# Common Graduate School Subjects/Cross-Graduate School Subjects

**Source**: https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/english/rpc/subjects.html
**Parent**: https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/english/rpc/

## Center for Promoting Graduate Studies

The Center for Promoting Graduate Studies is a university-wide \
organization responsible for planning, coordinating, and advancing common \
educational programs and research support for graduate students.

- [Center Top](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/english/rpc/index.html)
- [About the Center](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/english/rpc/about.html)
- Common Graduate School Subjects/\
  Cross-Graduate School Subjects
  - [Common Graduate School Subjects](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/english/rpc/subjects.html#program_navi)
  - [Cross-Graduate School Subjects](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/english/rpc/subjects.html#crossgraduate)
- [AGS RISE Program](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/english/rpc/RISE.html)
- [SPRING](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/english/rpc/next_generation.html)
- [BOOST\
  (NEXT-AI)](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/english/rpc/next_generation_AI.html)

[Transferable Skills Development Program](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/english/rpc/transferable/)

[Recipient’s Page\
(AGS RISE Program)](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/english/rpc/recruiter_only_RISE/)

[Recipient’s Page\
(Pioneering Research Support Project)](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/english/rpc/recruiter_only/)

### What are Common Graduate School Subjects?

The Graduate School of Tohoku University has been offering "Common Graduate School Subjects" since 2022.\
The purpose of this program is to cultivate in-depth education, learn about contemporary social issues, and acquire transferable skills in order to develop creative and dynamic researchers and highly specialized personnel who can transcend all boundaries.

#### Common Graduate School Subjects (FY2026)

| Course Title | Credits | curricula |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Global Communication Utilizing GenAI/XR | 2 | MC |
| Global Project-based learning Utilizing GenAI/XR | 2 | MC |
| Internship for Master Course Students A・B | 1～2 | MC |
| Lectures on Interdisciplinary Researches | 2 | MC |
| [Teaching Development in Higher Education](https://www.cpd.ihe.tohoku.ac.jp/news/tdhe2025_3q/) | 2 | DC |
| Special Lectures on Interdisciplinary Researches Ⅰ・Ⅱ | 1 each | DC |
| Special Exercise on Interdisciplinary Researches Ⅰ-Ⅳ | 1 each | DC |
| Special Exercise for Frontier Research in Interdisciplinary Sciences | 1 | DC |
| Basic PhD Literacy | 2 | DC |
| Doctoral Internship | 1～2 | DC |
| Intellectual Property seminar Ⅰ・Ⅱ | 2 each | MC/DC |
| Renewable energy : Biomass circulation | 2 | MC/DC |
| Global Studies of International Education | 2 | MC/DC |
| Special Seminar on Multicultural Understanding PBL | 2 | MC/DC |
| Intercultural Collaborative Learning and Communication Seminar | 2 | MC/DC |
| Inter-cultural Seminar | 2 | MC/DC |
| Learning about the world through Tohoku | 1 | MC/DC |
| Special Seminar on Career and Skill Development | 2 | MC/DC |
| Career Development Planning for International Students | 1 | MC/DC |
| Presentation practice in English | 2 | MC/DC |
| Seminar on Learning with Generative AI | 2 | MC/DC |
| Basic Scientific Literacy | 2 | MC/DC |
| ILAS Special Lecture A～C | 2 each | MC/DC |

#### Syllabus Search Engine

Please check the syllabus for each class from the link below.

##### 1.Search for syllabi from the Student Affairs Information System

\*Login with Tohoku University ID is required

[Search from the Student Affairs Information System](https://www.srp.tohoku.ac.jp/)

##### 2.Tohoku University Syllabus Full-text Search System (QuickSyllabus) [\*Faculty contact information not provided].

\*No need to log in with your Tohoku University ID

[Search from QuickSyllabus](https://qsl.cds.tohoku.ac.jp/qsl/)

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##### 3.List of Syllabi for Common Graduate School Subjects

[List of Syllabi for Common Graduate School Subjects (PDF)](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/data/rpc_subjects/2025/2025E_syllabus_20250327.pdf)

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##### 4.List of contact details for class Instructor

[List of contact details of Instructors in charge of Common Graduate School Subjects](https://accounts.google.com/AccountChooser?continue=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fUGkFtHFDA7sklNU1Aw8pJdTY5rwjcMbC54sivujPOI/edit?usp=sharing)

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※Only accessible via a DC email account at Tohoku University.\
　Do not request access rights from a personal account.

#### List of Common Graduate School Subjects

Please click on the link below to check the class schedule and registration method for each class.

[List of Common Graduate School Subjects (PDF)](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/data/rpc_subjects/2025/2025_rpc_course_list_0930JE.pdf)

【For courses that use Google Classroom】\
　Class codes are listed in "Note".\
　You can only view this page with your Tohoku University DC email account.\
　Do not request access rights from your personal account.\

#### Course Guide

Please refer to the following link for guidance on taking Common Graduate School Subjects.

[Guide to Common Graduate School Subjects (PDF)](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/data/rpc_subjects/2025/2025_rpc_course_about.pdf)

**【Canceling Registration in Common Graduate School Subjects (AY 2025, 2nd Term)】**\
If you wish to drop a Common Graduate School Subjects in which you are registered for the 2nd term of 2025, you should first contact the instructor\
by email to ask for their approval of canceling the class. Then enter a Cancellation of Registration Form by the appropriate deadline shown below.\
     Subjects that you have canceled will initially be entered as a "D" grade, but this will be changed to "E (canceled)" around mid-March. However,\
if you do not submit this cancellation form, and do not earn credit for the class (because you do not attend it etc.), your grade will be entered as \
"D (did not attend)."

[Cancellation of Registration Form](https://forms.gle/T1FJDjNvQoae7Zgo6)　【 Submission Period ：October 31(Fri.) 17:00(JST)】

\*Make sure to log in to the form using your DC Mail account.\
\*Attach a screenshot of the email from the instructor that proves their approval of cancellation of class.

**【Announcement of Grades】\
・Announcement of the second semester results for FY2025**\
To be announced by Monday, February 16, 2026.\
Please use the Student Affairs Information System to check your grades and credits\
earned in Common Graduate School Subjects after Monday, February 16.\

**・Appeals regarding grades**\
If students have questions about their grade for the semester, they may obtain an explanation\
from the instructor of the class about your grade by submitting a petition to the Educational\
Affairs Division within the specified period (within one week) after your grades are announced.\
⇒[How to file a petition](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/data/rpc_subjects/20260203seisekimouside.pdf)

#### Common Graduate School Subjects Questionnaires

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[Common Graduate School Subjects Questionnaires](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/data/rpc_subjects/2025/2025.11_SubjectsQuestionnaires.pdf)

Tohoku University Graduate School Common Subjects Regulations（Japanese Only）

### Cross-Graduate School Subjects

Courses offered by each graduate school that are highly common to all graduate schools and recommended \
for students of other graduate schools are grouped together as "Cross-Graduate School Subjects“.

#### List of Cross-Graduate School Subjects

Please click on the link below to check the class schedule for each class.\
In principle, prior permission from the student to the instructor of the course in question is not required.\
However, if there are instructions in the class schedule or syllabus, please follow those instructions.

[List of Cross-Graduate School Subjects (PDF)](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/data/rpc_subjects/2025/2025oudankamoku_E.pdf)

#### Syllabus for Cross-Graduate School Subjects

Please check the syllabus for each class from the link below.

[Syllabus for Cross-Graduate School Subjects (PDF)](https://pgd.tohoku.ac.jp/data/rpc_subjects/2025/20250407oudankamokusyllabus.pdf)