Advanced Seminar on Agri-food System Management1
| Numbering Code | G-AGR06 6FB21 SJ82 | Year/Term | 2022 ・ Year-round |
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| Number of Credits | 4 | Course Type | Seminar |
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| Language | Japanese | Day/Period | Tue.1・2 |
| Instructor name |
TSUJIMURA HIDEYUKI (Graduate School of Agriculture Professor) KITO YAYOI (Graduate School of Agriculture Senior Lecturer) |
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| Outline and Purpose of the Course | Seminars on comprehensive agri-food system management, the type of enterprise, decision-making and ethics of farm and food business, consumer/public behavior and coordination of quality, price and safety in regional and global agri-food system | ||
| Course Goals |
By completing this course, students will: Develop effective time management skills for conducting research and writing a research paper; Learn how to survey literature and absorb the results required for research; Learn how to define and establish research themes, theoretical framework, concepts, hypotheses and research methods, actual conditions survey, collect data, analyze research results and data, and draw conclusions and make observations based on the results obtained form literature surveys. Learn how to collect data through case studies and institutional research, personal interview surveys, questionnaire surveys and statistical analysis; Learn a wide variety of methods of analysis appropriate for the topic of research, from qualitative analysis to statistical analysis. |
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| Schedule and Contents |
Students will establish a research theme and develop a plan while reading extensively in their areas of interest and presenting and discussing what they have learned; Absorb and grasp the conclusions of previous studies in their research fields as well as in related fields, and develop original topics and approaches, theoretical framework, concepts, hypotheses, and research methods; Validate their theories by conducting surveys, collecting data, and analyzing survey outcomes and data in a manner appropriate for the topics and approaches selected, and draw a conclusion. In the seminars, students will deliver a report at each stage of writing a research paper described above, discuss with other students, and use the process to further enhance their research paper. 15 sessions of reporting, discussions and feedback will be offered in each of the first and second semesters. |
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| Evaluation Methods and Policy |
Evaluation will be based on the content of presentation and participation to class discussions. Refer to '2017 Guide to Degree Programs' for attainment levels of evaluation |
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| Course Requirements | Students must prepare thoroughly for not only their own presentations but also for other students’ presentations, so that they are ready to make contributions to class discussions. The presenter must send an outline of his/her presentation to other students at least 1 week before the presentation date. | ||
| Study outside of Class (preparation and review) | The objective of this course is to enable students to prepare a Master’s thesis, and the seminar presentations and Q&A sessions are designed to help students achieve this objective. Students are expected to manage the progress of their research paper independently and prepare for their seminar presentations. | ||
