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Registration Started : Cross-Departmental Educational Program GSDM2.0

Cross-Departmental Educational Program ‘Global Leadership Program for Social Design and management : GSDM2.0’ is open to all master and doctoral degree students of the University of Tokyo.
　
◉Please register from here.
　
1．Purpose of the program
　　In today’s society, there are economic and social needs associated with structural changes, such as climate change and new pandemic threats. There is also a group of social challenges that are posed by various systemic risks interacting in complex ways. In order to respond to these challenges on a solid research foundation, we need to properly define the global-level challenges that the society faces, and to design solutions by combining knowledge of science and technology with diverse social disciplines, as well as by including institutions, policy, and education, not to mention the development of communication and implementation skills. It is indeed necessary to train people who can become global leaders. To this end, this program provides students with the ability to discover and formulate issues (problem defining skills), the ability to situate the specialized areas of expertise from a bird’s eye view (horizontal perspective), the ability to design integrated solutions (design capacity) and the ability to collaborate with various stakeholders to implement solutions (implementation capability). Training will be provided in cooperation with international organizations such as the OECD.
　　The subject areas to be covered are resources, environment and energy, health and medicine, space and ocean, security, and the global economy. In addition, food and life, AI and digitalization, learning and communication are included. Those cover a wide range of topics. Although these subject areas vary, experts in these fields often find themselves in a similar situation when they are forced to deal with issues that affect numerous stakeholders, and that cannot be handled by a single individual’s expertise alone. We face a common problem of how to respond in this situation. In this program, the university provides the place where students can prepare for such situation in the future from the perspective of social design and implementation.
　
2．Eligibility　
　 All the students who belong to master or doctoral course of the University of Tokyo.
　
3．Requirements for the completion of the program
●2 credits from the compulsory course, 2 credits from a Project Based Learning course, and 8 credits from Global Society and Public Policy Core Courses, Advanced Science and Technology Core Courses and Issue Solving Core Courses (at least 2 credits from each Core Course, and 4 credits from courses taught in English are required to complete the program).
●Any students in a graduate program (master or doctoral program) can participate in the program.
　

*1　PBL courses are also considered issue-solving core courses. But when it is recognized as a required elective PBL course, the course is not counted as fulfilling the requirements of the Issue Solving Core courses.
*2　As a general rule, cross-departmental education programs don’t approve the credits which are earned before the official start of the programs. However, as students are not allowed to take the same course again, for the initial phase of this program, credits earned by the compulsory and compulsory elective PBL courses offered before the spring of 2020 will be approved as fulfilling the requirements.
　
【Reference：GSDM2.0 Course list】
　

4. Issue of Completion Certificate
(1) The Completion Certificate of the Cross-Departmental Educational Programs will be issued to the students who fit all the criteria of each program and have carried out the application procedures for issuing the certificate upon completing master’s course or doctoral course (including the course completion without doctoral degree).
(2) The Completion Certificate won’t be issued to the students who haven’t completed master’s course or doctoral course (including the course completion without doctoral degree) and/or haven’t carried out the application procedures for issuing the certificate even if the students fit all the criteria of their program.
　
◉GSDM2.0 pamphlet can be download from here.