♦Number of Credits/Academic Year of Students to Take This Course/Semester
Number of Credits 8
Academic Year of Students to Take This Course Year 3 or above
Semester All year


♦Description of This Course/Theme
Students are required to participate, as graduate research workers or observers, in research projects that are either directed by, or in which participate as full researcher either of Professors Watanabe, Dumouchel, or Nishi. The goal of this requirement is to help students to develop their own research skills and to measure the real quality of their own work by participating either in ongoing and funded research projects.
Study groups meetings will be held on an irregular basis depending mainly on the availability of senior researches and will sometimes take place on Fridays, Saturdays, or Sundays.

♦Information concerning Students Who Take this Course
Students need strong motivation in order to learn the ways and develop the skills necessary to participate in collective research.


♦Evaluation Method/Grading Criteria
(Evaluation method/grading criteria can vary. You are asked to confirm by watching a notice which will be posted during the time of regular examination.)
The method of evaluation will be continuous assessment.


♦Textbooks
Will be announced before research groups meetings are held.


♦Schedule of Lectures
Research groups meetings will be held on an irregular basis depending mainly on the availability of senior researchers and outside participants. In consequence meetings will sometimes be sometimes held on Fridays, Saturdays, or Sundays.

♦Reference Books
To be announced by each research group.


♦How Lectures will be Held
Rather than lectures as such, students are required to participate, as graduate research workers or observers, in research projects that are either directed by, or in which participate as full researcher either of Professors Watanabe, Dumouchel, or Nishi.

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