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開講科目名 /Course |
Debate & Critical ThinkingⅡ/DEBATE & CRITICAL THINKING II |
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開講所属 /Course Offered by |
外国語学部交流文化学科/FOREIGN LANGUAGES TOURISM AND TRANSNATIONAL STUDIES |
ターム?学期 /Term?Semester |
2024年度/2024 Academic Year 秋学期/FALL SEMESTER |
曜限 /Day, Period |
月1/Mon 1 |
開講区分 /semester offered |
秋学期/Fall |
単位数 /Credits |
2.0 |
学年 /Year |
2,3,4 |
主担当教員 /Main Instructor |
N.H.ジョスト/Neal Howard JOST |
遠隔授業科目 /Online Course |
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教員名 /Instructor |
教員所属名 /Affiliation |
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N.H.ジョスト/Neal Howard JOST | 交流文化学科/TOURISM AND TRANSNATIONAL STUDIES |
授業の目的?内容 /Course Objectives |
PLEASE NOTE: This class is OPEN to ALL students in the Department of Tourism and Transnational Studies. This course introduces students to the dynamics of debate and will help you develop more fluency in English. Students can expect to learn how to formulate opinions on issues related to values and opinions, express their ideas within the format of a debate and refute the argumentation of others. Through various task students will learn how to develop critical thinking skills. In-class reading & writing activities will help students develop skills necessary for researching & organizing a successful debate. Students will also have the opportunity to observe various kinds of debate associated with the West. Upon completion of this course, students should be able to debate issues that are familiar to them. It will also introduce the idea of Persuasion and how it applies to debate and indeed ordinary life. The course focuses on improving students' "speaking" and “listening" skills and their "competence to think critically in English as well as hold discussions in English, without using Japanese," to obtain comprehensive English proficiency and to engage in logical discussions using English. Classroom time will be utilized by having students present their ideas from assigned readings, and will collectively establish formal debate topics for our classroom debates. Please feel free to contact the instructor if you have any questions. njost@dokkyo.ac.jp |
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授業の形式?方法と履修上の注意 /Teaching method and Attention the course |
To develop advanced critical thinking skills for active debate in English. To look deeper into the more troubling or perplexing issues that face the world, and to critically analyze them in terms positives and negatives utilizing the four skill areas: reading, writing, speaking & listening. Based on research, analysis and reflection, students will formalize argumentation for debates, and finally to debate with a higher level of precision. | ||||||||||
事前?事後学修の内容 /Before After Study |
Students need to prepare for class debates by researching the topic and by gaining a full understanding of it in advance of class. They will also need to formulate their opinions and shape them for our debates. Additionally, students will be asked to defend their positions. |
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参考文献等1 /References1 |
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評価方法 /Evaluation |
Students are evaluated according to (1) their participating in group debates (50%), (2) completion of classroom tasks (25%), and (3) skill in managing class debate (25%). | ||||||||||
関連科目 /Related Subjects |
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備考 /Notes |
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到達目標 /Learning Goal |
上級者のためのクリティカル?シンキング(批判的思考方法)技能を向上させ、英語によるディベートを活性化させる。「読むこと」「書くこと」「話すこと(やり取り?発表)」「聞くこと」すべての能力を活用しながら、世界が直面するより困難で紛糾する問題を深く見ていき、肯定/否定の両面から批判的に分析していく。英語のコミュニケーション能力と流ちょうさ、それにクリティカル?シンキングの技能向上を図る。調査、分析、熟慮にもとづきディベートのための論証を明確化して、最終的により高度な厳密さを伴うディベートをしていく。 |
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授業計画(主題の設定) /Class schedule |
授業の内容 /Contents of class |
事前?事後学修の内容 /Before After Study |
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1 | Orientation & Course Outline Self Introductions | Overview & guidelines will be presented | Students will familiarize themselves with the subject area. |
2 | Looking at advanced debate. Lecture and Q & A | What is debate? Lecture and Q & A | Understanding the nature of debate |
3 | Survey on the various kinds of debate with Q & A | Students present topic and engage in discovery debate | Prep for topics & review debate points |
4 | Critical Thinking tasks & techniques for advanced | Topic of debate will conclude with summations | Research topics & review areas discussed |
5 | Critical Thinking tasks & techniques for advanced | Topic overview and debate | Aim to facilitate brainstorming and clarify ideas |
6 | Critical Thinking tasks & techniques for advanced | Students present topic and engage in debate | Aim to understand critical thinking and implement CR |
7 | Focused reading & writing tasks for development | Students present topic and engage in developmental debate | Brainstorm for topics and develop ideas |
8 | Arranging arguments for 1st debate | Topic of debate will conclude with summations | Consider refutation practice and reflect on refutation |
9 | Debate 1 (selected groups) & reflection | Topic overview and debate | Select topic for debate and consider argumentation |
10 | Description, & analysis of Western debate | Reflecting on strengths and concerns | Prep for debate & reconsider debate weakness & strengths |
11 | Analysis, & discussion of Western debate | Understanding argumentation |
Reflect on debate & respond to uncertainties |
12 | Tasks for the development of argumentation | Applying content/contest to debate | Rethinking Japanese thinking & prep |
13 | Looking at Strengths and Concerns of Debate | Discussion areas of considerations | Reconsider and review final debates |
14 | Summation & conclusion | Students present summations | Reconsider and review final debates |