Course Overview

Participants would make presentations on the articles or on their thesis. We would discuss the topic in a small group, from the viewpoint of comparative historical analysis of the labor relations. Participants are required to prepare not only resume or PPT presentations in Japanese or English, but also manuscript with10-15 pages paper. During this course participants would be encouraged to apply and take part in academic conferences in and outside Japan, to prepare their articles for the academic journals, and finally to prepare for the doctoral thesis.This class deals with different topics from those of 'Comparative Labor Studies 1,2,3'.

Learning Achievement

Through the presentation and discussion of each presenter and the lectures after that, participants can have further understandings on how to write the master thesis.

Competence

Universal competences of communication, internationalities, and knowledge empowerment, and specialized competences, research and specialized knowledge are related.

Course prerequisites

Grading Philosophy

Presentation and paper, end-term report

Course schedule

Orientation, basic guidance, deciding the presenters
Presentation and discussion, focusing the problem-setting
Research survey
Research object
Research method
Research originality
Research structure
Research logic and result
References and graphs
Application to journals

Course type

Class Exercises

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Tanaka Yoko

Other information

Site for Inquiry

Link to the syllabus provided by the university