hygiene.  3. The comprehensive, scientific and calm attitude to solve problems.  4. The cooperative attitude in team research.  5. The ability to make communication and presentation.  6. The ability of assessment and analysis.  7. The active usage of information technology and the management ability.  8. The ethical consideration toward genetically modified foods and animal experiments

Class Objectives
/Class Outline Students will acquire ability for investigation of social problems and presentation of the findings.

Class Schedule lesson1 Introduction
lesson2  The decision of the investigation theme and formation of the study group
lesson3  How to gather documents
lesson4  Library guidance
lesson5 Making the report of documents
lesson6 On personal report
lesson7 Debate on personal report theme
lesson8 Interim report
lesson9  Collection of data/Discussion about the report theme(1)
lesson10  Collection of data/Discussion about the report theme(2)
lesson11 Research report(1)
lesson12 Research report(2)
lesson13 Research report(3)
lesson14 Research report(4)
lesson15  Review and overall summary

Students must submit personal report by the time of lesson15.

Text/Reference
Books,etc. Texts on reports and presentations will be appropriately ordered.

PC or AV used in
Class,etc. Handouts, Visual Materials, Microsoft Teams, moodle

(More Details) Students must bring PC to get handouts or to submit reports.

Learning techniques to be incorporated Discussions, PBL (Problem-based Learning)/ TBL (Team-based Learning), Post-class Report

Suggestions on
Preparation and
Review lesson1 Students must understand the aims and construction of this class.
lesson2 Students will be divided to four groups to conduct joint research.
lesson3 Students will learn how to collect research materials.
lesson4 Students will learn how to use Hiroshima University Library.
lesson5 Every group will search and collect documents of own theme.
lesson6 Students will learn about formal style of reports.
lesson7 Students will learn how to give a good presentation.
lesson8-9 Students will conduct interim report to make good use of learning contents of this class.
lesson10 Joint research groups will discuss how to give their presentations.
lesson11-14 Each research group will give their presentation of their research theme in every week.
lesson15 Presentations by each group will be evaluated.

Requirements No Requirement

Grading Method Students will be comprehensively evaluated on the basis of their class reports, Q&A performance and report preparation.

Practical Experience

Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it

Message

Other

Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes.
Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching.

Academic Year	2025Year	School/Graduate School	School of Law Law Day Course
Lecture Code	F1000004	Subject Classification	Liberal Arts Education (day)
Subject Name	教養ゼミ
Subject Name （Katakana）	キヨウヨウゼミ
Subject Name in English	Introductory Seminar for First-Year Students
Instructor	EGASHIRA DAIZOU
Instructor (Katakana)	エガシラ　ダイゾウ
Campus	Higashi-Senda	Semester/Term	1st-Year, First Semester, First Semester
Days, Periods, and Classrooms	(1st) Weds7-8：Higashi-Senda Group Work Rm
Lesson Style	Seminar	Lesson Style (More Details)	Face-to-face

Credits	2.0	Class Hours/Week	2	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	1st year students
Keywords
Special Subject for Teacher Education		Special Subject
Class Status within Educational Program (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
Criterion referenced Evaluation (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)	Program in Elementary Education （Abilities and Skills）・Being able to collect, critically analyze, and examine infomration related to elementary education. (Information collection and analysis ability) Program in Special Needs Education （Knowledge and Understanding）・Having basic knowledge and understanding of liberal arts education, which is academic base needed to receive technical or professional education. Program in Science Education （Comprehensive Abilities）・As an individual or in a group, being able to organize plan and effectively carry out research activities(the ability of research). ・With regard to investigation, educational practices and its presentation, to be able to communicate with others, organize results, opinions and contetns, and give a presentation (Communication and presentation skills). Medicine （Knowledge and Understanding）・Acquire the intellectual abilities which serve as a basis for conducting research activities and social activities at a university. Nursing （Knowledge and Understanding）・Knowledge, understanding about knowledge, the understanding basic education about the basic education Occupational Therapy （Comprehensive Abilities）・Acting power based on an ethical judgment in the health medical care ・ An inquisitive mind for medical and health care, welfare, and education, and the ability to get things done in occupational therapy ・The abilities and attitude required to cooperate with others and experts in other professions as a member of a medical team ・An ability for creative and scientific problem solving Pharmaceutical Sciences （Attitudes）・Self-betterment of character formation as a medical professional : the appropriate action and attitude being aware of that a pharmacist is a professional relating to human life. The knowledge and understanding to have communication not only with ailing people but with other medical staff in a medical team. ●quality ①　②　③　⑧　⑨ ・Ability to be a pharmacist who is relied on not only by a medical team but also by citizens; the ability to be considerate of patients. ●quality ①　②　⑨ （Comprehensive Abilities）・Comprehensive problem-solving ability and educational ability: Concerning the influences caused by numerous chemical substances existing on the earth, to be able to analyze and argue about the survival of the human race. Also, to have the ability and skills to give instruction to youth.●quality ③ ④ ・Self-betterment of character formation as a medical professional : the appropriate action and attitude being aware of that a pharmacist is a professional relating to human life. The knowledge and understanding to have communication not only with ailing people but with other medical staff in a medical team. ●quality ①　②　③　⑧　⑨ ・The research ability: the ability to select issues to be solved in the professional field of pharmacist and carry out measures and research to solve the issues. ●quality ④ ⑤ ⑦ Medicinal Sciences （Attitudes）・Having ability to act as member of a research team. （Comprehensive Abilities）・1. The active attitude of dealing with issues on drug development and environmental hygiene. 2. The social responsibility as a specialist of drug development and environmental hygiene. 3. The comprehensive, scientific and calm attitude to solve problems. 4. The cooperative attitude in team research. 5. The ability to make communication and presentation. 6. The ability of assessment and analysis. 7. The active usage of information technology and the management ability. 8. The ethical consideration toward genetically modified foods and animal experiments
Class Objectives /Class Outline	Students will acquire ability for investigation of social problems and presentation of the findings.
Class Schedule	lesson1 Introduction lesson2 The decision of the investigation theme and formation of the study group lesson3 How to gather documents lesson4 Library guidance lesson5 Making the report of documents lesson6 On personal report lesson7 Debate on personal report theme lesson8 Interim report lesson9 Collection of data/Discussion about the report theme(1) lesson10 Collection of data/Discussion about the report theme(2) lesson11 Research report(1) lesson12 Research report(2) lesson13 Research report(3) lesson14 Research report(4) lesson15 Review and overall summary Students must submit personal report by the time of lesson15.
Text/Reference Books,etc.	Texts on reports and presentations will be appropriately ordered.
PC or AV used in Class,etc.	Handouts, Visual Materials, Microsoft Teams, moodle
(More Details)	Students must bring PC to get handouts or to submit reports.
Learning techniques to be incorporated	Discussions, PBL (Problem-based Learning)/ TBL (Team-based Learning), Post-class Report
Suggestions on Preparation and Review	lesson1 Students must understand the aims and construction of this class. lesson2 Students will be divided to four groups to conduct joint research. lesson3 Students will learn how to collect research materials. lesson4 Students will learn how to use Hiroshima University Library. lesson5 Every group will search and collect documents of own theme. lesson6 Students will learn about formal style of reports. lesson7 Students will learn how to give a good presentation. lesson8-9 Students will conduct interim report to make good use of learning contents of this class. lesson10 Joint research groups will discuss how to give their presentations. lesson11-14 Each research group will give their presentation of their research theme in every week. lesson15 Presentations by each group will be evaluated.
Requirements	No Requirement
Grading Method	Students will be comprehensively evaluated on the basis of their class reports, Q&A performance and report preparation.
Practical Experience
Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it
Message
Other
Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes. Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching.

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