4th Year Class - Course Content

This course is tailored for 4th Year students who have 'a lot on their plate': jobhunting, studying, teaching practice and writing their graduation theses.

The main focus of the course is THE ISSUES OF WORK

During this course we look at all sorts of issues related to work.

The issues and material include:

1: Training, Recruitment and Promotion: Class Act (BBC)

2: Starting a new job: 'Tis' (novel by Frank McCourt)

3: How work has changed

4: Equal Opportunities?: Nursing a Triumph (Daily Mail) Women in the SDF (Asahi Shimbun/International Herald Tribune)

5: Work and Multicultural Societies: The Hotel Babel (Washington Post) and Filipino Nurses in Britain (BBC)

6: Balancing Life and Work: Job Sharing (The Guardian)

7: The Workplace: Dreamspaces (BBC) and Nippon (BBC)

8: Workplace Relationships: History in the Making (The Times)

9: Work and Wealth: The Rich List (The Sunday Times)

10: Your Own Business: Everybody wants to be the Boss (Asahi Shimbun) Curry Queen (BBC)

Visitors also talk about their careers. Yasmin visited on 11th July.

PLUS

We also focus on these areas:

The teaching practice experience. Find out about Fujimi's experience in 2004

Enhancing skills needed for writing students' graduation theses. Although each student has their own tutor for the important graduation paper (sotsugyo ronbun), there are activities to support writing a successful paper, particularly in the second semester.

Discussing current affairs and issues in the news