Design and production: Cosmopolitan Institute and Tatsumi HIRATA (Dept. Genetics, SOKENDAI)Support: Yasumasa ODAKA

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week	dates	Title	Details
1	5/9-15	English Rhetoric: Linear Development (1)
2	5/16-22	English Rhetoric: Linear Development (2)
3	5/23-29	Defining & Explaining Terms	(1) General Terms (2) Technical but common terms
4	5/30-6/5
5	6/6-6/12
6	6/13-19	Describing Graphs & Pictures	(1) General Terms (2) Technical but common terms
7	6/20-26
8	6/27-7/3
9	7/4-10	Comparing & Contrasting Level 1	(1) General Terms (2) Technical but common terms
10	7/11-17
11	9/8-12	Comparing & Contrasting Level 2	(1) General Terms (2) Technical but common terms
12	9/16-22
13	9/24-30	Q&As on Short Statements	General and scientific topics
14	Tuesday 9/30- Monday 10/6
15	Tuesday 10/7- Friday 10/10 Monday class	Critical Discussion	Discussion of topics from “Q&As on Short Statements” in the form of a debate
16	Tuesday10/14- Monday 10/20
17	Tuesday 10/21- Monday 10/27	Logical Discussion: Giving Opinions on Reliability of Data
18	Tuesday 10/28- Friday 10/31 Monday class
19	Tuesday 11/4- Monday 11/10	Critical Thinking in Academic Presentation
20	Tuesday 11/11- Monday 11/17	Asking Questions on Academic Presentation
21	Tuesday 11/18- Friday 11/21 Monday class
22	Tuesday 12/1- Monday 12/5	Presentation Basics: Producing a Suitable Presentation Based on Data Provided
23	Tuesaday 1/13- Monday 1/19
24	Tuesday 1/20- Monday 1/26
25	Tuesday 1/27- Monday 2/2	Individual Presentation + Q&A’s	Making presentations on research topics
26	Tuesday 2/3- Monday 2/9
27	Tuesday 2/10- Monday 2/16 Wednesday class
28	Friday 2/20 NIG Colloquium	Symposium	Organizing a symposium with participation from Resource Persons

week 15: the Monday Yellow class will study on Wednesday 10/8 from 13:00 – 15:00 the Monday Blue class will study on Wednesday 10/15 from 13:00 – 15:00
week 18: the Monday Blue class will study on Wednesday 10/29 from 13:00 – 15:00 the Monday Yellow class will study on Wednesday 11/5 from 13:00 – 15:00
week 21: the Monday classes will study on Tuesday 11/25 at their regular times
week 27: the Wednesday Red class will study on Thursday 2/12 from 15:15 – 17:15
course organizer: Tatsumi HIRATA <tathirat(at)lab.nig.ac.jp>
instructor: S. Todd Gorman <gsteven(at)lab.nig.ac.jp> ; office: A105 (ext. 5874)
course objectives, prerequisites and grades last updated 090106