Eco-Mind Seminar (Ⅰ): Experienced-Based Training for Environmental Competence

This seminar offers preliminary study sessions and intensive training over three days and two nights (bootcamp format). Preliminary study sessions will be held about once a month at the Matsumoto campus.

During the preliminary study sessions, students will prepare questions for interviews with the businesses and local government agencies they intend to visit. Each student will select one municipality from the Nanshin region and research its environment and history.

The intensive training is scheduled to take place in the Nanshin region. Students will visit the sites presented in Introduction to Eco-Mind Program: Experience-Based Training for Environmental Competence and participate in group work based on their observations at the sites. They will also tour environmental management sites at various campuses and interact with the Student Environment Committee.

This seminar is a subject exclusive to the Environmental Awareness Training Course, one of the new cross-campus special education programs created in AY2019. Students who are registered for this course can enroll in the seminar.

SDGs, sustainable development, circular society, biodiversity, ecosystem service, regional recycling symbiosis zone, carbon neutrality, environmental education, Shinshū, natural environment, environmental mindset, group work, fieldwork, communication

Preliminary study sessions are scheduled to be held on Saturday afternoons about once a month at the Matsumoto campus.

Course student meeting; orientation
Group work (researching issues in Chūbu-Sangaku National Park)
Group work (preliminary survey, planning on-site surveys)
Late September (three days, two nights): Interviews with businesses, organizations, and NPOs involved with Chūbu-Sangaku National Park; presentations

The outcomes of the course will be presented in a poster aimed at residents of the region. After the practical exercise is completed, students will create their posters and prepare a final report for submission.

Syllabus (Japanese site only)