市ヶ谷リベラルアーツセンター（ILAC）ILAC Course

この授業は将来⽇本で就職を希望する外国⼈留学⽣を対象に、仕事とキャリアの意味や意義について考えさせ、⽇本社会の現状と企業組織の持つ特徴を理解した上で、就職活動やキャリア形成に必要な意識、態度、具体的な知識を⾝につけさせるのが狙いです。授業は英語で⾏われます。また授業内の議論も多く、その結果を発表したりレポートを書くための英語⼒が必要です。

Students should be able to explain:
(1)their personal profiles including such as strengths and weaknesses, values, aspirations, skills and life styles,
(2)differences between job and career and the work they would like to do,
(3)characteristics of Japanese companies,
(4)necessary skills and competencies that are required from the Japanese society,
(5)necessity to explore internships and job opportunities spontaneously.

各学部のディプロマ・ポリシーのうち、以下に関連している。法学部・法律学科：DP3・DP4、法学部・政治学科：DP1、法学部・国際政治学科：DP1、文学部：DP1、経営学部：DP1、国際文化学部：DP2、人間環境学部：DP2、キャリアデザイン学部：DP1

英語 / English

This course consists of lectures by the instructor, discussions and presentations by the students on each theme. Sometimes students are required to create a worksheet during the class and write a report as an assignment after the class. All of the class activities will be conducted in English.
The feedoback of Report Writing will be delivered in the following class.
“If the university's action policy level is set to 2, this class will be taught online as a rule. Details will be announced via the Learning Management System.”

あり / Yes

なし / No

※各回の授業形態は予定です。教員の指示に従ってください。

1：Orientation

Outline of what you learn throughout the course is brie}y
explained. Also self-introduction by the instructor and each
participant is planned. You should introduce yourself by saying
such as (1) the town where I was born, (2) why I decided to
study in Japan and at Hosei Univ.(3) what I am interested in
doing and achieving during study abroad.

2：Higher Education and
Career Development

By understanding the current situation of increasing youth
unemployment and non-regular employment in Japan, you should learn how important it is to make a proper job selection
and its influence on your career formation.

3：Telling a Life Story to Know Yourself

Understanding about yourself better is the first step that you should take to a job that suits you and develop your
career later on. So let's learn what a life story telling is, how it　works to know you better and experience it with the other class　members.

4：Presentation of
Your Life Story

This is the time for you to talk about a story highlighting a
memorable moment to review how your personality, interests.

5：Fundamental Skills for a
Working Person

There are a couple of fundamental skills that you need to know
and acquire before you enter the world of work in Japan.
These are minimum requirements from society for any new
worker and highly valued in Japan.

6：Intercultural Competence

The world we live in today is getting more and more globalized
and interdependent. The world we live in today is getting more and more globalized
and interdependent. So you will very likely to work with people
speaking diyerent languages, having diyerent sense of values,
behaviors and customs based on their cultural backgrounds.
How can you get along with them?

7：Life Roles and
Career Development

People today may live longer than their parents did. So you
may have more works to do and roles to play in your entire life
course. Think about what those life roles are and how you can
balance them with your job and career in order to maintain
quality of your life.

8：Personality and Work
Environment for Job
Selection

You will learn about several personality types, relationship
between people of each personality type and their preferred
job environment to know what job will likely to match your
personality type through an occupational interest test.

9：Corporate Culture and
Business Practice

If you want to get and maintain a job and pursue a career in
Japan you should know about the cultural characteristics of
the company and its business practices to get along with the
other members of the team.

10：Human Resource
Management in Japan

Human resource management plays a very important role for the operation and functions of the company. So you need to know what and how they proceed with the daily work.

11：Japanese MSC (Medium to Small Sized Companies) as Your Job Targets

The Japanese economy has been supported by and dependent
on a large number of MSC (medium to small sized companies).
In this respect you should know more about them and consider them as potential candidates of your job hunting in the future.

12：How Japanese Company
Recruits and Fosters Young Employees

Even if you could successfully get a job offer, you would
probably be not so confident in your ability to cope with the job requirements. But you do not need to worry too much about it if you knew how Japanese company helps foster young
employees.

13：Lecture by the
Guest Speaker

Hearing stories from the people working and ask questions
about pros and cons of working in Japan will give you good
insights and hints when you select your job and career.

14：Review and
Report Writing

You will review what you learned and considered in this course and write a final report about it. Your report must also include what you would like to be and work for based on your understanding of yourself, job and career, Japanese society and the world of work today.

University guidelines suggest preparation and review are around 4hours a week.

I will distribute the handouts for each lecture.

1. Robinson, Ken, & Aronica, Lou.(2013)" Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life", Viking Adult.
2. Tim Clark ,「Business Model You」 ,John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
3. Tina Seeing (2009) "What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20."

There will be no mid-term nor final class examination.
(1)Participation and Learning Attitude (20%)
(2)Report Writing (60%)
(3)Discussion and Presentation (20%)

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