( )lecture, (x) Discussions ( )practice    2 credits each/ 4 credits total

(x)1, ( )2, ( )3, ( )4, ( )5:
(x)Other (Department of Genetics Only)

  Progress Report interview as the Progress Report IA will be held from June to July for students who entered SOKENDAI in April and from December to January for students who entered SOKENDAI in October, via discussion between a progress report committee member and a student.
  Progress Report poster presentation as the Progress Report IB will be held on the first Thursday in March of next year for students who entered SOKENDAI in April and in September for students who entered SOKENDAI in October according to the schedule indicated by the Education and Research Committee of Genetics Major. The progress report committee member, other faculty members and research staffs may have discussions on a poster presented by the student. Other discussions will be held when it will be necessary.

  It is obligatory for all first-year [D1] students. (If students or their supervisors wish to decline or postpone the progress report with a special reason, they will be excluded). Students who wish to have progress report interview and poster presentation should submit their Progress Report Advisor candidate to the Department of Genetics Administrative Office. The candidate advisor should be either a professor or an associate professor. The deadline for submission is end of April for students who entered SOKENDAI in April and end of October for students who entered SOKENDAI in October. Students must also submit an Application for [Life Science Progress IA and IB] Course Registration to SOKENDAI.

  Because students are in the first year, contents of interview are to discuss about setting subject for research and research plan. Each student should prepare materials (computer files, printed matters, etc) about the knowledge, opinion for setting subject for research and research plan and give a presentation to the advisor. Advisor should ask questions and help the student to organize his/her knowledge and give advices. After interviewing, advisors should inform the Chairperson of the Education Research Committee and the person in charge of Department of Genetics Office that the interview has been finished.
  In the Progress Report poster presentation, students should present their progress and/or problems to the Progress Report Advisor and other participants and may take questions and advises from them about their researches. Students may utilize those advises and discussions to settle the problems and rearrange their knowledge. Advisors should continue to give advices in any time when students request.

  The progress report is conducted to clarify status of study progress, and to gain appropriate suggestions from the progress committee on the points below if progress is not smooth
1. Whether the student understands content, importance, and background of the study objective
2. Whether learning activity is effective for research

  Students should take the Life Science Progress Report IA first and take the Life Science Progress Report IB depending on entry periods (or progress of academic work by leave of absence etc.). Students have a progress individual interview as the Life Science Progress Report IA, and conduct poster presentation as the Life Science Progress Report IB. Exchange of opinions concerning other progress is held among progress committee members as necessary.

  To pass this course, students should present progress report once in each semester. In other opportunities than the progress report meeting, it is also needed to advance their research and thought by discussing with laboratory staffs and other laboratory members and then to reflect those results to the progress reports. As the results of above activities, students are evaluated in one of four grades (A, B, C, D). Students get total of four credits, two credits for each semester when you obtain grades(A,B,C).