ToTAL/OPEN Programs "Debate Club (Series of 6 classes)" (AY2024 1Q2Q)

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Published: April 4, 2024

We are happy to announce that "Debate Club" will be held again this semester! Any of Tokyo Tech students, who are belonging to the categories below, are being encouraged to apply the workshop.

1.
Any Graduate students who applied ToTAL courses: "Recognition of Social Issues Workshop A/C", "Master's/Doctoral Essential Group Work for Leadership (S)"
2.
Any students (both Graduates and Under Graduate students) who are interested in the workshop on ad-hoc basis (no credit and GA will be given)
3.
Any Doctoral students who are member of "Tokyo Tech Program for Development of Next-Generation Front-Runners with Comprehensive Knowledge and Humanity (Tokyo Tech SPRING)"

Outline of the workshop

Learn to fight for your ideas in a practical debate. You will be assigned to a debate team and argue in favor or against a recent contentious topic. The student teams will be matched against each other in a friendly competition.

You will be able to

  • Learn how to prepare a structured defense as a term
  • Lean how to attack an idea without attacking the person
  • Practice improvisational skills in arguments
  • Practice public speaking to an audience
  • Practice to trying to understand different perspectives

Workshop

Date & Venue

#1 Thursday, April 18, 2024, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. @Room S6-309A, Ookayama Campus
#2 Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. @Room S6-309A, Ookayama Campus
#3 Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. @Room S6-309A, Ookayama Campus
#4 Thursday, June 13, 2024, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. @Room S6-309A, Ookayama Campus
#5 Tuesday, June 25, 2024, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. @Room S6-309A, Ookayama Campus
#6 Tuesday, July 9, 2024, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. @Room S6-309A, Ookayama Campus

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The first session will include an introduction and a simple game to learn useful debating skills.
You are welcome to sign up for a one-off session or the whole 6 sessions. Please feel free to
join us.

Facilitator

M. Gecchele (ToTAL Student)

For details & registration

ToTAL/OPEN Programs "Debate Club (Series of 6 classes)" (AY2024 1Q2Q)

ToTAL / OPEN Programs

Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership (ToTAL) is offering more than 20 kinds of workshops annually for fostering and developing leadership and entrepreneurship. Any of Tokyo Tech students, regardless of whether you are a ToTAL student, an undergraduate or a graduate student can apply for participating any of workshop. In addition, graduate students can register for ToTAL courses that consist of a combination of the above workshops (acquisition of credits), in which case they can also obtain a GA.

Schedule (and Attending Plan) and outline of ToTAL courses and workshops, as contents of the courses (and if the workshop are part of "Events" designated by "Tokyo Tech Program for Development of Next-Generation Front-Runners with Comprehensive Knowledge and Humanity (Tokyo Tech SPRING)" can be downloaded from URL below.

If you want to join any workshop(s) of ToTAL/OPEN Programs, please select "Attend" in the column of the schedule (and Attending Plan) to be downloaded as above and send it back to followings;

Applications and Inquires

Assoc. Prof. Matsuzaki, Assoc. Prof. Watanabe and Prof. Yamada
Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership (ToTAL)
total.tokunin@total.titech.ac.jp

Contact

Assoc. Prof. Matsuzaki, Assoc. Prof. Watanabe and Prof. Yamada
Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership (ToTAL)

Email total.tokunin@total.titech.ac.jp

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