-Information for MBA Students -
All 2nd year MBA students must register for one of the PLATFORM Seminars
(or Advanced seminar) to earn 1 credit in each term for three terms. (List of PLATFORMs)
Students can register for PLATFORM Seminars during the course registration
period in each term.
Students are expected to continuously register for PLATFORM Seminars offered in
the same PLATFORM sequence (PLATFORM Seminar I, II, III) and earn 3 credits
in total during the 2nd year.
Advanced
Seminars are offered in the same manner as PLATFORM Seminars: Advanced
Seminar
I (Fall), II (Winter) and III (Spring).
Students are required to submit the Form 1 on which they are required to indicate the
selected track (either PLATFORM Seminar or Advanced Seminar) and the names of
professors who can be their academic supervisor and tentative research topics to OAA
by the designated submission deadline.
Deanfs Office will review the Form 1, taking various factors into consideration, and announce
the pairing of students and their supervisors in early June.
Students are expected to communicate with their assigned supervisors as soon as possible and
submit Form 2 on which they are required to indicate their decision of supervisors and provide
their research titles. The Form 2 must be submitted with their supervisorsf signature to OAA
by the designated submission deadline.
Students who choose the PLATFORM Seminar track must complete their graduation research
report individually or in a group in the PLATFORM Seminar III on the basis of their term papers
written in the earlier PLATFORM Seminars, and present them to their supervisors, GSIM
faculty members, its students and other members of IUJ if necessary. Grade for the research
report must be B+ or above for graduation.
<Special note for students who go on exchange>
If you choose the PLATFORM Seminar track in June of the first year, please be sure to talk
with the PLATFORM Coordinator before you leave the IUJ campus and make necessary
arrangements with him so that you can conduct your research during your absent from IUJ
and can join the PLATFORM Seminar II in the winter term. You can register both PLATFORM
Seminars I and 2 during the course registration period for the Winter term.