Special Topics in Care Experience: Licence Requirements and Credits

This page explains whether Special Topics in Care Experience is required for junior-high and high-school teaching licences, and how its credits are treated in the high-school licence requirements.

Is the course required for a teaching licence?

For a high-school teaching licence, Special Topics in Care Experience is not mandatory in the listed high-school licence tables. In the Science and Engineering Faculty, the course is required for a junior-high teaching licence but is an elective for a high-school teaching licence.

Course details in the high-school licence table

In the high-school licence table, Special Topics in Care Experience is listed as a 1-credit course assigned to the third year and offered throughout the academic year.

How the credits can be counted

For a high-school teaching licence, credits earned in Special Topics in Care Experience, together with credits from the other two listed courses in this group, may be included among the credits for courses independently designated by the university. The number of credits earned in these courses can reduce the required total of at least 30 credits in the subject-specific professional content area under the subject and teaching-method courses requirement by the same number of credits.

Official sources

The following official Tokyo Denki University materials were used to prepare this page.