BouquetqOchanomizu University Program for Leading Graduate Schools

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March 2015

What is the Program for
Leading Graduate Schoolsin Ochanomizu University?
Message from Program Coordinator ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ 02
Curriculum of the Program ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ 03
Photo Gallery of 2014・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ 04
Overview of the Essential Classes ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ 06
Information ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ 08

Fostering long-term creativity and innovation with science and technology disciplines
based on Ochanomizu spirit "Migakazuba"in the next generation of global leaders01

What is the Program for
Leading Graduate Schools in Ochanomizu University?

Curriculum of the Program
Master’ s Program
1st Year

Science and Techonology for Global Leaders (Sub-major Course)

Master’ s Program
2nd Year

Doctoral Program
1st Year

Research of Scienceand Technology for Global Leaders

Major

Message from Program Coordinator

Doctoral Program
2nd Year

Doctoral Program
3rd Year

Research GuidanceDoctoralThesisExpertCompetency

Basic Subjects in Area of Specialty

Dr. Hazuki Furukawa

Reinforcementof Basic
ScienceFoundation Subjects for Innovation Creation

Warm greetings and thank you for your interest in Ochanomizu University.

Subjects for Devoloping Globals Leaders English Language Education, Career Education, Leader Education, Doctoral Program Liberal Arts Education

Minor

Interim
ReportPBTS ⅠOur graduate special course titled “Science and Technology for Global

Lab Rotation

Leaders” is tailored to complement your major course within the Life andAdvanced Sciences Departments. This 5 years Master + Doctorate program

initial Q.E.

periodic Q.E.
(offered each semester)PBTSⅡStrengthening
GlobalCapability

SubThesis

Strengthening
Teamwork
Capability

Lab Rotation
Final Q.E.

middle Q.E.

aims at educating students to create innovations and flexibly respond to
fast changing social needs and the global challenges that have never been
more dynamic or complex.

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Innovation Creation Fundamental Courses
Physics

To be an innovator, a broad knowledge of basic sciences that makes it possible to find and

On top of the highest-level scientiﬁc and technological knowledge acquired in the major, students are given

be improved in order to cultivate the following powers which make you possible to innovate

background professionals and to cooperate efﬁciently within the cross-cultural global society.

ﬂexibly under changing conditions: “Creative Power from Zero”, “Modeling Power”, “Verifying

through innovative study processes: Essential courses of Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science, taught
in English; practice to improve skills for innovation in research development; and cross-functional teamwork
sessions called “Project Based Team Study” (PBTS), a corporate-like project management study environment.
PBTS is the educational process that stimulates students with global perspectives to propose topics, team up
with a majority of non-Japanese teachers and work together towards achieving the set scientiﬁc goals.

EngineeringandTechnology

EnglishEducation

To become a global leader, high level skills and abilities are required for language,
communication and project management. Farthermore, career development learning, liberal arts

Leadership
Education

to understand the world cultures, and IT skills to utilize information effectively will help yourensuring students’ continuous improvement. The program’s strong collaboration with renowned organizationsclasses.

competitive basis, for those enrolling in our program.

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Please refer to the page 7 for the details of the Liberal Arts

Career
Education

LiberalArts

PBTS (Project Based Team Study)

The highlighted feature of our program is “PBTS (Project Based Team Study)” modeled onStudents
fromOther School

Learning) is replaced with independent, competitive and goal-oriented team study. This is an

Be prepared to respond with your utmost to the challenges

education system to develop students’ specialty and interpersonal skills most effectively throughand opportunities in our global SciTech community andteam study in which students with different backgrounds work together through friendly rivalry

let’s keep polishing ourselves for the greater good of theon the theme selected by themselves. Team members will work together and compete with otherglobal society we are part of!

teams, and jointly write a sub-thesis in English which is to be used as a screening material in the
doctorate degree examination.

Hazuki Furukawa Ph.D. Professor, Advanced Sciences
Ochanomizu University

Strengthen
Global Capability

IT
Skillsresearch cases in actual businesses. In PBTS, the passive learning style of PBL (Project Based

Graduate School of Humanities & Sciences

Computer
Science

Global Leader Development Courses

career at international level →building the foundations of their careers as SciTech global leaders. Moreover, scholarships are available, on

Verifying
Power

Mathematics→ Please refer to the page 6 for the details of the Essential for Global Leaders classes.

Advisors from industry and academia regularly evaluate the students’ overall progress and PBTS outcomes,
opens extraordinary opportunities for students to undertake research internships nationally and internationally,

Modeling
Power

Power”. All classes in Innovation Creation Fundamental Courses are taught in English

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Bioinformatics

CreativePowerfrom Zeroa doctorate. Especially, the abilities in Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science need tothe opportunity to acquire skills that will enable them to understand and work effectively with different
Our program’s unique educational system consists of inputs designed to deliver the expected outcomes

Chemistrysolve new problems over multiple fields is required on top of a deep specialty deserving of

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Study Commons teachers and Students

Laboratory Rotation

Mentors

Engineering

Physics

Computer
Science

Proposals on
Student-initiated Subjects

Chemistry

Study Commons
ForeignStudents

non-Program
Students
Mathematics

Biology“Global Internship Ⅰ” (3-6 months) and “Global Internship Ⅱ” (6-12 months) entail PBTS
research at other universities, research institutes, companies, etc. The program provides ﬁnancial
support for overseas internships.

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Photo Gallery of 2014
SpringSummer《 Event & Seminar 》

Autumn《 PBTS pre-Meeting 》《 Laboratory rotation with advanced equipment 》《

WinterExtracurricular lesson
Visit to Kabukiza》《 Visit to the socail welfare facility 》
Extracurricular lesson《 Brieﬁng for Enrollment to the program 》《 Lecture scenery 》《 Presentation on PBTS Ⅰ》

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Overview of lectures offered by the program in 2014

Comments from the lectureres

Innovation Creation Fundamental Courses

Essential Mathematics for Global Leaders Ⅰ

Essential Physics for Global Leaders Ⅰ
Tatsu Takeuchi Associate Professor of Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Physics is a science that underlies all other natural sciences and many modern technologies. It is important to havea basic grasp of the ﬁeld to understand the depth (or shallowness) of human knowledge regarding the Universe we
inhabit, to appreciate the ingeniousness of various technological marvels we use in our everyday lives, and to be able
to make informed decisions regarding various socio-economical issues that affect us all, e.g. whether nuclear power
plants are really safe or not. Since I cannot cover all of physics in one course, I will only be lecturing on a small
selection of topics. The hope is that the student will pick up the basic methodology of the ﬁeld and many of thejargon so that she will be able to study other topics on her own when/if the need arises.

Xavier Dahan

Essential Bioinformatics for Global Leaders Ⅰ

Project Associate Professor, Leading Graduate School Promotion Center

Due to the different backgrounds among the attendees who attended the course “Essential Mathematics I”, I wasquite nervous and uncertain when I started it last October. How to make lectures that would at the same timesatisfy attendees who haven’t done any mathematics for 4 years, and attendees who are majoring in mathematics ortheoretical physics? On top of that in English? My idea was to talk about differential equations, which are ubiquitousin science since they allow to describe many evolutionary processes…maybe this could interest all the students! To
engage attendees as much as possible I included several visual aids in PowerPoint slides, and Japanese translations of technical terms, as well as some practice
exercises. Fortunately, students were responsive and attentive during the class. I am grateful to them for their behavior! To prospective students, this course would
help you get familiar with mathematical terms in English and to review all necessary concepts to understand basic differential equations, which appear very often
in science. No need to be afraid about difﬁculty nor by English!

Essential Computer Science for Global Leaders Ⅰ
Md. Khayrul Bashar
Project Associate Professor, Leading Graduate School Promotion Center

Students have learned important keywords and key-concepts of computer science (CS) in the Essential Computer
Science (ECS1) course. Some students having non-CS background learned many new concepts about computer and
CS. Some of the key concepts were (i) great insights and central questions of computer science, (ii) methods for data
representation, arithmetic operation, and information storage (iii) computer architecture and machine instruction
cycle, (iv) OS functions, booting, paging and virtual memory, (v)computer network, Internet architecture, addressing,and protocol, (vi) algorithm and problem solving steps, computer programming with examples, and (vii) Factors affecting computer performance.Motivatedstudents have learned important keywords as well as some in-depth knowledge in CS. They are now in a position to modulate their earned knowledge for solving
real world problems. .

Essential Chemistry for Global Leaders Ⅰ
Gary James Richards
Project Associate Professor, Leading Graduate School Promotion Center

When I was ﬁrst asked to teach a chemistry course designed for students who are not chemistry specialists, I was
not entirely sure what to expect in terms of how the students would manage. In addition, I was not sure how thestudents would cope with a course taught entirely in English, as I was not really familiar with their level. For thesereasons, the course focused on the fundamentals of chemistry and I attempted to give the students a link between
the fundamental science and real-world scenarios through some short reading assignments. I was pleased that thestudents seemed to be able to follow the lecture course in English with no major problems. Each lecture began with a few short review questions of the previous
lecture’s topics and the students could usually give correct answers so it seems the material was not too challenging for them! I hope the course was successful ingiving the students an understanding of basic chemistry and its relevance in the real world.

Essential Engineering and Technology for Global Leaders Ⅰ
Julien Tripette
Project Associate Professor, Leading Graduate School Promotion CenterIn the class, we talk about technologies used for health promotion purposes. Together, we try to investigate whether
video games, smartphone applications, new “mHealth”(mobile Health) devices can help people to have healthier
behaviors. The recent emergence of these technologies indeed gives new options to health professionals. The IT industry
starts to pay much more attention to the health and ﬁtness market. My current research interests are also related to theusage of these new technologies for health promotion purposes. I wish to share my enthusiasm for the topic with thestudents, and why not, give them some ideas for orienting their research works or career toward this promising ﬁeld. After one semester, some students over passed
my expectations by conducting works that could be worthy of publication! During Essential Engineering and Technology for Global Leader- II, students will compete
to build the best robot according to one theme. This class will allow the students to get some essential basics in robotics and to have a ﬁrst experience in project
management. I encourage all the eligible students from Ochadai, and not only those belonging to the Leading Graduate School Promotion Center, to take these classes.
We all work together to build a secured learning environment where everybody can freely ask questions, express opinion and have fun. On a more personal note, I left
France when I was 24 and I am abroad for 10 years. One of the most important components of my job is to exchange with the students about academic matters. The
Center provides a perfect space to share our respective life experiences and interests and start to bridge the cultural gap between Japan and the rest of the world.

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Sabine Gouraud Project Associate Professor, Leading Graduate School Promotion Center
Bioinformatics involves the use of computational tools/databases to generate biological knowledge and better
understand living systems. Once ﬁt enough to understand what is a real-life experiment, the students were offereda wet lab session focused on cDNA microarray, a high-throughput technique emerged about 20 years ago, that
kept growing in popularity and has considerably improved the diagnosis of major diseases such as cancer andthe development of various drugs. The microarray chip is a tiny solid surface printed with microscopic groups ofthousands of known cDNA molecules that allows investigators to measure the level of gene activity for an entire
genome. Then, they followed step by step the entire microarray process using very specialized equipment. Finally, they individually experienced the data analysis
of a real experiment by using software that treats tens of thousands of gene expression data at a time and in a few minutes. Some students had never held a pipettein their life before the class, had no idea about the cost of the equipment and material. The expression on their face when they saw the “microarray chip” for theﬁrst time will stay printed in my memory forever: “How can this tiny and apparently simple piece of glass (the microarray chip) actually contain tens of thousandsof cDNA and costs so much!?” Any student curious to learn about the new technologies that enable us to decipher progressively the complexity of the microscopic
world governing our lives is encouraged to join. Learning by actively communicating and practicing in a friendly, international and global environment is the best
way to learn and open your mind!

Global Leader Development Courses

Essential Ethics for Global Leaders
Yasushi Ishida
Project Associate Professor, the Center for Promotion of Global Human Resource Development

In this course, by overviewing and discussing ethical challenges posed by modern cutting-edge technologies andsciences, students are expected to learn ethically important concepts and master the ways of thinking that would be
useful in discussing from ethical viewpoints modern sciences and technological developments. At the beginningof the semester, the students (science major students) seemed at a loss as to how to discuss these ethical issues inEnglish; they tended to see things only from scientiﬁc viewpoints. After several classroom discussions, however, they
could “go beyond” purely scientiﬁc understanding of the issues and started to realize their ethically controversial aspects. It is not easy to ﬁnd ethical problems
in society and discuss them even in Japanese. You have to do so in English in this class. But the efforts you make for the course certainly helps you develop yourcommunication skills – organize your thoughts and express or convey your viewpoints – useful in many academic settings.

Essential History for Global Leaders
Essential Culture and Arts for Global Leaders
Midori Nishiura Visiting Professor, Leading Graduate School Promotion Center
Seventy Years after the W.W. II,
Japan’s Contribution to World Peace, and Considering the Future
My class is for students who wish to learn essential history, especially for those who aspire to be global
leaders. We start by studying the importance and views of the historians before studying history itself.
History can have as many variations or interpretations as the number of historians. But it is necessary to develop our own thoughts and form our own
individual opinions on a case by case basis. This is to prepare the students for leadership positions in various ﬁelds. We learn, discuss and improve ourdebating and presentation skills, as well as negotiating techniques.
From 1997 to 2008, once each year, I lectured at the Sciences Po (Paris Institute of Political Studies) in France. The Institut d’Etudes Politiques deParis, is a public research and higher education institution established in 1872, having educated many of France’s most important political leaders. It isconsidered to be one of the best schools for the social sciences, and includes political science, history, sociology and communication.
My style of teaching has always been to encourage two-way communication. I place particular emphasis on a roundtable forum, encourage debate,and develop interactive discussion skills. Today, the Science Po is no longer for French students exclusively. The brightest students, often with several
language skills, come from all over the world. They are hungry to learn more, and I am always bombarded with a variety of questions from these highachievers!
Ochanomizu University has always aspired to provide students with an education which enables them to show true leadership with a global perspective.
And that is the reason for my appointment as a visiting professor: to provide students with advanced studies and an education in leadership preparing
them for a competitive international world.
I do hope to see you in my class!

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Information■ Entrance exam information
Entrance exam for the minor course of Science and Technology
for Global Leaders, April 2015 semester
Date : One day only on February 19, 20, or 23, 2015
Venue : Room No. 126, 1 st ﬂoor of Inter-Faculty Building 3, Ochanomizu University
Notice of acceptance : February 27, 2015 on a website■ Report of activities
January 21, 2015
January 15 - 23, 2015

Information session for prospective students"Welcome Week": Individual meetings and consultations■ Subject opening of a course information
October 6, 2014
October 7, 2014
October 7, 2014
October 16, 2014
November 19, 2014

December 5, 2014
January 1, 2015

About our logo "Bouquet"
The shape of the bouquet of flowers represents
the educational system of this program. We place
the pink ﬂower in the center representing the major

Essential Mathematics for Global Leaders Ⅰ
lecture by Xavier Dahan
Essential Chemistry for Global Leaders Ⅰ
lecture by Gary James Richards
Essential Engineering & Technology for Global Leaders Ⅰ
lecture by Julien Tripette
Essential Physics for Global Leaders Ⅰ
lecture by Tatsu Takeuchi
Essential Bioinformatics for Global Leaders Ⅰ
by Kei Yura,Khayrul Bashar,Sabine Gouraud,
Yuki Yasumura,Atsuko Sato,Nathanaël Aubert-Kato
Essential Ethics for Global Leaders lecture
by Yasushi Ishida
Essential Culture & Arts for Global Leaders lecture
by Midori Nishiuracourses. Traditional education at graduate schools
were designed to bring growth to only major
studies, however we add the flowers around thecenter to show providing foundational strength andqualities to be a global leader. Our goal is to keep
grow students' ablities as ﬂowers are blooming likethis logo.

■ Scheduled activities
March 2015

Guidance and pre-seminars scheduled for new students

April 2015 Open Campus for Graduate School
April 18, 2015 in Ochanomizu University■ back issue

Ochanomizu University
Fostering long-term creativity and innovation
with science and technology disciplines
based on Ochanomizu spirit "Migakazuba"in the next generation of global leadersNo.1 (July,2014)

No.2 (Nov. 2014)

No.3 (Jan. 2015)

Editor's notes
This is the second year since the program started.
At ﬁrst, the students seemed they had a hard time to catch up English,
but they soon could learn speaking and working in English very well by taking
PBTS and Essential classes.We hope they could lead new coming students
who will join in this April.

Bouquet Vol.4
Issued on March 1, 2015
Edited by the Newsletter Editing Committee
Issued by Leading Graduate School
Promotion Center, Ochanomizu University
2-1-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo
112-8610, Japan
E-mail: leading-ocha@cc.ocha.ac.jp
TEL: 03-5978-5775
FAX: 03-5978-5781
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