Tokyo Institute Of Technology’s Best Thesis Winners Of Liberal Arts Final Report Present Their Work

Bachelor’s program students who completed their Liberal Arts Final Report in their third year of study in academic year 2021 and were selected as best thesis winners presented their work and experiences at an event held on Ookayama Campus on July 22. Sixteen of the thirty-six best thesis winners were present at the event. While this event began in 2019, the July 2022 gathering was the first in-person presentation session in three years due to restrictions caused by COVID-19.

The Liberal Art Final Report course is a required two-credit liberal arts course taken by all Tokyo Tech students in the fall of their third year of the bachelor’s degree program. The course culminates in a 5,000 to 10,000-word academic paper which highlights the knowledge and skills that each student has acquired in the liberal arts courses since they joined Tokyo Tech, and their vision for the future. The course also brings together the same groups of students that took the Tokyo Tech Visionary Project course together two-and-a-half years earlier, allowing students to reflect on and share their progress with fellow students.

During the course, students not only write a thesis, but also read each other’s texts during peer review sessions, which help them refine each other’s writing through dialogue. Graduate-level students who have been officially certified as Graduate Student Assistants (GSAs)(External site) participate in the classes as GSA Reviewers to further assist students in writing their Liberal Arts Final Reports.

On the day of the presentations in July, more than 100 people including bachelor’s program students from all years of study, master’s students, faculty and staff, Tokyo Tech Alumni Association members, and representatives of the press joined to listen to the best thesis winners.