Personal Development

Course Information

College	Akashi College	Year	2020
Course Title	Personal Development
Course Code	0021	Course Category	特別活動 / Compulsory
Class Format	特別活動	Credits	特別活動: 0
Department	Architecture	Student Grade	1st
Term	Second Semester	Classes per Week	0
Textbook and/or Teaching Materials	No text book, hands out.
Instructor	HONBO Saori

Course Objectives

1. To acquire basic knowledge about psychology in the students own developmental stage.
2. Allow the students to understand their feelings, cognitive / thinking tendencies, interests and values, and at the same time, understand other students too.
3. To understand the uniqueness of themselves and the others.
4. To acquire a multifaceted understanding of events that occur around the students.
5. To understand how to deal with stress and negative emotions.
6. To understand how to build good interpersonal relationships, how to communicate and listen.
7. To accept diversity and deny prejudice or discrimination.

Rubric

	Excellent	Good	Insufficient
Achievement 1	The student can well understand the basic knowledge about psychology in their developmental stage.	The student can understand the basic knowledge about psychology in their developmental stage.	The student can not understand the basic knowledge about psychology in their developmental stage.
Achievement 2	The student can well understand their feelings, cognitive / thinking tendencies, interests and values, and at the same time, understand other students too.	The student can understand their feelings, cognitive / thinking tendencies, interests and values, and at the same time, understand other students too.	The student can not understand their feelings, cognitive / thinking tendencies, interests and values, and at the same time, understand other students too.
Achievement 3	The student can well understand the uniqueness of themselves and the others.	The student can understand the uniqueness of themselves and the others.	The student can not understand the uniqueness of themselves and the others.
Achievement 4	The student has an excellent multifaceted understanding of events that occur around the students.	The student has a multifaceted understanding of events that occur around the students.	The student doesn't have a multifaceted understanding of events that occur around the students.
Achievement 5	The student can well understand how to deal with stress and negative emotions.	The student can understand how to deal with stress and negative emotions.	The student can not understand how to deal with stress and negative emotions.
Achievement 6	The student can well understand how to build good interpersonal relationships, how to communicate and listen.	The student can understand how to build good interpersonal relationships, how to communicate and listen.	The student can not understand how to build good interpersonal relationships, how to communicate and listen.
Achievement 7	The student can well accept diversity and deny prejudice or discrimination.	The student can accept diversity and deny prejudice or discrimination.	The student can not accept diversity and deny prejudice or discrimination.

Teaching Method

Outline:

Through collaborating learning (individual and group), the students will deepen their self-understanding and their understanding of others. They will develop communication skills, learn about stress management, and how to control stress. Also, they will practice self-expression through creative activities.

Style:

The course is conducted through collaborating and experiential learning (individual and group).

Notice:

Each class theme or its the order of handling may be changed as appropriate, based on the students' efforts and understanding.
Necessary items and clothes will be informed as required.
If there is less than 2/3 attendance, the absence will be treated as absence of special activity events.

Course Plan

			Theme	Goals
2nd Semester
	3rd Quarter
		1st	Guidance and stress management (sleep)	Understand the content to learn in the semester. Discover new faces of the classmates. The students will check their sleep habits and get tips for good sleep.
		2nd	Stress management (stress mechanism and coping / self-relaxation)	Awareness of stress mechanisms, stress signs and patterns of coping, and other stress coping methods not practised yet. Experience self-relaxation (breathing, muscle relaxation, stretching) and feel the effects.
		3rd	Self-understanding (collage)	Using collage creation and sharing with others, the students will become aware of themselves and their uniqueness.
		4th	Self-understanding and communication (team power and leadership) / stress management (control of feelings)	Observe the behaviour of other people during problem-solving activities and think about the leadership necessary to increase their power as a team. To understand one-sided leadership and learn that people can demonstrate leadership in various ways. Know the mechanism of fellings (anger) and how to deal with it.
		5th	Self-understanding/ other understanding and communication	Four classes joint lecture “Build an equal relationship” about Date Domestic Violence and preventive measures. Acquire knowledge on how to build a balanced relationship with the people around.
		6th	Self-understanding/ other understanding (reframing), summary and reflections	Think about your weaknesses and strengths. Practice brainstorming and reframing, learn about the one-sided view, and multi-faceted views. Retrospective of the six lessons content.
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	4th Quarter
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Evaluation Method and Weight (%)

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