CURRICULUM
Developing Global Leadership in Four Years
GLAP students accumulate a wide variety of learning experiences in order to become a new type of global leader. Before studying abroad, GLAP students learn a wide range of fields, mainly Humanities, Citizenship, and Business. After students return from their study abroad experience, they select one from the above three fields and engage in specialized studies to deepen their understanding and complete the Graduation Paper.
Core of GLAP curriculum, Tutorial 1&2 are offered in extremely s mall-sized classes consisting of a maximum of 5 students, once a week during the Spring and Fall semesters in the 1st year and aim to comprehensively improve basic academic skills such as critical reading, academic writing, presentation which are necessary for university-level learning. Students read two reading materials (topics are selected from areas such as Humanities and Social Sciences) per term. Before each session, students read the assigned materials and prepare for presentations and summary writings. In each session, following the students' presentations, instructors and students confirm their understandings and have discussions. When the class has reached the end of each reading material, students are required to write two essays with research questions.
Tutorial 1&2 encourages students' all-round learning through preparation, review and active participation in classroom activities. Full support is provided by instructors, and stimulating interactions between instructors and students are offered. Students may experience hard times as they develop their skills, however, these classes are challenging and satisfying.
Global Leadership 111 (GL111) is a class in which GLAP students can develop their own individual and differing understandings of leadership through collaborative practice.
The theme of the practice will be shared by real corporations and students can act to create new solutions to the issues in the real world. Students work in small groups to think of new solutions by critically thinking through the issues, setting the effective direction and strategy, and proposing new ideas on how to call actions in the real world. As students work on it, they are encouraged to be conscious of the three minimum leadership essentials sharing goals, setting examples, and enabling others and thus systematically cultivate facets of leadership that may not be outwardly apparent.
On the way of its leadership challenges, all the team members have chances to reflect on the teamwork process, performance, and individual leadership one after another.
The learning and finding about themselves will let them notice one's own potential to grow further, and it will be of great use in living a fulfilling life with developed leadership even after the university graduation. To achieve this goal, faculty members, student assistants (SAs), and administrative staff in Global Education Center will work as one team to accompany you and support your leadership development through GL111 and the Global Leadership Program classes that follows.