Boatmanship and Signaling

Course Information

College	Toyama College	Year	2022
Course Title	Boatmanship and Signaling
Course Code	0026	Course Category	Specialized / Compulsory
Class Format	Experiment / Practical training	Credits	School Credit: 1
Department	Department of Maritime Technology	Student Grade	1st
Term	First Semester	Classes per Week	2
Textbook and/or Teaching Materials	Self-making materials for marine practices
Instructor	Fukudome Kenichi,Kanayama Emi,Morii Naoto

Course Objectives

Purpose of this practice is to be intimate with marine and obtain seamanship. Students learn works and operations on a ship, communication between ship and land, and importance of teamwork and leadership by handling of small ship called cutter.

Rubric

	Ideal Level	Standard Level	Unacceptable Level
Handling of cutter	Obtaining the ability in handling of cutter	Obtaining roughly the ability in handling of cutter	Not obtaining the ability in handling of cutter
ropework	Obtaining the ability to do ropework	obtaining roughly the ability to do ropework	Not obtaining the ability to do ropework
International signal flag	Obtaining the ability to communicate by international signal flag	Obtaining roughly the ability to communicate by international signal flag	Not obtaining the ability to communicate by international signal flag

Assigned Department Objectives

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Teaching Method

Outline:

This course educate to be intimate with marine and obtain teamwork, leadership, ability of communication and fortitude, which are required of seaman.

Style:

Practice and lecture

Notice:

(1) Navigation course
This course corresponds to 0.2 credit lecture in 16 credit lecture of ship operation which is required to study by the law for ship's officer.
The subjects of the 0.2 credit lecture is ship reporting system in ship operation.
(2) Engine course
This course corresponds to 0.5 credit lecture in 3 credit lecture of general engine operation which is required to study by the law for ship's officer.

This course is conducted considering individual difference in ability of obtaining knowledge and technique by questionnaire survey of this practice.

It is evaluated by exams(70%) and reports(30%).
The recognition of credit requires 60 points or more rating.

Course Plan

			Theme	Goals
1st Semester
	1st Quarter
		1st	Guidance on Marine practice	Understand syllabus of this practice, seamanship and how to work on the practice
		2nd	Cutter	Understand Marine Training and Research Center and names of each parts of cutter
		3rd	The same as above	Understand how to row a cutter and orders orders for rowing cutter
		4th	The same as above	The same as above
		5th	The same as above	The same as above
		6th	Technical work	Understand international signal flags and how to tie a rope
		7th	The same as above	The same as above
		8th	Mid‐term test	Test understanding of contents from 1st week to 7th week
	2nd Quarter
		9th	Technical work	Understand how to make eye splice
		10th	The same as above	Understand international signal flags
		11th	The same as above	Understand international signal flags and ship reporting system
		12th	Cutter	Understand how to row a cutter and orders orders for rowing cutter
		13th	Practice by visiting	Understand how to forecast weather and ocean wave by visiting Toyama Local Meteorological Office
		14th	Natural phenomena in Toyama Wan	Understand natural phenomena in Toyama Wan
		15th	Regular exam	Test understanding of contents from 9th week to 14th week
		16th	Return regular exams, check the markings by themselves and carry out a questionnaire survey.

Evaluation Method and Weight (%)

	Examination	Presentation	Mutual Evaluations between students	Behavior	Portfolio	Other	Total
Subtotal	70	0	0	0	0	30	100
Basic Proficiency	10	0	0	0	0	10	20
Specialized Proficiency	60	0	0	0	0	20	80
Cross Area Proficiency	0	0	0	0	0	0	0