The 4th FD Program for FY2009
Subject: Interdisciplinary Education and TF Open Class
Date & Time: Wednesday, February 10, 2010, from 14:00 to 17:55
Venue: D116, Laboratory of Advanced Research D, University of Tsukuba (public lecture room)
1. Purpose and Objective
This program aims to implement FD (faculty development) activities to nurture future-oriented faculty members by systematizing and institutionalizing FD consisting of three levels: Teaching Assistants (TA), Teaching Fellows (TF), and Teaching Professors (TP). Three FD programs have already been carried out, mainly including lectures by external experts and model classes by internal faculty as pre- and post-education for TFs, which is one of their employment requirements. The TF system of the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences entered its second year of implementation this fiscal year, with more than 50 students currently serving as TFs including those remaining from last fiscal year.
This 4th program features lectures by Professor Saburo Aoki from the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences on a graduate school educational reform assistance program called the “Inter Faculty Education & Research Initiative (IFERI)” and by Professor Tadashi Baba from the Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences on the establishment of the “Future Life Sciences Program”. The 4th program also includes talks by experienced persons about “how to become a research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science” and “TF open classes” by each of the two TF graduate students recommended by the Graduate School in order to share common problems and issues in conducting classes.
As in past programs, we expect the widespread participation of TF graduate students and those who want to become TFs as well as professors, assistant and associate professors, lecturers, and researchers.
Category: Faculty Development | 2010/01/05(Tue)
The 2nd FD Program of 2009, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences
Subject: Improving as a Member of University Teaching Staff - FD, TA/TF and Procurement of Research Funding -
Time: 2:00PM – 4:30PM
Date: Friday, July 10, 2009
Location: Public lecture room D116, Laboratory of Advanced Research D, University of Tsukuba
1. Purpose & Aim
This project aims to implement the FD activities to nurture future-oriented faculty members through systemization and institutionalization of the FD, which comprises of 3 levels: Teaching Professor (TP), Teaching Fellow (TF), and Teaching Assistant (TA).
The 2nd FD program is being planned as an instructional session based on the performance of those who worked as TA’s in the 1st semester.
We will have lectures on foundations of the FD and TF by the professors from the Education Office who are actively executing the educational reform. Also, a professor from the Initiative to Develop the Next Generation of Leaders will lecture on how to obtain research funding. In addition to learning how to better themselves as members of the university teaching staff in order to improve education in general, and more specifically their own lectures, we hope the participants will take away knowledge on how to procure research funding.
Just as with our previous FD program, we look forward to the participation of the graduate students with TA experience, but researchers and teaching staff are also welcome to attend.
2. Program Contents（Lecturer & Lecture Titles）
Host: Toshiharu Omuka (Provost of the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences)
(1) Practice and Philosophy of FD at the University of Tsukuba 2:00-2:50
Haruo Ishida (Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, Professor) (Director, Education Office))
(2) Role of a TA in liberal arts education 3:00-3:50
---- Visiting and Observing at University of California Berkeley, and the pilot implementation of the common core-programs
Yoichiro Miyamoto (Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor (member, Education Office))
(3) Talk on Money Required in Research 4:00-4:30
Mitsuru Okuwaki (Initiative to Develop the Next Generation of Leaders, Associate Professor)
For enquiries, contact:
Graduate School Management Section, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba (2991, 2992)
Category: Faculty Development | 2009/06/26(Fri)
The details of the 2009 First annual FD Program have been posted on the homepage of the University of Tsukuba website.
The details of the 2009 First Annual FD Program have been posted on the homepage of the University of Tsukuba website.
For further details, please follow the link posted below.
http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/topics/20090527195442.html (in Japanese)
Category: Faculty Development | 2009/05/28(Thu)
Light Art in Space, A World First A light art experiment was conducted on April 30 and May 2 at the International Space Station (ISS) KIBO.
Professor Takuro Osaka from the School of Art and Design Program, Graduate School of Art and Design, University of Tsukuba planned the piece, and Astronaut Koichi Wakata executed it.
Please see below for more information.
http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/topics/20090513122147.html (in Japanese)
Category: News | 2009/05/20(Wed)
About “Community Health & Welfare – A Human-Care Sciences Viewpoint” Symposium
Symposium, “Community Health & Welfare – A Human-Care Sciences Viewpoint” will be held on Saturday, June 20. Please refer to the link below.
http://www.hcs.tsukuba.ac.jp/seminar.html (in Japanese)
Category: Event | 2009/04/09(Thu)
kansei x tsukuba x design Exhibit will be held from March 27 at the Roppongi AXIS GALLERY
kansei x tsukuba x design Exhibit
Time: 11:00 – 19:00 (17:00 on the last day)
Date: Friday, March 27 – Tuesday, March 31, 2009
AXIS GALLERY Roppongi
http://www.kansei.tsukuba.ac.jp/~design/
The University of Tsukuba is the center of research where design practices and Emotional Sciences merge. There is Emotional Science & Design, transverse design that covers information to product construction, lifespan design that covers childhood to maturity, cooperation of corporate activities and integrated research and education of art, science, and engineering, and transmission from Asia to the world – everything that should be handled by the Design are accumulated here. Welcome to the world of transversely integrated diversity of Emotion & Design.
Exhibition Videos
Category: Event | 2009/03/25(Wed)
Japan-China Art Exchange Exhibition – Commemorative Lecture (University of Tsukuba Art Space – Exhibit in the Second Half of 2009) - Exhibition by students of the University of Tsukuba and China Academy of Art -
Hosted by: School of Art and Design, University of Tsukuba
Art and Design, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Science
Time and Location:
○ Multipurpose Hall, Comprehensive Exchange Plaza, University of Tsukuba
Time & Date: Friday, March 13 – Sunday, March 22
○ Art Space, University of Tsukuba
Date: Friday, March 13 to Tuesday, March 31
Closed on Mondays (March 16, 23, and 30)
Getting there: Take “Digaku Chuo” or “Tsukuba Loop-line On-campus Bus” [Tsukuba Daigaku Junkan Bus] of Kanto Tetsudo Bus and get off at Daigaku Kaikann Mae.
Commemorative Lecture:
Time & Date: 15:00-17:00, Tuesday, March 17
Location: International Conference Center, University Hall, University of Tsukuba
Category: Event | 2009/02/18(Wed)
The 4th FD Program of the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences for 2008 - Presentation by Teaching Fellows (TF) on Practical Teaching Skills
Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 2:00 − 5:30 pm
Venue: International Conference Room, Tsukuba University Assembly Hall
1. Purpose
This project is part of the 2008 Faculty Development (FD) program of the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences for 2008 designed to organize and institutionalize FD at three levels − Teaching Assistant (TA), Teaching Fellow (TF) and Teaching Professor (TF), and to implement FD activities for nurturing future-oriented university personnel. As part of the 3rd FD program, which focused on pre and post guidance, one of the TF hiring requirements, we organized a lecture and a workshop presented by outside speakers, as well as holding model classes taught by university faculty members. We began to hire TFs from the second term, and the number has now reached 50.
The current (4th) program is primarily aimed at TAs and TFs. We have invited Ms. Junko Hibiya, the Vice President for Academic Affairs of the International Christian University, as an outside lecturer to give a special presentation that will assist us in reforming the faculty organization and educational system at the graduate school. Ms. Hibiya is a leading figure in the field of linguistics in Japan and she has taken the initiative in reforming the educational organization at ICU including the departmental and major systems. As we now have TFs from the university’s graduate school, we would like two TFs recommended by the graduate school to present a “TF open class” so that we can share the common issues involved.
As before, we look forward to the active participation of researchers, teaching assistants, lecturers, associate professors and professors as well as graduate students who are or would like to become TFs.
2. Program contents (tentative titles and lecturers)
Program director − Kazuhiko Shimizu, Provost of the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences
2:10 − 3:00 (including a question and answer session)
Title: Special lecture on educational reform at the International Christian University centering on new faculty organization
Presenter: Junko Hibiya, Vice President for Academic Affairs at ICU
3:05 − 3:45
Title: Reforms of faculty organization and educational system at the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences (outline)
Presenters: Setsuji Hisano, Director of Doctoral Program in the Kansei, Behavioral and Brain Science and Chairman of the Study Committee for Organizational Affairs
Kyousuke Nagata, Director of Doctoral Program in the Life System Medical Sciences and Assistant to the Provost of the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences
3:50 − 4:20
Title: TF open class 1
Class theme: Cancer and viruses
Presenter: Kazushi Numata, 2nd year student majoring in Medical Sciences of Social Environment under Prof. Kyosuke Nagata
4:20 − 4:50
Title: TF open class 2
Class theme: Function of blood platelets and their test methods
Presenter: Yukinori Kamitsuma, 4th year student majoring in Advanced Applied Medical Sciences under Prof. Haruhiko Ninomiya
4:55 − 5:30
Commendation ceremony for excellent TFs and Graduate School’s FD grand prize ceremony
3. TF hiring requirements
The graduate school plans to hire TFs from among graduate students on the doctoral course (medical sciences) who have worked or who are working as TAs. The current FD program is therefore targeted at the following people:
(1) Those who have once attended the program presentation
The current 4th FD program will be considered to constitute post-guidance. Students who have received pre- and post-guidance and who wish to be TFs next year are requested to submit a prescribed TF application form and a syllabus for TFs by Friday, March 6.
(2) First attendants
The current 4th FD program will be considered to constitute pre-guidance. Post-guidance will be available after the implementation of next year’s first FD program scheduled for May 2009. We will then start preparations for screening TFs in July.
Those who have already attended the program presentations twice or TFs who wish to be hired next year are requested to complete the above procedures by Friday, March 6, as mentioned in (1) above. We are considering ways of conferring a certificate of participation on non-graduate student attendants at the FD program presentations.
4. Others
TAs from the graduate school who wish to be TFs but who cannot attend the presentation for unavoidable reasons (including those scheduled to be absent) are requested to submit an explanatory statement to the directors of their major courses.
*Contact: Administration Office, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences (2991, 2992)
Category: Faculty Development | 2009/01/21(Wed)
Statement of views by the provost of the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences
The Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences conducts researches and education in a multitude of disciplines, including Educational Sciences, Psychology, Disability Sciences, Health and Sport Sciences, Art and Design, Medical Sciences, and Nursing Sciences. It is a large graduate school, consisting of 660 teaching staff, 150 general staff, and 1860 students. The graduate school programs used to be structured as coherent continuous doctoral programs, but in 2008, they were retooled to a staged structure consisting of master’s programs, and 3-year doctoral programs thereafter. This was executed alongside reorganization of the Master’s Program in Health and Sport Sciences, which is a related organization.
Also, a new doctoral program in Nursing Sciences was inaugurated this year. This is the year when reviews of such items as enrolment capacity for doctoral programs and organizations themselves are forthcoming, as the first-ever university evaluation by the National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation (NIAD-UE) was published, and since the medium-term goals and plans of the first stage were completed. Additionally, we must accommodate reform related items, such as preparations for implementation of the Certified Evaluation and Accreditation and full implementation of the Teaching Staff Evaluation.
Taking the above into consideration, and following and extending the path laid out by the former provost Dr. Shimizu (currently Vice President), the cabinets of various sizes will take the following structure (refer to the Organization Chart) to ensure swift mobility toward reform and efficient operations. As the name suggests, the Coordinating Committee is positioned to coordinate important aspects of the graduate school. It then presents the items to the Steering Committee for decisions. Specifically, the Coordinating Committee consists of 3 Associate Provosts (Professor Tadashi Kikuchi from Humanity, Professor Masao Asaoka from interdisciplinary studies/art and physical education studies, and Professor Hiroyuki Yoshikawa from Medicine) and 5 Advisors to the Provosts. We have asked Professor Yasunori Kanaho of Medical Sciences to spearhead “research” and “international” initiatives and Professor Michiyoshi Ae to take on “education” and “planning” initiatives. Also, we have asked Professor Setsuji Hisano, who was in charge of the Exploratory Committee, to become a new member of the Coordinating Committee to sort out the institutional details of the Departmental Organization (provisional title), which begun last year. Also, Professor Mitsuyasu Kato will continue to be in charge of “facilities” and Professor Masahiro Kodama will participate as the person in charge of the Tokyo area. The total number of the Coordinating Committee comes to 14 (for 2009) after adding 5 more members in charge of the Provost’s Office along with an Assistant Director.
The central figures of the Steering Committee will consist of the members of the Coordinating Committee. It is organized with the chairpersons of each graduate school, chairpersons of each major, provosts of college clusters, and the Director of the Center at the core, with additional members representing related organizations such as the University Hospital and the Education Bureau. There are a total of 46 members in the committee. This makes the Steering Committee the largest committee in the school, as even the University Council is comprised of 41 members. With such a setup, information stemming from within the university and from outside the university travels through all members of the graduate school quickly and accurately.
Under the Steering Committee, we have decided to establish other permanent committees, starting from the currently existing Personnel Committee, and extending to the Conference of Chairpersons of Majors, Research Ethics Committee, Public Relations Committee, FD Promotion Committee, Thesis Evaluation & Leadership Exploratory Committee, Functionalized Structure Preparation Committee (provisional title), and the newly formed Conflict of Interest Committee.
Under the structure, this year, we will operate the graduate school with policies as outlined below.
Firstly, we will operate the graduate school with the “spirit of mutual respect and cooperation between members” as set out as the fundamental principle in the Charter of Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, which was instituted in 2007.
Based on the above, three items are listed below as this year’s basic policy.
(1) Actively promote various FD activities under the spirit of respect and cooperation in accordance with the charter of the school, and strive for unified operations based on mutual understandings, collaborations, and communications between all members, including teaching staff, students, and general staff.
(2) Aggressively develop integrated, leading-edge researches with world-class originality, and intrepidly challenge toward the Global COE Program. Also, actively promote pre-strategic initiative undertakings, while further enhancing communications of research findings to the world.
(3) Execute various specific measures for substantiating graduate school education, while undertaking structural reorganization based on degree courses as promoted by the government, and embark on the creation of a unified organization where the site of educational activities is clearly distinguished from the teachers’ organization.
Currently, the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Science is in a period of transition, as the previous programs coexist with the restructured clusters of colleges & schools and reorganized doctoral programs. As individualism from national university corporations through functional differentiations is sought by today’s society, it is imperative to equip ourselves for the forthcoming reforms of the undergraduate and graduate schools. Reforms will be conducted through reviews of the administrative organization and the educational organization, while tending to the viewpoints of the students, all in accordance with the school charter.
This year in particular, with the completion of the medium-term plans and the goals of the first stage, reviews of the enrolment capacity of the doctoral programs and organizations themselves are desired. It will continue to be hectic with reviews on efficiency and quality improvements of educational research as part of the overall re-examination of the operations. Additionally, we must prepare for Certified Evaluation and Accreditation, which is a third-party evaluation in addition to the NIAD’s University Evaluation. The evaluation is a legal obligation, and it needs to be completed by 2010. The evaluation will not only review the level of the education and adequacy of quality assurance, but it will also review details of the graduate school and its majors. As such, preparations for the review must be carried out at all levels of the graduate school.
Also, with the trial run of last year under our belt, we will start the performance evaluation of the teaching staff. It is predicted that the required effort for running the evaluation will be reduced compared to the trial run, and we will strive to achieve maximum results with the minimum efforts.
Concurrently, we will set bylaws for the sabbatical system, which will finally be implemented. We hope to design the system so that as many teaching staff as possible will utilize the system, and return with the educational research findings to be incorporated into their teachings, and ultimately resulting in enhancement of the graduate school as a whole.
With these as the cornerstones of the graduate school operations, we will create an ambience such that all the teaching staff can concentrate on their work, while maintaining the inherited spirit of the past leaders of the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences.
I sincerely appreciate your understanding, assistance, and cooperation to achieve our goals.
April 15, 2009
Toshiharu Omuka
Provost of the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences
Category: About us
Charter of the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences
Charter of the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences
November 30, 2007
The Governing Board of the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences
Aims
1. As a center of advanced education and scholarly research that respects freedom of learning, a university is entrusted with a mission of and is responsible for contributing to the advancement of learning and development of society through fostering the best human resources, the creation and utilization of new knowledge and technologies, and the passing on and development of academic culture. As one of the departments of the University of Tsukuba which adheres to the principles of an ‘open university,’ the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences (hereinafter referred to as “the School”) should be aware of their mission and responsibility to maintain the appropriate level of educational research as well as to continuously validate the overall organization of the School and its educational research activities; and strive for improvement and fulfillment thereof, aiming at forefront harmonization and regeneration of knowledge supported by an international and interdisciplinary educational research environment.
2. This Charter serves as the basis for investigation and evaluation for the School and is also the basis for performance evaluations of faculty members for the University of Tsukuba, and at the same time states the fundamental mission of the School, which is to maintain an appropriate level of educational research and promote enhancement and fulfillment thereof in the context of mutual respect among members and in a spirit of cooperation.
Charter
Educational philosophy and goals
1. Based on the philosophy of its foundation, the School will clearly set out its objectives and goals with respect to human resource development.
Admission policy
2. The School will establish an appropriate admissions policy for equitable admission to the School that is based on its educational objectives and goals.
Educational programs and teaching methods
3. The School will establish educational programs and teaching systems to realize full educational effects and results.
Research
4. The School will continuously and actively promote its research activities and publish the results in the public domain.
Research environment
5. To activate research activities of specialized fields by respective faculty members, the School will develop the appropriate research environment through mutual cooperation among members.
Support for students
6. The School will provide appropriate support to facilitate students’ effective learning and a rewarding school life.
Contribution to society
7. To broadly contribute to society, the School will coordinate and maintain an interchange with society, including overseas.
Faculty development
8. The School will carry out organized research and training in line with program objectives and the contents and methods of teaching (faculty development (FD)).
Administrative management
9. The School will be administered independently and autonomously, aiming at realization of comprehensive and effective educational research activities incorporating respective members’ views.
Investigation and evaluation
10. To maintain and enhance the level of its educational research, the School will continuously investigate and evaluate its organization and educational research activities and make use of the results for reforms and improvements.
Information disclosure
11. The School will make itself accountable to society by disclosing information about its organization, educational research activities, and the results of investigations and evaluations.
Supplementary Provision
This charter is retroactive to April 1, 2007.
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