Course Description

This graduate seminar course aims to develop graduate students’ skills for a professional presentation at a scholarly conference. Depending on the students’ research field, it will be designed around the individual English language proficiency level of the students enrolled. In order to successfully make academic presentation and/or publish peer-reviewed articles or something equivalent to it, it crucially important to understand how to do so. This course is based on students’ own research interest as well as instructor’s own research interest (e.g. international relations, security studies, Japanese studies). It also intends to discover a shared interest and develop over the course of the year.